July 27th The A3 Tunnel. Is Open today. After 30 years of planning, 3 abortive alternative routes, £375,000,000 and 5 years of construction - its open. But today its only southbound. The northbound route is due to open in the next couple of days. Lets see what the ramifications are

July 26th Perry Leete. Son of Peter and brother of Jason. Perry is the other independent Estate Agent in Grayshott, Peter Leete and Partners. We get on well together and in general we are very straight with each other. They have always good competitors and give credit where it’s due

July 24th Purton Manor. It was a very sad yet beautiful day today. Susan's mother was buried next to her father and mother in a churchyard in Walford, near Ross on Wye where her ancestors date back to the mid 1600s. Every one came back to Granny's home for tea where the gardens, the tea and the weather were beautiful.

July 24th Apples in our orchard. This year’s crop has been huge, there appears to be no "June drop" and our young trees, which are only 4 years old, are straining under the weight of fruit. The pairs have not done quite so well as the blossom did not set so well.

July 23rd My Piggies. These five chaps are starting to look rather porky. Two of the castrated boars will be going at the end of August for pork, whilst the others will stay for a couple of more months. They are now coming up to 5 months old and eat 1lb of food per month of age, per day - each.

July 22nd Aslem Quarry, Somerton. Fresh on the back of the new stone wall we are going to build in the front garden of the cottage we went to a local quarry to look at the stone. There we saw these marvellous machines, which cave stone like cake. These really were boys toys.

July 21st The Cottage.Then suddenly it looked like the Americans had started carpet-bombing in the front garden. It started by us levelling out the front garden with a digger, then there was the foundations for the new wall, then we found the old footings and the next ting we knew its a mess....

July 20th PC McLeod. Yes well, another fender bender in the X3. This is PC McLeod who came to taake controole of the situation, breath test me and sort things out. A nice chap with lots of experience. And No it was not my fault. The other driver has accepted full responsibility. Lasham and the A339 Crossroads

July 19th. Smiles and Pain. They think this is funny but the pain inflicted at the Grayshott Dental Practice is far from being funny! No seriously there is something to be said for the new grads in any profession, they approach things in a very different way and I am full of praise for tem

July 18th Malcolm Traviss. Malcolm has been our accountant for some years. His sage advice and calm manner has always meant that “visiting the accountant” is never a chore. He has been a really worthwhile find and recommending him to friends has always been easy.

July 17th The Open. What a magic day this was. Mc Dowell had won in the States and McIlroy at the US Open, what a fairy tale if Clark pulled it off and he did, by a country mile. It was such a great thing to watch and those three Northern Irish chaps have really made their mark

July 16th  Peter, Julia and family. We will be there at 7.30 for breakfast he said. At 9.45 the weary travellers arrived – the alarm clock failed. It was great to see them for breakfast on their way down to Cornwall

July 15th Bertie. Bertie is the son of Ariadnie and like his mother produces nothing to the common good. He lives with her and his Uncle Arthur in the pen at North Curry. The pecking order has now changes as he is grown up and is now king pin

July 14th Dolly with Lisa and Bart. Dolly on the left is starting to become protective of Bart and Lisa. She knows they are growing up fast and soon it will be their time…It seems such a shot time ago they arrived as lambs but now they are nearly as big as her. They still demand milk from her when ever they can  

July 13th Simon Kirby. Simon joined us around 18 months ago from a wild and reckless past! Originally working in the Haslemere office in the commercial world he has taken to residential like a duck to water. Now married and soon to be a father.

July 12th. The Barn at East Woldham. In the corner of the garden in East Woldham where we rent a cottage is this old grain barn. It is set on stone staddle stones which originally were to top the rats raiding the grain. Sadly it is falling into disrepair and I fear for the floor.

July 11th. The Hanging Chapel which forms an arch over The Hill which is one of the earliest roads in Langport. Its origins are thought to be 13th century. The present building dates from the 15th century. In the 16th century it was the town hall. For most of the 18th century it was Langport Grammar School.

July 10th. This is Ariadnie our female African pigmy goat. She is rather timid but quite defensive when the dogs come near the pen, he son Bertie will appear later on in the week, I have threatened her with being made into "curried goat" if she does not behave, she produces nothing!

July 9th Fergus is 21 years old today. It was great to see the family down today Stephen and June, Wendy, Dom and Merlin, Fred and Tim. We had a great family day, which ended with "The Boys" doing a pub crawl through gallons of local cider and getting back at 12.45am in the morning.

July 8th Muttiah Muralitharan. Perhaps the all time greatest spinner in the modern game of cricket. Today Somerset played Gloucester at 20/20 in which Somerset I'm pleased to say won well

July 7th John of Avalon Guns in Street, Somerset
Perhaps one of the larges shotgun shops in the county. He tried to sell us a pair of Purdy's for £77,000 - wrong customer. We did however get a shot gun for Fergs 21st on Saturday

July 6th Sister Morgan of the North Curry Health Center. A very able diabetic nurse who is always very encouraging and has pearls of wisdom at every vist

July 5^th. Phil Simmons. Interior designer to the rich and famous. I interrupted him here working on the design for a 2000sq ft basement swimming pool/gym complex for a country house in Hampshire. The whole house is nearly 12000sq ft – with 2 residents! It keeps the economy moving.

July 4th Mark Walsh. And colleague from Subsnet, what they are doing here in a property in Frensham is undertaking a soil sample to look for clay. The property has serious movement and they are about to produce a "window sample"

July 3rd. Straight from Wimbledon. There we were at 2pm in the morning celebrating Fergs 21st and what a suprise, we were treated with Bourg and the Williams sisters. aka William, Tenchie and Fred.

July 2nd. Fergs 21st Bash. What a lovely evening it was. Superb sunset and a really nice bunch of friend celebrating with us. This picture shows Ferg with a good sized smile in his face - not sure why!

July 1st. Bill and Ben of Godney Marquees came today to put up the marquee for Fergs 21st celebrations tomorrow. Knackered from lots of hours working at Glastonbury last weekend, they seemed very pleased that today was Friday

June 30thh  Travis Perkins. Another weekend of hard work on the horizon. This delivery is destined for us and hopefully we are getting towards the end. Dumpy bags of scalpings, sand, concrete aggregate, Cotswold Chip, bricks, cement plastersiser etc etc.

June 29^th Timothy Meehan. Freshly over from the US, Tim is Ferg’s cousin and is spending a few weeks with us prior to him and Ferg going InterRailing for six weeks in Europe

June 28th Kristin Panasewicz. aka "Kirsten"
James Bartosik's girlfriend has come over from the US and landed a real plummy summer job, mixing with the Royals and organising an event for one of Prince Charles's charities START at Lancaster and Clarence House.