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COVER STORY Robin Mills met Alan Pearce in Bridport, Dorset ‘I was born at 9 o’clock in the evening on the 28th My friend’s firm in Exeter where I was working November 1932, in Morden in Surrey. My father went bankrupt, and then I was made redundant was born in Wandsworth, my mother in Battersea; from my next job 2 years before retirement, which my father worked at the Seamen’s National was a bit of a bind. We knew about Hanover Insurance Society. When my parents bought the Housing, a housing association designed for older house in Morden you could see across fields to people, because my mother had been in one in the underground station, but of course that view’s Norwich, and when a new one became available gone now. I went to the local LCC schools, in Charmouth we went there. And then in 1997 passed a scholarship in about 1943 and started we managed to get this flat in Bridport at Hanover at Mitcham secondary school for boys in 1944.

Court. My wife and I separated in 1998, and in That was upgraded by Rab Butler in the 1944 2009 she sadly died of cancer, so I’ve been on my Education Act to a Grammar School, but it made own ever since. Although, that isn’t really true, very little difference—the pupils were just as daft with the number of friends I’ve now got. and the teachers just as egotistical.

When Gaby was the manager at the Electric Although that part of London avoided the worst Palace, and Jess the assistant manager, I used of the blitz, I can remember the doodle-bugs, the to go there for a coffee. I said to Gaby how German V-1 flying bombs. One landed behind the expensive it would be to watch all the opera houses opposite. Fortunately my father was there, they show on screen there, and she suggested © Alan Pearce Photograph by Robin Mills I could go along as a steward, and I’ve been and he shoved us all into the cupboard under the stairs when he heard it coming. There was an doing it ever since. So then I offered to steward enormous bang and everything jumped; all you there as often as I could, and helped out during could see was dust and a light patch where the front door had been. the day a bit as well. I managed to go along nearly every time My father got us—my mother, brother, and myself—installed in the there was a gig, and it’s been a wonderful life.

Anderson shelter, and went off to help pull people out of the wreckI started at the Palace in 2010, and a year later Claire Shilton age. I think 7 people were killed there. The neighbours had family persuaded me to go as the bouncer at the Frolic Disco. I also do a in Northamptonshire, and they offered to take us in for a while. So couple of hours as a steward at the Town Hall for the Hat Festival. we stayed there, and although there were no air raids, there were It’s just greeting people and showing them where to go if they’re several American bases so we’d see the Flying Fortresses coming new, helping people in wheelchairs, etc. Basically I just stand there and going. I remember seeing one crash; the pilot managed to keep looking pretty. I quite often dress up, once as a pirate when they had it airborne long enough for the crew to parachute to safety, but there the Swallows and Amazons pantomime, and I dressed as a carrot was quite a firework display when the incendiaries and flares went when we had the Wurzels on. I’ve got a Father Christmas outfit for up when it hit the ground. the late-night Christmas shopping, and the Christmas Frolics. I love Back in London, after school I decided to go into printing, and the pantomimes, seeing the kids of all different ages enjoying it in went to the Croydon School of Art for a pre-printing course. In different ways. And people like to see me there somehow, it’s nice.

1948, at the age of 16, I started a 6-year apprenticeship with a firm It’s been an amazing education for me. in London. I worked another 4 years as a journeyman, and was then Opera and ballet are my favourite things, but I enjoy all the music offered a job as a night overseer with a firm in Caterham, which I gigs because I can mix with people, and I’ll try anything once so did for 5 years, all night work. I worked in Canterbury for a while, I’m open to all sorts of music. Plays, too, and films I’ll go in and which didn’t work out, and then in the printing department of watch. And I go to the Arts Centre to watch ballet and opera on Scotland Yard. I got married in 1956, and my wife and I moved to screen there too. I still listen to jazz at home sometimes; I used to Gloucestershire, where I first worked in Stroud, then in Cheltenham. be a big jazz fan, from the days when you could buy a 78rpm gramWe lived at first in a mobile home, then we managed to buy a bunophone record for 4s4d. I must admit I do miss going to the Royal galow. After my father died in 1968 we started moving from place Opera House in Covent Garden. I saw Margot Fonteyn there once, to place, working at different jobs all over the country. I had a job in who’d been away for a while recovering from an injury, and despite Exeter, living in Exmouth, then Shrewsbury; we lived as far north as her appearing on stage discreetly there was a huge roar from the Berwick-on-Tweed, as far east as Great Yarmouth, and as far west as audience when they caught sight of her, quite an emotional moment.

