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The blog of a travelling psychiatrist and football lover. Who happens to be a halfway decent photographer. Takes a cynical view of the world

Archive for the month “March, 2013”

13 Mar 2013

Side Effects. The film that is……. Wimbledon

I only heard about this film as I was sent a link relating to a work-related matter, so i knew the gist of the story before seeing the film. An interesting and very different film. Well acted. Rooney Mara plays the psychiatric patient well, although was less impressed with Jude Law as the psychiatrist. Well worth seeing. Sadly however we saw it monday night, a night of snow and ice, and were were literally the only two people in the cinema Wimbledon IMAX. The only downside to that cinema is the parking. There is no real alternative other than paying 1.50£/hour, right up to 11pm. So, that makes it £8 for the cinema ticket ( or SINMA as someone seriously once wrote it, an adult) and 6£ for the car park. Crazy.

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04 Mar 2013

Clacton in Essex

Clacton is a place I visit once a year. Around 120 miles from London. If Iam lucky the sun shines, there is no rain and the few hours I am there I can spend walking the promenade and eating chips on the pier. Today I had maybe more than a few hours and the cracks are starting to show in this quintessential seaside town. Firstly there are few people around, secondly those people had a median age of maybe 70 years and lastly places are starting to close down. Gone is the Comfort hotel. Closed was the restaurant at the end of the pier ( it will open but last year was open this time). The wooden pier looked not only ramshackle but in parts unsafe. Some of the cracks between the wooden planks were maybe a touch too large, and should the planks have moved as much as they did?

For 5£ Sausages and chips were mine, although the interpretation of the server as to what constiuted a ” little milk” in my tea did not match my own view. The day was cold, sunny and hazy. The wind farms could not be seen out at sea. The shops all looked a little jaded. I enjoyed my day but would I go back in the summer? Probably not.

A few things did stand out though. The Graffiti was good!

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03 Mar 2013

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Richmond Park, UK

Today was the first day that really felt like spring might be coming, a little sunshine, no rain and a crisp cold day, so the first good opportunity to visit and photograph the Deer. As a photographer I am not sure what it is but animals do not find me threatening and thus i can often get closer than some to photograph these beautiful creatures. Here are a few images from today.