My Somerset Life
Brian Snellgrove
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Bumper Post – Chew Stoke Open Gardens 24.6.23
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,...
Interacting with others + the disadvantage of being nice.
JB – Why are we having these conversations and why do you write the diary? BJ All I try to do is to get the odd person who does read it just to think in a different way and if we can do that, then that’s job done. We...
The importance of heart to heart meetings
Up early and watched the news about interest rate rise to 5% - a killer for those on mortgages, and about the sad deaths of 5 people in the submersible craft doing extreme tourism to visit the Titanic. I consumed two...
Not an awful lot you can say…. what a way to go
The five men on board. (Clockwise from top left) Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Stockton Rush, Hamish Harding, Suleman Dawood and Shahzada Dawood I feel for the friends of these people as if they had intuition (*which we do not...
Summer Solstice – I meet a Boris Johnson Impersonator in Glastonbury
Today is the day of summer solstice but also the day when over 200,000 people arrive at Glastonbury for the famous annual event. We decided to go via Wells not Shepton Mallet and thus avoided all the queues as our...
Eye problems + the eve of Glasto.
Last evening after being out in the sun for many hours I realised that I could not read text. Even the computer was difficult to read. This was scary. I washed my lenses several times but no no avail. It looked like...
A definitive statement of our Christian purpose – plus – was Yahweh an alien?
A friend of mine recommended an outstanding daily reference book called My Utmost for His Highest. It is source to me for inspiration and orientation. The writer is Oswald Chambers (illus.). There are 365 days worth of...
‘Don’t worry about me. I have a brilliant idea’
While wandering through Bath today a car with an open window overtook me and one of the male occupiers shouted on his mobile to someone else 'don't worry about me I have a brilliant idea'. This cheered me up no end as...
Burrington Village Fete 2-4.30pm
Listed in our June edition of the Mendip Times. We thought 'why not?' This is a bijoux picturesque village , pretty as you could hope for, with a strong sense of community and very articulate, well off people. Find out...
What vibrations can improve our lives?
BJ – Schumann Resonance – is it designed to be a panacea for healing for everyone. It is normally 7.83 Hz and sounds like this. This ‘music for mind, body and spirit’ claims to boost positive energy and for meditation....
Another visit to Glastonbury, and a men’s meeting
Off to Glastonbury to accompany Francoise who is going to see a very special lady therapist called Virginie. She is also french. The reason for the attendance was to have some cranial sacral work on a twisted pelvis...
Looking ahead – if that is possible
I do occasionally get bouts not so much of depression but when I realize how deeply mired this planet is in corruption and greed. In our UK Parliament there is only one person who stands out and that is Andrew Bridgen,...
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