Conwy in Wales. I think I had about 20 jobs, and the last few years But we’re so lucky with all the wonderful music we can see it was trying to keep one jump ahead of redundancy because of how here. I went to a concert at the Arts Centre a couple of years ago, the printing world was changing. Most of my working life it was all Tamsin Waley-Cohen playing a Beethoven violin and piano sonata. hot metal printing and that was coming to an end with computerisaThe second movement was one of the most moving things I’d ever tion, although I learned monotype printing at the keyboard towards heard, one of those things you’d never forget, and when it finished the end of my working life. I was always an avid reader, and loved I couldn’t help myself, I just said softly “that’s beautiful”. I haven’t books; my father had suggested I’d be good as a compositor because got any money, but I think I’m the richest man in Bridport. People I was good at spelling, and I enjoyed my work, although was quite come up to me in the street and say “hello Allan, it was good last hard physically, 8 hours of standing a day. And in London on the night, wasn’t it”, and I’m sure I’ve never seen them before, but Northern line it was all standing going to work and standing going that’s so great. I see so many people, and I’m sure when my wife home again. Most of the printed products were trade journals, but died if anyone had told me what my life was going to be like now, I they were such high quality, something you wouldn’t find today. would have just laughed.’

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MV UP FRONT Despite a lifelong interest in sport and an enthusiasm for international competition, be it rugby, football, tennis, Olympics or even the ‘Sport of Kings’, I was surprised at my level of excitement to find out the result of an altogether different competition recently. The winner of the European Tree of the Year contest was announced in Brussels on March 21st, coinciding with this year’s International Day of Forests. The competition is not exactly a spectator sport and the rate of growth of trees makes it unlikely to be something to watch on a Saturday afternoon, but it is a unique event. It was launched in 2011 with the hope of highlighting the significance of trees and how much they deserve our care and protection. But unlike other contests, it doesn’t focus on beauty, size or age, rather on the tree’s story and its connection to people. Since the competition’s inception there has never been a British tree in the top three of the European Tree of the Year, but with entries from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland shortlisted, there were high hopes that at last a tree from the UK might win. It wasn’t to be, however.

The favourite, an English oak from Poland that housed a Jewish family hiding from the Nazis during the second World War, whose image was printed on the Polish 100 złoty bill, received the most votes.

But there was some consolation for the UK. A tree from Wales took second place. The Brimmon Oak from Newtown, Poweys has been looked after by the same family for generations. There are family wedding photographs from 1901 taken beneath its majestic canopy. However, its main claim to fame is the fact that in 2015 when it was threatened with destruction because of a new bypass, a community petition launched to save the tree resulted in the new road being rerouted. Rob McBride, a campaigner for historic trees who is also known as ‘Treehunter’, described the tree as a symbol of hope. He said it shows how we can live with nature, with just tiny adjustments to our thinking and our planning. A poignant comment at a time when major environmental decisions taken for short term gain might have enormous medium to long-term negative effects. A tree of the year competition may not generate the same excitement as The Grand National or the World Cup Final but, without any pun intended, it is a grounding initiative that should be encouraged.

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Cover Story By Robin Mills Flea! is Coming by Margery Hookings Coast & Countryside Events Courses and Workshops News & Views Laterally Speaking by Humphrey Walwyn The Marshwood Arts Awards

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House & Garden Vegetables in April By Fergus Dowding April in the Garden By Russell Jordan Mind Your Language By Cecil Amor Property Round Up By Helen Fisher Pier Fishing By Nick Fisher

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Food & Dining Seared Peppered Beef and Watercress Salad and Horseradish Dressing By Lesley Waters Egg, Purple Sprouting and Garam Masala

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FLEA! is

Coming!

