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For our sudden brief holiday we arose on Sunday morning at 7:30 and by 9.30 we were in the car off to Swansea in South Wales. This is a part of the world that we have taken a particular liking to. We have been to Cardiff about three times and have found a considerable amount of investment in public arts and works of art. We decided to go to Swansea on the recommendation of a friend who said it...

I am writing this at 10 in the evening after having returned from finally seeing Oppenheimer, which we did in a small community Theater in Wells. More of that below. Today we did gardening for our senior lady in Paulton. We have been doing her garden now for nearly four years and will continue to do so until the day she no longer requires it. The main determinant of grass growth is reign and...

Just another coffee morning (not) This morning, to our local church coffee morning populated let it be said by retired people over the age of 70.  It would be a mistake to write people off on the grounds of age because these people have an accumulated wealth of wisdom not only from themselves but from their children and grandchildren. The morning takes place each Tuesday throughout the year....

So the time of siting down at my computer to write this entry is 7:00 p.m. on a rather cloudy and almost autumn-like day. The last thing  I did prior is to make a photograph of a cutting board which I bought for a bargain five pounds at the Clutton Flower Show, about which more below.  Clutton is a village by the A37 on the way to Bristol if you really want to know. For non-English readers it is...

Debate on the 666 car Brian - Re the picture of the car I sent to you.  I've never seen such a full-on six six six Mark of the Beast car in my life.  I consider it a work of art.  And  there are two sides do every coin and I wish the person had come back. He wasn't there after my appointment.  I wanted to engage him from the non spiritual non judgmental point of view and just talk to him. He (or...

Today is Françoise birthday.  I gave her a funny card.  At the hotel breakfast we noticed how little it takes for someone to say sorry.  For example I move along and someone has to move forward slightly to accommodate me. This is inevitably accompanied by an apology. What is the basis for the apology? Is it the fact that they exist?  In crowded circumstances a bit of shuffling too and fro is all...