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An A-Z of Somerset Villages

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With everything else that has been going on in the world, it’s taken a while to get there, but here is the complete list of alphabetical Somerset villages posts. What started out in August 2020 as something of a lockdown photographic project, helping me explore parts of my new home county that I might normally bypass, became much more than just something to challenge my satnav.

Twenty six villages, each with their own individual personalities and traits. Each came into being in different ways, for different reasons, but each brings something different to the county, adding different stories to the county’s history.

(The previously mentioned disclaimers apply to the alphabetical journey. There are no villages in Somerset beginning with a J or a V, so K and W are doubled up. Zeals is technically not in Somerset, but is within a few hundred yards of the border, so I have taken the liberty of including it in the list, as there are no other places in the county starting with that letter.)

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Ashcott
Baltonsborough
Charlton Mackrell
Dinder
Evercreech
Farrington Gurney
Godney
Haselbury Plucknett
Isle Abbotts
Kingweston
Kingsdon
Lydeard St Lawrence
Milverton
North Curry
Othery
Pilton
Queen Camel
Rodney Stoke
Stanton Drew
Tintinhull
Ubley
Withypool
Walton-in-Gordano
Exton
Yatton
Zeals
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Honesty

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There’s a part of me that wonders whether the world would be a better place is everybody was just honest. Honest with themselves, honest with each other, just honest.

Trying to spare someone’s feelings can quickly spiral into a web of lies and deceit. You start digging a hole, then find yourself twenty feet deep with little more than a trowel.

So, why do it? Why are we so desperate to please other people? What is it about human nature that drives us to avoid honesty at all costs?

Stop and think about it. What harm would telling the truth actually do? Will lying to them do more harm?

Honesty is the best policy, but we’re often too blind to see it.

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Confusion

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Information was coming at her from all sides.

Conflicting, confusing information that was leaving her in no clearer position to make a decision. Turn left, turn right, do this, do that, fake news, real news, the truth, lies. How was she supposed to know what was right and what was wrong?

Friends were telling her one thing, family another and colleagues a third.

Bury your head, she thought. Keep a low profile and avoid the constant barrage of details, choices, confusions…