Roads of Stone writes eloquently about a walk along the Hogsmill (though I'm not sure I entirely agree with his description of Ewell High Street).

News: Bemused Not Biggest Geek In Ewell

It's official: Bemused Of Ewell is not the biggest geek in the village. Congratulations to Bramwell Brightey and Tamsyn Lofts, who recently married in a Star Wars themed ceremony...

Full story: Epsom Guardian, 13th May 2008.

Back in the saddle

Bemused and Mr Bemused have been on holiday and subsequently catching up... please bear with us! Normal babbling will be resumed shortly.

What's In A Name...

I have been asked why I don't have a snappy, punnish title for this blog, such as Ewell Log (or, worse, Ewell Blog), or Ewell Tidings. Mostly that's because, in the Bemused household, it is Mr Bemused who is in charge of bad puns (while I am in charge of throwing things at him when they get too much).

My occasional correspondent and general inspiration, the Greenwich Phantom, did suggest that perhaps I should be Ewell Ectoplasm, but there are two problems with that: one, nobody can spell Ectoplasm, and two, anyone who has seen Ghostbusters will know that ectoplasm is depicted as looking suspiciously like, well, snot. Thanks, but no thanks.

Belle De Ewell? Possibly not. Village Vixen? May give the wrong impression, I feel.

No, Bemused Of Ewell I shall remain, for the moment at least...

Quaking in our boots

-- or not, perhaps. I'm afraid that, in this corner of Ewell, last night's earthquake went completely unnoticed; it failed to wake us up, unlike the Buncefield explosion a couple of years ago!

Welcome, welcome...

...to the blog of Bemused Of Ewell.

As you might perhaps guess from the title -- if you happen to know where Ewell is, in any case -- this is intended to be a blog at least vaguely relevant to the Ewell Village area. For those who don't know where Ewell is, you'll find the village next door to Epsom, in the county of Surrey, just outside Greater London.

Ewell has good bits, bad bits, odd bits -- and some of them will be turning up here, I dare say. Do feel free to drop by every now and then.