Joseph Tame Rotavator man, The River Wye Raft Race 2005, pussy cats, sunsets...

Dad's onions, sunrise in orcop, my cheeky nephew Jamie, Suzie and Richie's wedding and more...

The latest in doggy fashions, the rice paddies of Niigata Ken, days out at the seaside, a trip to shimoda, Osaka from above, Osaka friends, WWOOFing in Ehime ken, Shikoku, mikan terraces, lotus gardens, the sexiest escalator on Earth, big bugs, Oompah Lumpahs, nights with friends in Tokyo...

A magnetic stomach, The Mill House Park Festival in aid of Sheffield Children's Hospital, Paris CDG airport, cockroach welcome to Japan, Inokashira Koen antics, Joseph In Love (in Shinjuku), Wwoofing at Nasu Camp-jo, Tochigi-ken...

Japan Soc Karaoke and after-show gathering, time out in Herefordshire and Monmouthshire...

Joseph fades away... Romeo and Juliet - the Japan Society Samurai Version, After-show party, Will Yaki - and more!!

Spring is here!, tunnel vision, snails and more...

New Year's Eve with Jo, Faith and Gill, New Years Day and Dad's Brithday celebrations: mum, dad, emma, colin, sarah, stephen, louise, Jessie, Danny, Jamie, the Bump and Father Christmas, visiting old friends: Catherine & Co, Jo & Joe, Ben & Ben, Frances and co,. a classic wheelbarrow, friends gather for a conference in the Orcop Garden, Mr Robin, Spring Snowdrops, back to uni...

Oh December december I was able to dress up as a lovely lovely Mary Christmas, I went to parties, I got attacked in the street, oh! And it was Christmas too, a WHITE Christmas, which meant we could go sledging!! oh What fun!!

University mates, Derbyshire - the capital of kitsch tack, a most unusual castle, Japanese Korean and Chinese Societies at the Middle Kingdom Party!, Rooman's birthday bash, Alton Towers Halloween Special with Chinese and Japan societies...

A day trip to Sheffield to check my accomodation - and the Orcs!, flowers at the Welsh Garden Project site, Pansy and Teazle the two kittens, The Hereford Waldorf School 21st brithday celebrations, my nephew Jamie, my new flat mates in Sheffield...

Moving day for Emma and Colin, Lyn's bday, my nephew Jamie, the great Bradwell Mill Gathering 2004 (North Devon), Fatboy Slim live in London, Notting Hill Carnival 2004...

Carol's birthday bash, precoscious teenagers, frogs, cows, callum and emma's birthday mean, family Shrek, Aston Court Festival 2004, WOMAD 2004, camping in Pembrokeshire...

Tim, Melanie and I take a trip to the caravan in Pembrokeshire (and have a bath in a bloody cold river!), The Welsh Garden Project, Mum and Dad's Open Garden Weekend, Katsura and I chill out in Devon, a yurt party in Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes' Japanese Buddhist Temple celebrates its inaugoration, crossing the Severn Bridge by bicycle, my handsome little nephew Jamie...

New Year 2004 celebrations, dad's 60th birthday Party, Bristolian bridge art, a horny sheep, some little pigs, the black hand, helen and her housemates, the first flower of spring, a happy bag, an icy finger, Saturday night on board the Thekla, a new notice...

Fireworks on Guy Fawkes night, a seprise fancy dress party down the pub, autumnal beauty at Westonbirt Arbouretum, a drastic haircut, STOP BU$H demo...

Confined to the house by sickness, I decided to search my home for photos. Here's what I found. There's a few photos of my new nephew Jamie too!

Another new home, Mum's birthday, The British Public and fast food, friends met in cheesy clubs, a bluebell walk, hot air balloons, paper bag factories, Jo, Joe and more friends, drunk Joseph's, the siblings get together for quality time on the roof, a dog in a concrete puddle, Bristol Music Live: a free concert by the harbour featuring Keith waite, Souad Massi, Fundamental with the Mighty Zulu Nation, brown coat modelling...

