Some time on Thursday morning, I received an email from a diary reader (I was surprised not to get an email from both of you) to tell me that the current entries had vanished from the screen. I informed the Tech Team about it and hoped that order would be restored before the weekend, but [...]
A recent encounter with a long distance cyclist has again left me questioning the validity of factory foodstuffs. The cyclist in question recently stayed with us overnight. Shortly after breakfast, he was off on his travels once more, having donated to our bin a plastic screw-top container about 10% full with a strange white powder. [...]
Sometimes, it is easy to feel isolated when one stands outside the ramparts of popular belief, beyond the pale of received wisdom. Sally and I often say to people, “Don’t worry, change happens one person at a time, and every person counts.” Though we say it, we sometimes find it hard to believe in such [...]
An interesting day, weather-wise. We left for the Farmer’s Market in Hereford around 11 o’clock (such an old-fashioned expression these days, but so much more comforting than ‘eleven-oh-five’), and it was spitting with rain. Unsurprisingly, this precipitation looked a little more sleety as the road climbed uphill past Aconbury, but it turned to rain again [...]
Two and a half days of working through my inbox, and answering the 58 emails lodged therein, has left me with a headache and a deep mistrust of modern forms of communication. However, my inbox is also my link with a growing number of people who think as I do. In a world that is [...]
Once again, time has caught me out. It has been such a busy week that writing up the diary simply has not made it to the top of the agenda. That’s partly because a lot of things have happened all at once and partly because we have booked another few days off, starting tomorrow . [...]