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Walking Back to Fitness

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 »

Posted by MV on 12/01/2016
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Talking Turkey by Margery Hookings

The grassy banks behind Medway Farm sound like a babbling brook. The paddock nestles on the lush slopes of Eggardon Hill and the field is full of turkeys. They’re burbling like water flowing over boulders and scrabbling around, displaying tail Read more »

Posted by MV on 12/12/2015
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Keeping up the Standard – Margery Hookings

Every year, it’s only at the eleventh hour that I remember to ring Sam Trott about my village fun day parade. But every time, he’s always accommodating—one step ahead, in fact, because he leads the procession. ‘It’s all right,” he Read more »

Posted by MV on 22/11/2015
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Every Object Tells a Story

Row upon row of gleaming firemen’s helmets, a bug-eyed fire engine called Barkis from the 1930s and another, older vehicle, made just as the 19th century turned into the 20th, gaze out across each other behind plate glass. It’s an Read more »

Posted by MV on 19/10/2015
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Let’s Raise a Glass of Ouzo to Greece

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 »

Posted by MV on 24/09/2015
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The Belted Galloway by Margery Hookings

Out in the fields, the cattle are moving slowly, chomping on grass, wild honeysuckle and anything that takes their fancy. They’re a cheery looking bunch, these Belted Galloways, and come in three colours—black, dun and red, and each with a Read more »

Posted by MV on 23/08/2015
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