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    FLICKING THE SWITCH

    Aug 05, 2022 3 minutes

    FOR MANY OF US there are days in our lives which seem trivial at the time but set in motion a chain of events that send us on previously unimaginable trajectories; days which, when viewed in retrospect, mark an irrevocable shift in our fortunes. Auspicious days. Early in the year 2000, one such day eventually led me to live and work in the heart of Snowdonia.

    My story begins with a visit to my local library in the old market town of Peterborough, where I chanced upon by WA Poucher. Within its pages I found photographs that, which I watched repeatedly, accruing a large fine in the process.

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