In terms of greenness I would say I am at best a pale jade.

I was convinced we’d be annihilated by a nuclear war for the first 20 years of my life so was a late starter to ‘being green’, it just didn’t seem worth it. I made a futile attempt at collecting silver milk-bottle tops and there were certainly lots of bring-and-buy sales, that was about it.

Now though I’m better; I recycle all sorts of things – ‘bin night’ nowadays is more like a preliminary round of the Krypton Factor – so much sorting!

I do my best to ensure I don’t purchase things that are overly/unnecessarily packaged (which is hard as most things are).

For the most part though, ‘being green’ equates to ‘saving money’ and I’d be lying if I didn’t admit to that being more of a motivator.

I do care though, and I am very gratified to see it’s (reasonably) high on the agenda of most sensible political parties here in the UK

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I don’t collect them because I want a collection but I do have rather a lot of cameras – mainly film ones (though if I had the funds I’m sure I could get just as excited about digital cameras and lenses).

I am practical about my collecting – I won’t buy a camera if I don’t plan to use it. I guess you could say what I actually am is a collector of photographs, photographs that I’ve taken with cameras of all ages, shapes and sizes.

Here are just a few..!

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If there’s one regret I have about this modern world I live in is that it’s very hard to find the time to sit down and read. I still do manage to squeeze in a chapter here and there, especially with  my Kindle – hardly anything I read is printed on paper.

Which are my favourites though? There are books that I have read, and at that point in my life I felt they were the best a book could be; like nothing could beat it – however reading them again today I find the them overly sentimental and unrealistic and I don’t enjoy it half as much (i.e. anything by Thomas Hardy).

These though I think these are my top 5 – I’ve tried to be very honest and pick books that I genuinely love to snuggle up with and devour rather than more show-offy, literary offerings. In no particular order;

• As a kid I loved Enid Blyton – The Magic Faraway Tree and The Famous Five were particular favourites
• Anything at all written by Jane Austen – if I had to pick a favourite I think I’d choose ‘Persuasion‘ – I cried real tears!
• The ‘George Smiley’ books by John le Carré  (the first of which is ‘Call for the Dead‘)
• The ‘Jackson Brodie’ series of Novels by Kate Atkinson (the first of which is ‘Case Histories‘)
• The amazing ‘Jeeves & Wooster‘ books by PG Wodehouse

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