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Brian Snellgrove
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Our Men's Group breakfast meeting in Frome Once every couple of months or so I go along to the nearest men's group I can find. We meet either for breakfast, curry evenings or Zoom meetings. About a dozen of us met...
Does the idea of a coach holiday fill you with horror?
Our last morning We had to get up for a 7.15 breakfast and from thence to the coach where our baggage was arranged according to the town at which we were going to be dropped off. We left two minutes after the departure...
A day for ourselves and a shock for the driver
Local Church, St. Peters This was an immaculately presented and well cared for church in the grounds of Bosworth Hall. I felt it was a blessing just to go in and enjoy the rich history going back the best part of a...
Birmingham – a city to be reckoned with
We left at 9:00 a.m., a bad time as it turned out because there had been a serious accident on one of the main roads and we had to take quite a long alternative route so by the time we arrived at a parking place just...
Visit to Stamford and Oakham
We left at 9.30 am and arrived about 11am on yet another sunny frosty day. Stamford is an historical town used as a major stopping point between London and York. It has over 600 listed buildings. It is an affluent town...
Thoughts on starting a holiday
I'm sure this is something my readers and I will have in common. The holiday is far distant, next month, then next week, and finally the day dawns. Today is THE day. Today is the day I have been looking forward to for...
Fishers of Men + a generous public
This morning, a look at the Gaza cease fire - a busy one for the Israelis in my opinions. Vanessa Beeley steadfastly reports. She expects there will be some type of False Flag operation maybe in he USA to justify a...
A Court case without a court
Not being able to sleep last night, I arose and had a look at some of the programs stored on my Sky box. I found a series featuring John Cleese who had been given a series of 10 programs by GB news to do what he...
Cease Fire? + a room full of strangers + An amazing Frome bookshop
Dreams about Vegans The day began early with waking up from a dream. I was in a very large camp of Vegans. They had cooked mountains of vegetables which they laid out in steaming bowls on trestle tables and most of it...
Bath Christmas Market + The importance of boundaries + RUH visit
We as a nation have become addicted to images and brief videos and I am not sure how powerful the written word still is. As I have said before, I write this diary mainly for myself but anyone is entitled to have a peep...
A largely local day – chips and porridge
This is a day to celebrate local institutions. We had breakfast at the " Fat Boyz cafe" at Gravel Hill, Seldson, Croydon. Traditional menu, well cooked up market from the greasy spoon model, lots of local faithful...
A ‘chance’ meeting – Wisdom from C G Jung – what is peace?
An interesting morning of synchronicity I had to take my car to the garage to attend to the tracking of the front wheels. One of these things you don't spot until it is too late and in my case where parts of my tyre...
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