Month: October 2025

A day of contrasting videos

My most productive hours are after I wake up at 6:00 and when I have had my coffee. This is where ideas appear in front of my consciousness - new and fresh - and I also flick through my mobile phone to see what videos present themselves. As you probably know 'the system' learns your preferences and will produce videos that are most attractive for you. On this occasion I had a look at the dreaded...

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My Pen Hasn’t Stopped — It’s Just Wandered Off

I don’t have a great deal to write about in my diary at the moment, mainly because my creative energy is being siphoned off into another direction. Most of it is going into a series of essays about life in a corner of Somerset, not far from Wells. The aim is to capture a sense of the place — a snapshot of what people are doing and why they do it — before time changes it all beyond recognition....

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A good work of art to view after having teeth extracted

Off to the dentist this morning to have a tooth removed and as I have been living on soup and paracetamol for the last four days it was a relief. Francoise came along for support. Our dentist in Bath, David, is very competent and really minimises pain even though the tooth had had to be cut in half before being removed. Due to the anaesthetic injection it was completely without pain so we went...

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Distractions but for a good reason

My time, energy and attention are now focused on the three villages I am working with, where I’m using my writing skills to record life through personal interviews. My hope is to create a picture for future generations of what village life was like in 2025. Tomorrow, for example, I’m meeting someone who happens to be a world expert on crayfish — not the sort of person you might expect to find in...

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Three Brilliant video talks from clear-minded individuals

Come on guys and girls, exercise your brain with these high IQ people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzCiEHGVMwA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuq1bdd8gq0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwNNPNL-KKc&t=3266s I saw this wedding anniversary card in Sainsbury's this morning

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