R's rue: 08/08/22

Good Old Herb

My plane home was delayed but I refused to get all pissed off with it all as the easyJet staff were good humoured and helpful and our Irish pilot jovial and apologetic.

The car park didn’t charge me extra for the delay and after a confusing wiz around the new roadworks near Widnes I finally got home in Wales at 2.30 am.

I can’t sleep, even though I’m still on Sitges time so I ve grabbed a beer out of the fridge and set up a gift Janet gave me. A metal silhouette of Sitges church which I thought was rather sweet.

It will look nice with a candle behind it

I’ve just been reviewing the last day listening to Herb Alpert on YouTube.

I went back to the bar where I saw Greta the diva at lunchtime Sunday but sadly she wasn’t there.

I stayed and had a beer and a somewhat dry Caesar Salad and watched the gay Sitges Promenade by.

It’s a kind of mincing Disney land at times …

And not really very real at all

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In the detritus left at Simon's cottage, I found this overexposed photograph. "Overexposure is the result of too much light hitting the film.. Overexposed photos are too bright, have very little detail in their highlights, and appear washed out."

I have no idea where my father snapped this picture of his three oldest sons but I suspect that it was at a quarry - perhaps a coastal quarry down in Cornwall. It is clearly summertime because we are all wearing shorts.

I am the smallest boy in the photo. My little brother Simon may have still been a baby or perhaps a toddler. I estimate that the picture was taken in August 1958 when I would have been four years old.

My son Ian saw the picture a couple of hours before the funeral. He has grown up with mobile phones and his smartphones have been like essential extra limbs for years. He snapped the overexposed picture with his new i-phone. Then using the built-in editing facility he was quickly able to resurrect the image. It was like a magic trick. And here we are - Shazzam!