Monthly Archives: March 2022

Moving house and changing life

Posted on 12th March 2022 by Ian

Today was spent moving to another apartment, a place by myself. It comes fully furnished, right down to every electrical appliance and the cutlery in the kitchen drawers. It is the the fifteenth change of address in forty years (and … Continue reading →

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Sea fever

Posted on 10th March 2022 by Ian

“Down to the seas again,” when Miss Rabbage read the words by John Masefield, there was only one place that came to mind – Lyme Regis. Lyme Regis is a small and unassuming English seaside town, reached by a very … Continue reading →

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Fit?

Posted on 9th March 2022 by Ian

There were men in the village as wide as the proverbial barn door, men who would pick up a hundredweight sack of corn and stand with it on their shoulder while talking to friends. There were men who would work … Continue reading →

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Traditional Anglican Clergy

Posted on 7th March 2022 by Ian

Searching for an email address, I somehow stumbled upon a clipping from an edition of the Shepton Mallet Journal from October 1924. The reason the clipping had been sent to me has disappeared from memory, but it is a piece … Continue reading →

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Teatime

Posted on 6th March 2022 by Ian

Mature Cheddar cheese, Branston Pickle, a handful of baby tomatoes, pickled beetroot, granary bread with full cream Irish butter, probably not the healthiest of teas, but one that has a Sunday feeling about it. (Perhaps a wedge of fruit cake … Continue reading →

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