Early Quakers practiced endogamy, and Quaker families intermarried, which made it easier to grow those early Quaker businesses such as Barclays’ Bank

Henry Williamson was another East Anglian farmer who wrote books. In 1972 he also made a fascinating film about how farming was changing.

To my surprise, the topic of conversation is not only death, but about how people are making the most of life.

I’m looking for a new publisher for the paperback edition of my latest book as Unbound/Boundless is going through a particularly rocky patch. If you’re struggling to get copies, I have a stock here and can supply both bookshops and retail customers.

Official recognition that I will shortly turn 70 should I guess be welcomed, but it feels a little that I am at the top of a slippery slope.

I heard on Saturday how Ronald Blythe made sure he enjoyed every moment of every day. Somehow I have yet to shake of the sense of anxiety that has followed me wherever I go.

No, I’m not about to change direction, or keep running aimlessly round and round. It’s time now to become more contemplative, thoughtful and that means less available too.

I am reaching a stage in life when physical decline is, however much I fight it, inevitable. Can new intellectual challenge and growth really replace the physical fitness that I know is going to start slipping away?

I’d long wanted to venture behind these green gates, and am really pleased that I found time last week to do just that.

The other day I visited the house in Needham Market where George Ewart Evans and his wife Florence lived.

Like me, the current owners had a connection, both to the Evans family and to the Quaker banking family who had lived in the house in the 18th century.

. NHS subsidised treatment abroad leave the NHS free to do what it does best; deal with emergencies. Could this be a solution to those scarily long NHS waiting lists?

A fellow patient at the Nord Clinic in Lithuania described this guy as a God. He’s certainly highly skilled at keyhole surgery, as I discovered last week when I became a medical tourist for the first time.

When you introduce two writers to each other, whose books work will together, magic can be the result.

Dennis was my late mother’s brother. I was born on his 31st birthday and he died months before his 90th. My kids tell me that as I grow older, I remind them of him. That gives me a useful prediction of how long I might live.

I’ve successfully used Crowdfunder UK for a number of campaigns, but never has one succeeded quite as quickly as this one!

There’s a lot written about the rise in medial tourism, but when you look at it objectively, everybody wins. It’s time to be realistic, creative and get things done. Sitting on the fence can be uncomfortable!

They say if you want to get ahead, get a hat. I’m going further and my hat is now evidence of the fact that in 2025, I will no longer tolerate things that I find even slightly annoying!

Can having a high IQ be considered to be neurodiverse, and if so, what benefit is there to me in shouting about something I’ve always considered a disability?

We’ve finally exchanged contracts on the sale of the plot where we had once intended to build our final home. Now we can focus 100% on building our new life here in Suffolk.