Month: April 2019

Such a sad sight.  How old is this child on the left? Three years of age?  What type of conversational skills are they developing?   From the parent's point of view the devices keep them quiet. What sort of parents will these children make? Today we had the pleasure of meeting  two people who are dedicated to helping those suffering from electro-sensitivity. This is a condition not accepted by...

Since the arrival of the new Mayor Paul Myers eight years ago, the appearance of Midsomer Norton has been considerably improved. The river flowing down the middle of the town was once full of rubbish and now has been cleaned. It meanders between beds of flowers and reeds. We now have a cinema facility located in our Town Hall which shows some of the latest films for the princely sum of five...

Every time I read about something to do with recycling, or with repairing, I get a good feeling inside (a silly thing to say really, feelings are normally inside). I read about the idea - originating in Holland I believe - where people bring in their unworkable electronic and electrical items and they are repaired and offered for sale. We are living in an increasingly throwaway society....

Samuel Pepys, the inspirer of this diary, was a political animal. He spent most of his time working for the government, shipping I think it was, making arrangements for people to smooth his path. How he found time to write his diary I don't know, especially as there were no technological aids such as speech to text dictation without which I could not write this diary. He wrote 1 million words...

I pride myself on having a number of different aspects of my life on the go at any one time. However,  I have come to the conclusion that this is not always a good idea or indeed not necessary. People in so-called "primitive societies" do not have to-do lists. They just automatically and organically and almost instinctively respond to what is needed without having been given notice.   Perhaps,...

Yesterday, I joined an organisation based on the web called 'lookaftermybills.com". It had been recommended on Dragons Den. The idea was that this firm finds the cheapest energy prices for your gas and electricity consumption. I am with one of the more expensive ones, SSE, so I joined to see what would happen. I was referred to what has to be the worst energy provider in the whole of the United...