Andy Rodker's photos with the keyword: 1979

Patricia. Vendange, Samonac, Bordeaux 79.

I stayed 2 days here. Friends of the family I stayed with throughout the 70s (school French exchange) were slowly converting this mas (Provencale for farmhouse) into their holiday home. (They told me they had already spent 30 years doing it up and it would take another 30 to finish!!

Pinner, Middlesex, One of the few true villages still extant in the London area. A photo from 1979 - my Pentax ME SLR and b/w film, scanned. I came here for a job interview. I was in my last year at uni. I was early and walked around and took a few photos (I had packed my SLR with my notes for the interview for some strange reason). I did OK at the interview, forgot all about it, went to France for a year after my finals, then got a message from my Dad that the firm in Pinner wanted to know what had happened as I had been due to start many months ago! I had very little recollection of all this, except a few black and white photos, of which this is one. Upshot: 35 years work in the Financial Services Industry, starting with this firm in Pinner before I finally upped sticks and came to Spain 7 years ago. That was the short answer. The long answer is ...........

I didn't mean to show this, I intended only to use it as my avatar but I am new here and somehow couldn't stop adding it to my photos! I will learn ... slowly!