A very happy 50th birthday to friend and photographer Michael Bowring, presently living and working in Belgrade. Having spent many nights on the tiles with Michael I have many good memories thanks to him, not to mention his longstanding habit of taking everyone’s photo who entered his flat and sat on his sofa.

With a bit of tinkering I got Bob up on the blogosphere on Boxing Day. Go to http://photographics2000.blogspot.com to leave a comment or go straight to Bob Hall’s photo website at: www.photographics2000.co.uk

Having been to St Ives on holiday for the last 20 years or so you can’t help but notice a few differences, mainly how many shops are open right up until Xmas and the amount of cars continually chugging through the town. Plus the price of property –