2002

33. Japan, December 2002 [97 photos on 6 pages]

In December's album you'll find... a nice field of cabbages, a brick wall with a dog's head attached and about 25 photos taken at Tokyo Disneysea, where you'll not find a single Disney character... There's also a nice one of my nose and me doing my President Bush impression, beautiful Tokyo sunsets featuring Mount Fuji, Christmas 2002 at Emmie and Russ's, oh, and a very drunk horse

32. Italy, October / November 2002 [150 photographs on 7 pages]

I spent the autumn of 2002 in Milan, Italy, where I became "King of Pasta", cooking up amazing dishes, inbetween taking photographs of Expo.02, flying dalmatians, Ronald McDonald, friends, myself, countryside villas, hammocks lovers and statues that spent more time smoking cigarettes than standing still.

31. My Sister Jessie's Wedding, 21st Sep 2002 [59 photographs on 5 pages]

Saturday the 21st of September 2002 saw Jessie Tame become Jessie Taylor, and Danny Taylor find himself married to a Tame, poor thing. Anyhow, a lovely time was had by all, and I was always on hand, equipped with a pint of Elderflower Champagne and two cameras to ensure that the proceedings were duly recorded for the record.

30. England, September / October 2002 [66 photographs on 5 pages]

Returning to England after a year away was an interesting experience. It was so strange how, when meeting friends (some of whom I hadn't seen since 1999) it just felt like I'd seen them the previous week. People grow up, but they don't seem to change all that much. Anyhow, I had a great time bombing round the UK in my Mercedes visiting people all over the place. It was a three weeks that will not be forgotten!

29. Italy, September 2002 [12 photographs on 1 page]

Having spent a year in Japan, September 2002 saw my return to Europe - My first stop was Italy. Due to all the madness in my life at that time I was not too snap-happy, but here in this album containing 12 photographs you'll find a few shots of the place where I lived and the friends that I met.

28. Japan, August 2002 [58 photographs on 4 pages]

August 2002 was the last of four months that I spent in the isolated northern-Japanese resort town of Niseko. I climbed a volcano, met some of the most feminine boys in the land, took photos of friends, went hot-air ballooning, went rafting and generally tried to keep as busy as possible to not go completely insane.

27. Japan, July 2002 [34 photographs on 3 pages]

It was mid-summer in Northern Japan, and I was busy hugging lumps of concrete and taking photos of mother nature. There were also a few deer around, the odd village that had been struck by a volcano, sunflowers, Granny's dressed as 6-year-olds as well as the Return of Harry and Larry, along with their cousin Barry.

26. Japan, June 2002 [53 photographs on 4 pages]

I was well into my second month of isiolation working at the family-run guest house in Northern Japan when thankfully, a new friend appeared on the scene in the form of Adam. Together, we set out on hitch-hiking trip of Western Hokkaido, which involved festivals, fireworks and fun in all forms. Shame we had to go through the hangover routine too.

25. Japan, May 2002 [45 photographs on 3 pages]

It was my first taste of the real Japanese outback. Away from the English-speaking crowds. Away from the skyscrapers - The northern island of Hokkaido welcomed me with it's beautiful scenery, requests for morris-dancing performances and a tour of the Sapporo Beer brewery.

24. Japan, April 2002 [40 photographs on 4 pages]

It was Cherry Blossom season in Japan when Kae and I decided to take a holiday in Kansei. The cities of Kyoto, Osaka and Nara welcomed us, as did a rowing boat, a bunch of semi-tame deer, a wild boar and a golden temple...

23. AI good-bye party, 14th March 2002 [25 photographs on 2 pages]

After five months of classroom mayhem, it was time for my English students to close their books for the final time. That night, a whole gang of us descened upon a local unsuspecting restaurant - so the madness really began.

22. OBC Night Out: 1st March 2002 [28 photographs on 2 pages]

Docile and well mannered during the day time, these office-worker teaching colleagues of mine proved to be a bunch of wild monkeys when presented with "eat and drink as much as you like". It was a great goodbye party, Thankyou boys and girls!

21. Japan, March 2002 [47 photographs on 3 pages]

"Hello OBC. Yes, this is Mr. Joseph... today we're going to talk about the weather..." My telephone-teaching career came to an end after 4 months in central Tokyo. Also seen this month wer large poo-buildings, trapped birds, all-singing all-dancing popcorn machines, giant orange gorillas crabs and bugs.

20. Japan, February 2002 [27 photographs on 1 page]

Big-nosed monsters, little Buddhas, Tokyo fashion crazes and plastic food. All features of my February 2002 spent in Japan.

