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I am originally from the UK, and until March of this year, I lived in Vancouver, Canada. I am now spending a few months in Ottawa before heading off on a new overseas adventure later this year. I moved to Canada in July 2016. Before that, I was living and working in Zagreb, Croatia Read more...
I am originally from the UK, and until March of this year, I lived in Vancouver, Canada. I am now spending a few months in Ottawa before heading off on a new overseas adventure later this year. I moved to Canada in July 2016. Before that, I was living and working in Zagreb, Croatia. I have also lived in South Africa, Bangladesh, Ukraine and China.
My main aim in taking a photo a day is partly to improve, but also to capture a little something from every day.
My other big loves (other than partner - K., family and my cat) are books and music.
'That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it and think how different its course would have been. Pause, you who read this, and think for a long moment of the long chain of iron or gold, or thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on that memorable day.'
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
'..every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.'
Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
Booky's favourite reads, in no particular order:
1. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe
2. 84 Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff
3. A Life in Letters, John Steinbeck
4. If This Is A Man, Primo Levi
5. The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
6. The Magus, John Fowles
7. Keep The Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell
8. The Diary of a Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
9. A Kind of Loving, Stan Barstow
10. London Belongs To Me, Norman Collins
11. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
12. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Anne Fadiman
13. River Town, Peter Hessler
14. Red Dust, Ma Jian
15. Carol, Patricia Highsmith
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May 19th Thursday: Minto And Diefenbacker
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May 18th Wednesday: Royal Presence
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May 17th Tuesday: What A Difference
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May 16th Monday: Women Are Persons
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May 15th Sunday: Chinatown
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May 14th Saturday: Canadian Museum of History
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May 13th Friday: Tulips From Amsterdam
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May 12th Thursday: Whoops
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May 11th Wednesday: Bridgehead