On the Brighter Side (10 pics from '25)

Here's my third photograph to mark 2025. It was April, my final stay in hospital, and I was but a handful of days away away from receiving my leaving papers. This was the corridor leading to Morris Ward. I was on Morris Ward. Great things happen on Morris Ward and great people work there. They offer the ultimate emergency service. Like many parts of City Hospital, that's where lives are saved, mine included. I'll never forget that. I'll also never forget the first day I was allowed to leave my isolation room and slip anchor. I made it as far as the walled courtyard where the sun shone and I drank a cup of real coffee. I took this photograph on the way. For the first time in a long time I was filled with hope.

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This mini series appears to have been hijacked by the KPM record label. And none the worse for that. Today I've gone with another one of their writers in residence: Johnny Hawksworth was a jazzer born in 1929 and, commercially, probably best remembered for his Thames Television ident (you'll know it as the precursor to the Sweeney!). Johnny provided the label with so much TV and film material - I'll probably do a little resumé of his work (and the other KPM stalwarts) in the New Year.

Johnny Hawksworth - On the Brighter Side (1982)