My Somerset Life

My special order of manure arrived today. It is a bit of a special item because it is organic matter, in this case farmyard manure, which had been placed in a large oxygen free container where it slowly breaks down,...

Let's all remember that there is beauty in life and that Mother Nature should remind us of the eternal values compared with the nonsense that is going on at the moment. It is non-sense because it doesn't make any sense...

Following a chance meeting in Midsomer Norton High Street today, a friend in my Christian Mens' group whose son is a paramedic told me about a new app called What3Words.com . This is designed to tell others where you...

I seem to be banging on about Corona and other problems but then why should I apologise. I do follow Samuel Pepys' example; he was very much concerned with the matters of the day especially the Great Fire of London...

Word of the Day  'Pertussis' At the end of our close (street), builders are starting to put in some flats, five in number if I'm told correctly. This is the entrance though it is not used by trucks because it is too...

On a lovely bright day we proceeded to our favourite fish and chip come country kitchen presided over by the ever jolly Paul and his assistant for the day, a lady from South Africa who did the serving. The restaurant...

Today I feel like I've woken from a bad dream to find that the dream is reality. I saw the video below and it gives me some inkling of the huge economic problems that the world never mind the United Kingdom or the...

A querent (derived, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, from the Latin quærēns "seeking", the present participle of quærere "to seek, gain, ask") is "one who seeks". I've known the word query but never used the...

I spent the morning making additions to my Corona website. What is truly shocking is the amount of wrong information the public are given. For example, the advice to stay indoors. This is the worst way of prolonging...

  It is sometimes difficult to hold the human psychology together. We have clear evidence that the government is ignoring everything but their special scientific advisers. They are ignoring the advice of the...

I love words, in case you hadn't gathered.  It irritates me when I hear a word that I do not understand and I write it down and check it as soon as possible. Gerontophobia. Gerontophobia is the fear of age-related...

This morning I signed in for the Scientific and Medical Network virtual conference, held because the venue had cancelled the annual conference due in May.   The conference director was situated in France, one of the...