My Somerset Life

This post is somewhat of a rant.  I take considerable care to make sure that I'm evenhanded in my opinions.  In this case I'm reviewing my attitude to the the BBC.  This is an excellent film (below) which shows the...

My exemplar Samuel Pepys used to describe his anatomical problems in great detail.  He had gallstones; the method for operations and for pain protection was somewhat more basic than in today's world. What I'm about to...

I bet you anything you like you would not dream of what I'm going to reveal but first, my day.   I went along to the normal coffee morning at Paulton church.  Eventually there were about 20 of us and among them were a...

So my wife works for AgeUK. This morning she asked why water jugs could not be placed on the tables where the elderly clients sit to remind them to drink water. The answer was a no because they might infect each other...

In spite of all the depressing fear-making material about the coronavirus, the dreadful weather, nonsense about climate change (the climate is always changing!) each day is a new day full of potential. My only problem...

Earlier this week, the George Soros funded and programmed Greta Thunberg announced by text that she was coming over to UK to relate to the kids and take part in what turned out to be a march culminating in a speech at...

You might be aware that shoplifting costs an estimated £335 million to the UK economy. I don't do that much shopping in department stores but I was at Lidl today when a woman right in front of me reached over to the...

Françoise and myself have as we used to say been 'living in sin' for the last 10 years. Now is the time to become regularised which we are going to do through a Civil Partnership. Until recently, these used to be only...

With coming up to 900 entries - actually 894 and  640,400 words (587,287 words in War and Peace) this has definitely become a habit, very unusual as a discipline for a Gemini, for ever looking for new stimuli. I can...

This is the person I referred to a few days ago in my diary, the person who drinks an estimated 40 pints per week. The time is 10 o'clock and the place is Wetherspoon's. This time they don't have anyone with them. This...

Do the two go together? Sometimes. I have been very lazy yesterday and today and making some plans for our forthcoming London visit.  Meanwhile, in spite of the wind and rain or perhaps because of it, our darkness...