Lush Places: Happy Oak Apple Day
Odd’s fish, it’s Oak Apple Day: Charles II’s birthday and the 350th anniversary of his restoration to the throne. Here in Lush Places, the day passes…
Read articleBridport Open Studios: Kit Glaisyer on painting West Dorset’s ancient landscape
ST MICHAEL’S Studios in Bridport are open to visitors this Bank Holiday Weekend, 10-5pm Sat – Mon. Kit Glaisyer writes here about his participation. I GREW…
Read articleThe answer is £5.44…
… TO THE QUESTION that has seen me tossing and turning at nights over the years and has, no doubt, troubled most of you in a similar…
Read articleThe Great Dorset Jellyfields Mystery
First things first ONLY the village of Walditch near Bridport boasts a real place called Jellyfields. It’s a 3-hectare Local Nature Reserve off Lower Walditch Lane,…
Read articlePhotographs from Burton Bradstock’s Spring Tide Food Festival
MORE than 1000 people went to the National Trust’s first Spring Tide Food Festival at Hive Beach in Burton Bradstock. A farmers’ market sold produce grown,…
Read articleHow to be a Dorset cider thrower
CIDER THROWING isn’t a Dorset thing. Not yet, anyway. I say not yet, because I suspect it’s one of those things that – once you’ve seen it done, or…
Read articleWest Dorset: Village Idiot Preservation Society launched
THE PLIGHT of the villages of West Dorset is fast becoming dire. The shops, Post Offices and pubs are closing like the rat traps in Hamelin…
Read articleNew Bridport waste transfer station planned for Autumn 2013
SO, in the end, after flocking in at the rate of two a minute, more than 400 people went to Bridport Town Hall to discuss the…
Read articleWest Dorset: Roman road re-opened to walkers
AN UNCOVERED stretch of Roman road through Thorncombe Woods outside Dorchester has been officially re-opened by Dorset County Council. To celebrate, there was a guided walk along the…
Read articleLush Places: Blue is the colour
On Bluebell Hill, overlooking Lush Places, the colours are so intense they are almost blinding. The clean, lime green of the beech trees, the swathe of bluebells,…
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