I write this because I was at the recycle the other week and I saw a man trying to dispose of a bicycle and asking the staff if they felt it could find a good home. I immediately jumped on it, put it in the back of my car, and drove it home. As readers will recall I've been toying with the idea of having an electric bike but have been asking myself, what do I really need it for? There are three...
Local voices for people and planet. This was an informal meeting announced in the paper where various topics would be discussed including recycling, transport, oh and climate change. The structure of the meeting was far from clear as described in the local Journal and I thought it would be the traditional format of audience, speaker (s), Q&A but when I arrived I found that the church had...
We might as well say 'the person who walks alone'. Great message in this troubled age. This is a very heartwarming and encouraging rendering which should stir the spirit of any sentient person. The writer has a finger on the pulse of humanity with all its strengths and weaknesses. His work is almost poetry. Here is another one. 'For when you think too much'. Are problems illusory? ...
I had the answer today following a chance encounter in the museum of Wells with a mixed race couple. She was from Birmingham and he was from I'll take a guess the Caribbean. But let us start from the beginning. On our allotment in Midsomer the committee decided to have a 'clearing day' where anyone could bring their refuse and put it in a pile possibly for burning but more likely for taking...
Are virtual meetings more useful than face-to-face meetings? The prompt to this question was a request for a customer for whom I am doing a gardening job to come round and discuss the next development. I wrote to him saying that I have a photographic memory and would be very happy if he were to stand at a vantage point halfway down the steps and we can talk through the garden situation without...
OK that is a giveaway in that I admit I am a biological male. I can tell that because of my external appendages. If in doubt, look south. Did anyone try this on the 'male' boxer who presented herself at the Paris Olympics? I'm sure the BBC would beg to differ with me because they are convinced there are 156 different sexes but I'm one of these old fashioned types that say God created male and...
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Inspired by Samuel Pepys’ Diary 1633-1703
