Monthly Archives: July 2018

A strange summer

Posted on 4th July 2018 by Ian

The times are out of joint. Falls of snow in March and a late spring crashed into the arrival of an early summer in April. By June, record temperatures were accompanied by the onset of drought conditions. Now in the … Continue reading →

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England will win the World Cup

Posted on 3rd July 2018 by Ian

Forty years ago, Nottingham Forest won the football league championship. It was a season when Liverpool won the European Champions Cup, in those days a knockout competition in which only the champions from each country qualified to enter. Liverpool’s success … Continue reading →

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Dragons and feet

Posted on 2nd July 2018 by Ian

Having visited the caves at Wookey Hole, we drove to Priddy in order to drive down through Cheddar Gorge. There was a pause at Priddy. In the back of the mind there was a faint recall of the church having … Continue reading →

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At the kitchen table

Posted on 1st July 2018 by Ian

The Somerset Rural Life Museum wonderfully creates a sense of the past, the only aspect that is troubling is that memories from my own past now seem worthy of inclusion in a museum, and not just things from the past, … Continue reading →

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