My Somerset Life

This is one of these impossible images I can only imagine if the gradient is not very steep. Difficult to tell from the angle of the camera. We have had another glorious day. It really was a warmth that went through...

Some have unkindly called it Weston Supermarket which actually is not too far from the truth. We rose early this morning and departed about nine o'clock  for a journey that was supposed to take one hour 17 minutes...

This may seem a strange way of starting a diary but I am blown away by the naivety of this person that thinks that the skip company will take away this carefully constructed mountain of material. Hope  springs eternal...

Today Sunday was the day for visiting Dorset county show which is an event held once a year for two days over a weekend, near to Dorchester. An unexpected Aladdin's Cave On the main road down for some reason I decided...

A dull misty morning, No wind. I fear it is a precursor to the coming of autumn with that particular unique autumn smell that appears unfailingly between the 7th and 9th of September. If we had believed the weather...

These days I do not become depressed in the clinical state of the word. When I was in my twenties and thirties I withdrew into myself and found that I was in effect paralyzed, not being able to move forward or backward...

As they say 'the day started like any other'. Françoise has gone off to see a friend in Bath so here am I looking at a rather indifferent sky. There is rain in the air.  Off to the town to do various tasks. On the way...

Occasionally there will be a spillover from my other work to my diary as indeed was the case with Samuel Pepys and his activities with the navy, not to mention his extra curricular activities. Controlled weather I do...

The museum was founded in 1961 to showcase American declarative arts and to dispel stereotypes of American culture. It houses the finest examples of American decorative arts, quilts and folk art, and Dallas Pratt's...

This is the day that the Lord has made - we will rejoice and be glad in it.  Psalm 118:24 So who was this chap David? A shepherd? What kind of shepherd would know about anything really?   There is more to David than...

A Carrot produces triplets My goodness, I know that carrots come in  all shapes and sizes but this triplet home grown carrot was somewhat unusual and very aesthetically pleasing. This has nothing to do with  today's...