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Notes on the Offbeat - (updated)

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  Front Cover What started out as a series of Photobooks to showcase different aspects of my photography has evolved into several books in their own right.  As well as publishing an historical pictorial record in the form of  The Ancient Water Meadows of the River Nadder , I am about to publish an extended version of  Notes on the Offbeat , a book I created some while ago featuring some of the more remote and unusual sights I have recorded with my cameras whilst wandering around the middle of nowhere over recent years. I developed a liking for reading later in life having been well and truly put off for many years by some absurd and often unpleasant individuals masquerading as English masters in the 1960's Grammar School in which I found myself.  It is only upon looking back over my extensive collection of books that followed this new found interest that I realise that I have been constantly drawn to the offbeat lives of those who have chosen to 'go it alone' despite those