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...
My goodness this must be a record for the longest period of time but I have not written an entry in the face of considerable amounts of activity so this will be a more abstract overview of Wednesday to Sunday when we had a lady visitor who I scarcely new personally before she arrived but I felt instantly that she would fit in with the family so to speak and so it proved to be true. Dealing with...
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...
Off to a place near Exeter by the name of Goffinland for a meeting with kindred spirits on the topic of not paying council tax. It was quite an eye opener; I did not realize that our council tax goes directly to the government and only 30% of this goes back to our local council. Appealing against what is in effect a double transaction takes time, energy and knowledge, attention to detail and...
I have always been a fan of Tina Turner, by the way died at the age of 83 on May the 24th 2023. This was a musical of her life at the Hippodrome here in Bristol and it told the story at length of her upbringing in the evangelical south of the USA, her meeting with her to be husband Ike and their stormy 16 year relationship followed by her heroically overcoming struggles and emerging as...
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