Margery Hookings has had a look at the Ukulele Opera that nearly wasn’t

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ou can always rely on Bridport to come up with something completely different. And this year is no exception.

More than 120 ukulele players, dancers, singers, actors and other performers are taking to the Electric Palace stage for five days in May for the UkuleleOpera, FLEA!, a big and bold, all-singing, all-dancing musical show about a little flea circus.

From small beginnings, this show looks set to be huge, with fantastic stage sets and marvellous costumes in the pipeline and music from start to finish.

It’s a community production, with Hester Goodman from The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain as its star and local people at its heart. It’s been written by composer Andrew Dickson, well known for his work with film maker Mike Leigh and winner of the European Composer Award for his score for the 1988 film High Hopes.

Andrew has been at the forefront of the Community Play movement as part of the Colway Theatre Trust, writing the music for many productions, including The Poor Man’s Friend at Bridport in 1981 and five community plays at Dorchester.

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Former primary school teacher Sally Vaughan, the show’s producer, first came up with the idea four years ago.

“At that time I was doing a lot of ukulele teaching and community group performances,” she recalls. “I started to think it would be great if the instrument were combined with other forms of performance.

“For me, the ukulele is a special tool—not just for making music but for bringing people together. It’s not ‘complicated’ so you can’t hide behind it. It’s just a very honest instrument, I think.”

The word ‘ukulele’ means ‘jumping flea’ in Hawaiian, because the fingers are said to look like little fleas jumping when they pluck the strings. This made Sally think about doing a ‘Dance of the Jumping Flea’.

She approached her friend Andrew Dickson, who liked the idea so much, he decided to write a community play based on it. The ukulele was the first instrument he learned, at the age of 11, and, for him, the circus is by far his favourite form of entertainment.

“When I came to Bridport in 1981, within a month I knew most of the population through working on the community play,” he says. “It was like being part of a big family and this is how FLEA! feels.”

He stresses that, despite its UkuleleOpera title, the show will ‘not be at all grand’.

“The term UkuleleOpera I like because it’s paradoxical—‘opera’ being big and ‘ukulele’ being small. And my main justification for doing it is fun.”

With Andrew Dickson on board, it just so happened that then

Hester Goodman came to live in Bridport. She is a member of the musical ensemble, The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, whose repertoire ranges from Tchaikovsky’s Sugar Plum Fairy and Ennio Morricone’s music for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly to Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights, the theme from Shaft and Anarchy in the UK in the style of Simon and Garfunkel.

Hester is originally from South Devon, but has spent most of her adult life in London until she moved to Bridport three years ago.

“I got to know Sally when I first moved here and she and Andrew were talking about the idea and asked me if I’d be interested,” Hester says.

“I had a look at the script and heard some of the music and I thought it seemed like a really exciting project to be a part of. It involves lots of people from the community and that’s really exciting.

“I started out as an actress originally so it’s really nice to get back to do some theatrical performing so close to home.”

Sally says: “Before long, the whole idea had grown into a story about a flea circus with dancers and acrobats and singing and music and even dogs. It’s an absurd and whacky story with something for everyone—not just ukulele players. The music is original and very beautiful and visually it promises to be vivid and quite a spectacle.”

FLEA!, which runs from 23 – 27 May, will be directed by Niki McCretton from Bridport’s Lyric Theatre in Bridport, who also runs BACstage theatre group at Bridport Arts Centre. The show will fea-

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ture beautiful costumes and a wonderful stage set.

Choreographer Anna Golding was an early contributor and a big influence on the project—Sally says her work with the No Limits dance group was a huge inspiration.

“It’s taken over three years to get the project off the ground because we needed to raise funds but we have now managed to do that and we can finally get the show on the road,” she says. And she paid tribute to Bridport Electric Palace, Arts Council England, West Dorset District Council and Bridport Town Council for their financial support.

“Without their generosity, it wouldn’t be happening,” she says.

“There were times along the way when it was looking impossible that we’d raise enough to fully realise the project.

