Cross country rides take longer than you think. I departed from base around 10 am from Midsomer Norton which as most of you may know is about 10 miles south of Bath, and I set my satnav to avoid motorways and thus just travel on normal A roads. The total elapsed time according to the AA will be 2 hours 55 minutes for a distance of 145 miles. However before going to my destination I wanted to...
[tta_listen_btn] I'm going to take this opportunity to reflect on the many conferences I have attended and what I have actually got out of them. If it is a specialist subject that is dear to your heart, you will be going from famine to feast. Instead of too few people to talk with, you have too many. You hear interesting conversations when you pass a group of people and could butt in without...
[tta_listen_btn] John Cleese is resurrected I woke up this morning after a fairly restless night. It is very difficult to have one duvet for all temperatures and I was a bit warm. I solved this by having my front side open to the air. You have to experiment. For some reason I turned on the TV to see John Cleese, one of my heroes of old in the field of humour, on UK television announcing that he...
[tta_listen_btn] Today, talk on the news of an Indian summer, and indeed the weather looks very promising. I was drinking my coffee at about 8:30 this morning when the mobile phone rang with an unusual prefix, +64 Someone was calling on WhatsApp and I forgot that this service is free of charge. Why anyone pays for using the phone I don't know. I know that in the United Kingdom they are going to...
[tta_listen_btn] This is what I was faced with when I returned from the church group. Françoise had been diligently collecting produce from the garden which includes grapes and we are going to have to use our juicer to extract the juice. They are small and who wants to spit out pips each time. I can honestly say that no two days are ever the same. Although I am under strict instructions not to...
[tta_listen_btn] Dealing with noise in public places Today is the day when I have my cataract operation. Since it is a procedure entirely new to me I had no views about it and no fears of it. So great is my trust in the eye department of the Royal United Hospital here in Bath, and so many operations of this type have been performed that there is no reason to fear. For some reason, we had to...
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