August 2018.
I have finally realised that age having caught up with
me, I can no longer carry on with my hectic lifestyle .
I am no way the fit person I used to be not that long
ago , in fact the reverse is true and my days of walking a couple of miles
wandering around London for a whole day taking pictures is long gone Chasing around from one place to the other,
London one minute , Suffolk or France the next is right out of the window, in fact I often have trouble remembering
where I am when I first wake up in the morning and it has to stop before it
stops me . I have had to give myself a
quick kick up the backside – metaphorically speaking of course - and so from
now on my life will rapidly move into full retirement mode instead of part
time.
First to go will be London as I can really do without
the hustle and bustle of City life. My
full time base will soon be in the quiet Suffolk countryside and holiday time
will be just once a year – about six or eight weeks will do in a small but lovely
holiday home on the Mediterranean coast at Cap d Agde.
The actual changeover will be hard work as it is quite
involved , but I hope to have a bit of help here and there - and also quite
stressful to give up what has been such an interesting lifestyle for the past
two decades. However , what will be will
be and it will always be something to look back on with a great deal of
pleasure.
I will still have my writing – the last part of my
trilogy - French Kissing, is in its final editing stages and will soon be on
Amazon. French Kissing is a compendium of short stories and a true saga of
explicit sex and sensuality in the 1960’s & 70’s and will come on to the
market co-incidentally at just the right time.
I have just read in the press that explicit sex is
about to hit the screens in prime time as Wanderlust, described in the press as
“a ground breaking moment for sex on TV” is about to get plenty of public
exposure at any moment. I will have to reserve judgement on Wanderlust, but
whatever the reality and quality of content I can guarantee that the actual
sexual bits will be measured in seconds rather than minutes.
And finally for
this blog, I am pleased to report that I have been able to place my archives
with the National Media Museum where they will form a part of the National Collection.