“On those occasions, we did consider scaling it down and doing a professional version. But that never really felt right to me. I always wanted it to be a production involving the community. So we put it on ice and, in time, the funds were raised and we were able to get back to Plan A.” The production has captured the imagination of local people, who queued up to be a part of it.

Sally says: “The show was originally designed to have about 60 performers. When we auditioned we ended up seeing over 120 ukulele players, dancers, singer actors and other performers. We soon realised that the main thing people want is to sing, and to dance— together. As a result, Andrew very cleverly expanded some of the ele-

ments of the show so we could include more people. We have really tried to include everyone who auditioned.”

The story revolves around the central character, Madame Celine, the devious and rather exotic ringmistress of an extraordinary circus, which begins with human performers who turn out to be not very good. She recruits a circus full of fleas to tempt the punters in and ultimately make the loads of money.

But the flea circus is cruel and exploitative and eventually the fleas rebel and uncover the cheating and manipulation.

“Amidst this thread of the plot is, believe it or not, carefully woven the history of the ukulele, its origins, ethos, simplicity and sound becoming the core musical and theatrical backdrop to the show,” Sally says.

But, like a parable for a modern age, FLEA! is a story about the power of small over huge, of simplicity over celebrity.

“It proves that musicality is in all of us and that the so called X Factor is available to everyone,” Sally says. “Overall, it draws attention to the notion that it is often the little things in life that turn out to be the big things.”

Sally believes FLEA! will resonate with audiences, being original, written for the instrument and very carefully worked on so there is continuous music and song from start to finish—as you would expect in an opera but without the pomp.

“I hope too that they will love the venue—the Electric Palace was always our venue of choice and is suited to it in every way. In fact, it was originally an opera house, before it became a cinema.”

For Sally, UkuleleOpera is an entirely new venture, which involves so many strands of the arts and community.

“I’ve worked in the education and health professions all my life and have always had an appetite for the arts and culture and I suppose this really does bring all that together. I’ve done a lot of volunteering in community organisation too over the years—everything from sport to mental health, and I do tend to be drawn to projects when they are in their infancy—I find that phase particularly exciting—‘getting things off the ground’ so to speak.”

It’s a great feeling to see the idea she had four years ago shaping up in real life.

“It’s also made my life incredibly busy—at least for the time between auditions and performances, there is little else I’ll be doing or thinking about. Watching people ‘get it’ and finding the characters interesting, or funny, or loving the music or enjoying the sight of the set, seeing people get enthusiastic about the prospect of bringing a character to life or enjoying the chance to bring their family along to see the show, the show that they will have helped create.

There are now around 170 people actively involved in performing or helping produce FLEA! “This little thing has become quite a big thing—and that’s very much what the production is about—the appreciation and realisation that we all play a small part in the bigger picture but that every part is important. Whether that’s a part in the show or, indeed, whether that is life in a small community—or globally—there are so many ways to look at it.”

Tickets for FLEA!, 23 - 27 May, are available from www. bridportelectricpalace.org.uk or from Bridport Tourist Information Centre on 01308 424901.

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Knob Throwing Contest on the Move

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he Dorset Knob Throwing festival has got too big for it’s village boots. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of one of Dorset’s more unique festival events the Dorset Knob Throwing Festival is moving locations to Kingston Maurward outside Dorchester.

The quirky idea for the festival came about when the former chairman and his wife Shelley from Cattistock took it upon themselves to organise an event to help raise much needed additional funds in Cattistock. Today the festival raises £1000’s for the clubs, facilities, and organisations in and around Frome Valley.

The first event back in 2008 took place in the centre of the village, which included the local pub’s back garden, then with its ever increasing popularity the festival moved to the local football club’s pitch and today like any successful village event, it has now outgrown the village.

The move to Kingston Maurward College has allowed the Festival to con-

Knobby Styles at the Dorset Knob Throwing Festival

tinue and former Chair Nigel Collins explained why the move out of the village itself is good for everyone. “We believe that Kingston Maurward provides an ideal location” said Nigel. “We share the same ethos of promoting locally produced food, drink and goods and the additional space and improved accessibility they can provide for visitors mean this is an exciting development for this truly unique Dorset event.”

