Month: December 2023

Bring on Wetherspoons! I wish this country could be run by Wetherspoons. They are very focused on customer service; I am reminded of the text in the Bible beginning ' no man can serve two masters.....' you can't have a profit-based power based globalist mind set at the same time as serving John Smith who cannot necessarily speak up for himself and who needs a listening ear. It was a joy to come...

I'm going to ponder today on the ways that I have been served. In more informal terms I could say, being looked after. I must first of all admit that I had been very cynical about expecting to be served in anything more than a mechanical way. When people do recognise me as a person  and treat me accordingly that does make my day. I like going round to my local shop, Brookes newsagents, because...

Let's respond to these statements together #  I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, life (that) others expected of me #  I wish I hadn't worked so hard #  I wish that had the courage to express my feelings #  I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends # I wish that I had let myself be happier You can read the article here I have decided to see these as quiz questions and...

So, from my perspective as I sit here on a Sunday afternoon still enjoying the memories of the holiday that I have recently had. We have the following world situation: # Israel is using the excuse or 'code' of getting rid of Hamas to destroy and displace Palestinians. Prematurely, Israel have sold oil and gas rights for drilling including one sold to the father in law of our UK Prime Minister...

Our Men's Group breakfast meeting in Frome Once every couple of months or so I go along to the nearest men's group I can find. We meet either for breakfast,  curry evenings or Zoom meetings.    About a dozen of us met this morning  in Holy Trinity Church braving the semi-darkness, the frost and the fog.   We had a splendid fried breakfast cooked by a very obliging volunteer which included my...

Our last morning We had to get up for a 7.15 breakfast and from thence to the coach where our baggage was arranged according to the town at which we were going to be dropped off. We left two minutes after the departure time - 8 17 am - and were treated to lovely frost-covered fields, more blue skies and a delightful rising sun. Banks of fog were in the distance. I have been on a handful of such...