Sailing on the River Thurne, Norfolk Broads. This could be August 1999. It could be 2000, or later…
August 14, 1999
January 22, 1992
Falcon – Ink Drawing. Falcon was an abandoned lifeboat conversion. She later broke up. Langstone Harbour – Portsmouth.
January 21, 1992
Erica Felicia – Ink Drawing.
January 20, 1992
The Cheesewring (Cornwall, UK) – Ink Drawing.
August 26, 1991
Bennett, Goring, Allman – I’m pretty sure this was the year Bob and Ann turned up unexpectedly.
May 24, 1985
Robert’s ‘Official’ Christening Picture.
June 1, 1974
Old cuttings of my father – I’ve had these pictures for years I thought it’s about time I posted them. +1
July 21, 1972
A friend posted a mnemonic on Facebook for the sequence of the royal houses of England in chronological order. It reminded me of one my uncle taught me, which in turn reminded me of a couple I learned at school. Two-minute read, 2 pictures
October 16, 1968
Hadham Hall School, October 1968 – Today (March 11, 2021), spurred on by an email I recently received from another ‘old boy,’ I did a quick stitching job on the pictures. Unfortunately, neither Photoshop nor Lightroom’s auto stitch could merge the images, so I ended up doing so by hand. As the image is low res, and time is short, that was the extent of my repairs to the photograph.
May 13, 1960
They Built Their Own Yacht – Packed away in a box under the bed I found this newspaper cutting from 1960. It tells the story of how my father and a work colleague built their own yacht. I’ve also written about some of my early sailing experiences, in particular a couple of attempts at drowning myself. Five-minute read, 5 pictures