Author: Retired

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Photography-Lottery 2- You/me as players

The National Lottery was 25 years old in November 2019.  Many institutions have received financial support from them over that time and in recognition free entry was allowed by them in November 2019.  The Royal Academy was one of those places that we visited. They had an exhibition Confronting a planet in a state of emergency.   […]

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Photography-It could be you

In November 2019  the UK lottery celebrated 25 years of saying ” It could be you”.  The draw used to be essential viewing on TV twice per week. To mark the anniversary of its launch many institutions which had benefited from lottery funding gave free admission to those who had a current lottery ticket.  A […]

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Inspire-Film “Just Mercy”

When you are retired there is more time to see and do things.  This was a potentially dreary wet weekday.  We have in the past been to see live presentations of theatre production.  This time it was a newly released film.   Just Mercy- Starring Michael Jordan, Jamie Fox.  It is the true story of  Bryan […]

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Photography-Paths to savour and Inspire

  For a website with the title of Inspire it seems paradoxical that I needed to be Inspired to write.  There has been a gap whilst that Inspiration came. It was a walk in the outdoors- not always easy in Winter with the rain.  Here are the photographs and I hope that they Inspire you […]

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Dry January-16 January

There is a fashion these days to have a Dry January.  To make up, so to speak for the jollies (excess of Christmas).  This was also the day 100 years ago when the USA brought in National Prohibition on 16 January 1920.  The policy was abandoned in December 1933 because consumption of alcohol, produced illegally, […]

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