Vegetables in June
It’s irresistibly dangerous predicting the weather in a monthly magazine, but after such a cold spring, the wind centred in the northeast may treat us to a flaming June. Even if not, June is a busy month. We have been Read more »
Daily Archives: 12/06/2018
Up Front 6/18
After a screening of the film, Eye in the Sky, at the Electric Palace in Bridport a few years ago, one of the less intense questions that arose was whether an insect-sized drone with a camera on board could really Read more »
People in Food – Joe Baron
Landlord, Chef and Proprietor of the Shave Cross Inn, Joe Baron is a welcome addition to the echelon of hardworking individuals elevating Dorset’s oldest and celebrated pubs. With a menu that changes daily and a tapas selection to choose from, Read more »
People at Work – Alex Brooks
Alex Brooks has been making bespoke wooden garden furniture for years with his brother Ed. Ed is a landscape designer based in London, but also has Ed Brooks Furniture which sells specialist garden furniture, with pieces personally designed for his Read more »
June in the Garden
It seems almost impossible, given the ‘bad start’ to 2018, that we’ve been blessed with almost a month of good, warm, sunny weather in the period since I last sat down to write one of these articles. It’s certainly made Read more »
Here for You
Margery Hookings finds out more about the local mental health charity, South Somerset Mind, and its project aimed at supporting young people, farmers in Somerset and North and West Dorset and women struggling with perinatal mental health. Approximately one in Read more »
Don’t Mention It
There you are, having a nice quiet discussion at a dinner party or at the local, when someone opens up their over-wide mouth and raises one of those ‘do not mention’ burning issues that not only divides opinion but can Read more »
Cable and Wireless
This is the title of what grew to become a large company working in communications by either means. But it made me think of two unrelated local stories. Technology had to be established first to enable either means of communication Read more »