Hold on to your hats folks. We decided to have an afternoon out, a bit like a miniature holiday. We noticed an ad. in the Mendip Times for Open Gardens. The old part of Chew Stoke in Somerset contains narrow streets, typically old cottages with building additions in the last century. It has at its centre a traditional old church which seems to still be the heart and soul of the community. The...
JB – Why are we having these conversations and why do you write the diary? BJ All I try to do is to get the odd person who does read it just to think in a different way and if we can do that, then that’s job done. We can’t think for them. Just to remind you – the background of the whole thing is the inspiration from Samuel Pepys and his Diary that I write regularly and have done for the last...
Up early and watched the news about interest rate rise to 5% - a killer for those on mortgages, and about the sad deaths of 5 people in the submersible craft doing extreme tourism to visit the Titanic. I consumed two coffees and two pies of toast. We buy our bread from Glastonbury when we visit. I have come to the conclusion that if you may less than £4 per load you are getting rubbish...
The five men on board. (Clockwise from top left) Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Stockton Rush, Hamish Harding, Suleman Dawood and Shahzada Dawood I feel for the friends of these people as if they had intuition (*which we do not know) that their men should not go, and they ignored it, they would blame themselves for ever more for not being firmer. It was noted that safety inspections had not been carried...
Today is the day of summer solstice but also the day when over 200,000 people arrive at Glastonbury for the famous annual event. We decided to go via Wells not Shepton Mallet and thus avoided all the queues as our journey would have been half an hour longer. We arrived at Chalice Well at 20 past 11 in the morning and were greeted with a fairly cloudy sky. The number of people at the summer...
Last evening after being out in the sun for many hours I realised that I could not read text. Even the computer was difficult to read. This was scary. I washed my lenses several times but no no avail. It looked like there was a fog or mist. This morning when I rose the mist had dispersed somewhat. I went to the optician and they commented that my symptoms were typical of a cataract. I must...
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