Today the CFZ launched (or to be more accurate re launched a project that has intrigued me for years. Back in 1997 I wrote the following in ...

In the last six years the CFZ Weird Weekend has gone from a makeshift and very anarchic gathering in a tumbledown Church Hall in an Exeter s...

Jill Martin of the Tortoise Trust has died. From their website: Jill Martin 1953 – 2005 16 September 2005 The Tortoise Trust has just lost o...

When I started this blog a number of people told me that they, too, had started blogs, but although they had begun with a full flush of enth...

Manic Depression ain't a fun disease and Diabetes ain't a doddle either. I was up a few hours yesterday, but had to give up and retu...

Many apologies to everyone who tried to get hold of me yesterday. I was far from well, and spent the day in bed...mostly asleep. I have neve...

08.15 Life in the country is different. A testament to that is that Graham and I - historically slugabeds, who would not rise before noon ...