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Valves

23rd November 2015

Valves

I have a shed cupboard full of valves. Old ones from the 40’s and 50’s and couple salvaged from 60’s radios before transistors took over the world. As a kid I was into radios in a big way, and used to scribble radio schematics on the spare pages of my school jotters. I even built them at home, with a soldering iron, a “breadboard” and a lots of wires and resistors and capacitors. Some even worked, but the most fun was building a tiny wee transmitting device, that allowed me to jam radio signals on my little transistor radio a few feet away. Mind you I used to live in mortal terror that a man from the GPO would turn up at the house and drag me away for the crime of having an unlicensed radio transmitter.

The Post Office had real power in those days you know.

 

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James in the bath

4th August 2015

James in the bath

 

Is it just me, or is bath time with a grandson a whole lot easier than bathing my own three boys 25 years ago?

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Houses as people

3rd April 2013

A Nose house

 

I’m always a wee bit suspicious of people (especially on facebook – you know you are) who reference almost every thing with a a cute picture of animals, especially cats and puppies. And then are those Roswell/UFO wierdos who see faces on Mars, and then…… well the list goes on.

Thats why I’m always a wee bit embarrased when late March/early April comes around, and the sun shines on Albion House. Cos thats when an otherwise bland harled stone gable in a small Highland Town turns into an advert for Thomas the Tank Engine. Inanimate objects become live, some smoke stains turn into hair, and rather elderly windows become staring eyes.

It’s not real, it’s just the light…….

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Calum Davidson

Calum Davidson was a a well-known regional planner and photographer. He described himself as a photographer with a day job, living in a very photogenic part of the globe, and who got to travel a bit to other almost as photogenic bits of the planet.

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