Did I intend to publish this just about 365 days ago? Yes, I did.
“Oh I’ll write this tomorrow,” I thought to myself. Tomorrow became next week and then it never came about. There’s always something else to do. Ahhhh.
I just managed before the end of 2021 to make a monumental move into my own flat in a new city. I decided in August that I was to leave Wellingborough and become a resident of Nottingham. At times with the incredibly competitive housing market and the need to get a job to have a house but a house needing a job, it sometimes felt it would never happen. Everything though suddenly slotted into place and after securing a new job, I found a place a place on RightMove and moved in on Monday 20th December 2021!
I take a lot of photos. For me, it is so important to capture a moment in time. It elicits memories. Along the lines of ‘if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”, I have made up a proverb. It goes “If a photo is not taken, did it really happen?”. I think it comes from my phobia of losing my memory. Equally, moments need to be enjoyed and one needs to be in the present; the sight of a sea of camera phones filming the entirety of a concert baffles me; there’s a line that needs to be drawn somewhere. I have gone through my entire photo stream from 2021 and selected memories of the year as I did in 2020, 2019 and 2018. The selected photos are by no-means exhaustive. It’s a “ohhh yeeahh, that needs to go in for a reason”. Other events may have happened but they may not be appropriate to share to the whole internet (ha) or I have chosen, for whatever reason, not to.
As with tradition firstly I shall talk about cycling. In 2021, I cycled a total of 2,202 miles.
This does not include the miles that were not recorded on the few times I forgot my Garmin, I rode my tandem, went on city hire bicycles or the dozen or so times my Garmin GPS would not load.
And here are the photos of 2021.
Speak soon,
Samuel x
