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    The Published Painter

    Apr 13, 2023 3 minutes

    I am a retired pharmacist with interests in painting, photography, chess, tennis, badminton, lay preaching, music et cetera. Married

    with two adult daughters and two grandsons, I have been interested in photography since I was given a 127 Brownie camera by my mother, when I was nine, and have been photographing ever since.

    As for painting, I did an hour a week in the fifth form. At the same time, my best friend

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