Jim Sheldrake

Communicator | Paramedic | Submariner | Climber | Paddler | Ski tourer

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Digital art by Theo, aged 4

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This is the Way

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Chalet decking

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May 2020

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First laptop - the stickers all tell a story.  Also my trusty Toughbook.  Both now recycled.

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A View from the Bridge - watched live at a cinema in Basel

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Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body,but to skid in,totally worn out, shouting “****! What a ride!”

Joe Simpson (@TouchingTheVoid)

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Tomorrow’s cover, today

This week we look at the war on Ebola. The disease is spreading fast. Our cover leader argues that conquering it will require a much larger effort in west Africa than the outside world has so far pledged.

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52° North by Paul Richardson - I now know Ipswich is at the same latitude as Berlin, Amsterdam and Warsaw

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A crisis is a productive state. You simply have to get rid of its aftertaste of catastrophe.

Max Frisch, Swiss author - 1911-1991

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Instagram of Greenpeace clipper BELUGA II (at Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois)

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Those twins of learning that he rais’d in you, Ipswich [School] and Oxford [University]! One of which fell with him, Unwilling to outlive the good that did it; The other, though unfinish’d, yet so famous

William Shakespeare - Henry VIII

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Roche Building 1

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Wasserfahren - taken from St. Alban Fähre

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School run home on Friday - squeezed off tram by Baselworld so took ferry and got this phot

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Chamonix - fresh snow (at Elevation 1904)