My Somerset Life
Brian Snellgrove
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International Happiness Day – yes, really
The International Day of Happiness The happiness holiday started when the General Assembly of the United Nations decided that March 20th would be International Day of Happiness. According to the UN's website, it did...
An Encounter with an awesome Christian organisation
The first breath of Spring, plus following my intuition A day of responding to the first breaths of Spring by us working in the garden, digging, pruning, cutting and somewhat obsessively collecting firewood to save...
Ah, the young people of today – how they behave!!!!
Monday morning, up early to a blue sky with scudding white clouds. I survey my diary for the week. I have a zoom meeting this evening with the Scientific and Medical Network, Wednesday off to Glastonbury to celebrate...
Is the Church of England in self – destruct mode and following the WHO?
Everyone to their taste in property - a home for the snails found in our garden during the spring clear up Taking a break from Vineyard Church I am taking a break from the Vineyard Church to see what else is going on....
Back to normal – the Bath and Kennet Canal (again)
All Quiet on the Western Front It is nice to have a day off after yesterday's tumultuous question in which I asked whether Kate Middleton was dead . I had record viewing numbers and a number of colourful and varied...
Kate Middleton – is she dead? “Kategate??” BEING UPDATED
An exploding news day "the day began like any other" Samuel Pepys, my exemplar, was normally occupied with his day-to-day affairs of business but when the Fire of London came along his attention was diverted and his...
24 ways of greeting people – which do you use more often?
There are many variations that English and American speakers use, and each expression means slightly different things. Expressions are also context relevant #1 Good Morning/afternoon/evening The earliest known use of...
How to run meetings… plus developing this site
Developing this website And now some therapy for me and my website, this is the one you are now reading. I'm trying to make this website a model of good practice and accessibility. I have decided to have monthly...
Mothering Sunday
A new church experience I left early for my 10:30 am service and stopped off at Porky's which is my ultimate working men's class cafe hoping to have a coffee and a snack or two but when I arrived, the place was full....
Bitcoin – a delicious headline- A seed swapping day
For a few years now I have heard about Bitcoin. This evening I listened to a 90-minute presentation by John Bush who is associated with his site Free Academy. The presentation was exciting in that he had complete...
Bristol to London for less than a cup of coffee
The satisfaction of advance planning If there's one thing I enjoy, it is advance planning. I make most of my plans for the main spine of my activities weeks before the event and that includes imagining what might go...
Is the Fourth Dimension a progressive or a retrogressive spiritual step?
Have I written the most unreadable blog ever? (today's specialist blog). I realise that dimensionality is not everyone's cup of tea or coffee. I realized that most people are more concerned about what they're going to...
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A dairy by Brian Snellgrove
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Inspired by Samuel Pepys’ Diary 1633-1703