My Somerset Life
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...
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....
Looking about us anxiously – how to save £7,068
As many of you know I like to start my day with Trans World Radio. I listen and wait for a phrase or text to jump out at me. The above phrase did. I spend more time than I should do doing just this, to zero benefit as...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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'...
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...
Unexpected playtime with a drain cleaner + an unexpected loss of five teeth
Today we are going to try and achieve two gardening jobs, both maintenance, both pleasant enough - and regular income. We went to our first one at about 11 o'clock. The lady who we see, she must be 90 to a day, had not...
ZOOM meeting with my allotmenteers – Germany in the early 30’s
Although many people are now used to the ZOOM technology, a number are not and we had 18 of the 56 allotment holders gathered together this evening for our first ever virtual AGM. Most of the conversation was quite...
A day of many aspects. Meeting the Daniel brothers.
A busy day. We went to my interesting lady gardening client, picked up the rubbish from last Friday's job and took it to the recycle. For the first time in many visits, the chap checking us in did not have a record of...
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A dairy by Brian Snellgrove
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Inspired by Samuel Pepys’ Diary 1633-1703
