My Somerset Life

Day 1   Day 2    Day 3    Day 4    Day 5    Day 6    Day 7    Day 8 Our journey down to Margate was uneventful. This was our first big purchase using our Two-Together  card,  which costs £30 per year,  On this trip...

Day 1   Day 2    Day 3    Day 4    Day 5    Day 6    Day 7    Day 8 We took my sister to Bromley just to have an outing. I looked for some sandals which I failed to find.  It is the wrong end of the season to buy such...

Day 1   Day 2    Day 3    Day 4    Day 5    Day 6    Day 7    Day 8 We both set out for our first visit to the newly constructed Battersea Power Station. The station itself has a preservation order on it but now...

Day 1   Day 2    Day 3    Day 4    Day 5    Day 6    Day 7    Day 8 This is the first morning of our week of freedom where we complete ourselves pretty much what we do.  To Victoria and from thence a local line to...

Up early as usual and after an uneventful bus ride we decide to eat something in one of the cafes adjacent to Bath bus station. We were greeted by this rather nice display of flowers in the main shopping centre. It is...

I have just (7.30 am) stopped listening to a very action-packed thrill packed news bulletin from TalkTV with David Bull and doctor Renee.  They are at the top of their form  and addressing such things as lockdown...

Travel Card purchase Today I bought a Two Together Rail card which enables two people traveling together to have one-third of the price of their tickets.  In the last couple of years or so we have not found ourselves...

I have always had a strong desire for the truth, I find lies and omissions bordering on sacrilegious and whenever I see a lie I want to expose it. Again following the example of Samuel Pepys, from time to time I...

This is one of these impossible images I can only imagine if the gradient is not very steep. Difficult to tell from the angle of the camera. We have had another glorious day. It really was a warmth that went through...

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...

This may seem a strange way of starting a diary but I am blown away by the naivety of this person that thinks that the skip company will take away this carefully constructed mountain of material. Hope  springs eternal...

Today Sunday was the day for visiting Dorset county show which is an event held once a year for two days over a weekend, near to Dorchester. An unexpected Aladdin's Cave On the main road down for some reason I decided...