Tuesday to Friday 10am to 6pm. Saturday 10am to 5 pm. At Serenade Chocolatier, a passion for chocolate inspires our careful selection of the finest ingredients and our devotion to a craft passed down through generations of European candy makers. A Labor, and Legacy, of Love. 149; 617 739 0795.

Welcome to Serenade Choir 2015. Serenade Choir is based in Ilminster, Somerset. But also draws in members from surrounding villages. Serenade singing with the Ilminster Belles Choir June 2014. Serenade at Stourhead, September 2013.

Divine pauses that tune the soul. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

I walk past the front door in a sleepy fog, and a quick movement catches my eye. Outside the front door, where the summers vigorous lantana bushes have gone to messy seed, a flock of white-crowned sparrows are jousting with a couple of cardinals for the big purple seeds. Every morning, small birds dash in and out of this mess of branches and dead leaves, foraging for breakfast.