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As well as the main event—the Knob Throwing contest—the festival will continue to have all the family fun games like, splat the knob, knob & spoon race, pin the knob on the giant, knob or no knob and more.

The other main attraction at the festival is food and drink. The festival supports some of the best food, drink and craft producers in the local area. Pride of place amongst the food is of course the Dorset Knob itself. This savoury biscuit has been made by the Moores family since 1880.

Each biscuit is individually moulded by hand and has three separate bakings lasting a total of four hours. The whole process taking eight to ten hours.

So come along to the 10th birthday celebrations on Sunday 30th April 10am – 4pm, throw a knob, celebrate some of the best local food & drink, support the rural economy and remember with every knob you throw, eat, pin, splat, or paint, you will be helping the rural area of Cattistock and surrounding parishes continue to thrive.

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FREE TICKETS CLAIM your free pair of tickets, worth up to £34, to the UK’s leading contemporary home show—Grand Designs Live London, proudly sponsored by Anglian Home Improvements.

This exciting event, based on the hugely popular Channel 4 TV show and presented by design guru, Kevin McCloud, will return for its 12th year from 29 April to 7 May 2017 at ExCeL London.

Grand Designs Live is the ultimate event to provide inspiration, inform and spark the creativity in all design enthusiasts! Set across six sections: Build, Kitchens, Bathrooms, Interiors, Technology and Gardens, the show offers visitors a great day out, hundreds of innovative ideas for the home, interactive workshops, instructive talks and demonstrations. Get access to top brands launching new products, grab yourself a bargain and check out homewares that are not yet available on the high street.

How To Claim: There’s no money to pay, simply visit www. granddesignslive.com and follow the link to book tickets. Enter your details with Marshwood Vale Magazine’s unique reference code MVMFREE, then download a maximum of 2 x adult weekday tickets (standard weekday tickets are valid to use on 2, 3, 4 and 5 May only). Children 15 or under are free, you can obtain free child ticket(s) at the box office on site. Normal weekday adult entry is £12 in advance and £17 on the door. Tickets are subject to availability.

You can buy additional tickets at the advance ticket price of £12, weekday and £15 weekend.

Follow the on-screen instructions.

Grand Designs Live, London is on from 29 April – 7 May 2017 at ExCeL, London from 10am – 6pm on April 29, 30, May 1, 5, 6 and from 10am – 5pm on May 2, 3, 4 and 7. www. granddesignslive.com Terms and Conditions: A maximum of two free adult tickets per household can be claimed. Tickets can only be claimed online and cannot be claimed by any other method. Tickets are available for use on Tuesday 2 – Friday 5 May only. Tickets must be claimed by April 20th. Any claim made after this date will be invalid. Your name will be printed on the ticket. Tickets cannot be exchanged for cash, are not transferable and cannot be duplicated. Once all free tickets have been claimed the code will no longer work.

There are only 20 pairs of tickets available which will be issued on a first-come first-served basis. You must print your own tickets and show them at the entrance to Grand Designs Live on the date you have chosen.

Failure to print your tickets could result in refusal of entry. In the event of any dispute, the show’s organisers, Media 10 Ltd have the right to refuse admission. Call the ticket hotline on 0844 854 1348.

For more information visit Grand Designs Live www.granddesignslive.com

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Coast &Countryside Wednesday 29 March

Mosterton Ramblers morning walk (approx 3hrs) in the West Bay area, Details from Chris on 01460 76405.

East Devon Ramblers moderate 9 mile circular walk from Loders. 10.30am start 01308 898432.

Coffee Morning 10am - 12noon Free Entry. The David Hall, South Petherton. www.thedavidhall.org.uk 01460 240 340 boxoffice@thedavidhall.org.uk.

Thursday 30 March

What’s that bird? 2pm - 4pm, Tower Hide at Seaton Wetlands. Improve your bird ID skills with an experienced guide. For more information: wildeastdevon.co.uk, countryside@ eastdevon.gov.uk, 01395 517557.

