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Wetherspoon’s revisited

This morning it was raining so I decided to cheer myself up by going along to Wetherspoon's to see how they were weathering (no pun intended) the unceasing change in these ridiculous times. I entered. There was no one at the desk but I filled in my contact details anyway and took a menu as invited (the coronavirus loves hanging around on  menus). Most of the stalls were occupied so I sat down on...

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A surreal view of a Bath Abbey Service

Today I viewed some streaming from Bath Abbey. So the virus is very clever. It keeps away from the choir when they are singing but will attack the congregation if they sing.  I can find no respect for the church's' caving in to this ridiculous series of edicts. If I went along saying I was exempt  they would not let me in.  Our opportunities for freedom diminish by the day but the trends are...

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The social life of starlings

Following the collapse of my plate, off to the dentist to stick it back together again. When Bath was designed, trees were incorporated in large numbers into the street plans and as a result autumn is a very pleasant and colourful period to be around. We were early for the appointment so decided to walk up and down, visit the local park and prepare myself for the farcical putting on and taking...

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Unexpected playtime with a drain cleaner + an unexpected loss of five teeth

Today we are going to try and achieve two gardening jobs, both maintenance, both pleasant enough - and regular income. We went to our first one at about 11 o'clock. The lady who we see, she must be 90 to a day, had not yet risen so we had to wait a little bit for her to get up. I decided to go walkaround the local streets and what do I see but a drain cleaning wagon. I love these. I love seeing...

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A day of many aspects. Meeting the Daniel brothers.

A busy day. We went to my interesting lady gardening client, picked up the rubbish from last Friday's job and took it to the recycle. For the first time in many visits, the chap checking us in did not have a record of my car but let me in any way. A number of us had to deposit material in the garden rubbish skip. I noticed something I had never noticed before, that people meekly stood in line,...

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An unexpected psychic reading given to me

Today is Saturday. I normally buy my ration of meat from the local butchers and today was the turn of pork. I buy a roll of pork for about £10 and get about seven meals out of it. We then went to buy fresh eggs from a farm for which we pay one pound for six very large eggs. We then went to the gardening job which I previously referred to to continue our work, this time trimming a tree. There is...

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