to order, go into Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com and search ‘secrets of village Life’
10.1.26 – ten more books delivered to the store.
20.12.25 – books delivered to Westbury Store. % of sales given to the shop itself.
02.12.25 – mistake discovered with the name of the Priddy Folk Festival organiser. Dean Collier not Dean Elliot. This will be corrected on 12.12.25 when the book gets an update. Such are the delights of Print on Demand. There is no stack of books.
30.11.25 – among the first orders was one from Germany
28.11.25 – uploaded Kindle version
26.11.25 – Book available from Amazon. All local people informed. Dorset Air Ambulance will receive a %
24.11.25 – complete edition sent to KDP/Amazon for approval.
16.11.25 – The first edition was completed and I shall soon send the manuscript off to KDP (Amazon’s Printing arm). We are just spell checking and waiting for any revisions from the 35 contributors to arrive.
13.11.25 – We did the last of 35 interviews
15.09.25 – Francoise and myself did our first interview
01.09.25 – I got the book idea when attending a cream tea charity afternoon in Priddy for the Dorset Air Ambulance.
History
I have been a resident of Somerset since 2012 and much of my life is spent writing. My regular diary now runs to about 1.8 million words and this page is part of it. A lot of what I write is about events and life in Somerset, and recently I’ve become especially intrigued by the area around Priddy, Westbury and Easton.
History of this volume – What began as an in-depth blog has grown into something larger: a local history book, a bit like a modern-day version of the Domesday Book, but focused on people’s lives rather than land or property. This is the first time such a volume has been attempted so I hope it will achieve some recognition. My partner Francoise and myself did the interviews.
