Month: April 2019

This is the 40th year of this amazing festival where a sleepy village is transformed into a bustling market very much like it must've been in the Middle Ages. Mells has only one street and it is very historical in nature. We arrived about 11 o'clock, the official opening time, to find there were hundreds of people already there. Bearing in mind the wonderful weather, this was not surprising....

A perfect Easter Sunday; blue skies, as I write it is about 24°C and I suspect everyone is taking time off from even thinking about politics never mind Brexit - this long drawnout farce that makes me embarrassed to be British. Today is Easter day (a variable date decided in the 7th century by an enclave of the good and the great in the church)  when we celebrate the rising of Jesus Christ from...

Opposite Lidl in Midsomer Norton there is a bakery. I just wanted something to fill me up; my eye caught some almond slices. On visual inspection they appeared to be a bit dry. However I thought for £1.40,  I would give it a go. That was a mistake. It was a bit like eating a bomb of sugar. After literally one mouthful I felt sick. I'm not a great sugar person but this was so way over the top...

This is the day when - traditionally - roads and motorways are full of people going from place A to place B, sitting in traffic jams and admiring the view, keeping the kids quiet (or children as I would prefer to call them) when calculating the time of arrival which my TomTom GPS does with great accuracy. It is the only four day holiday in the year, apart from the vagaries of the Christmas...

The weather forecast is good and we can expect temperatures of over 20° this weekend, the Easter weekend. People are walking around in shorts. It is lovely to feel the heat of the sun finally. Our goldfish, who had disappeared from our pond outside, suddenly reappeared this morning and were swimming around in fine fettle. I think they did a little hibernation. Anyway, they seem none the worse...

My wife and I do not spend money on anything unless we have to so our resources go on the normal basics, the occasional meal out, entertainment if we feel like it and the dreaded council tax which gets bigger every year. We do not however pay huge amounts for mortgages or rents. Today, the renovation that we had been talking about for a year or so has come about. We have replaced the dreadful...