Photo Albums all leather bound & dated on the bottom two shelves & above are many spiral bound “ memory notebooks” used to keep track of a very busy life in producing tv commercials & running two homes & two children with all the reminders to label socks or book a cameraman!

My bookcase full of #Mformemories.
Photo albums from1986 to 2005 family time with children & my late husband in our first country home. Holidays & parties in the garden, schools & sports days.
A special period in my life I look back on + rose tinted specs but the photos show it wasn’t all a dream

The outline of the Rhum Cuillin across a short distance of sea. A sandy beach and machair in the foreground

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Rum from Eigg 2018. The last holiday before my lungs kicked off, when I was running the most I ever had. This was taken on my long run, on a gloriously sunny morning, not long before I got lost amongst a field of cattle.

Many sandpipers and a few sea gulls at the water’s edge at low tide

Shorebirds dancing in the waves
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Giant statue of Ramses II at AbulSimbel. An astonishing place with monoliths carved facade & inner walls showing Ramses beating the hittites in chariots etc. Literally AWESOME.

Drifting down the Nile from Cairo to Luxor & on to Abu Simbel. Unchanged with dhows & white egrets as in the days of the Pharoahs. It gives one time to think about the eternal verities & life.

At Luxor suitably dressed for sightseeing in scorching sun. The avenues of carvings & the vast pillared temples are overwhelming. The Ancient Egyptians were a marvel, so advanced in 3,000BC in every way: medicine, architecture & construction, poetry & arts, fashion, goldsmithing & decorative arts, wall paintings, spirituality.

Me & Mark at the Pyramids. Surprisingly close to the suburbs of Cairo. Looking outwards the way this photo was taken you see the marvels of construction that are the pyramids. But turn the camera the other way & it’s rather ramshackle urban sprawl!

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My 2nd trip down the Nile with my husband on a beautiful small boat. My fascination with Ancient Egypt has been a lifelong obsession & to see the temples, obelisks, vast carved columns & statues in situ, & tombs with the original painted colours still intact. Wonder