Gretel le Maître Ponders, with Bede & other guests

By Gretel le Maître

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July 23, 2025 Hardy’s Woodlanders are out of sorts; Pepys’ life blossoms; and Swifts and Gulls whirl about Gretel’s garden
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Thank you so much for joining me. I’ve had a lovely message from one of my wonderful subscribers that I’ve asked permission to share here:Hi Gretel, I really enjoyed today’s (Tuesday) episode, especially the ambient noise 😊. I love hearing the birds, bells, traffic, etc, as a background. Your topic of “what’s the point?” really resonated with me because I’ve had to live my life with that mindset since I was about 20. It’s a long story, but I’ll just say that I never achieved success in any conventional sense and instead learned to find happiness and fulfillment in small ways. “Ambition “ and “goals “ haven’t been in my vocabulary for 50 years, but I don’t think I missed anything. I figure that if I don’t have a point in life, I’m a lot more cuddly!’

I think she makes such a good point: ‘I figure that if I don’t have a point in life, I’m a lot more cuddly’. I do think we need point, but it’s for us to reinvent it and renew it daily, perhaps. And not crucify ourselves when goalposts shift and change.

I wish you a peaceful Wednesday evening. 🙋‍♀️
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July 22, 2025 Boisil welcomes the boy Cuthbert; What’s the Point? And George Eliot ponders the delights of Cream, straight from the Udder
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Good afternoon and all my very best wishes to you on this Tuesday towards the end of July 2025. How can it be? When I received my Regular Commission on passing out from Sandhurst in 1996, I noted with incredulity that the date I would have to retire as an army officer was May 2027. This date seemed ridiculously futuristic and I remember feeling ecstasy at having so many years ahead of me. And here we are, just two years away from 2027. Years of different jobs, getting married, having children, buying homes, losing my mum, Covid, sickness and health. It flashes by, one day at a time. The phrase ‘look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves’ is applicable to life: ‘look after the days and the years will look after themselves’. So let’s look after the days, understanding that a peaceful day today, when we are kind to people including ourselves, will lead to a happier, more content life. We don’t need to grandly strategise the years if we handle each day with courage, wisdom and grace.
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July 21, 2025 George Eliot’s Scenes of Clerical Life; Pepys learns that Britain is part of the European continent; and stubborn Cuthbert finds food
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July 20, 2025 The Preservation of Churches; A visit to South Cadbury’s Parish Church; and St Cuthbert watches Aidan’s soul rise to Heaven
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My apologies, the church of South Cadbury is St Thomas À Beckett, not John the Baptist as I stated in my narrative. 🧐🫢
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July 19, 2025 The Life of Cuthbert
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July 17, 2025 Bells and Swifts; Hardy and Bede; Mozart and Pepys 😊
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July 16, 2025 We visit St Michael’s Over Compton on the Dorset / Somerset Border and discover a wonderful local tradition rooted in village divisions at the time of the Civil War
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Dear friends

I’ve just remembered that this episode begins with late night frolics with Mrs Tiggywinkle 🦔
Do bear with it if the sound of munching gets too much 😅😳
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July 15, 2025 We join Pepys for Charles II’s Coronation, with a drunken end to the day; and enfin Bede is our guest, beginning his history of Cuthbert’s life.
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Good evening, how are you today?
Thank you for joining me and dipping in to this evening’s gentle episode, set in a darkling garden. Where all is still and calm, until a certain creature plays with a watering can. 🧐

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July 14, 2025 A Happy Monday with England winning the Third Test; Pepys wears velvet to watch the pre-Coronation procession; and Bede is our guest once again 🤓
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July 13, 2025 ‘The Physiognomy of a Deserted Highway’; Inappropriate Pepys; and a Leaping Dog
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