2014 Retrospective
It’s the end of our second full year in our new home. Here are some random retrospective snaps from the year that’s just shot past us.
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Is AliExpress any good?
Is AliExpress any good is a difficult question to answer in a single word. It is ‘a pig and a poke‘ to some extent. Having spent quite a lot of time in Hong Kong, AliExpress has many of the attributes of a Hong Kong street market. I.e. quite a lot of junk, some quite good…
Hong Kong Cemetery
Today I took a walk around Hong Kong Cemetery. I then took some snaps around Central and caught the Star Ferry to Kowloon. Kowloon is away interesting especially after dark. Then I caught the bus back to Hong Kong. Its route included Hong Kong’s famous Harbour Tunnel.
BBC internet radio streams broken again!
For an increasing number of Brits, BBC Radio is about the only thing the modern BBC has to offer that might justify its antiquated and much resented television licence fee. Or rather it was up until yesterday (2025-01-21), when sadly 3/4 of its AAC/HLS internet radio streams inexplicably fell silent. I’ve written to BBC Sounds…
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Radios
I had a lovely model called Onna come down from London today for a retro technology photo shoot. While she was here, she posed with some of my favourite radios, including my Icom IC-R20 and my AOR AR 8200 handheld communications receivers. Which I continued to photograph long after she had gone home. Here are…
Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation London
A few snaps of the Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation, London
Out for the day with Chiara – only this time Chiara was behind the camera
Out for the day with Chiara, my Italian researcher and photo model. Only this time Chiara was behind the camera.
