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Tue, 07 July 2009 16:46

timmy

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Location: UK, in Devon
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I thought you might like to see a couple of action shots of me, in my long lost youth!

Yes, that's me in a kayak in a river that was probably beyond my limits. And yes, I got out of the mess, upright, still in the boat and going downstream like a rocket. The river is the Wye, and the location is a fantastic set of rapids upstream of Builth Wells, in mid Wales. It's probably November or December.

Then there is

Me south west of Bardsey Island

Taken in about 1972, coming back from Ireland, probably Dun Laoghaire, the year we came third overall in the Irish Sea Offshore Racing Association's series. The land you can see is Bardsey Island, off the very tip of the Lleyn peninsular (the Lands End of North Wales). We're south west of Bardsey, avoiding the notorious Bardsey Sound

The picture quality isn't wonderful. They're scanned 35mm slides.

As you can see clearly from the top picture, I'm much younger than today! In the bottom one I'm 20 or 21. And these two sports are what I spent all my free time doing. Well, when not moping over a never to be had love, that is!

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

		Follwing some sort of tradition of memory shots... By: timmy on Tue, 07 July 2009 16:46
		Re: Follwing some sort of tradition of memory shots... By: CallMePaul on Tue, 07 July 2009 17:46
		Re: Follwing some sort of tradition of memory shots... By: timmy on Tue, 07 July 2009 18:58
		Upright! By: timmy on Tue, 07 July 2009 19:26
		Re: Upright! By: timmy on Tue, 07 July 2009 19:57
		Re: Follwing some sort of tradition of memory shots... By: acam on Wed, 08 July 2009 11:54
		Re: Follwing some sort of tradition of memory shots... By: timmy on Wed, 08 July 2009 12:22
		Re: Follwing some sort of tradition of memory shots... By: Macky on Wed, 08 July 2009 18:27
		What have you missed? By: timmy on Wed, 08 July 2009 21:43
		Re: What have you missed? By: Macky on Thu, 09 July 2009 20:16
		Re: What have you missed? By: timmy on Thu, 09 July 2009 22:07
		Re: Follwing some sort of tradition of memory shots... By: timmy on Thu, 09 July 2009 14:57
		Re: Follwing some sort of tradition of memory shots... By: acam on Fri, 10 July 2009 10:31
		Re: Follwing some sort of tradition of memory shots... By: timmy on Fri, 10 July 2009 10:45
		Re: Follwing some sort of tradition of memory shots... By: Macky on Fri, 10 July 2009 15:29
		Re: Follwing some sort of tradition of memory shots... By: timmy on Fri, 10 July 2009 16:37

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