Requested by a reader of my blog . . . .

Quite young

Not quite so young, with my Irish grandmother on Wallasey pier

In Blackpool with my cousin. On the right. Very skinny.

First Holy Communion. A good Catholic back then.

At grammar school. A foto suspiciously taken by a Christian Brother teacher . . .

Working in the Hotel Vic, at 17

Starting work

With my first daughter, Faye

With the mother of my daughters, in Jakarta

Back in the UK

In Galicia 4 or 5 years ago

With Faye in Pontevedra quite recently

With various friends in recent years . . .