Pictures

MY EPIC efforts to scan all my photo transparencies – some 14,000 of them – have now reached the miscellaneous categories, the hotchpotch of snaps that don’t really fit under any other file designations. Things like “Abstract” and “People”. Under the latter heading, I’m scanning a miscellany of pictures of both myself and My Good Lady. MGL looks great, of course, then as now; but my goodness me, what an odd looking cove I was back then! My hair was long and my beard was black and bushy and rather unkempt. I look a bit like a tramp. I’m going back some twenty-six years you understand – but what MGL ever saw in me is a mystery! I don’t know if I look any better now, to be honest, but at least I now wear my hair shorter. And if my face is a bit more wrinkly – oh all right, a lot more wrinkly! – at least it seems as if it’s more lived in, more mine. I hardly recognise the character in the pictures, and I’m not sure I like what I see. C’est la vie!