My Somerset Life

What you are in defined as what you are willing to struggle for The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience and paradoxically the acceptance of one's negative experiences itself a positive...

Françoise returned from her yoga at around 11:30 so do we go to Bath or do we not? She wants to find a suitable piece of luggage to take away with her when we go to London in a couple of weeks.As the sun is shining and...

Rain forecast for today so we fiddle around in the garden and have drinks in the little alcove that we have prepared. It occurs to me that the Great Reset which is currently throttling the world is an alien experiment...

We decided to follow an invitation in the Mendip Times 'Afternoon Tea every Sunday in July with Marston Music. Says I 'why not?'. The estate is about 3 miles south of Frome and contains an amazingly restored and...

Today there were no less than six local annual Village fairs. Since they all started at about the same time, 2pm, we had to choose which ones to attend. The three we chose are listed below. We went to Compton Dando,...

I write this as the sheer weight of damming information about our future and it does get to me from time to time. Here are some videos that have come to my attention. If this does not frighten the hell out of you then...

I had a strange night last night. I could not quite finish digesting my food which sat in my stomach for about four hours. Went to bed at 10:00pm  and slept until about 2:30 am. Then got up and sat in the living room...

Not a good day. I am not used to being ill. It seems that I have caught and infection from somewhere which is impeding my digestive system. I am not able to function normally and I do not have the energy to do various...

Never Let It Be said that there is no variety in my life. I went along to the coffee morning at All Saints, Paulton which is every Tuesday morning between 10 and and 11.30.  Some very nice ladies provide cake, and...

There are so many interesting nay consuming topics that I scarcely know where to turn. Every avenue leads to another avenue or avenues all of which have interesting aspects. This is now my challenge. Focus, and...

  I have written several times about my visits to the outdoor Cheddar car boot sale and market. (do a search - Cheddar)  We decided to go this morning because we hadn't been for some months now and wanted to see...

Hold on to your hats folks. We decided to have an afternoon out, a bit like a miniature holiday. We noticed an ad. in the Mendip Times for Open Gardens. The old part of Chew Stoke in Somerset contains narrow streets,...