After months of planning and administration The Marshwood Arts Awards exhibition is nearly upon us and as well as a few new initiatives for this year’s exhibition, there have also been a few surprises. The entries are in and the Read more »
A surprising picture appeared in the Guardian newspaper towards the end of June. It showed fields, near Blandford, painted lilac with the flowers of the opium poppy. This controversial crop, associated in many people’s minds with war-torn countries like Afghanistan, Read more »
Look up in the sky… Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a drone. And not just one, but seemingly hundreds of the things—all with propellers flashing in the sun as they whine and whirr anonymously over Read more »
There is a scene in the film Shirley Valentine in which the leading lady rounds on her fellow hotel guests who are trotting out all the old stereotypes as they complain about the Greeks. For the life of me I Read more »
At least with all the recent wet weather September should begin with nicely moist, hopefully not waterlogged, soil conditions. This should make any digging, replanting and, most timely, bulb planting much easier. Bulb catalogues will have been out for some Read more »
This year is proving to be wonderful for all tree fruit, and our pigs diet is almost 100% reject apples, with kind souls dumping fresh supplies every day on our doorstep. Annual fruit plants such as tomatoes and cucumbers have Read more »
An inspection of our food supply showed we were running short, so when we entered a village later that evening Shaw went into a little shop to purchase some apples and pears. It was a risky thing to do and Read more »
You Can’t Bully a Killer Whale A wild and rambling little farm near Bridport is where a very special group of horse training specialists work real marvels with young and problem horses. A very experienced horsewoman, Connie Colfox’s relationship Read more »
In The Trumpet – Major by Thomas Hardy this is how the local inhabitants greeted the travelling carriages of King George III and his family, escorted by a detachment of his German Legion. He was en route for Weymouth, where Read more »
I vaguely remember one of our contributors once writing in the Observer Food Monthly that he had asked his editor if he could promote his new book in his monthly column. The kindly editor said yes, so the contributor did Read more »