budgie's squawks - A Life In Pictures

11:49 am December 28th, 2008




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	A Life In Pictures - December 2008
	Been over a year since I've done this, and there have been more than a few new people reading this since then, and I've some pics from the bar mitzvah, so... OK, this started in 2004 when there was a meme going around about pictures when you were younger. I did it... and then have continued to update it every year or so for more recent pics... (For anyone who has seen these posts before, yes, you've seen most of these photos before, although I've removed a couple of shots where two were taken very close together.) So, here they are, bringing the photos up to date, as the end of 2008. In rough order of age... Probably the earliest photo I've got of me... It was 1972, ok? And I was at my brother's bar mitzvah My son takes great delight in this shot - I think I was 10 at the time. Me at age 11 Just after my 15^th birthday August 1980, I'm 16 - yes, that is a curly perm. Shut up. November 1982 - Freshers' Fair at Manchester Poly 1983 - me at the PULP office, 2^nd year at Manchester Poly. Age 21, at a work leaving do, having left Manchester Poly a month or so earlier.. 1985, at my brother's wedding... at which I was best man. Yeah, 21 again. At my dad's 60^th birthday in 1989, aged 25. Blimey, was that really almost sixteen years ago? 1994 - Laura's and my wedding day 1996 September 1997, at UKCAC Me in New York, January 1998, just after we lost Mike Part of a formal family shot, mid-1999 June 1999 - my spiritual home August 2000; taken by Phil - he was five years old at the time October 2001; New York, six weeks after 9/11; visiting Ian May 2002, Hypotheticals - not a happy Budgie mid-2002, taken for a WEF World Wide Wednesday Bristol, 2003. You can see the greying hair now... July 2004 - working at the office December 2004 - at my nephew's bar mitzvah. See? I scrub up nicely occasionally. August 2005 - at Brighton. First picture for ages that I'm genuinely happy with. September 2005, last picture of the Nissan before I crashed it... October 2005. Again, a photo taken by Phil... April 2006, at the flat. July 2006 - I have no idea what I was thinking in this shot. December 2006 - Another one taken at the office. May 2007, Bristol, Saturday night, at around 2 in the morning. December 2007 - at the office party, with my 'secret santa' gift. No, the book. May 2008 - Phil and me at Comic Expo May 2008 - Me interviewing Dave Gibbons at Comic Expo October 2008 - Me portrait shot for the bar mitzvah October 2008 - Me and Phil, studio shot for the bar mitzvah October 2008 - Me and Ian, at the bar mitzvah And just to save anyone from pointing it out again, yes, I know Philip looks a bit (well, more than a bit, according to some people) like me, poor kid...

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	From: apiphile	Date: December 28th, 2008 11:54 am (UTC)		(Link)

I think what's most interesting about that picture is that your smile's got more restrained but when you're ACTUALLY smiling at something, it's the same smile. :)

Might do one of these.

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	From: budgie_uk	Date: January 2nd, 2009 10:03 pm (UTC)		(Link)

You're not the only person to say that... but I don't see it at all; though to be fair, I was a lot happier to be in photos back then...

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	From: apiphile	Date: January 2nd, 2009 10:04 pm (UTC)		(Link)

At the very least less self-conscious.

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	From: budgie_uk	Date: January 2nd, 2009 10:06 pm (UTC)		(Link)

...and a whole lot cuter.

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	From: apiphile	Date: January 2nd, 2009 10:06 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I DUNNO. :P

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	From: budgie_uk	Date: January 2nd, 2009 10:09 pm (UTC)		(Link)

No, no - I was definitely cute when I was younger.

And I would query (to put it mildly) anyone who believed the same of me now :)

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From: (Anonymous)	Date: April 17th, 2009 01:51 pm (UTC)		(Link)

You were cute up to the age of 10. Then you weren't. Then somewhere around the age of 38 you started to get cute again.

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	From: budgie_uk	Date: April 17th, 2009 01:52 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Well, I'd say that 10 is pushing it... but thanks, whoever you are...

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	From: edkaye	Date: July 28th, 2009 10:47 pm (UTC)		(Link)

What an absolutely wonderful idea! However, it's made me realise quite how few old photos I have of myself. I think the oldest ones are ones that my wife has from when we started dating, so that would be 11 years ago. I'm sure my parents have many, so I'll have to remember to scan some when I next visit the UK :)

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