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I have just (7.30 am) stopped listening to a very action-packed thrill packed news bulletin from TalkTV with David Bull and doctor Renee.  They are at the top of their form  and addressing such things as lockdown benefits and otherwise, how could someone have escaped from a medium security prison and why was he there in the first place,  was it an inside job?...just the sort of thing to start my...

Travel Card purchase Today I bought a Two Together Rail card which enables two people traveling together to have one-third of the price of their tickets.  In the last couple of years or so we have not found ourselves with the desire to travel by train but this has tipped the balance.  I find that a single journey from London to Bath with a travel card will be about 22 pounds.  That is doable. ...

I have always had a strong desire for the truth, I find lies and omissions bordering on sacrilegious and whenever I see a lie I want to expose it. Again following the example of Samuel Pepys, from time to time I include political and controversial things.  For controversial please read 'material causing people to think'.  When I have had my coffee and glanced at the latest news I switch on my...

This is one of these impossible images I can only imagine if the gradient is not very steep. Difficult to tell from the angle of the camera. We have had another glorious day. It really was a warmth that went through your body. I woke up warm this morning, warmer than I would like. This afternoon Francoise  spoke at length on Skype to my son Mark who lives in Mumbai and works at a school. He has...

Some have unkindly called it Weston Supermarket which actually is not too far from the truth. We rose early this morning and departed about nine o'clock  for a journey that was supposed to take one hour 17 minutes according to my GPS.  This equipment is remarkably and annoyingly successful in predicting arrival time because it has lots of data to go on than is apparent at first. My step meter -...

This may seem a strange way of starting a diary but I am blown away by the naivety of this person that thinks that the skip company will take away this carefully constructed mountain of material. Hope  springs eternal as they say. This is the beginning of a lovely summers day. Pity it arrived a bit late in the year, but I feel I should be elsewhere than staring at this computer screen. We have...