To set the scene, here’s a bit of context for what follows. I scan the Mendip Times each month to see what is going on. You would have thought that after my major effort yesterday in Stanton Drew I would have had enough of writing, but that's not the way it works with me. If I write a good piece then that stimulates me to write more, so in my search today Sunday we noticed a small entry...
On a fairly rainy day we kept our agreement with ourselves to go along to Stanton Drew for their annual fair, it so happens its 20th anniversary. These fayres and fetes are a custom in country places. I have written many times about the stones in the field and the timelessness of it. The population of Stanton Drew is recorded as being 781 in 2021 so let's make a wild guess and say it is ow 850....
Francoise is at that stage of recuperation when she needs to have a walk, so I thought, why not go to Somerset Lavender Farm, which is in a small village called Falkland about 6 miles from where we are. It is an ideal place to go to for light refreshments and a tea or coffee, not to mention the most delicious local ice cream. "At Somerset Lavender we have a farm shop and cafe, where you can...
August 25 2025 By coincidence I also came across this video, relevant to the morning's mood. A humorous song entitled 'I Can't Wait for the apocalypse' Put the two together and you have the catalyst for what follows: We have descended a long way from the supposed idyllic existence in the Garden of Eden, which, although it happened a long time ago, has considerable power of symbolism. When you...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7z_8Sh-vbg We decided to have a real holiday today, so we got up late and had no obligations, goals, or objectives. We ended up having lunch at three o'clock in the afternoon and then heading off to water the plants at the designated locations in the evening I've just been watching a very interesting video about a chap hitchhiking across China, not knowing a word...
If you dont know anything about this village, it is on the A37 about 8 miles south west of Bath in Somerset. High Littleton and Hallatrow, Somerset, have Saxon origins. High Littleton, recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Liteltone (“little enclosure”), was an agricultural village of arable farming, dairy, and sheep, within the hundred of Chewton. From the 17th century, coal mining...
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