My Somerset Life
Brian Snellgrove
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The art of welcoming strangers into an unfamiliar place
In these days of fear and insecurity it is more problematic for people to summon up the courage to go along to somewhere new especially when they don't know people. I've pretty much lost my fear of going into strange...
Rubbish mobile phone service + would you drink drain cleaner?
THE MAN WHO ORDERED 4 GLASSES OF COKE FOR BREAKFAST Is Coca-Cola an addiction? I've just got back from Wetherspoons today Wednesday 15th January 2025 (yes its real time writing) where I enjoyed my normal Freedom...
A remarkable labour of love + lonely cellist in RUH hospital
I'm sick of hearing from the mainstream Media that the NHS is on its knees. Over the last few months I have had excellent service from my local hospital. Staff are polite, they take extra steps to explain everything,...
Achieving success as a writer, and how to avoid false hope
I am writing in preparation for the writers and diarists group that I intend to form on the 22nd of January. We have a handful of people so far but I imagine we will probably get about a dozen or so which is great for...
Giving effective requested advice
I have just done a psychic reading this morning which I combine with pendulum dowsing or divining. I very much rely on ideas that pop into my head from nowhere when listening to someone given account of their life and...
Just plain sadness
GOOD CHRISTIAN VIBES FIRST THING IN THE MORNING A contact of mine, Matt, is making an attempt to revive the Men's Christian group here in Midsomer Norton and suggested that we meet this morning Saturday the 11th of...
What is thought and consciousness and why study it?
WHAT IS A THOUGHT? My take: a thought is a decision to change the vectors of our activity, to perform an action, to change a state of mind? If we completely identified ourselves within our human body, thought would be...
A return to The Bath Society of Artists Exhibition
Before this wonderful exhibition closes this Saturday we had to go alone take another look and this time there was another explainer (see my previous entry) by the name of Dessanka who started her talk by welcoming...
Guidelines – launching a new cultural venture
I honestly believe that starting socially or culturally-based organisations is a lost art. We have too many institutions, bureaucracies, political parties, groups whose aim is to make money for the participants or...
Same sex relationships – some thoughts
same sex For some reason this has attracted my interest. We speak of heterosexual and homosexual relationships. What does this mean? Does it mean that if I'm attracted to another man I am a homosexual? Does the...
Two copper cups – a role of social media
THE POSSIBLE BENEFIT OF COPPER Witness the wonderful copper cups that we have bought, The healing powers of copper have been used since time immemorial and I know they claim copper bangles reduce symptoms of...
I Write an Excoriatory Missive
This word represents a particularly severe type of criticism. A context is for example "his latest report to received excoriating reviews". The word comes from the Latin excoriatus, which means to flay, strip off the...
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