Photos : my 70th birthday (July 2020) and our 50th Wedding Anniversary (August 2021)
In August 2023 Sue and I moved to an apartment in Audley Wycliffe Park, a retirement village near Stokenchurch in Buckinghamshire. This represents a new phase in our lives and we are greatly enjoying the new community in which we already feel well established and have made many new friends.
Previously……….
Sue and I were born and raised in Bedfordshire (mostly Bedford itself). We went to school in Bedford and to Oxford University. After spending nearly 30 years in Hong Kong, we returned to the UK in 2001 and lived in the delightful Oxfordshire village of Sutton Courtenay, enjoying this view of the countryside behind our house.
Plus ça change - My full collection of photographs showing the same constant, but ever-changing rural scene looking west from our house is here.
HONG KONG
Hong Kong Island from the Convention Centre
Our time in Hong Kong, from 1973 to 2001, was a great and life-changing experience. Hong Kong was, and indeed still is, one of the most vibrant cities in the world and surely also one of the most stunning scenically. We left four years after the handover to China in 1997 when I retired from the Hong Kong civil service and the future of the territory still looked promising.
The Convention Centre and Star Ferry
Full moon over Hong Kong harbour
So much hope and expectation now hollowed out and overridden….
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The major part of this website is devoted to cataloguing and displaying my collection of mainly old picture postcards. Smaller sections are devoted to my past interests in family history research, playing golf and playing and umpiring cricket. The following links lead to each of these sections