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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Sports walk along the Thames Path upstream from Hammersmith Bridge to buy fresh bread from the bakery in Barnes, both pleasures I discovered during the lockdowns. Disappointingly, the heavy rain didn’t turn up as forecast, so not as “interesting” as it could have been: as a cross-county runner I enjoyed the feel of rain falling my shoulders whilst running. The bread’s good though.
- The freedom of the cross-country runner - Lake District National Park
- London Corporate Challenge: Battersea Park
Wishing a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Active 2023 to all my Friends and Followers
Christmas-tide once more, it seems to have come round very quickly this year. I am happy to have been out and about for much of 2022, trying to share on here what I am lucky enough to see. Below are links to some highlights from a full year-planner.
If you have been reading and liking my photography and this blog in 2022, thank you.
- My First Off-Road Pass
- Crosby Ravensworth adventure ride
- Three Alpine cols: Cayolle (2327 m.), Champs (2074 m.), Allos (2240 m.)
- GBMCC AGM weekend 2022
- MTB: Le Baou Rond (282 m.) - Col des Escourtines (213 m.) - Parc National des Calanques
- Hiking the Cols de Granon (2404 m.), des Cibières (2525 m.) and de l’Oule (2546 m.)
- Balcary Bay to Rascarrel Bay
- Barolo D.O.C. hills
- One man went to mow...
- Trimming & shaping
- The complete OAP
Rose and Crown, Colombo Street, SE1. Est. 1787, rebuilt 1887.
Christmas drinks with ex- close colleagues, all of us television production engineers. Our jobs were to set up and keep the electronics working in the years before the equipment became reliable. We spent many hours at London Weekend Television working in close proximity behind the scenes on outside broadcasts, radio links and in studios. Together we made television happen..
We’ve been frequenting this Rose and Crown for 45 years or more, even as the skyscrapers grew up around it. These people saw me grow up too, living and loving in and around London in the late Seventies and Eighties; coming in to work on a succession of motorbikes and with a variety of hairstyles, shoulder length to crew-cut. But by now it’s all been said and done, so it’s a pleasure to chat and catch up in the little old pub.
Memorabilia from that part of my career which was in BBC broadcasting. Letters inviting me to jobs, passes, a t-shirt and mugs. The paper mug and pencil come from my time at BBC Radio Bristol as a Vacation Trainee (1976); the Proms passes are when I was no longer BBC Staff, many years later. As freelance as much as staff, I worked on OBs, Studios, Ceefax, Y2k and Technology.
The golden-sleeved LP as background is “50 years of broadcasting” (1972); it features 127 cuts, mostly from BBC Radio, from “Whittle Calling” (1922) to John Snagge’s narration of the funeral of Lord Reith (1971). My favourite, and why I bought the LP as a teenager, is Lieut.-Commander Tommy Woodruffe’s live OB commentary (1937) on the Royal Naval review at Spithead: “The fleet is all lit up”, which he repeats many many times until faded out. One assumes too much at the Wardroom bar. Before my time but its infamy lived on for many years.
- Television Centre 2018
- BBC Television Centre auction - June 2013
- BBC Television Centre: fans queue for tickets
- Pacific Quay, Glasgow - April 2012
- MediaCityUK - May 2011
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