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Occasionally there will be a spillover from my other work to my diary as indeed was the case with Samuel Pepys and his activities with the navy, not to mention his extra curricular activities. Controlled weather I do research on various trends that are going on in the world and this is a very small excerpt by a researcher called Deborah Tavares.   If you are minded, you can hear the full article...

This morning we just felt like going out for breakfast. We try to let go of things a little bit on Friday in preparation for the weekend which funnily enough is busier than weekdays what with all the activities we try to attend.  I was thoroughly lazy and looked on Google to see 'breakfast places near where I am'  and apart from the usual suspects one entry jumped up which was the Riverside Cafe...

We have decided to cut down the scope of our garden work to two elements, hedge cutting and trimming; and mowing. I noticed that I am slightly uneasy on my feet these days so we cannot be over ambitious. Françoise is always available to hold a ladder if I have to climb one. I am definitely the world's worst person with regard to heights because I can't even stand on the top of a ladder without...

Up early this morning and drink my usual two cups of coffee with some toast. I am habituated to starting my day with news from the TV. We have stories of personality disagreements in the Spanish women's World Cup team where the manager is accused of being a bully, more complaints about France and it's attitude to the refugees, a man who was wrongly imprisoned for rape for 17 years has been...

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...