Month: November 2019

A right old mixture.  Holiday days merge into each other so here are some highlights from our trip.  The weather treated us quite well, and even if it rained you just dress for the occasion. The winds blew, for some of the time at about 30 miles an hour, and it was difficult to walk on these occasions but the human being is a tough old species and we can manage most things. This is a painfully...

So, nothing but a complete switch-off in Cornwall no less - hence my lack of entries for the past week. We arrived last Saturday and are sitting around suspended in space and time as one does. The journey back was a good four hours by car - nothing compared with returning home from a trip abroad and much less stressful. Whilst randomly surfing I found this video of Jordan Peterson which I find...

There have not been enough events of note in the last few days to stimulate me to make any diary  entries. Yesterday I finished the job that was truly 'jungle clearance'.  There was about 4 yd.³ of green spoil (see image below)  and all sorts of odds and ends including eight footballs hiding in the long grass which resulted from leaving a garden neglected for the best part of seven years.  My...

After my local church this morning for holy Communion with sermon. The sermon was interesting, talking about a tax collector who climbed a tree to see Jesus. Jesus asked him to come down saying that he would like to have a meal with the tax collector in his home, much to the consternation of crowd. Whilst Jesus was with him, the tax collector must have had a bad conscience because he agreed to...

A listing in the Mendip Times caught my eye, the Somerset Festival of death and dying: events in Frome, Glastonbury and Wells. My eye was further taken with a man called Chukka who was scheduled to give a lecture about the importance of talking about suicide. He is part of a nationwide organisation (actiontopreventsuicide.org)  that tries to help people avoid taking their own lives by a...