My Somerset Life
Brian Snellgrove
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Giving detailed feedback to a retreat organizer
I wrote a few weeks ago about a recent conference that I attended. The organizers were unwise enough to ask me for my opinion little realising that I would write voluminously but this is my contribution to get things...
Is wokeness out of control?
I have watched UK column for many years now and it is a stable and reliable source of information and opinion. I do not look at it as regularly as I could but then with so many demands on my attention sometimes I don't...
A church service – in the middle of nowhere
My goodness this looks like one of those lively days. Transworld radio has delivered again and while I was having my coffee at 7:30 I heard about a new organization, new to me anyway called ataloss.org which is a uk...
My goodness – a kindred spirit (or fellow nerd?)
There is no doubt that the sun shining affects my mood, it was a still crisp morning when the sun rose over the hills at about 8:00 AM. There was the inevitable chemtrail but to be fair there were not many of them. My...
Have our minds been psychologically reprogrammed
Please note, dear people, this is not part of the normal run of accounts and comments that I make, it's because thinking or lack of it is so important that it does affect in a profound way the way that people see and...
Is ranting a good thing? – special edition
Somone having a rant about .... everything Oh, I gota rant about the absolute plague of scammers in the UK—it’s like they’ve turned conning people into a national sport, and they’re all competing for gold! You’ve got...
Are you becoming digitally excluded?
See interview with volunteer service provider - scroll down Do you find computers frustrating? I am a member of nextdoor.co.uk, a social media that encourages people to contact others in their own area for support and...
‘Radio Station in a suitcase’ waiting for the next disaster
The task of First Response Radio is to set up radio stations to keep affected communities informed within 72 hours of a disaster. It empowers two-way communication, via radio, with affected communities in the immediate...
Music as medicine – discord in our local church
I can't say that this is the best morning of my whole life. I've just been given a severe dose of reality by Jeffrey Sachs who after 70 years of experience lays out on the table showing how dreadfully corrupt and...
Listenin’ Learnin’ Lovin’ – Creating a new community group
I love having new ideas I love having ideas and back in October I attempted to launch a cultural group, as it happens in Frome which I thought was a literary place, to promote the art of conversation. This did not...
The benefits of giving thanks
For no particular reason my attention has been focused on giving thanks. It was sparked off by someone saying on a video that we should give thanks for our life. I have heard this dozens of times recently, in spite of...
Is it a waste of time giving advice?
Over coffee this morning at 7 am I listened to a talk by a preacher with an unfamiliar name on Trans World Radio. This fine preacher was talking about his time as a child and saying that he was the third child and his...
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