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Wetherspoons have made a great effort to confront the COVID charade by a front cover and  13 page insert in their News Magazine.  They have made a real effort to sum up the whole world-wide situation, trying to look at both sides. I read this whilst I waited for my traditional breakfast, for a total cost including coffee of under £5. When I arrived there were about a dozen people having...

  I thought I had seen it all. This is a Christian card or I suppose it is. I cannot describe in how many ways this is in bad taste. I wont say who sent the card. We had an idea today that if the winter is severe and there are power cuts we would offer our bungalow as a 'day centre' as gas central heating would not work so our log fire would come into its own. Some would not come due to...

I went to a podiatrist this afternoon to find out why my toes were showing signs of infection. The helpful lady told me that this was due to bad circulation and there was nothing much I could do about it. Prior to my entry into the clinic I heard her say to a client that she thinks they may be locked down in the new year. When I saw her, bearing in mind my experience with COVID, I said to her...

We returned on Monday and arrived back lunchtime after a comparatively short 2 hour 10 minute direct drive from Plymouth to Midsomer Norton. I'm not writing this Thursday evening and I have to say that unusually I haven't had the strength and energy to write a diary hence the lack. I'm always glad to arrive home but I know my spirit needs some time to catch up and so intense was our experience...

Agorism is a social philosophy that advocates creating a society in which all relations between people are voluntary exchanges by means of counter-economics, engaging with aspects of nonviolent revolution. I know it's a strange word but it does summer exactly what I want to attain. I think we have to become independent of the financial system as far as we can. Today we went to a talk by a...

We went to my friend Steve's place and from then we went to Yelverton which is at the foot of Exmoor. On the site of an old air strip we found the rocks, above, which attract children like a magnet. It was cold and chilly and rather foggy. I thought we were going to go into the moors but with two small children in the group I realised that the scope was going to be limited. You could almost...