These posts are intended to be a mix of pictures and words (the blog is sub-titled a photographic experiment with words and I am a writer, after all!) and to celebrate ten years of this blog. Over the year I've therefore aimed to create links to previous posts of the last ten years, or to capture some of the places and things that have left their mark on me and/or my writing (a bit like my book Years Ago You Coloured Me, which is also about things that leave their mark).
I was involved in a literary event at Somerville College, Oxford (my old college, if you are wondering) this month. What a wonderful way to combine images and words, I thought. What a wonderful opportunity to take photos of a town and location that have meant so much to me, I thought. I can nip out and about during breaks and take some wonderful photos of the place, I thought. No matter that I only have a phone camera with me. It takes good pictures in daylight and when it's bright and sunny... It'll be a nice contrast to the many, many photos of Cambridge that have appeared on this blog over the years.
The event took place on the day Storm Bert arrived. It was neither bright nor sunny and it was way too wet to keep nipping out to take photos, even if I had had the time, which, as it turned out, I didn't. The many intended photos became a few - a very few.
Here, therefore, are the grand total of five photos taken of and in Somerville College (often from inside looking out, because it was dryer that way) on Saturday, 23rd November 2024 using only my phone camera.
