2025 was a busy year for me with work, hobbies and social life.
Work has been variable as I’m still adapting to health limitations. The summer months were great for car boot sales, an excellent opportunity to sell some of the smaller and lower value items. They were good fun, chatting and bartering with customers, although the early starts were a challenge!

I was attended the Wolverhampton camera fair, plus the inaugural camera fair in Manchester, which turned out to be a profitable event. These have been useful events to sell some of the specialist items.

Astronomy was great for the first few months, but then typical British weather produced far too many clouds. There were a few good nights at the astro camps, however my dedicated astro camera did start having some anomalies spoiling all images .It went off to the manufacturers at the end of the summer for investigation. As is to be expected, the clouds haven’t been favourable, so I’ve only manage one short imaging session. The issue does seem to be resolved, so I’m hoping for good results over the winter months.

It’s been a quiet year sociably, mainly down to health, but I’ve certainly enjoyed meeting up with friends on occasions this year.