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…
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 by unnoticed, as people scurry under large…
Bridport 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 up in ‘deepest darkest’ Dorset, several miles…
The 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 manner. It is such a relief to…
The 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, with grass, woodland, stream and small pond…
Photographs 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, reared or made within 40 miles of…
How 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 even just read about it – you’ll…
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