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  • It was a misty Southampton Water

    It was a misty and a grey sky over Southampton Water, yesterday, so it required some experimenting to get something interesting.

  • Morden Hall Park (gosh it was cold)

  • Molly’s Game

    There were just over 20 people in the Wimbledon Curzon, lunchtime audience watching Molly’s Game. Usually at that time there’s less than a handful.

    It’s a terrific, dialog-heavy film, superbly acted by the main actors, Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba and Kevin Costner. Maybe not to everyone’s taste – American, fast dialogue, a story based around the game of poker, but I would heartily recommend it.

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  • Hampton Court

  • Happy New Year!


     

  • My favourite reads of 2017

    During 2017 I read 70 books, of which I gave my ‘highly recommended’ award to 12 fiction and 4 non-fiction books.

    It’s difficult to choose the best from amongst the ‘magnificent’, ‘fantastic’, ‘brilliant’, ‘fabulous’, ‘wonderful’, so instead I’ll go for the author who had two entries, namely Dave Eggers for

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  • Carshalton village

    On a cold and sunny day, a short stroll around the nearby Carshalton Village produced some nice pictures.

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  • Chloe @ Christmas

  • Bread and butter pudding on Christmas Day, Peppa?

    Bread & butter pudding to finish off Christmas dinner? Perfect!

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  • Games at Christmas (2) Table tennis

    Table tennis against my son. He usually wins!