Month: February 2017

My favourite pub is not my nearest but a place called the Old Down Inn run by the one and only Maxine. It was a stop on the old postal road in days of yore. I arrived about 12:15. there was one other person in the bar sitting staring into his beer. I ordered roast of the day and a large glass of rose wine. It is strange that when people come, a dialogue develops. You could almost call it a one...

In a previous decade I ran a large social organisation in London called London Village which attracted as its peak 3 1/2 thousand members. During this time, I got a very good understanding of people wishing to make a new start for whatever reason. I was able to observe first-hand people who joined to had obviously just finished with a relationship and were feeling a little bit battered. I also...

We are starting to plan for our visit to London starting on Wednesday through Sunday afternoon. I always take too many clothes and end up wearing one or two items and I never seem to learn. Sunny periods and showers so we had to take wet weather clothing and dry weather clothing. Great. Air B&B might seem a good deal but people have cottoned on to the fact they can charge pretty much the...

A real "nothing" day. I have fiddled around with my Meetup entry, made our daily loaf of gluten-free bread, made a nice fillo lunch, watched a video about the fake calls that were  claimed to be made from the 9/11 planes.  The calls were apparently made from 30,000 feet but the mobile phones at that time would only work up to 6000 feet. The public's gullibility to believe endlessly repeated lies...

An unexpectedly sunny and calm day so I picked up my wife from Timsbury where she is doing an art class and we drove straight to Trowbridge. This town is for the most part unexciting then as my readers will know I already visited this week but I wanted to take my wife to see the Trowbridge Museum which is in the main an account of the weaving trade and various other local trades in the 17th to...

We were woken by a blast of rain at about 6:30 AM it was as close to solid water pouring out of the cloud as I've ever seen accompanied by high wind. Other parts of the country had it far worse during the weather invented Doris.  We seem to get away with quite good weather in Somerset. to the psychotherapist... Kerry certainly knows his job. He dealt with sports people for years and can almost...