Time to update this page with the news that pilningstedders will now be a redundant title. In May 2021 we;…
Life and Stuff
My random page for stuff that doesn’t fit the other pages but perhaps my thoughts on life and society.
Local to Pilning
Pilning is in South Gloucestershire, not Avon, or Bristol or even Gloucestershire. the local area to me is the parish…
Book Reviews
Very occasionally I am asked to review the book of a friend or colleague. This page will be the location…
Pilning Local Plan. Thoughts about the future of Pilning and Severn Beach
I returned to live in Pilning in 2009. Very soon after my settling into my house a village plan dropped…
Diary year by year
The next project for my blog has been burning within the Stedders space for a few years now. I wanted…
Football trips. A Season of Beer and Bristol Rovers: 2015 – 16
This occasional series of blogs is now taking a more regular form. After every game I promise to document the…
Why pilningstedders blog?
Here we go again. It has been a while since I wrote anything that someone else might read but it…
Reading a cricket scorebook for fun.
As a member of our local History Group I have been tasked with archiving some local resources given to the…
Letters to Doberitz by Derek R Payne
My review of a friend’s publication
A poem for Gerald
HE JUST SITS THERE. 17.10.18 (Reworked version 1.4.2020) The path between church and orchard, for some is a lifelong walk.…
Should Desert Island Discs come calling.
For my good friend Ed Jones who wanted a reply to a facebook message. So I also post it here…
Flood defences
The villages have both intended and informal sea water defences. Experience of previous flooding at Severn Beach suggests the railway…
Community Developments
Small scale plots with potential for ownership by the community. The village has several sites that have potential for being…