Wednesday 21st August 2019

I'm breaking all the self imposed rules here by posting my daily image the day after the idea came into my head. Although today (Wedensday) I did come across the above image. 

Sometimes with this year long project of mine I do a bit of a catch up a few days later,  as images may have been taken on the day but time to write it all up was lacking. This was the case today when on Thursday 22nd I sat having lunch in the canteen. Mid flow in a dahl curry pick and mix (I got to the canteen late so had a plate made up of delicious left overs), my colleague Jon happily interrupted me. In the course of the conversation he mentioned he had a photograph of me. It was while sorting through old photographs to be scanned that he found a photograph of me - and there emerging from his folder, was a 1997 version of me, suited and booted at a Natural History Unit Christmas party. Next to me names from the past - Martin Whatley, Helen Wharam and Claire Diamond. All now ex-job. But seeing my self 22 years ago reminded me that yesterday (or today if you are reading this in black and white) I'd had a sort out at my desk and came across the above photograph. Which is where the idea came about as today (but written the following day my my colleague Tom discusses a programme idea on the phone opposite me) I needed an image. 

So there I am - master (not quite) of all he surveyed - this was the Trims Backlog team of classifiers. A 5 year project where I staggered through the role of Classification Supervisor. What is embarrassing now looking back is I can not remember one of the team, the woman holding the card June 1996. From the bottom of the stairs we have Amanda [Kear], Claire [Thompson], Tricia [Walls], Richard [ Hassall], the lady I've forgotten - gulp - Mark [Palmer], me and Linda [Robson]. And yes we did live in Portacabins for a few years.

A long time ago and everyone there other than Richard works for the BBC now - odd looking back as I was only 5-6 years older than the team, but now seen as an old man in the media. Lost youth.