Month: March 2019

I hear and see  the English language being desecrated every day. I feel a bit disorientated today turns into " I'm like er you know". I don't know why people go to the trouble of trying to form words when they would be far better off just grunting. Today I went to my favourite  coffee and tea place in Midsomer Norton, the Green Shop,  for an oat slice and a latte. Helen who is one of the staff...

So we're getting these continual fronts arriving from the Atlantic. We either have 40 mile an hour winds, lashing rain or a combination of both. This does not help me starting my gardening season this year. I'm itching to use my new lovely Rolls-Royce like strimmer.  The motor positively purrs, a lovely sound. It zips through work that took me much longer to do using other methods and other...

Today I feel very much like a hedgehog or a hibernating animal who wakes up slowly from the winter sleep. Admittedly I have been unwell for most of the time but today I feel a new strength and vitality. I do not think I have done anything to deserve this, it is something to do with the strength of the sun. My 2001 Volvo V70  failed its MOT so today I took it back for repair. I have now got my...

It's that time of year again, the annual seed share and buy event in Timsbury. It is around this time from 10 to 2 on a Saturday. We always attend. Early on in our visit we met a lady called Kitty who is very good at doing massage. She complained or should I say informed us that she'd been feeling very down and out these days, short of energy, body aches and pains and yet I observe she has a...

One thing that is guaranteed is that the best things in life happen without premeditation or planning. When you plan something, there is no guarantee of success for example when you arrange a date, when you book a holiday, when you enter a restaurant, you are still taking a gamble that you were either enjoy the event or not enjoy the event. Francoise and I decided to go to our old haunt, the Old...

And so back to normal. It took me a day to get used to being back at home so yesterday, Monday, was a write-off so far as any intellectual activity was concerned. I went off to my normal coffee morning to All Saints Paulton this morning to be reminded that it was Shrove Tuesday where in England we follow the pattern of cooking pancakes. In case you didn't know, Shrove Tuesday was named after the...