A strange thing happened this week I logged on to book swimming at my local pool and staring out at me on the page was a photograph of an ex girlfriend holding a yoga mat. I messaged her to say it was an unexpected surprise, we’re still on good terms it was some 40 years ago. Then I remembered in 2018 at Heathrow Airport there was a large poster for Portrait of Britain and who should be on it but her. She’s since put both photos up on her Facebook page.

In 2021 on the Leonard Cohen Facebook page there was a link to an article on thebritishacademy.ac. uk website from 2016 following the death of LC. The photograph accompanying the article was the opening of LC’s artwork in Manchester and to my surprise there I am. See photo. I know I’ve put a photo from the 1974 Windsor Free Festival which I came across while browsing on the Internet looking for information about it, and finding myself on it.

One year after the death of Jo Cox the Great Get Together was started on the Green in Heckmondwike I seem to recall a photograph appeared on the Afterword » Continue Reading.