• Monochrome image of two men sitting on a stone bank under the arches of the Bremen Town Hall. One has his arms folded across a generous stomach, the other is squinting into the sunshine, an open book in his hands. Taken June 2024, Copyright Urban Camera.
    Opinion

    In Whom Do You Place Your Trust?

    In the days of my youth - and much of my time now, as an old person, is spent remembering youthful years - people who wanted to have their books published either had to go through the rigours of a publishing house, with or without an agent on their side, or pay a vanity press to publish the work for them. Vanity presses advertised in what

  • A homeless person wearing a dirty parka-style coat with the hood over his head, sitting on a park bench in Bremen. Copyright Urban Camera 2025.
    City Life,  Life,  Travel

    A Most Respectable Lifestyle

    I suspect it depends a great deal on a person's interpretation of Respectable, and whether it can be accepted for many different ways of life, or just form those in certain professions, and the former landed gentry but, as a child, it was a lifestyle which appealed to me. The fault is undoubtedly that of my grandmother - mother's side - who talked of the old ways of the professional tramp...

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