Author Archives: Ian

Above the waters

Posted on 1st January 2024 by Ian

‘Risk of road flooding’ declared the black letters on a bright yellow sign. The persistent rainfall would undoubtedly top-up the already filled ditches and rhines that criss-cross the landscape of the Somerset Levels. It is hard to imagine how the … Continue reading →

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The intolerance of the ‘tolerant’

Posted on 17th November 2023 by Ian

The Christmas lights are going up in my home town of Langport. Well, I call them ‘Christmas lights’, according to the organisers, they are ‘winter festival’ lights.  This is simply a piece of secular bigotry. Of course, they would argue … Continue reading →

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A distant investiture

Posted on 14th November 2023 by Ian

According to the radio, the King of England was seventy-five years old today. Once, when he was a young man, he was the focus of the rapt attention of S.pmerset schoolchildren Our school television could have been a prop from … Continue reading →

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Visiting graves

Posted on 11th November 2023 by Ian

In June of this year, it was a privilege to visit the graves or memorials to High Ham men on the Western Front. Photographs were taken at each location, but some seem to have been lost. Bryson Bellot Lieut. N.S.Y … Continue reading →

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No need for statements

Posted on 16th September 2023 by Ian

He seemed to need to make a statement. Someone had mocked him for being suburban, from Camberley or some such place, and he had assumed it to be an implication that he had come from somewhere that was not significant. … Continue reading →

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