My Somerset Life
Brian Snellgrove
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A weekend in London – conglomerate account and many images
We visited London between Thursday 17th June and Monday 21st June. The bus from Bath left 11.10 am and traveled the long route to Swindon (long diversion) and then Heathrow. Travel time the best part of four hours. The...
Poppies at their best – Afternoon Tea
On a lovely sunny day, these poppies in our garden are full of light and colour. Yesterday afternoon we had a delightful tea with two people on the same wavelength as us. We had lovely fresh cream, cottage...
More time for myself – a real tonic
Today I had back-to-back meetings about advertising my psychic and Remote Viewing services in LinkedIn. This is an enormous potential marketplace with millions of people sharing with each other every hour of each day....
Where did the time go? Today it is my birth day. Clue is in the song ** Sunset Strip
For some reason our plans for celebrating my birthday which falls on today Monday 7th of June 2021 were not working. We discovered that all the local restaurants where we planned to go were closed on Monday or...
Disasters happen in threes
Last Saturday we went to Bournemouth for a Freedom rally and it was very interesting to note the sort of people that turned up and the reactions of the general public. Bournemouth is basically a dump at least in the...
An expedition to pick some garlic – with an unexpected disagreement
We have a friend staying with us so we decided to go to Wells in spite of an indifferent weather forecast. Wells always has had a market on Saturdays specialising in food. There were fewer stands (due to c****) but...
Fruit and gifts (of the spirit)
This morning was a men's group. Today we were in a good mood telling jokes and discussing problems with our computer's. I said that it was important for me just to be open with my feelings about what is going on...
To Wells, and various
Having met a delightful psychic lady called Christine, one of the trustees of Chalice Well, we went to have a psychic reading. The reading was interesting but unfortunately I was afflicted by one of my more frequent...
Beltane celebrated at Chalice Well, Glastonbury
Today is Beltane otherwise known as mayday the 1st of May we are off to Glastonbury in general and chalice well in particular to celebrate. Many people particularly the ladies come bedecked with flowers in their hair....
Old Habits return – off to Cheddar Car Boot sale
A lovely bright morning but cutting winds from the east. Unfortunately this month of April, the growing season in allotments, has been unusually dry. Anyway, Francoise and I needed to escape from our confinements and...
Good value at Lidl for £1.50
Although I am fairly well off compared with some, I still enjoy a bargain. Lidl has this great community idea to offer a good deal of miscellaneous items of food. They prepare a number of boxes of fresh vegetables etc...
Bath springs back to life. Well, sort of
It is my day to have my eye injection, now once every two months which is a good sign. As last Monday was the date set for business to return to normal, except inside drinking in pubs (we have to outwit the wily...
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