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Brian Snellgrove

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Too much, too much to do

Today, I been aware of all the things that I would love to do in just don't have time for stop this afternoon, a book arrived called power versus force which is to do with energy. It is so fascinating I'm through the...

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Imperial College writing to me?

It has been some time since I wrote my last diary. A lot has been going on. However, If I were to write everything that went on in my head I would quickly reach 1,000,000 words and probably bore everybody to death....

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The last day of freedom – a trip to Bath

Time to get of the house on this the last day before lockdown 2, a totally useless and corrupt plan to enslave us all and destroy small businesses. The USA election is the usual mess which hopefully will be sorted out...

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Not one of my best days

I have just tried unsuccessfully to search for my tablet. I have a horrible feeling that I interleaved it between some newspapers and took the pile of newspapers outside to be collected and it went with them. The day...

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Trouble with my computer

If there's one thing I need to rely on and that is my computer, resplendent with two screens. I need two screens because I transferred data from one database to another and I can't bear or should I say find it...

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Wetherspoon’s revisited

This morning it was raining so I decided to cheer myself up by going along to Wetherspoon's to see how they were weathering (no pun intended) the unceasing change in these ridiculous times. I entered. There was no one...

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A surreal view of a Bath Abbey Service

Today I viewed some streaming from Bath Abbey. So the virus is very clever. It keeps away from the choir when they are singing but will attack the congregation if they sing.  I can find no respect for the church's'...

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The social life of starlings

Following the collapse of my plate, off to the dentist to stick it back together again. When Bath was designed, trees were incorporated in large numbers into the street plans and as a result autumn is a very pleasant...

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