You find out the strength of the wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down . C.S. Lewis. We experienced last night and this morning one of the biggest batterings of wind we have had this year. We felt its force though we are protected by being in a valley. From about three o'clock in the morning when a red warning was issued to about 11 o'clock in the morning the elements huffed and...
Today our bodies has returned from our holiday but our spirit is still lingering in the coach halfway between Birmingham and Bath. I feel sorry for people who have to jump into work with day after they arrive back from a holiday because it is such an environmental and spiritual shock. Today we did virtually nothing. It was raining so I decided to light our log fire to raise our spirits, not that...
Our satellite feed coach driver, Darren, said that he had worked in a family business for many years but it had recently been taken over. The Firm was involved with making steel rings for industry. He said the new owners had a completely different attitude and were only interested in money and profit. There's a surprise in this day and age!!! He said that when he had completed 20 years service...
The Escaping Poly tunnel I have had an interesting day today Sunday. What a wind! Our carefully installed poly tunnel just disappeared and plonked itself in the next garden. We had two retrieve it by throwing it back over the fence and that in rain and wind. Thank goodness the neighbor was understanding. What seems to happen is that the wind gets under the material and turns it into a huge...
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? ...
This is one of the more spontaneous diary creations that I can recall and it concerns today's visit to a local radio station, should I say a community radio station, to get some training about how to run shows and do interviews. I set off around 8:30 am to go the 10 miles to the destination and on the way I was greeted by banks of fog followed by a clear skies followed by more fog which caused...
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Inspired by Samuel Pepys’ Diary 1633-1703
