My Somerset Life

On a miserable,  cold and rainy day why bother to sit on the 376 bus to Bristol? Two very good reasons. I seem to have quite a good, in fact very good, inner guidance system. When I read about films, plays, places to...

I switched on Trans World Radio early on this cold and frosty morning. The rising Sun is making the clouds appear pink. I look forward to a day of arranging the Christmas decorations, planning food and all the tidying...

I'm coming up to my 250th diary entry now and nearly up to 300,000 words. I'm quite intrigued by the lack of response when I know that sometimes I'm being quite controversial in what I say. I was quite delighted...

Nothing major here, but if you want to know about 'continuous creativity' then this is the place to linger for a few moments.We are lucky enough to live near one of the major quilting centres in the UK.  This humble...

This morning I had an illustration of how important it is to be alert to the inner voice. This morning I was in the kitchen preparing my coffee as normal and I turned on the TV. I had a choice of BBC breakfast TV or...

For seven years I was a boss of an organisation, albeit a small one and I have since then had dealings with a large number of people who were bosses of small or large organisations. I'm not particularly proud of my...

I ended the first part of my discussion by saying that the perceived disadvantages of childhood were no excuse for not achieving full potential (how is that for a double negative). In order to demonstrate the truth of...

I love stories of admirable people who have had several careers moving from one stage or skill set to another, experts on many things, travel stories that make you envious plus wisdom and experience of life second to...

What you may ask is your diarist doing going to a course when everyone else is rushing out to buy things, consume things, standing in lines to buy roasted pork sandwiches, mulled wine and the like. Good luck to these...

In this groundbreaking day of another step forward in the Brexit deals I find myself momentarily concerned with another matter. I read once again about allegations, sometimes decades-old,  made against well-known...

I was delighted to read in the paper that the well-known BBC broadcaster John Humphrys has a secret talent (well, not now)  for water divining. In his case he needed to find where a plough had cut through a water pipe...

This is an extremely long and detailed discussion of the merits of package holidays versus making your own arrangements and is aimed at anyone who has pondered the many advertisements offering travel to exotic parts of...