My Somerset Life

Brian Snellgrove

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Combe Martin Beach

We went for a walk from the town to the beach. We always on arrival at a new place go for a walk. We just beat the sunset. This small town of 2000 pop is essentially one long street in a valley. The rocks are...

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Dark days, darker nights

Off to the garage to take my car and see if anything can be done to improve the performance. My auto was not changing gear without complaint. The garage changed the gear oil (at 60k you could say that it was due) and...

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A new year – the second day

I watched briefly for two minutes BBC1 TV hoping to see something more than Jules Holland. Instead there was a firework display and God help us even this had been turned into a propaganda exercise for the Government....

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List of words you might not know

I love words. Here are a few that I had not been aware of anomalistic - adjective. Departing from the normal: aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, atypic, atypical, deviant, divergent, irregular, preternatural, unnatural....

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A ghastly Christmas card

  I thought I had seen it all. This is a Christian card or I suppose it is. I cannot describe in how many ways this is in bad taste. I wont say who sent the card. We had an idea today that if the winter is severe...

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We have just about had enough

I went to a podiatrist this afternoon to find out why my toes were showing signs of infection. The helpful lady told me that this was due to bad circulation and there was nothing much I could do about it. Prior to my...

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