Blog

This is mainly for my readers from the USA but also a warning for ladies everywhere I thought this would be interesting to everyone, especially females, since all females are by their nature vulnerable to  predatory actions from the male section of society. It is very sad that the following interview  by Dr Naomi Wolf has to be made. I think there are lots of lessons from this medium length...

Not much to say today. We are preparing the house for a visit by my son and his wife. I found a lovely story which I enclose. I got it off Facebook but it is a little bit difficult to read so I am reproducing it. Native American Powwows "We Indians know about silence. We are not afraid of it. In fact, for us, silence is more powerful than words. Our elders were trained in the ways of silence,...

After the guests have gone, the helium filled balloons are still hanging around in my living room even after a week It is slowly dawning on me that I'm into my ninth decade of life in this particular cycle. This morning, I went to trim a hedge in the locality and I earned enough money to fill my car with the next load of overpriced petrol.  I have to decide whether I'm going to continue with my...

A bright and sunny day, if not as warm as we would like so we decided to go to the annual Shepton Mallet open garden day. I refer you to the corresponding entry this time last year when you will see what we did. This year from the administrative point of view it was a disappointment. The map was far from clear, the number of open gardens was reduced by 25%, the flags, bunting and signaling that...

Saturday morning and nothing planned for the day. Raining but promise of sunshine later on so once again I followed my instinct and decided to go to Frome.  In a way you are walking towards nothing but I know myself well enough to know that things will feel in a magical way. We first went to fill up with petrol at the Asda store which traditionally is the cheapest in the area but it was 149.9 ...