My Somerset Life
Brian Snellgrove
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Good and not so good business clients
Amazing what nature can do. How to be a good customer or supplier in a transaction This diary entry was prompted by someone who has a client where the course of work has become more onerous than originally expected so...
A sunny day in Bath – pictorial visit
Wednesday evening was cold frosty and clear but in spite of that we decided to go to the local gardening club meeting in Ston Easton on the topic of snowdrops. There is a snowdrop festival every February and the events...
A machine ate my credit card + a good conversation + what is hell?
Edible credit card After three or four years delay I finally decided to join Francoise at a session of yoga at a school. On the way I had to go to a cash machine to collect some money to pay for this. My transaction...
What are our intentions ? Do we really listen?
The word 'intent' is about purpose. It was used from the early 13th century and comes from the old French entente, which means the goal, the purpose. This comes from the Latin 'intentus', which means a stretching out,...
Eating, breathing, living with research on the Internet
Fun bits and pieces My goodness, if I had time to read every article I republish on my covid site, I would not have any time for sleeping. There is endless scope for getting side-tracked. Here is a most interesting...
An uplifting church service and a walk by a canal
There is a time and a place for everything I went along to my Vineyard service this morning after having somewhat reluctantly arose from my warm bed a half hour before the meeting was due to start but I made it on...
Dr. Vernon Coleman: If the Covid Jab was a Trial Run – What Happens Next? (plus many articles)
There is still much mystery about the covid vaccine...My suspicion has, for a long time, been that the covid jab was merely a test to try out some form of weapon system." Exposing The Darkness is a reader-supported...
In praise of Wetherspoons
Who can this be at this time of the morning? The day started in an unusual fashion. We were lounging in bed as one does on a Saturday morning and at about nine o'clock the doorbell rang. I hastily assembled myself in...
Disposophobia – fear of throwing things away
I must have this condition because I find it almost impossible to throw things away. Today I assembled all my clothes in the living room. Apart from underwear and socks I have many vests including thermal vests, about...
The Tax Man commeth – the dreaded day draws close – Amazon – spam calls
Tax returns I hate filling in tax forms. Come to that I hate filling in any sort of forms . I have to revert to a pupil - teacher 'write down 100 times' mode. FULL NAME ADDRESS POST CODE DATE OF BIRTH ...
The experience of Kinesiology
I'm quite curious to see in what way this diary will develop . In reality my diary records are a mixture of shared wisdom, commentary on current issues social and political, observations on life here in Somerset....
The funnier side of life – a new phase in this diary
Today I woke up to what was a bleak landscape within my head - what with our Post Office scandal in the UK and the Israelis doing an impression of Hitler versus the Jews , seemingly without any respite after three...
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A dairy by Brian Snellgrove
1,927,316 words across 1,959 articles
Inspired by Samuel Pepys’ Diary 1633-1703
