One of the artist’s featured in last year’s Marshwood Vale Magazine Arts Awards exhibition, Fernando Velazquez talks to Katherine Locke. Fernanado Velaquez is keen to talk about his adopted homeland. Although he grew up in a small village near Seville, Read more »
Father Jack is alive and well and living with his brother in a cottage on Downpatrick Head in County Mayo. You know the one I mean, the toothless drunken Irish priest from Channel 4’s Father Ted. The one who snores, Read more »
As I write this it’s been sunny and dry for a good few days to the point where it’s very easy to forget just how wet the winter was. The mould blooming on my, oil-bound distempered, interior walls reminds me Read more »
May is a favourite month when we have the excuse to dance with gay abandon round the Maypole. The weather is finally on the side of most plants and crops really get growing and fill the garden with leaf. In Read more »
The Bridport Dagger is an early joke, at least as far back as Tudor times when Leland, who might have been described as geographer to Henry VIII, wrote “at Bridport be made good daggers”. He fell for the joke which Read more »
…So sang Neil Sedaka in 1962, but I’m referring here to individual countries rather than individual people. Scotland breaking away from Britain, UKIP voters splitting from Europe, plus Russia and her fractious former Soviet Empire and the Ukraine in particular… Read more »