23rd September 1974

34 years ago on this date (a Monday actually) I given a white coat with the letters 'UMRCC' in blue over the top pocket and was shown into the Computer Room; a mag tape reel was thrust into my hands and shown how to load and unload a tape deck.  For the rest of that day, that was basically all that I did and when I asked why - was told that "tape loading is what you'll be doing a lot of in this job"

Since the version 2.0 update to the iPod Touch / iPhone system, I've been having a play around with the free apps.

With the recent news that Scargill House is to close and the property be sold off, I've been gathering together some of the many photographs that I've taken in and around Scargill House over the years.

The other day I had a request to see about putting our local church online.  Its a request that I was pleased to do (partly as my Mum is on the PCC).

(See St Bede, Bolton le Moors)

Last year I bought an iPod nano 2nd gen, and felt a bit sick when a week or two later the 3rd gen nano (fatty) came out. When the iPod Touch came out I was feeling a bit sicker, but couldn't justify (to myself mostly) spending more cash on a Touch.

Before the advent of real colour photography, Quite a few 'Studios' would offer to produce colour images from their monochrome photographs.  In some cases this involved hand-colouring the monochrome prints with a brush and in a lot of cases the actual colours used were up to the photographer/artist.

Below are a couple that I found whilst rummaging around in an old Photo Album.