Site last updated
: February 2014
Welcome to my world
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... to my first world on the web
This website is
a convenient place to post our Christmas letters, see below, but I realise how
old-fashioned it looks. I now
have a blog – two, in fact: one for writing about subjects
related to my profession as an internal auditor and one for
other observations, reviews, thoughts, etc. I also “do” Facebook; I tweet – again in two ways:
professional and personal; and I have a LinkedIn profile. Here are all the links to ways you
can contact me.
You can email me at JackiePCain@btopenworld.com
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For my thoughts as an
internal audit professional interested in governance
and management of risk so also interested in
economics, organisational behaviour and other sources
of risk: Find Jackie on LinkedIn at
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For a more eclectic mix of
wry observations and a dull itinerary of where I turn
up and what the weather looks like there: Friends, connect on Facebook: Tweets from @JPC_0604 here:
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BREAKING NEWS February 2014: 2012 and 2013 letters updated with links to photographs!
Each year, my
partner and I write a letter to keep our friends up to speed
with our activities. Here are the letters for recent
years, with links to related sites and more illustrations:
| 1999 | 2004 | 2009 |
| 2000 | 2005 | 2010 |
| 2001 | 2006 | 2011 |
| 2002 | 2007 | 2012 |
| 2003 | 2008 | 2013 |
Photo Albums
Here is my first
photo album - it is from the wedding of my friends, Jane and JP,
in September 2000.
And, now, my second
photo album - a trip to Madrid, Spain, in February 2000.
On 20 May 2000,
Graham and I went to the last FA
Cup final to be held before Wembley Stadium was closed for
refurbishment.
The holiday
Graham and I took in France in June/July 2000 .
On 6 April 2001,
I had my 40th birthday. This is the party Graham
organised for me: Surprise !
Aunty Gladys was
80 in 2003 and her son arranged a surprise party for her.
In June
2001 , Graham and I went to Andalucia
in Southern Spain.
My friend
Elizabeth and her 5-year-old son, Jonathan, came for a visit
and we went to Paris and Warwick
Castle in November 2001. She came again with her
9-year-old, Andrew, and we went to Arundel
Castle in August 2002.
During 2001 and
2002, I have been trying to visit some London museums, in
particular those that have opened new developments, often
thanks to Lottery money. There are some momentoes of my visits on my Museums page.
Writing
I am practising
writing by composing reviews and fan fiction related to one of
my favourite TV programmes, JAG .
A Few Words of Explanation ...
I joined the
digital revolution with one of these, an Olympus C2000Zoom digital
stills camera.
The pictures up
until June 2001 were taken with this camera. It could
snap images at up to 1600 x 1200 resolution (that's about
three foot across on a 17 inch monitor !).
Pictures were really sharp as it uses technology similar to
"normal" 35 mm SLRs.
In June 2001 I
upgraded to the Olympus C3030Zoom:
It looks
similar, doesn't it ? Well
it has 3.34 megapixels for storing pictures, as opposed to the
2.1 for the earlier camera. It can take images at up to
2,048 x 1,536 resolution.
The quality of the lens is good and the focusing and
all. It also has the ability to take little movies,
using QuickTime JPEG format. It is interesting how
evocative the addition of sound can be, although it took me a
while to learn not to hold a movie camera in Portrait orientation !
And in 2006 I
changed tack to a tiny Canon Digital IXUS 55, the size of the
palm of my hand. The intention was to be able to have it
with me at all times to take pictures of events I attend for
work. But, although it IS good for that, we also
discovered that it takes pictures as good as the Olympus,
without the weight. so, it
is my preferred camera now.
