One Man's Notes

The Rail Riders Club was a marketing thing British Rail did back in the 1980s, before it was broken up and privatised. These images are from a meet they held in Edinburgh, back in the late 80s.

Once, a very long time ago, I turned 12.

Captured for posterity, before I recycle them: photo wallets and negative holders from 1980s photo labs.

UK Bank Holiday Monday on form: it’s tipping it down.

Good morning from the South Downs.

Wild garlic growing by my youngest’s school. I love the smell of it.

📷 #mbApr Day 21

The Cairngorms in early 1989.

For day 21 of the April Photoblogging Challenge: mountain, suggested by David, aka @dejus.

Littlehampton harbour, with gulls.

Day 17: transcendence, suggested by Drew, aka @drewbelf. #mbapr

A rare image of my long-gone fencing days. I’m the one on the right.

Micro adventures at one of our local nature reserves: an afternoon at RSPB Pulborough Brooks.

Birds and trees and bluebells.

A sobering find in my Mum’s negatives. This is the original Old Bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, taken in 1989. The bridge was destroyed in the Croat-Bosniak war four years later. The bridge there now is a recreation.

The Burnside, Dollar, Scotland, early 1989.

I used to live in fear of doing this. It still makes mes me wince when I see it in a magazine.

The ruins of Hillfoot House, near Dollar in Scotland. Photographed in 1983.

Even these ruins are gone now, apparently, replaced by a modern new house. My friends and I used to play in and around the ruin as pre-teens.

Mum, March 1983.

Yikes. I need to do better than that.