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A visit to the Community Farm in Chew Valley

The community Farm lies adjacent to an artificial lake at Chew Magna. Good organic food is grown and distributed to the local population by way of veg boxes. Anyone who wants to visit can do so by clicking on this link https://www.thecommunityfarm.co.uk/ and seeing for themselves what goes on. We visited a laid back event where we were encouraged to make contact with nature, walk around and...

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The death of a spouse, a Zoom meeting on Joy

A day of death and joy After a morning attending to domestic things I decided to go and perform gardening work for one of my clients who I knew had lost her husband a couple of weeks ago. I see plenty of videos and TV on people suffering in hospital but not so many 'beginning to end' stories. The widow told us in detail what happened with her husband His wife Valerie said:  My husband started to...

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A new experiment in hospitality – Sunday lunch

To my informal service in the old Methodist Church in Radstock. There were about 16 of us and we met for the service, hearing a talk about how Saul converted into being Paul. The Pharisees of which Saul was one felt that they were doing right thing in persecuting Christians and it took the 'Damascus moment' when the Spirit of Jesus said Saul Saul why are you persecuting me? Saul did 180 degree...

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In the midst of a mini heat wave – heart transplants

We are due to be about 38 degrees today Tuesday 19th July. Such temperatures are more normal in Australia where you can have such events lasting for 6 weeks and no one thinks twice about it. We are strange in the UK in that we cannot cope with temperature fluctuations. It is not the end of the world, it is not indicative of climate change (climate changes all the time in case you did not know),...

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The Kingdom of Fire

  There is something about fire, any fire except when life is in danger, that intrigues and fascinates me.  Yesterday was the great fire of our allotments.  I am  having trouble finding software that will allow me to stitch the videos together to make a coherent picture so until that time, you will have to make do with looking at stills. As I may have said before, the main thing is to get a good...

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ZOOM meeting with my allotmenteers – Germany in the early 30’s

Although many people are now used to the ZOOM technology, a number are not and we had 18 of the 56 allotment holders gathered together this evening for our first ever virtual AGM. Most of the conversation was quite ordinary but important because people like to meet others in a social setting and I think people are missing this at the moment. We asked everyone how well their vegetables grew and...

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