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It has been some days, if not weeks, since I last wrote a meaningful diary entry, and I find myself a little uncertain about how to proceed. I don’t think it’s a matter of having run out of things to say, because new things are always happening. Rather, it feels like a change of focus — a sense that I should be helping other people in their search for community-spirited awareness and...

Reflections on the Year Summing up one year of activity is something that I approach with some trepidation, so I will write things not in chronological order but in the order that appears to me as I write this document. Ultimately, this year I achieved what many thought was impossible: to conceive, execute, and publish a 300-page book about village life in three villages close to where I reside....

For the past eight or so years I have had injections for wet macular disease in my left eye, but in the last few days nature has had other ideas for me. A few days ago my right eye started playing up, and when I closed my eyes and opened them, I saw a large grey balloon and also something that looked very much like a blood corpuscle. I thought this might be the start of something important, so...

This was the most interesting Sunday, nothing in the diary. Good weather so Francoise asked me whether we should go for a walk. It had occurred to me but I don't need half considered it. We find out best decisions are those when we make them together and it was interesting to see how events unfolded in the day. I normally like to get a picture of where we should walk. No such picture occurred,...

This is mostly going to be an image based diary entry. We decided to take advantage of the fine weather and took our local bus to Bath. We saw many coaches parked on Wellesway, the road from Radstock to Bath. We did not even consider using the park and ride because even that gets full. I have written before about this event, see previous editions of this diary, and we travelled through virtually...