My Somerset Life

I was chatting away on the allotments to a couple of people and it suddenly came into my head as I should write to all my contacts on my fastmail.com account to give comments about how I saw the corona business...

We awoke to a drizzly Saturday morning.  I refuse to watch or listen to the news because I'd had enough of you know what to last me some time.  The morning was very ordinary.  I went along to the allotment to take away...

I did not turn on the radio this morning because I don't want to hear Corona Corona Corona, and then more Corona.  There comes a point when you get sick of the whole thing.  I decided to go to Wells today to see how...

I woke up today to hear that as from tomorrow afternoon all schools will be closed.  I look out of the window and see a grey sky and drizzling rain. I have eight days left before my MOT runs out so I'm hoping that the...

This is our last day in London.  I have managed much better than I thought with the energies of the capital,  probably assisted by the fact that there are very few people around.  I was happy to give a tip to one of...

To the Mall Gallery, situated amazingly enough in The Mall,  in central London where they have frequent exhibitions including many by portraitists.  There were three exhibitions on when we came.  One was by The Wapping...

I wonder how much old friends change.  I suppose we wouldn't notice because of us both changing, for example getting old physically. In that case we would see the other person in exactly the same light. I normally only...

It's very nice to get up when you feel like it.  The only restriction we have here at the hotel was that the breakfast closes at 10 AM so if you've any sense you go down to the breakfast room by 9:30 AM unless you want...

Up early, the usual check around to see that everything is locked and that the gas is turned off. We normally turn all electrical appliances off except the fridge and freezer that we have to trust to behave well, not...

A week does not go by without my buying another book.  This is a very small selection of books that I intend to read and in some cases are reading.  Let's go over these in some detail. Prayer – Philip Yancey.  It is so...

In spite of of Samuel Pepys' many duties he used to occasionally lie in bed until late in the morning.  I suspect he needed to because the pain from his various ailments were stronger than he cared to admit. However,...