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18 Jun 2011: Rainbow over Hitchin
Yeah, yeah, it’s not the most intellectually challenging or politically charge thing I’ve ever posted here but what the heck – I like rainbows, OK? And when one appears over the back garden it’s impossible to resist running outside with a camera.
12 Jun 2011: Worst job ever?
I saw this gloomy fellow by the side of the road in Stevenage a week or so back as I was driving home from work.
14 May 2011: The passing of time
Continuing my brain-dump of photos and days out from recent months, these pictures date back to my birthday in March when we went for a wander around one of my childhood haunts, Hitchwood.
14 May 2011: One January night in Walsworth
I’ve been having a rummage through my old photo directories, looking for sets I meant to post but never got around to. Here’s one from January 7th this year, of a sunset in Walsworth.
21 Mar 2011: Scratching under the surface in Baldock
So I was in Baldock today, taking the car in for its MOT, and was left with more than an hour to kill pottering around town and seeing what there is to see.
8 Dec 2010: As cold as a very cold thing
Several days of sub-zero temperatures left Hitchin frosted over – no snow on the ground, but a white coating on plants, trees and derelict cobwebs that picked them out as if spray-canned.
11 Nov 2010: It’s only cold when you’re losing
Last night our local football team, Hitchin Town FC of the Zamaretto League division one central, knocked their entry prices down to a fiver and we decided to go along and watch the game.
29 Nov 2008: Labour of love
I’m no fan of the Labour Party at all, or its doings, but I was impressed by one item among the usual drivel in its latest local newsletter.
21 Dec 2007: Give me 12 inches (and make me a wig)
The fear of going bald does strange things to a man – just ask Mark Oaten. Thing is, there’s no turning back from it.
26 Dec 2005: Christmas spirit
Christmas spiritChristmas pudding, brandy, white sauce and pies appear on the dinner table
13 Dec 2005: The stripe in the sky
Today I was working near Wycombe, about 15 miles away as the crow flies (I reckon) from the oil refinery fire out Hemel way. Incidentally, I have a chequered relationship with Hemel Hempstead – I was fostered there for a while before I was adopted, and later as a schoolboy I lost control on the […]
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