My Somerset Life

Does my bag  need a burial ceremony? To the casual eye, this looks like a scruffy old bag but to me it is much more than that. I bought it in Boston, Ma, USA in about 1995. It has served me well traveling to Sri Lanka,...

Irrespective of Mother Nature and the weather she produces, life must go on, rain or shine, winter or summer.. Mums must take their children to school. Much of what we need to do is unexciting except if you look at it...

Okay I agree it wasn't quite ordinary because I was going to have my eye examination four weeks after my cataract operation. I dodged the showers and caught the (late) local bus to take me to the bus station in Bath...

'The policy is too stupid to be stupid'.  I love this quote that I have just heard from  Charles Henner via the exuberant Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com.  In other words, if it does not make logical sense then there is...

First stop, the monthly market in the marketplace of Midsomer Norton Francoise bought her usual fish order. There are no fishmongers in Midsomer Norton and she doesn't like to rely on frozen fish.  We bought some...

My week is divided into two parts, Monday to Friday,  which I regard as working days even though I do not get paid and then the weekend. On Friday I prioritize tidying things up, fiddling with semi important matters...

I have decided to write this article 'on the fly' without any preparation just to see what comes. If we believe that the prime function of the brain mind is to be a receiver and not a transmitter then in theory I...

God Is On Our Side? At least, that is what Netanyahu and his cohort believes.  That wonderful book of unconditional love, The Torah, explains that other races are subhuman and not worthy of life. The Palestinians know...

Times they are a changing Courtesy of the change to our time to GMT we were 'gifted' with an extra hour in bed this morning. I always go through a mild existential questioning when I ask if the clock has gone backwards...