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Digitising Old Cine Films

7th July 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 1988 Comments

Having modernised and saved the old family photos and audio recordings for ‘posterity’ by converting them to digital format, attention turned to the family cine films, shot in the 1960s and early 1970s: 24 reels [more…]

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Digitising Old Photographs

9th June 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 2080 Comments

The first in a short series of articles, which are partly technical (going into a little bit of detail about how the family archive of photos, 8mm home movies, and audio tapes was digitised), and [more…]

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(Not) A View From The Greenhouse; After The Goldrush. The End

21st January 2025 Colin Cross 2502 Comments

I recently had the pleasure of visiting a hospital. Not an A&E, thankfully, but a famous hospital in the North West of England where I attended for a “pre-op” appointment. It’s an indictment, albeit a [more…]

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A View (Actually) From The Greenhouse….Everything Is Not As It Seems…

25th December 2024 Colin Cross 1729 Comments

Like me, you’d have been saddened but unsurprised by the latest in a long line of cars, as if driven by some kind of divine hand, crashing into innocent people going about their ordinary, if [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse, Edizione Apulia; Seconda Parte (All In It Together)

1st October 2024 Colin Cross 2625 Comments

The hotel outside Matera is new and consequently very modern, the food in the restaurant was pretty good, but the waiting staff knew we were a tour party and treated us accordingly. Not rude, as [more…]

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Postcard from Saint Nicholas

18th September 2024 Going Postal 1813 Comments

Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat, Keir Starmer is stealing pennies from the old man’s hat, and we continue our journey around the Isles of Scilly.  Tresco was once called St Nicholas, or [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; Edizeone Apulia (Prima Parte)

17th September 2024 Colin Cross 1977 Comments

And so to Italy, but not before making sure the Buildings and Maintenance team had been fully drilled in the routines required to ensure I didn’t return to any kind of disaster. I needn’t have [more…]

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A View From Near The Greenhouse; A New Dawn…..Innit?

3rd September 2024 Colin Cross 1583 Comments

I thought I was under no illusion when I marked my “X” on my ballot paper back in July. Due to boundary changes I’ve ended up living in one of the safest constituencies in the [more…]

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Desert Fox: Erwin Rommel’s Photograph Collection

14th August 2024 Going Postal 2337 Comments

The Vietnam War started in 1955 and ended with the fall of Saigon in 1975 when the Americans left in a hurry. It has been described as the first televised war but a claim to [more…]

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