Is this a UFO near Bridport – or just the moon?
DOWNLOADING photographs taken around Bridport over Christmas, I suddenly found myself looking twice at this one, and wondering – what is that in the sky? Could it really be a UFO? Here’s a…
Read articleColin Varndell donates images for new Dorset Wildlife Trust calendar
I WAS thinking the other day about Colin Varndell, because I was trying to draw up a list in my head of excellent West Dorset people…
Read articleGreat US photos launch new Dorset art project
SO, WEST DORSET has a new artistic venue: Axen Farm outside Symondsbury. Probably just two miles from Bridport town centre, but it feels startlingly like another world, as you suddenly rock up towards the…
Read articleOld Jurassic Coast photos and stories wanted
PHOTOGRAPHS and stories from along the Jurassic Coast of Dorset and East Devon are being sought to help explain the past and perhaps shape the future.…
Read articleDib dib dub – three scouts in a tub
READING about how Britain now has nearly half a million Scouts I suddenly remembered that I’d once been given some tremendous pictures of a camp at Seatown in…
Read articleBridport: Artist portraits by portrait artists
News that stays news THE ARTIST John Skinner, when he lived in Bothenhampton, used to say to me: “Why can’t we have the kind of news which…
Read articleDorset potter Tim Hurn on “a romantic process”
THERE’S a superb photograph of the Bettiscombe potter Tim Hurn in a new book coming out next month. It shows Tim carefully reaching out from the mouth of…
Read articleA blog that “can take you to nice places”, like a bus
SOMETIMES you see something and you think, wow, that’s good, and so it is with a new West Dorset blog called And in my hands a camera.…
Read articleWhere in West Dorset are chavs being encouraged?
FOUND this on tumblr with the comment “Dorset knows lol” What I can’t work out, from looking at the wall, is where this mock sign is supposed…
Read articleBearded Git takes photo of Colmers Hill
I DON’T know who Bearded Git is, but he’s got a website where he calls himself that, and he spends his holidays in Dorset, takes photos, then posts them online.…
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