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Today Sunday was the day for visiting Dorset county show which is an event held once a year for two days over a weekend, near to Dorchester. An unexpected Aladdin's Cave On the main road down for some reason I decided to turn off into a garden centre and an establishment that described itself as  a trading post.  It consisted of three elements, a coffee bar, and bric a bac  shop with an amazing...

A dull misty morning, No wind. I fear it is a precursor to the coming of autumn with that particular unique autumn smell that appears unfailingly between the 7th and 9th of September. If we had believed the weather forecasts we would be fearing the latest plume of heat from Spain and would all be roasting. We should be so lucky. A busy day today, we will be going to OakHill local festival and...

These days I do not become depressed in the clinical state of the word. When I was in my twenties and thirties I withdrew into myself and found that I was in effect paralyzed, not being able to move forward or backward or sideways and this was not a pleasant experience. Today I was looking forward to talking to my friend and sharing a brilliant lecture by one Robert Temple  which started off...

As they say 'the day started like any other'. Françoise has gone off to see a friend in Bath so here am I looking at a rather indifferent sky. There is rain in the air.  Off to the town to do various tasks. On the way I pop into Sainsbury's to look at the headlines of the newspapers. They seem irrelevant and alarmist so why bothered to buy a newspaper. I don't think I bought one for, let me...

Occasionally there will be a spillover from my other work to my diary as indeed was the case with Samuel Pepys and his activities with the navy, not to mention his extra curricular activities. Controlled weather I do research on various trends that are going on in the world and this is a very small excerpt by a researcher called Deborah Tavares.   If you are minded, you can hear the full article...

The museum was founded in 1961 to showcase American declarative arts and to dispel stereotypes of American culture. It houses the finest examples of American decorative arts, quilts and folk art, and Dallas Pratt's collection dash one of the greatest collections of Renaissance maps in the world'  Dallas Pratt, the owner at the time,  already had a home at Freshford Manor near Bath which he had...