Leslie T Pattinson

@lespattinson.bsky.social

I’m nobody

52 years ago, I started an apprenticeship at Douglas Boatyard nr Preston Lancashire. Can’t say I loved every minute of it, it was hard work but loved more minutes than I hated, it shaped me. This is Ronny on his boat Vagus, a huge upgrade from punting boats by hand against the tide to be slipped.

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This is how I like to remember Pete, just chilling with a beer, cant remember where I took this, but it was during a photo shoot with Anton. I think of Pete and Jack most days especially, strangely when poaching egg’s!!!

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Well, came a bit close to a slippery friend today, all by accident, practicing on my dirt bike, didn’t even see it, but apparently I ran over the tip of its tail, but what a magnificent example of a lowland Copperhead, about the fourth mist poisonous in Australia!

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