My Somerset Life

Never Let It Be said that there is no variety in my life. I went along to the coffee morning at All Saints, Paulton which is every Tuesday morning between 10 and and 11.30.  Some very nice ladies provide cake, and...

There are so many interesting nay consuming topics that I scarcely know where to turn. Every avenue leads to another avenue or avenues all of which have interesting aspects. This is now my challenge. Focus, and...

  I have written several times about my visits to the outdoor Cheddar car boot sale and market. (do a search - Cheddar)  We decided to go this morning because we hadn't been for some months now and wanted to see...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...