In Lush Places, the village square is full of tradesmen’s vans of varying hues. They park where they can, while the bus attempts to do a three-point turn and pedestrians do body swerves to get to the post box. As the builders go for it with the angle-grinder on the roof of the Grigg extension, [...]
The bunting has disappeared from Lush Places, apart from the Union Jack above the shop and two hopeful-looking St George’s crosses either side of our bedroom windows. Mr Grigg is on top form as a lunatic football fanatic: devastated when his second team (Greece) were knocked out last night by Argentina and hoping against hope that [...]
CIDER made by award-winning West Dorset cider maker Nick Poole has gone on sale for the first time in shops and pubs. Unsurprisingly, it’s proving popular – a decade of hard and thoughtful work has gone into it. Mr Poole set up West Milton Cider Club near Bridport 10 years ago – the video above [...]
A NEW training centre could be set up for young people in West Dorset if a bid for European funding is successful. The aim is to get 16-25 year-olds developing business ideas that will improve the local environment. Ros Kayes, the director of Bridport Local Area Skills Training (BLAST) has asked the European Rural Development [...]
PLANS to rebuild Bridport’s Mountjoy School in Beaminster have been submitted by Dorset County Council. The county council wants to move the special school on to land next to Beaminster Technology College (BTC). A national schools adjudicator gave his approval for the idea last year, and last month county council cabinet members agreed a budget of [...]
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 in 1989. Ten years after the toppling of Ceaucescu, two young Romanian poets wrote a manifesto proclaiming that authenticity should primarily mean [...]
JOHN Jones of folk rock legends Oysterband is about to set off on a challenging mini-tour through Dorset – walking to each of the venues on the route. The Feet Don’t Fail Me Now tour 2010 will see John walking from Lyme Regis to the Larmer Tree Festival in Tollard Royal on the Dorset / Wiltshire border. On [...]
BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE is expanding its activities for families, starting with a production of Alice in Wonderland. Many families have apparently asked the arts centre about doing things there on a Sunday, and so it’s heading off down the rabbit hole… Alice in Wonderland, based on Lewis Carroll’s book, will be performed by Uncontained Arts, [...]
THE CHILLI plant that my husband bought from Joy Michaud at the Melplash Show was the best thing we have bought at a food show, ever. I didn’t even particularly like chillies when I met my husband but he cooks with it quite a lot and my palate has evolved over the years. I suppose [...]
AFTERNOON Tea by Broadwindsor School, and a Tipsy Monk by Donna and John Heys, won the scarecrow competition at the annual Broadwindsor Fun Day. The theme was Merrie Old England. The judges were Sarah Champion (above left) and her sister Liz Studley. Their late father, Leonard, wrote a history of Broadwindsor. He was also famous [...]
