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I don't get my picture taken very often, so there tends to be a long span
between these shots.
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Picture taken in my room at university, 1979, possibly by Rachel, or maybe
Caroline, can't remember. Note the waistcoat worn with jeans. This was the
seventies, after all. Note also that I did not have the poster of the tennis
playing girl scratching her bum. But everybody else in the house did...
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Salford University TSA office, 1980. I've just come back from a
job interview, hence the suit and ridiculously large tie. The guitar
player is Iolo Beb Jones, professional welshman, Alan Davies clone and
inexplicably successful with the ladies.
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With my old mate Allan Brown, graduation day, 1980. He was head of TSA while I
was head of ENTS in the university union. Allan works for Motorola in the
states, last I heard.
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Paris, 1984. Went there to work at Aerospatiale for a few days, on the Exocet
missile control interface Picture taken by an old drummer workmate of
mine, Kevin "bloater" Mee. I know this must be 84 because we saw Terminator in
a cinema on the Champs Elysee (killing time), and that's the year Terminator
came out.
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In the garden at Cheam Close, Bracknell, circa 84. I think I'm leaning on my
old Selmer classical guitar. I was doing three martial arts classes a week back
then, including a high-grade class on Sundays, so I was insanely fit. Wish I
was even a tenth as fit now. Picture probably by Allan Brown.
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Back when archery was my obsession, circa 1990. I shot for about 8 years,
until the gradual failure of my left shoulder forced me out of
contention. I can't even do a press-up on it now. Gods, I was so *thin* then. I
was so attached to that bow, I didn't sell it until 2004.
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At the top of the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain, 1996. I went to work on a
control centre there and took time out to visit the palace, twice. It's
fantastic, if you're into Islamic art. Very, very cool. If you look closely you
can see the feet of the person I talked into photographing me, in those
ridiculous mirror shades. Note the ominous weight gain.
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The PNC3 (NT4 version) development team, circa 1998. I'm the only male not
wearing a tie made out of someone's curtains. Jeez, I look smug.
Only two of the people in this photo still work for Tunstall. Even Paul (the
documentation contractor at the L.H. end) refuses to work for them any more.
It's not the company per se, it's the current management.
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Office attire, 2002-2003 can't be later than the middle of 2003, because that's
when I stopped wearing my grandad glasses. I don't wear a tie to work anymore.
If they can't be bothered to respect me, I can't be bothered to respect them...
and the current management don't respect anybody.
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Late 2003. I think this was taken to try out a new digital camera. Or possibly
to celebrate buying a new shirt. I have a thing about shirts. No, seriously.
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I really need to get some golfing pictures taken, since that's mostly what I do
now.