A Bridport alternative to the World Cup
NOVELIST Ioana Morpurgo is to lead a discussion of Romanian literature at Wild and Homeless Books in Bridport. Ms Morpurgo will focus on the ‘period of transition’ that followed the revolution in Romania…
West Dorset’s answer to Mount Rushmore
I THINK of the sunken lanes of West Dorset as bonsai cliffs, the country cousins of their far more famous coastal counterparts. Walk through these holloways and look closely and slowly your senses…
Comic confronts Dorchester theatre reviewer
VETERAN theatre critic Marion Cox found herself at the receiving end of comedian Gina Yashere’s wit when she spotted her making notes during Dorchester Festival’s comedy night. Grabbing the notes, the keen-eyed comic…
Mapperton. Perfection. But who’s that in the shop?
MAPPERTON Gardens near Beaminster have been listed fourth in a national Top Ten list of the Greatest British Gardens. The writer Clive Aslet, editor at large for Country Life magazine and a countryside…
Dib 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 West Dorset in the mid-1930s. So, to…
New for Dorset and Devon – the Jurassic Coast iPhone app
iPHONE users can now let their fingers do the walking along 95 miles of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. A new free app allows users to scroll through 185 million years of…