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My first and last order of an American breakfast at Wetherspoons.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm a great fan of the chain and have breakfast or some sort of food there (Midsomer Norton branch)  maybe twice a week. You know exactly what you're going to get, and pretty much how much you are going to pay. Their prices do vary from branch to branch I suspect depending on their rates and expenses but in general they knock the opposition into a crooked hat. (The phrase...

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My prepared speech to those willing to listen re climate change

I never gave the speech as it was not opportune, but here it is anyway I would like to make a number of key points which have not been mentioned before and which will hopefully add to the value of the meeting this evening.  I am not a campaigner but an observer and collector of data on various topics.  I'm very keen on people being informed enough to make their own conclusions. I discuss roots...

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‘Doing a Sarah’ – Something for Nothing or a waste of money?

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...

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Climate Change – Carbon Dioxide Special

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...

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Alan Watts The Woman who walks alone – video 21:06 + travel tickets over Christmas

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? ...

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 Wells visit – What is the difference between a tourist and a traveler? 

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...

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