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 closer look. I have to say, I…
Colin 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 and organisations. By excellent, I mean almost…
Great 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 end of a narrow track and find…
Old 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. The last Labour Government gave Dorset and…
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…
Bridport: 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 says: ‘Today John Skinner finished a xxxxing…
Dorset 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 his kiln for a plankful of pots. The kiln…