19. Japan, January 2002 [72 photographs on 4 pages]

New Year is the biggest festival of the year in Japan, and there are many photos to prove it. You'll also find talking fridges, goths in Harajaku, Japan's tallest building and some electric slippers.

2001

The Christmas season in Japan.

17. Japan, November 2001 [109 photographs on 6 pages]

Autumn, one of the most beautiful months in Japan when the maple leaves turn to a million shades of red, carpeting the sky above and the ground below.

16. Japan, October 2001 [57 photographs on 3 pages]

It had been ten months since I'd last been to Japan, and boy was I happy to be back! Friends, feet, parrots and more.

15. Switzerland, Summer 2001 [178 photographs on 4 pages]

It was my second (and final) summer season spent living 2000 metres above the clouds in the Swiss mountain resort of Kleine Scheidegg. Join the cows and I in the Alps.

14. Italy, March 2001 [46 photographs on 3 pages]

13. Istanbul, March 2001 [49 photographs on 3 pages]

Istanbul had always been a mystery to me. Straddling the border between Europe and Asia, it was a city that was just waiting for some gullable chap like myself to come along...

12. Berlin, February 2001 [14 photographs on 1 page]

Berlin was, in Febraury 2001, a city undergoing a staggering number of changes. Money was pouring in, enabling the redevelopment of this fascinating city that will no doubt be a must-see on anyone's tour of Europe in years to come. I was there for just a few days on my Interrail trip of Europe with a broken collarbone.

11. Paris, February 2001 [12 photographs on 1 page]

Paris. Well, what can I say? I was there, alone, at the top of the Eiffel Tower on Valentines day 2001. It was the first stop on my Interrail tour of Europe with a broken collarbone. It also played host to two chaps who stole my huge rucksack from under my nose...

10. Switzerland, Winter 2000 / 2001 [162 photographs on 3 pages]

Switzerland in the winter cannot be beaten! Living above the clouds the weather's pretty decent, the snow superb... Perfect conditions then in which to work and then break one's collarbone just before the peak season...

pre-2001

9. Japan, November / December 2000 [134 photographs on 3 pages]

A six week break between seasons in Switzerland gave me the opportunity to discover Japan for the first time. It was the best six weeks of my life thus far! Everyone was so kind and friendly, establishing within me a life-long love of the country.

8. Switzerland, Summer 2000 [28 photographs on 2 pages]

Following a delightfully painful ending to a two-and-a-half-year relationship, I decided that I needed a complete change of scenery. So it was that I returned to Switzerland, where I worked for a couple of months on an organic farm before making my way back up the mountain to the legendary Kleine Scheidegg.

7. America, Summer 1997 [186 photographs on 3 pages]

My first season in the Swiss Alps in 1997 taught me a few things, one of which was that there was a huge world out there full of people who could teach me an awful lot. I couldn't bear the thought of returning to Herefordshire for that Summer, and so instead I headed for America, where I joined a community of 300 people my own age who came from over thirty different countries.

6. Switzerland, Winter 1996/1997 [136 photographs on 7 pages]

In September 1996 I decided that it was time for me to see the world. I packed my rucksack, and set off for Australia - my chosen means of transportation was hitch-hiking. So it was that when I reached Switzerland I found myself taking not so much a route east, but more, a route up, way up, into the crazy world that was and still is Kleine Scheidegg.

5. Holiday in Crete, 1996 [61 photographs on 3 pages]

In 1996 I found myself with increasingly itchy feet, and my sister, Emma certainly deserved a holiday.
That was it. Off to Crete we went.

4. Visiting Jo Kirk on Islay, 1991 [16 photographs on 1 page]

My friend Jo Kirk only spent a year or two at the Hereford Waldorf School, before moving back up north to the Scottish island of Islay (where's that?). In 1991 I decided to go and visit her on the lump of rock in the middle of nowhere that boasts being home to some of the world's finest Whisky.

3. Herefordshire Archive, 1985-2001 [258 photographs on 8 pages]

Although I was born in Bury-St-Edmunds, England, most of my early years were spent in Herefordshire, 5 miles from the Welsh border. Here are a few of the memories that I have from this beautiful rural county.

A collection of photographs documenting the first two years for myself and my little sister Jessie in this big wide world

1. Joseph through the ages [45 photographs on 1 page]

A gallery of Me! 1978 - present.