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The new art of being photographed
Some years’ ago you’d go out with family or friends with a camera and take a photo of the view or the cat or the children doing what children do. Sometimes you’d organise a group photo or you’d take a photo of Grandad playing with the kids. A couple weeks later you’d...
Postcard from….leaving Santorini
We received an email yesterday morning advising us that, because of a strike, our ferry back to Mykonos today is cancelled, sorry and all that. The ferry company offered some comfort that there was a possibility we could be accommodated on a later scheduled ferry but...
Postcard from…. Santorini
Santorini is a crescent-shaped island enclosing a 12x7km lagoon in the centre of which is its creator, a small volcano island which together indicates their history. Wikipedia says: [Santorini] is the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history:...
From ‘alternative facts’ to rewriting history in Trump’s White House
The US is a foreign country and just because they speak English it doesn’t mean they’re exactly like us. I have travelled, worked with and played with people from many different cultures all over the world but the people I often found the most difficult to understand...
The Cornwall Camper goes fishin’
It’s been a hot week in Cornwall. Temperatures here are the same as in Florida. The car says it’s 33 degrees so too sunny and hot for fishing but I’ve brought my rod and I’m keen to fling a few hooks at some trout on a lazy warm Cornish afternoon. I’m not a great...
Jonathon Livingston Seagull*, alive and well and in top form at Padstow harbour
When we go camping nowadays we don’t bother with the paraphernalia of cooking, stove, stand, gas cylinder, pots, pans, utensils, washing-up bowl, cutlery, seasoning, et al. Our children are grown, we can eat where and when we like, so we just take an electric kettle,...
The Scottish Parliament Building
When we visit a new city we like to take a sightseeing bus around it first and even though we’ve visited Edinburgh a number of times before we decided we’d walked enough at the Highland Show the day before so we hopped on a hop on-hop off city sightseeing bus and...
Royal Highland Show, Edinburgh, June 2018
An early morning departure and just over an hour’s flight later and with the show ground just a few minutes walk from Edinburgh Airport Arrivals we were eating a bacon sandwich and drinking a welcome coffee inside the ground just before 9am, in beautiful warm Scottish...
