I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw this in Sainsbury's; they just about get away with it. This is supposed to be a diary but since the politics is so overbearing on all aspects of our life it is difficult to ignore it The words below remind me a bit how I feel stuck and helpless here in the UK. On the face of it, it is impossible to understand the folly of just importing people and...
I've just come back from staying with my sister in Croydon and in contrast to my last visits which you can read about we stayed at home and only went out for one day. This was partly because Francoise was not able to walk very far due to her twisted knee so we made the best of things and actually it was completely right for me because I could rest from all my labours including writing this...
Conclusion - not much 'happened' but what events did in fact transpire ruled the day. ( Trans pire this word had an early sense of "emit as vapor through the surface"—from trans-, "through," and spirare, "breathe." My exemplar Samuel Pepys made a record of his daily activity without a care in the world as to who would actually read it because in those days were means of production we're very...
(Written prior to my trip to London) I have visited the problem of loneliness quite a few times since I started writing in 2016 you may find the articles referred to by typing in the search key 'loneliness' or 'lonely'. As I changed and develop I see things from a new point of view or should I say I revised point of view so here are my latest thoughts on the matter: Before that you might like...
Today Christmas Day is the 8th anniversary of the passing of George Michael who died on Christmas day 2016. I have been majorly influenced by pop singers and icons. I remember Tommy Steele, Bill Haley and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Dusty Springfield, Amy Whitehouse, Diana Ross, Dolly Parton, Kate Bush, Prince, Shirley Bassey, Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Cher,...
I am finally learning to respond to inspiration, or is it the normal working of a creative mind, that my projected meeting in January forming a local writer and journal / diary group is important and should come about. By 'local' I mean Paulton, Midsomer Norton, and Radstock. I received the idea today, Sunday morning, 22nd December 2024, whilst listening to Radio 3 which has a blessed amount of...
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Inspired by Samuel Pepys’ Diary 1633-1703
