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At about 10:30 PM, we decided to go for another of our famous spontaneous days, with the initial rationale of the need to pick some eggs from our local farm and to pick up my mower from the repair shop in Kilmersdon. I had another expensive repair bill mainly because I use the mower not for mowing lawns but for demolishing rough areas which the mower blade in general is not designed to do. I...

My more alert readers will have noticed that there have been days when I have written nothing. This has been because my attention has been drawn entirely elsewhere and I don't know what sort of being I'm going to turn into. Last weekend, I attended Alternative View 9 which was a summary of different ways of seeing the world to that which is presented to us on a daily nay hourly basis by The...

This man has a lovely spirit. And now to the main purpose of the diary. I'm a member of a local garden group here in Midsomer Norton and we decided to visit a place called Henley mill, near Wells. I do not think that any photograph can do justice to a transformation of a field into such an interesting garden but I will do my best.  95% of this diary is pictorial. Sally Gregson presides over the...

Every week I get a journal called "The Week" which is a summary of the interesting news happenings  in the media particularly the newspapers. There is a regular column that I always turn to first. It is entitled "It must be true – I read it in the tabloids". There are normally three stories and this is the shortest one in today's edition. "Three years ago, Dylan McWilliams was bitten by a...

One day I must write a book talking about all the snatches of conversation I have heard in my travels. We arrived at the Wednesday market in Wells. A stallholder was telling one or two passers that him and a friend had played golf last Saturday when everything was redolent with snow. It gave him much amusement to tell them that he had lost 12 balls and that his friend had lost 13. It was quite a...

This is from the new Denver Colorado airport, for those of you didn't know it is absolutely full of  symbolism.  The whole airport and its construction is rather strange. No one knows who funded it. There was a perfectly serviceable airport, Stapleton,  6 miles away so there was no need for it and yet it is both vast and vastly expensive. See the link above for further information. My attention...