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Author Archives: MV

Seven years of My Ballet with Carla Sheills

To dance can be liberating. For many mature women in West Dorset and South Somerset, this means dance classes given by Carla Sheills, who runs ‘My Ballet’. To some women, it is daunting at first to run through all those Read more »

Posted by MV on 02/10/2020
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October in the Garden

As I write this we are still enjoying the last gasp of summer, the sun is shining and the skies are blue. October still has the capacity to provide some balminess but the odds are definitely more firmly stacked towards Read more »

Posted by MV on 02/10/2020
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Vegetables in October

October is one of those significant months that signals a bit of a change in our work in the market garden. Everything other than the garlic and perhaps some overwinter broad beans has been planted outside, so it is a Read more »

Posted by MV on 02/10/2020
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The Watch Project

One day, walking along a road in Somerset looking at flowers that had broken through the tarmac, Julie Mathews, founder of the Watch Project in Chard, began to wonder how a little daisy could push its way through such dark Read more »

Posted by MV on 02/10/2020
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Conspiracies & Fake News

We’ve always had conspiracy theories. Any major news event results in official reaction as to what’s happened, why it occurred and who was responsible, but this is often not the end of the matter. Within a few days you can Read more »

Posted by MV on 02/10/2020
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I saw three ships come sailing

This is what the good people of Lyme Regis said in June 1685. The ships did not come into the harbour at Lyme, but proceeded a little further west to land at an empty beach, since known as the “Monmouth Read more »

Posted by MV on 02/10/2020
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A Late Summer’s Day at Cogden Beach

I’ve driven along the coast road eastwards from Burton Bradstock many times but the view as the road levels out at the top of the first hill never fails to lift my spirits. That first glimpse of the sea. Those Read more »

Posted by MV on 02/10/2020
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A Glimpse into the Past

After the news last month that rural media charity Windrose, which preserves old film and runs community projects in Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, has been given a Lottery grant lifeline, Margery Hookings delves into the archives. The Close Encounters Media Read more »

Posted by MV on 02/10/2020
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UpFront 10/20

In his new book, English Pastoral, Lake District farmer James Rebanks echoes the thoughts of many people when he says he is tired of the ‘absolutes and extremes, and the angriness of this age’. He says ‘we need more kindness, Read more »

Posted by MV on 02/10/2020
Posted in Editorials | Tagged Fergus Byrne | Leave a reply

Peter Vernon

‘I was born in Cheshire in 1955 and we moved to Corscombe in Dorset in 1960. I remember the really hard winter of 1962-1963 starting on boxing day right through to February. We were totally snowed in, we cut doorways Read more »

Posted by MV on 02/10/2020
Posted in People | Tagged Julia Mear | Leave a reply
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