My Somerset Life

Up early and watched the news about interest rate rise to 5% - a killer for those on mortgages, and about the sad deaths of 5 people in the submersible craft doing extreme tourism to visit the Titanic.  I consumed two...

The five men on board. (Clockwise from top left) Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Stockton Rush, Hamish Harding, Suleman Dawood and Shahzada Dawood I feel for the friends of these people as if they had intuition (*which we do not...

Today is the day of summer solstice but also the day when over 200,000 people arrive at Glastonbury for the famous annual event. We decided to go via Wells not Shepton Mallet and thus avoided all the queues as our...

Last evening after being out in the sun for many hours I realised that I could not read text. Even the computer was difficult to read.  This was scary. I washed my lenses several times but no no avail. It looked like...

While wandering through Bath today a car with an open window overtook me and one of the male occupiers shouted on his mobile to someone else 'don't worry about me I have a brilliant idea'. This cheered me up no end as...

Listed in our June edition of the Mendip Times. We thought 'why not?' This is a bijoux picturesque village , pretty as you could hope for, with a strong sense of community and very articulate, well off people. Find out...

Off to Glastonbury to accompany Francoise who is going to see a very special lady therapist called Virginie. She is also french. The reason for the attendance was to have some cranial sacral work on a twisted pelvis...

I do occasionally get bouts not so much of depression but when I realize how deeply mired this planet is in corruption and greed. In our UK Parliament there is only one person who stands out and that is Andrew Bridgen,...

I attend a regular Tuesday event in a group which is an offshoot of the Vineyard Church during which people meet and share for bible study and fellowship. Lest you think Christians are boring, we are a mixed Bunch that...

Saturday morning I received a letter from the Eye Department at RUH, Bath telling me that my Eylea injections for my wet macular were not going well and that they were proposing an alternative medicine, Vabyismo,  as...

Each year about 15 gardens are open to the public and unlike last year when nothing was open we had a field day going round and visiting people's wonderful gardens. We had four hours to do it, and that partly in rain...