I have registered the website www.somervalleydiary.co.uk so this is the christening of what will hopefully be a healthy bouncing boy. Dont click on it yet as there is no content Today was my first working day on the diary project, and I decided to begin by visiting the library attached to the Hub in Paulton. There were about ten people in the library when I arrived, and a lady approached me to...
Somer Valley Diary – Bringing Our Community Together The combined population of Paulton, Midsomer Norton and Radstock is approximately 26,000, representing a substantial community with a remarkable variety of organisations, activities and opportunities for people to meet one another. By way of introduction, I am a resident of Midsomer Norton and have many years of experience in networking,...
The Bosnian Pyramids: Technical Presentation by Dr Sam Edited transcript: headings and paragraph breaks added. One or two technical names are not clear. Produced by ACHES Sunday zoom group. https://aches.international/ - Adult Child Health & Environmental Support Nicholas: Oh, good! Right, that's excellent. I'm glad that I managed to do that. Dr Sam, as is often called, has given humanity...
Today the clocks went back, so I dutifully went around the house putting them all right. I have one electronic clock which is supposed to receive its instructions from a transmitter at Rugby, but for some reason it never seems to know what the correct time is. So much for modern technology. Sometimes the old-fashioned method of turning the hands yourself is considerably more reliable. This...
I discover that there is a forthcoming meeting of the Midsomer Norton Town Council Events Committee, which I intend to attend. It will be an opportunity to sound out opinion about the initiative I mentioned yesterday and see which way the wind is blowing. I should emphasise that this is an independent, community-led project, not a council initiative. I don't need official permission to proceed,...
My goodness, it's blowing a gale today. The BBC and the mainstream media seem to be making an increasingly big production out of naming storms. It is no longer sufficient to have a storm or a spell of high winds; everything has to be an event, complete with a name and a sense of impending doom. And just to cheer us up further, the Prime Minister has apparently been advising us to stock up on...
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