'Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, and for once I am inclined to believe that Withnail is right, we are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell, making an enemy of our future.'
The other day I went drinking for the first time in the now completely refurbished Purple Turtle bar, and my friend mentioned to me it was interesting to see how the place, where we've spent just two years shy of a decade drinking, has changed so radically, along with ourselves, since the time we started drinking there.
This got me thinking somewhat about the amount of time we actually spent in that place and the amount of photographs I had in fact taken of my friends inside that place, (There are, for the record, loads). But where I usually and quite consistently find it difficult to compile my hundreds of images into sequence outside of a standard chronology, I thought it might be interesting to look at the gradual change of my social group, within the confines of this particular bar. As such, the following is a brief history of portraits of regular friends taken within the walls of Reading's Purple Turtle...
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| Dean. June, 2006 |
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| Roddy and Dean. December, 2009 |
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| Adam and Dean. August, 2006 |
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| Legend. September, 2007 |
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| Legend. June, 2009 |
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| Luke and Ritchie, December, 2007 |
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| Ritchie and Dean. December, 2008 |
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| Ritchie. June, 2009 |
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| Ritchie. July, 2013 |
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| Ritchie. c. February, 2014 |
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| Ben and David. December, 2007 |
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| David and Ben. August, 2013 |
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| Danny and Danielle. December, 2007 |
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| Danielle and Dean. December, 2007 |
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| Legend and Ben snorting cocktails. c. July, 2008 |
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| Danny, c. July 2008 |
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| Mariella and Ben. December, 2008 |
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| Dean, Ben, Roddy. December, 2008 |
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| Ben and Steel. September, 2009 |
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| Adam. September, 2009 |
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| David and Legend. September, 2009 |
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| Legend. September, 2009 |
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| Sparky. January, 2010 |
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| Sparky. December, 2013 - Having moved one bench backward from the previous photograph |
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| Ben with Goths. January, 2010 |
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| Dean working in the short-lived Turtle burger van. c. March, 2010 |
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| Danny, Ben, Roddy, David. January, 2011 |
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| Luke. March, 2011 |
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| Alex, Roddy, Luke. March, 2011 |
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| Luke and Ben. March, 2011 |
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| Me and Danny. July, 2011 |
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| Danny. August, 2013 |
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| Danny in the new garden. May, 2014 |
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| Roddy, Em, girl I can't remember her name. May, 2013 |
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| Arm wrestling. May, 2013 |
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| David with random girls. August, 2013 |
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| David smoking. August, 2013 |
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| August, 2013 |
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| Emma and Dutty. c. August-September 2013 |
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| Chris and I. c. September, 2013 |
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| c. September, 2013 |
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| Luke in the Turtle's newly installed goth dungeon. c. December 2013 |
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| Newly installed goth dungeon. c. December 2013 |
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| New doors. c. February, 2014 |
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| Ritchie. c. February, 2014 |
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| Refurbishment. February, 2014 |
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| In the goth dungeon. February, 2014 |
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| Danny, Henri, Ritchie in the new garden. May, 2014 |
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| Laughing that I still take photographs. May, 2014 |
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