Month: October 2023

Further experiments with bread Believe it or not my day started at about 2:45 a.m. When I could not sleep anymore having gone to bed at the comparatively early hour of 11 pm, I arose. For some reason I seem incapable of making a decent loaf of bread  on recent occasions.  Mostly, it does not rise and is very soggy inside So being full of beans and having nothing better to do  I decided to make...

Gardening Job Physically I do not have much energy to write my normal 1500 words though you never know what is going to happen when I get going.   The day started bright if a little cold and we went to do a job for a lady called Marge who lost her husband 20 years ago and was trying to prune a bush and a tree at the end of the garden. She was a friendly lady who like most people we work for was...

The more the English languages degrades and I am referring to use in the media, social media and TV, the more determined I am to respect it and take it seriously or to keep the English language alive. Today’s idea was sparked by my giving the Thumps Up to the waitress in Wetherspoons where I had my increasing expensive Freedom Breakfast with coffee.  The current price is £6.69. Who knows what it...

This morning, Sunday, was a cloudless day and beautiful blue skies (welcome over Skies would be blue wouldn't they). Off to my Vineyard Church meeting, This is a Super Sunday meeting which means there is no actual service as such. Anyone is invited and also to bring along their children for a variety of games and past times. In the main meeting Hall there is a large bouncy castle and the...

[tta_listen_btn] NB if anyone reading this attended the conference and spots something incorrect please let me know. There may be a delay in correcting as my software is being upgraded. brian@pobox.com I feel this is going to be a long diary entry. I went to Gloucestershire to attend  the annual general meeting of a group that Francoise  is particularly keen on,  the BioDynamic  Association....