My Somerset Life

My last few gardening jobs for 2023 Animals live in harmony with nature.  We are part of nature but we are not animals.  I find myself responding very strongly to the seasons. I am winding down my garden work now and...

I continue to be amazed by the profundity of saintly people with a vision, and no axe to grind; these people see things for what they are, that we are portable versions of God or God in physical form or an aspect of...

Thoughts on leaving as a guest. I have known my friend John for about 40 years and there aren't that many people that I can say that I have had relationships of such duration. People often drift away from each other...

I was invited to join my hosts in a cafe in the middle of nowhere. This is English for saying 'it's not near a well-known landmark or town'. However in the belief that you my reader will want to visit this place, the...

I came out of my room to go down and have breakfast and a woman approached me and said, 'you must be the author of one of the Alice in Wonderland follow up books. I gave it to my nephew and he did not put it down...

Normally, the Alternative View conference had an annual  weekend conference but on this occasion, the first after Covid and after a 2  year break, we were destined to have a long single day starting at 8:45 a.m. and...

Cross country rides take longer than you think. I departed from base around 10 am from Midsomer Norton which as most of you may know is about 10 miles south of Bath,  and I set my satnav to avoid motorways and thus...

I'm going to take this opportunity to reflect on the many conferences I have attended and what I have actually got out of them. If it is a specialist subject that is dear to your heart, you will be...

Today I feel like having a rest, probably because for the next five days I will be very busy in ways that you will find out in due course. When I was young or should I say particularly when I was...

Further experiments with bread Believe it or not my day started at about 2:45 a.m. When I could not sleep anymore having gone to bed at the comparatively early hour of 11 pm, I arose. For some reason I seem incapable...

Gardening Job Physically I do not have much energy to write my normal 1500 words though you never know what is going to happen when I get going.   The day started bright if a little cold and we went to do a job for a...