Scroll down for Wedmore Festival account Today was quite a rare day when I had to get up early to arrive at the Christian men's breakfast in St John's, Frome for 8 am. What a lovely time of day to drive. Little traffic, the rising sun, clear blue sky. There were only a dozen of us at the meeting but that was enough for comradeship and sharing. It started off in quite a comical fashion because...
I'm still resting after five straight days of activity with our friend and also as reported yesterday more visits to art galleries and centers which I enjoyed enormously. I have to let things settle so today I'm doing very little by my standards anyway. So the topic of the day is .... books 198.6 million books were sold in the United Kingdom in 2023, which is 70.32% fewer sales than in 2022....
An entirely different side of Cheddar. Whilst the tourists frequent the numerous coffee shops and visit the caves I was there on other business. Cheddar is only a small town but it punches well above its weight with regard to the presents of creative artists, photographers, sculptors, those with a cultural attitude to life. I'm ashamed to say that in my 12 to 15 years of visiting Cheddar I never...
There are no less than three arts trails which start today so after breakfast we jumped in the car and arrived at a place called Blagdon. It is in the Chew Valley and a very old village. You can tell it is old by the very small gardens, picture-esque though they may be, and streets that are not widen enough for parking but we stopped first as an artist called Chris Holden who had lived in...
How to please a guest I want to come back now to the topic of giving a guest the best possible experience. First, I think it's much easier to please a single person than a couple because very few couples I know have identical interests and one will tag along for the sake of the other and this does keep the energies down a little bit. Friday morning we had a nice breakfast with croissants and so...
then Watch this REEL About age in general, I hear people saying that they are nearly 60, nearly 70, coming on for 75, and I feel like saying well so what. Look at Mary Berry the cook. She is 90 and is as bright as a button. What keeps her going? a sense of purpose and an outgoing personality. I am 80 nearly 81 but am a teenager inside, and I propose to remain that way. So Sunday was a real...
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