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I don’t have a great deal to write about in my diary at the moment, mainly because my creative energy is being siphoned off into another direction. Most of it is going into a series of essays about life in a corner of Somerset, not far from Wells. The aim is to capture a sense of the place — a snapshot of what people are doing and why they do it — before time changes it all beyond recognition....

Off to the dentist this morning to have a tooth removed and as I have been living on soup and paracetamol for the last four days it was a relief. Francoise came along for support. Our dentist in Bath, David, is very competent and really minimises pain even though the tooth had had to be cut in half before being removed. Due to the anaesthetic injection it was completely without pain so we went...

Come on guys and girls, exercise your brain with these high IQ people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzCiEHGVMwA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuq1bdd8gq0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwNNPNL-KKc&t=3266s I saw this wedding anniversary card in Sainsbury's this morning

Yesterday I had the interesting experience of listening to a day of presentations by Phillip Day on the subject of all that is corrupt and dishonest in the world and inviting us to become more aware and raise our consciousness. The meeting took place in the very relaxed and laid back atmosphere of the Holiday Inn in Taunton, just off the M5, and as soon as I walked into the place I felt a...

I 'normally' whatever that word means write my own stuff but this letter below jumped out at me as a warning of how this country will change or continue to change exacerbated by the influx of illegal immigrants. The powers that be are under instructions to spoil these people as much as possible and ignore their crimes. I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw that and asylum seeker had been...

British Telecom had sent me a number of messages saying they were going to upgrade my system to glass fibre, and 'long story short' I now have 110 megabytes per second download, upload speed 19 megabytes per second but I'm not quite sure how I'm going to benefit from this because it was already working at  satisfactory speed. Anyway it has to be done as copper cables are being replaced and made...