about JohnH
Sorted, fit. Current activities are photography, hiking, motorbiking, trail biking, music, geology/geoscience, dinner-at-home, travel and more.
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Back running for fun, fitness and to keep in small size shorts. I’ve always enjoyed running, it was my sport in my teeens and twenties, so I’m happy I can still do a short run that doesn’t upset my joints if I’m careful. The warm weather helps. Two runs from where we’re staying in Menton on the French Riviera: to the border with Italy or to the lighthouse at the end of the harbour wall, each about 25 minutes there and back.
I’ve been enjoying my KEF Reference Series 107 loudspeakers since I bought them new in 1986, originally they lived in Hammersmith but are now in Keswick. All three drive units have excellent clarity and lack of distortions or “sonic footprint” due to a highly-innovative cabinet design using units which were already esteemed in conventional enclosures. The brochure claimed a frequency response of 20 Hz - 20 kHz to the tight tolerance of ±2 dB. KEF intended the 107 speakers to be used with an electronic equaliser (“Kube”) but it has been problematic to include this in a modern system or replace it with a digital equivalent. The choice has been to put up with the limitations of the Eighties equaliser or to have cleaner, clearer sound but with inaccurate tonal balance, limited by conventional tone controls.
Great to be back under the blue sky of Marseille after a dawn flight from London Heathrow. Marseille feels moderate after the tropical intensity and extremes of La Réunion, even the grunge and graffiti feel familiar.
Christmas tree ornaments in a store display; these figures are only a few cm tall but the detail is amazing, some quite subversive
Wishing a Merry Christmas 2024 and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2025 to all my Friends and Followers
2024 hasn’t been wonderful for the weather so - even more than usual - it’s been a matter of seizing opportunities rather than detailed planning. So here’re some of the highlights of my year.
2024 LWT Ex-Engineers Christmas reunion at the Rose and Crown, Colombo Street, London SE1
This happy reunion was like a lunch break in the middle of an outside broadcast back in the Eighties. I joined London Weekend Television in July 1977. Our appearances have aged but the voices are hauntingly familiar. We have our individual memories but the warmth from those far-off days unites us; working for LWT gave us some of the best working days of our lives, doing the engineering for one of television’s golden eras. They’ve always been older than me but this time round there weren’t any “leavers” to note, at least not from our group of outside broadcasts and radio links engineers.
So many memories to think over as I walked the familiar route back to Embankment station.
Cheers!
