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It's that time of year again, the annual seed share and buy event in Timsbury. It is around this time from 10 to 2 on a Saturday. We always attend. Early on in our visit we met a lady called Kitty who is very good at doing massage. She complained or should I say informed us that she'd been feeling very down and out these days, short of energy, body aches and pains and yet I observe she has a...

One thing that is guaranteed is that the best things in life happen without premeditation or planning. When you plan something, there is no guarantee of success for example when you arrange a date, when you book a holiday, when you enter a restaurant, you are still taking a gamble that you were either enjoy the event or not enjoy the event. Francoise and I decided to go to our old haunt, the Old...

And so back to normal. It took me a day to get used to being back at home so yesterday, Monday, was a write-off so far as any intellectual activity was concerned. I went off to my normal coffee morning to All Saints Paulton this morning to be reminded that it was Shrove Tuesday where in England we follow the pattern of cooking pancakes. In case you didn't know, Shrove Tuesday was named after the...

As my regular readers will know I have suffered stomach trouble for some months now and to positively eliminate the possible role of the stomach including the lining in this I have had to have an endoscopy. There are two .....scopys one is a colonoscopy where you view your colon from bottom to top so to speak and the other one is an endo..scopy (endo = internal, within) where an examination...

We packed all our stuff and said goodbye to our host. This time for reasons of speed we took a Northern line tube from Chalk farm station via Euston to Pimlico on the Victoria line and from there a short walk to Tate Britain, cases rumbling as we walked along the street. As we are Tate members, we take delight in going to the members restaurant. It has delightful views over the River Thames. We...

It's not really an escape, but South London has a different vibe from central and north London. The pace of life is more leisurely and the proportion of multicultural representatives are much greater. I can see why people have a favourite cafe. We are back for the fourth time to my cafe previously referred to. There is a different energy on a Saturday morning, less frenetic, one of two workers...