Vegetables in June
I love June in the garden! A lot of the stress of being a vegetable grower often subsides by June (as long as the weather has been fairly kind throughout Spring), and most of the first lot of planting is Read more »
Author Archives: MV
Unlocked Fun and Games
As we slowly pull ourselves out of the viral hole that mankind has fallen into, we are going to have to make a start at a return to normality. I’m not sure that anyone knows what ‘normal’ is supposed to Read more »
Abbotsbury
Abbotsbury is an historic village. It is an interesting village, worth visiting again when the “shut down” is over, with attractions for all ages. The oldest history of Abbotsbury is passed as you proceed to it from the west on Read more »
Balloons and Confetti
Despite media focus on fears for the elderly and those in Care Homes, there is another side to the story. Susan Blacklock has seen bunting, fairy lights, positive acceptance and ‘stern stuff’. Coronovirus has created a level of fear amongst Read more »
Beer Quarry Caves
Temporarily shut by Coronavirus pandemic – join us when we open If curses could kill the coronavirus would be long dead. I’ve contacted an ancient Irish poet friend and asked him to get out his great book of Ulster Curses, Read more »
Dance on the Wyld Side
Sue Kirkpatrick, a musician with Wyld Morris, explains a tradition that sees dancers greet the dawn On Wednesday evenings, in the darkest wettest depths of the English winter, a heavy rhythmic thumping echoes through the dense and otherwise silent gloom Read more »
Lifelines
A community initiative for wildlife corridors in the Char Valley. By Owen Day and John Blanchard As we emerge gradually from the lockdown, many of us are wondering what kind of future awaits us. It seems clear that our economy Read more »
Life after Lockdown
No one can deny that lessons have been learned in the last couple of months. Margery Hookings hears some of the positive stories through COVID-19. It’s been a funny old thing, this lockdown in the time of coronavirus. We’ve all Read more »
UpFront 06/20
‘Slowly easing out of lockdown’ are not words that many of us would have expected to use this year. Especially as we emerged from the Christmas break to what we then called ‘normality’. Every year lots of us experience something Read more »
Russell Randall
‘My father’s family had a business at Beckington, near Frome, where they were carpenters/joiners and wheelwrights. After he’d left Frome Grammar School, Father came to Salwayash to stay with his uncle who ran Lower Kershay Farm, which is where he Read more »