Monthly Archives: October 2020

You can garden every day

Posted on 23rd October 2020 by Ian

Monty Don announced this evening that the BBC would broadcast the final edition of Gardeners’ World for the year next Friday. It seems a strange decision, a strange perspective on the world, to decide that, ten weeks before the last day … Continue reading →

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Things that should not give you a fright

Posted on 20th October 2020 by Ian

The dark evenings draw in. In childhood, the darkness always brought fear for me, but not a fear comparable with other fears. The sign for The Dolphin pub In Langport is a reminder of the fears. It is still mounted … Continue reading →

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Chip days

Posted on 17th October 2020 by Ian

Weighing in at eleven stones thirteen and a half pounds on my sixtieth birthday, I realised that I had missed my target of being at the upper edge of the Body Mass Index band for my height. I should be … Continue reading →

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A delicate boy

Posted on 13th October 2020 by Ian

Intervening in a fight at school for the second time in two weeks, I remembered that there was a time when I would have been advised not to do so, I would have been told that I was “delicate.” Suffering … Continue reading →

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Somerset is safe from alien attack

Posted on 11th October 2020 by Ian

The Somerset Live website had a link to a page on 48 UFO sightings in Somerset. It was disappointing, a piece of clickbait, the page to which it linked was a government site from 2009. No new reports of flying … Continue reading →

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