Slightly embarrassing pictures from years ago

I’ve been busy this week. It’s Friday and this is about the first chance I’ve had to write.

We have had time to pick up our allotment key however and we have taken possession of our plot. Work can’t start this weekend on clearing the weeds as we are scheduled for a Devon. Next Sunday however is currently free. So I guess that will be zero hour. I’m planning to do a photo journal of our progress. Here it is now:

I feel I want to do something unorthodox with it, like build a rocket launch pad or something.

There’s a report on the BBC website today suggesting that electric cars may not be any greener than conventional cars. I’ve been saying this for years. No one bloody listens to me. You still have to generate the electricity to charge the damn things, and you have to use all those foul chemicals to make the batteries. Someone will make a fortune when they come up with a new battery which doesn’t use foul chemicals.

A week or so ago I was asked by a favourite to post some pictures of me as a child. You know who you are. I claimed at the time that I didn’t have pictures, but after exhaustive searching I have unearthed two slightly odd and embarrassing pictures.

This was taken in North Devon in 1985 I think. I am the one at the back.

And this is a self portrait from a couple of years later. What was I thinking?