My Somerset Life

The sun shines, the sky is blue and it is the perfect winter day for walking. It is most certainly not the day for dystopian reflections. Do you remember all the fires a month or so ago in various parts of California?...

Yesterday night manifested a quite horrendous committee meeting, the worst I have experienced in many years. The problem for those who want to hide things is that people are more sensitive than they realise. The...

I can hardly believe that this truly inspired series came out in 1969, that's nearly 50 years ago. I remember watching it when I was in a particularly anarchistic stage in my life and for reasons that I still do not...

So, here we are the three of us, working away on a lovely bright Sunday morning. I never work on Sundays save dire emergencies but for some reason it does not feel like Sunday. I think it is because I haven't yet got...

No matter how cold the day, no matter how much frost you wake up to, once you get working the body generates its own heat. And thus, we were today occupied with a grand hedge cutting operation, 84 m of hedgerow with a...

The etymology of the word "kind" is interesting. It's about someone's nature, someone with natural feelings, someone who is well disposed, someone who is benign, compassionate, loving, full of tenderness. This...

Although I love gardening dearly, it was very nice to have a break. I'm now prompted to start a job that was not particularly urgent as our current account has inconveniently hopped into the minus. This has nothing to...

Had the high tide at Weston-super-Mare been in the afternoon I would definitely have driven off to see the waves in all their glory. As high tide occurred at 7:30 AM there was not much point so we are contenting...

I love the sound, feel, taste, appearance, of words. What a lovely word 'miscellaneous' is. It has Latin roots written all over it. It is from the verb 'miscere' which means to mix and indeed as usual my day has been...

Up late " gosh, is that the time!" Off to Sainsbury's to buy another bottle of champagne but apart from that did nothing much except watch TV and cook a huge lunch of which we managed to consume about 30%. Our...

I have just finished watching a film of a man, Lewis Pugh,  who has dedicated his life to drawing attention to global warming, and in pursuit of this he swims in the Arctic at temperatures lower than anyone else would...

I had the pleasure of meeting a delightful lady of 90 years of age whose husband died 10 years ago. It was in the service and they had to move every couple of years until he retired. They live in a delightful workers...