Di Alexander

ANY musical show which has the name Tom Boyd or Maria Jagusz on the programme is always destined to be a treat.

I USED to feel sorry for vicars who try to find something different to say each Christmas Day. Now I feel sorry for me.

DI ALEXANDER visits the Equine Service Centre near Lechlade, whose list of clients includes Henrietta Knight and Sir Michael Stoute.

THE old dead ash tree at top of Harcombe Valley fell down last weekend.

ISN'T odd how simple jobs weigh down on you so much that you put off doing them for ages and then wonder why?

ONE OF my plans for my retirement was that I wouldn't spoil Christmas by not being prepared in time. After all, time was something I'd have plenty of. Wouldn't I?

WE WERE all geared up for Emily to have her tonsils out.

A VISIT to the Lake District in all its autumn glory also proved to be a trip down Memory Lane.

COTSWOLDS rider Nathalie Rozard and her five year-old horse, Greenhill Play It Cool, were the winners of the British Eventing Bailey Horse Feeds Intro Championships at Aston-le-Walls on Saturday.

FOR centuries physicians and apothecaries used herbs for healing and it is only in comparatively recent times that modern drugs have replaced ancient recipes. Now, as the side effects of some drugs become apparent, there is a growing return to the use of remedies concocted from fresh herbs, many of them found growing wild in fields and hedgerows.