Tiggi re-visits some of the contributors she chatted to earlier this year, asking them about their fantasy Christmas. With interesting celebrity mystery guests and stockings full of sloppy food, their answers make a festive and filling Christmas special!

A funny, informative and slightly bonkers look at life in a Choir! Kate Lynch is a Musical Gem! Choir Director and Vocal Coach in Draycott, as well as Director of Cheddar Valley Voices. A total of four choirs made up of both children and adults from across the local area. Tiggi, as a founder member […]

Draycott sits in the middle of the countryside with only one shop to service the community. A lifeline. Recently the shop was threatened with closure until a group of philanthropic residents set out to save it. On December 1st the store will become ‘The Draycott Community Shop’. Run by village volunteers and financial good-will, the […]

Rob Perkins, owner and publisher of Valley Life is a journalist with more than 35 years experience on local, regional and national newspapers. Decrying the loss of real journalism in big corporate newspaper groups, Rob believes that local publications still have an important role to play in informing local people and putting businesses in touch with […]

A  behind the scenes look at the life of a  rural Priest.  Reverent Stuart Burns, the Vicar of Draycott,  by definition is at the epicentre of the community. As Tiggi chats to Stuart she begins to find out more, focusing on his past and discovering why he felt called to serve God.  Born to politically […]

On the hottest day of the year, Tiggi chats to the Draycott Bowler Hatted Postman, Ian MacLauchlan.  His story is fascinating.  Having left South Africa during political unrest, he moved his family to the UK, and has had a myriad of jobs, including serving in the military, teaching sports, as a bank manager and most […]

Tiggi and Jackie, her guide dog, both love horses, so were overjoyed to spend the afternoon with Julia Garrett, the Draycott Saddler. Julia’s family passion for horses, so poignantly described in this episode, is definitely worth a listen.

This episode takes us on a journey with Draycott resident Teresa Wyatt as she tells her story about walking all night through London for nearly thirty miles to heighten awareness about breast cancer and to raise money for the Moonwalk cancer charity.  When her legs were tiring, the dawn chorus of bird song, and thoughts […]

“This Episode is Tiggi’s story.  Interviewed by her BBC friend Elaine, Tiggi explains how she came to live in Draycott, and, twenty years on, her reasons for creating this Podcast series Draycott Diaries.  During the conversation Tiggi talks candidly about her sight loss, the community that has supported her and about a new life in […]

Tiggi and her guide dog, Jackie, visit Scaddens sheep farm deep in the Mendip hills.  An amusing and sometimes poignant story of a committed couple riding the storms of life to carry on a long family tradition.