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Giving a lift to a stranger For some strange reason yesterday evening I felt we should not go by car to the Shepton Mallet show but to go by bus. We duly walked the ten minutes to the bus stop in the centre of Midsomer. No one could work out the timetable and asking Google gave no further information.  The 174 bus was due to leave  from the Hollies  at 9:43 which came and went. A lady who we...

Decisions Decisions Today I had a difficult decision to make. Next week, two friends who are very valuable and important to me want to come for the weekend  but this is not finally fixed.  I've also been told  about a biodynamic conference, the first of its type, which will take place in a rural farm situation and will be one of those full weekend affairs from Friday evening to Monday morning....

Up early this morning and drink my usual two cups of coffee with some toast. I am habituated to starting my day with news from the TV. We have stories of personality disagreements in the Spanish women's World Cup team where the manager is accused of being a bully, more complaints about France and it's attitude to the refugees, a man who was wrongly imprisoned for rape for 17 years has been...

This has been a very good summer for marrows and runner beans. Problem is that they all come on at the same time and I swear they grow to one foot length overnight. The question is, what to do with them? Where to store them?  Whether to freeze them all?  I have written about this elsewhere but we intend to have as many fresh bean meals as possible. While fresh they are delicious. Only the old...

I am writing this at 10 in the evening after having returned from finally seeing Oppenheimer, which we did in a small community Theater in Wells. More of that below. Today we did gardening for our senior lady in Paulton. We have been doing her garden now for nearly four years and will continue to do so until the day she no longer requires it. The main determinant of grass growth is reign and...

Just another coffee morning (not) This morning, to our local church coffee morning populated let it be said by retired people over the age of 70.  It would be a mistake to write people off on the grounds of age because these people have an accumulated wealth of wisdom not only from themselves but from their children and grandchildren. The morning takes place each Tuesday throughout the year....