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First Cheese

March 22, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Caveat emptor: today’s musings may suffer from sleep deprivation.

I woke just before first cheese. It was light but overcast, very grey. Dublin Port was handling at least two cargo ships, one leaving, the other arriving. My mind was jumbled. Outgoing stolen cars and animal flesh? Incoming vaccines and fruit pickers? Pigeon toes above the bedroom ceiling scratched me wider awake. I picked up a book but it was too early for the whores who were grabbing fistfuls of jewels in the hallway as they left 738 Keizersgracht. I changed books. It was better to be reading of pancakes whose menu depictions tasted better than the real thing. Probably.

Canon 1D-X | Sigma 150-600 F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | 600 mm | 1/400s | f/7.1 | ISO 1250 | handheld
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, brexit, dog, john brockman, mary robison, photo, richard h thaler, tim harford, travel

Fees and Bees

February 15, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

We’ve just been for a walk down the east pier in Dun Laoghaire, something you probably realise we do very regularly these days. From the pier, we had been watching a sunlit ship emblazoned with Corsica Ferries and Sardinia Ferries leave Dublin port. Then, to our surprise, the ship turned somewhere beyond Howth and returned to port.

  • Ferry
  • Muglins
From the pier this morning …
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: apiary, brexit, dun laoghaire, euronews, photos, walking

Authority or Opinion

January 9, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Slieve Donard, the third highest peak on this island, snow capped.
Dublin Bay and Mourne Mountains © Simon Robinson 2021
Fuji X-T4 | Sigma 150-600 F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | 486 mm | 1/320s | f/7.1 | ISO 160 | tripod

That’s Slieve Donard, the third highest peak on this island, snow capped as it was this morning.

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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: brexit, david mcwilliams, landscape, manchán magan, mauro guillén, photography

FabHappy Refresh

December 7, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

The fabhappy.com website was fully refreshed and relaunched in early November. This was after months of work by Peter who was striving to ‘make it a more pleasing experience for anybody that visits the site.’

Ten shots printed as scarves available at FabHappy.com
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: brexit, fabhappy, simonscarves

Happier Times

November 29, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

‘No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard and fast and specific decision.’
– Barbara W Tuchman in The Guns of August (1962)

We walked among protestors while we lived in Westminster.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: barbara w tuchman, booklink, brexit, Covid-19, hilaire belloc

Animated Protest

October 19, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Final Say March, London 2019

It’s hard to believe that a year has gone by since we walked into the Final Say March while in London. We weren’t taking part but we did watch it travel down St James Street. And I photographed the passing action via the reflections in a puddle. Huge numbers of voters took to the streets to demand that the final Brexit decision should be made by the public. It wasn’t to be.

And I all I have to show for it are twenty or thirty photographs of a puddle.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: animation, brexit, final say march, gif, pandemic, photography, travel, zoom

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