Category Archives: Out and about

The times being what they are, everything has become hard to predict, particularly traffic. Traffic depends on the times at which people travel and when few companies, institutions and people seem to follow the hours that were once conventional, then … Continue reading →

The Sunday afternoon of the August bank holiday weekend brings the annual blackberrying afternoon for our family. “Cecil’s hedges are best,” declared my sister. It is a while since Cecil was the farmer working the land, but, for us, they … Continue reading →

There was record-breaking cricket played by Somerset County Cricket Club playing against Warwickshire today. Batting as the tenth of Somerset’s eleven players, Jamie Overton scored 120 runs. It was the highest ever score for a Somerset player batting at number … Continue reading →

A Sunday evening on a village road, he seemed homeward bound. Boiler-suited, work-booted, he carried an empty mug in one hand. Perhaps someone had brought a hot drink to him, perhaps the mug had been reused to the point where … Continue reading →

Passing a closed business building, there was a sense of encouragement from seeing lights shining through a reception door. In this year of all of the years of the post-war era, the news that the building was to be refurbished … Continue reading →