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Left-handed, dyslexic, science-geek. Obsessive and professional fact-checker.
Maths grad - then Computer Scientist, then Monetary Economist.
Retired, just as soon as the euro notes and coins were in circulation across Europe; having spent 10 years working toward that event. Working on anything afterwards would have been an utter and total anti-climax, so I packed it in.
"Consultant to International and Central Banks" is how I used to title myself - fairly accurately.
Lived lots of places, at home anywhere (except maybe Sweden).
An old mate of mine, a very senior Ethiopian lawyer once told me he had finally visited one place on earth worse than Ethiopia - it being North Korea - but no other Ethiopian could believe that there could be anywhere worse than Ethiopia.
Neither he nor they had visited Sweden.
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Be aware: This is a god-free zone.
I block everyone who uses comments on my photostream to pimp their own photographs.
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- BBC Winterwatch 34,195 photos, 2,600 members
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- NATURE'S BEST 666,055 photos, 19,370 members
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- Desire Paths 501 photos, 406 members
- Bee and Wasp Mimicry 1,358 photos, 201 members
- Summer~of~Love 51 photos, 11 members
- London and UK riots 2,137 photos, 313 members
- UK Hoppers (of the homopteran sort) 8,117 photos, 141 members
- Cerambycidae - Longhorn Beetles 1,877 photos, 201 members
- Butterfly Conservation 4,911 photos, 318 members
- Natural PATTERNS, Shapes, and Textures (moderated) 22,160 photos, 3,126 members
- Patterns in nature 6,403 photos, 486 members
- Woodpeckers 5,813 photos, 890 members
- Insect activity (Invite only) 307 photos, 115 members
- 'Butterflies and Moths of Britain' -Comp ends today! 8,583 photos, 615 members
- Wisley 1,250 photos, 188 members
- ►Jumping Spider 5,580 photos, 829 members
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- Favorites: 100 3,125 photos, 2,141 members
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- NATURE Pure and Beautiful 32,897 photos, 2,521 members
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- Bird Tables/feeders -The life and times Of! 79 photos, 8 members
- WEST COAST CUMBRIA PHOTOGRAPHY 5,017 photos, 152 members
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- FSM sightings 108 photos, 82 members
- Flying Spaghetti Monster 515 photos, 419 members
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- WOOF YOU/AWARD Group - You must award 3 or more 33,884 photos, 1,203 members
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Testimonials (1)
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Judith*Green says:
"I expect most people feel like this: there are one or two of your contacts whose photos you specially look forward to, or whose photostream you home in on if you only have limited time. Ray is like that for me.
His photos have all kinds of qualities: respect and affection for, and knowledge of, his subjects, often humour too; the technical expertise to make his photos always of the highest quality; and best of all, for me, they're just such a joy to look at - wonderful colours, beautiful focus, light and viewpoint, cropped just right and not too close It's as if he planted his garden and the pig field to become the ideal background for his little creatures.
Keep them coming, Ray, they give such pleasure"5th September, 2009
- Name:
- Ray
- Joined:
- February 2005
- Currently:
- Rotherham/Sheffield border , S. Yorks, UK
- I am:
- Other and Open