I came across an old photo album this week. A “photo album” is a kind of large-format, stiff-covered book in which people once preserved photographs, often precariously positioned behind transparent celluloid. “Photographs” were similar to the pictures that people take on their phones, but you could hold them in your hand.
There was something else different about the photographs in the album, and I couldn’t quite place what it was until I reached Christmas lunch, circa 1982. It’s a hot