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Bargain Fares? We are contemplating a trip to London in November so yesterday I went to Bath  rail station to look at the cost of two tickets return and with a rail card  the price quoted was £92 Today I  visited a ticket splitting site and I got the same journey for two people for £60 total.  The idea should be self-explanatory but it means that you can combine two separate journeys into one,...

Some have unkindly called it Weston Supermarket which actually is not too far from the truth. We rose early this morning and departed about nine o'clock  for a journey that was supposed to take one hour 17 minutes according to my GPS.  This equipment is remarkably and annoyingly successful in predicting arrival time because it has lots of data to go on than is apparent at first. My step meter -...

A dull misty morning, No wind. I fear it is a precursor to the coming of autumn with that particular unique autumn smell that appears unfailingly between the 7th and 9th of September. If we had believed the weather forecasts we would be fearing the latest plume of heat from Spain and would all be roasting. We should be so lucky. A busy day today, we will be going to OakHill local festival and...

Miscellaneous distraction Last night I had difficulties sleeping, I did not seem to be tired even if I retire 11.30 pm or so. . Maybe the answer is to stop watching TV earlier and read a book or something. I have come to believe that drinking chocolate in the evening stops me sleeping. In this event I move to the living room to sleep which I find very comfortable and either snooze or sleep, ...

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...

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...