Category: Luck

by Retired

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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Money- “Makes the World Go Around”

We saw a fascinating display at the Museum in Gdansk recently.  It was a mock up of a bank from the 1930’s.  Although it covers a period that was in the early part of last century we are still affected by it. These are pictures to depict what it was like in Germany during the […]

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Inspire-Google, Black Hole to Swiss Cheese

It was a trip to Birmingham along the M40 and then onto the M42. As always, we relied on Google Maps.  This has worked fine in the past. There was a steady stream of lorries to pass.  Until that is one of the lorries decided it was going to overtake another lorry- fair enough you […]

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Inspire-NHS Part 2:News Has Significance Part 2

NHS, the title was not chosen by chance but to show how the NHS was the topic for many newspaper articles recently. I wonder if you have ready my previous article.  It seems that this was “right on message”- to coin a political soundbite.  Inspire-NHS:News Has Significance. The topic has become the subject of more headlines […]

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Photography-Halloween-11/11, 12/12 and beyond

There was quite a build up to October 31. Yes Brexit again and the shops were onto it  Apart from the pumpkins there were other essentials which needed to stockpiled. Memories of that military order “Hurry up we are going to be late- then we all wait and wait!” Well the images of Halloween were […]

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