My Somerset Life

What a truly terrible pun. Today after many weeks pause, we are actually doing a gardening job for a lady who was in a rather demanding situation. Her husband, who had been living apart from her for seven years, needed...

I had a great day with regard to the new website on masks. I reached out because I needed some help and found someone who is not too far away to give me support. Strangely, the event I am about to tell you happened to...

I'm always glad to be of service to people and when I go out and about I'm always on the lookout for people who might need cheering up. First of all, I went to the Green Shop which is where we get all our health foods....

We went out to lunch today at Wetherspoon's and had a pleasant enough meal.  As I previously stated, the chain has done a sensitive job with the redesign to comply with the welter of instructions that emanate from the...

We have air, earth, fire and water as the four elements. I appreciate them all. Enjoy with me the process of making a fire from start to end ( the video only lasts about 6 minutes) We had a couple of helpers coming...

I've just returned from visiting a local garage owner, Will Smith, who works in Radstock. We talked about the gasket problem with my 'new' car. He said that he had had experience of people who were emotionally attached...

I feel much better this morning about my two wounded cars.   I will drive the old one carefully and locally until we take it to the garage next Thursday to see if it is worth repairing to necessary standard for an MOT....

This correspondence took place between two members of my ZOOM group I remember in the Zoom you mentioned you were going for a haircut and I just returned from one today – or nearly ! The lady who cuts my hair is...

The garage rang me up this morning to tell me that the new Volvo that I had bought so enthusiastically for a total cost of £2000 is a write-off because there is a blown gasket and the whole engine would have to be...

This has been one of our better years for hollyhocks. Here they stand at least 2 m tall in all their colour in front of our living room window. Had a very nice lunch today courtesy of Françoise with  fish & alumi...