Every so often, if you are lucky, you can meet some exceptional artists and crafts people in Dorset. They are often hidden away in villages or remote rural locations and stumbling across them is an unexpected joy. Cameron Short is, Read more »
A new film being made in the Marshwood Vale highlight’s more than the beauty of the area. Film maker Lawrence Moore talks to Fergus Byrne Sowing the seeds for tomorrow; harvesting the bounty for the months ahead and observing new Read more »
Julia Mear met Peter Whiteman in Axminster, Devon ‘I was born in 1942 during the war. My father was a carpenter in a jig shop of the de Havilland Aircraft Company. My mother was a nurse but if you married Read more »
Nikki Northover’s adolescent dream became a reality and her annual dance shows have inspired many of her students to reach for the stars. Katherine Locke talks to her as she prepares her next show. Nikki Northover is proudly sitting in Read more »
Normally I try to keep to facts and dates, but today I am venturing into myth and legend. Recently I read a novel King Arthur’s Bones, which led me along this path. Imagine the mist rising from the Somerset Levels Read more »
Charity comes in many different guises. Margery Hookings has been talking to an old friend who has dedicated her life to looking after and rehoming racehorses. I still feel slightly guilty that when I was about ten years old Read more »
The mild winter has brought all sorts of surprises, such as cabbage white caterpillars on leeks. On the plus side, we have left our winter roots in the ground this year, the carrots and celeriac are in full leaf are Read more »
It’s been a pretty wet winter so far so, perverse as it may seem, I actually would like it to get really cold and dry for February and well into March. If December and January had supplied plenty of cold, Read more »
Wassail is an old Norse word for “Good Health”. This is the season for apple trees to be wassailed by tradition on the eve of Twelfth Night, to ensure a good crop free from disease. This took place on 4th Read more »
There’s a fine drizzle (mizzle, we call it, in this part of Dorset) as I make my way across the car park in the dark, towards the all-weather sports pitch at Beaminster School in Tunnel Road. The air smells of Read more »