Month: October 2023

I was invited to join my hosts in a cafe in the middle of nowhere. This is English for saying 'it's not near a well-known landmark or town'. However in the belief that you my reader will want to visit this place, the details are as follows: Eydon Road Woodford Halse, Unit 1 Dairy Farm, Old Stratford, GB NN11 3RG Phone+44 1327 260818   https://www.harleycountrylifestyle.com/ they recently got an...

I came out of my room to go down and have breakfast and a woman approached me and said, 'you must be the author of one of the Alice in Wonderland follow up books. I gave it to my nephew and he did not put it down having read the whole thing at one sitting'. I did not tell her that I hadn't got a clue what she was talking about but acknowledged gracefully and said that it was a pleasure. I had a...

Normally, the Alternative View conference had an annual  weekend conference but on this occasion, the first after Covid and after a 2  year break, we were destined to have a long single day starting at 8:45 a.m. and finishing at about 7:30 p.m.  I decided to have breakfast early and got up for seven am. To my surprise the queues were so great that all the seats were occupied. I discovered that ...

Cross country rides take longer than you think. I departed from base around 10 am from Midsomer Norton which as most of you may know is about 10 miles south of Bath,  and I set my satnav to avoid motorways and thus just travel on normal A roads.  The total elapsed time according to the AA will be 2 hours 55 minutes for a distance of 145 miles. However before going to my destination I wanted to...

[tta_listen_btn] I'm going to take this opportunity to reflect on the many conferences I have attended and what I have actually got out of them. If it is a specialist subject that is dear to your heart, you will be going from famine to feast. Instead of too few people to talk with, you have too many. You hear interesting conversations when you pass a group of people and could butt in without...

[tta_listen_btn] Today I feel like having a rest, probably because for the next five days I will be very busy in ways that you will find out in due course. When I was young or should I say particularly when I was young, Sunday was a day of rest. However, as the son of a vicar, Sunday was far from restful. My dad officiated over eight o'clock communion and sometimes even seven o'clock communion,...