Art Group An informal untutored group for artists in all media, from oils to acrylics. All abilities welcome.

Bring your own materials. Thursdays 2pm - 4pm. £7 per session. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Lyme Voices Community Choir 7.30pm - 9.15pm at the Baptist

Church middle hall, Silver St., Lyme Regis, DT7 3NY. Sing for fun. Learn by ear. Everyone welcome. Contact Pete Linnett 01297 445078 or email petelinnett@naturalvoice.net.

Thurs 30 – Fri 31 March

Pronoun presented by DYT Senior Company 7.30pm Corn Exchange, High East Street, DT1 1HF, £7 / 4 Box office: 01305 266926, www. dorchesterarts.org.uk. Isabella and Josh are childhood sweethearts. It should be happy ever after. But it is not that simple, Isabella has now become a boy. This is an engaging and thoughtprovoking story about transition, testosterone and love.

Thurs 30 – Sat 1 April

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime presented

by The Valley Troupers, a play written

by Constance Cox based on a story by Oscar Wilde. Northleigh Village Hall (EX24 6BJ). Tickets, for reserved seats, £9. Available from Pauline on 01404 871516. There will be a bar and a raffle. Plenty of parking.

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Friday 31 March

The Living Tree cancer self-help group. 2pm Tripudio with Elizabeth, 2.15pm Art with Libby. Drop in any time between 2pm - 4.30pm at the Friends Meeting House, 95 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NZ. Tel 01308 427851. www.thelivingtree.org.uk.

Colmers Hill Spring Charity Fashion Show Doors Open 5.30pm.

Symondsbury Tithe Barn, Manor Yard. Graham Barton of Clive Emson Auctioneers, best-known for his appearances on BBC’s ‘Homes Under The Hammer’, is compering the evening. Standard tickets are priced £10 and VIP tickets are £25. Standard tickets are for seat-only whilst VIP tickets include a front row seat, a complimentary glass of Prosecco in the VIP lounge and a goodie bag. There is a licensed bar available. The event showcases British and continental fashion from labels including: Out of Xile, Myrine, Bohemia, Elsewhere, Pour Moi, A Postcard From Brighton, Luella, Darling, One Life, Powder and many others. Tickets online at

www.colmershill.com or www. symondsburyestate.com, or by calling 01308 436517 or direct from Colmers Hill Fashion, Manor Barn, Symondsbury Manor Yard, DT6 6HG. Bridport Green Fortnight: Film Tomorrow (Demain) & discussion Transition Town Bridport invite you to this award winning globetrotting documentary that’s focused on solutions than problems of how to make the word a better, greener more sustainable place. Bridport Town Hall at 7.30pm Doors open 6.30pm. Tickets £4, available on the night. More details www. transitiontownbridport.co.uk.

Lyme Bay Photographic Club Cyril Nimo / Cobb Jubilee AV Trophy; Woodmead Halls, Lyme Regis, DT7 3PG starting at 7.30pm. www. lymebayphotographicclub.org.

Flanders & Swann Recaptured At 8pm. Tickets: £14 (£28 with pre-show supper at 7pm – must be pre-booked). Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Saturday 1 April

Don’t be an April Fool Come along to Axminster Wood Turners and see Adrian Broadhurst from Axminster tools demonstrate the art of Pen Making. Starts at 10am sharp at Woodbury Community Hall just outside Axminster, please be there by 9.45am at the latest. Free tea and coffee available and a charge on the door for non members of £5 which will be refunded if you become a member of the club. Visit the web site (axminsterwoodturners.com) for directions or ring Barrie Golding on 01884841162 for more information.

Big Breakfast at Clapton & Wayford Village Hall 9am – 11.30am. Full English breakfast £6, including fruit juice + unlimited toast & coffee/tea in a friendly setting with a lovely view.

All welcome. Further information from Adrienne 01460 75313 or Sheralyn 01460 74654.

Bridport Green Fortnight: Green Day at Bucky Doo square from 10am - 1pm. www.transitiontownbridport. co.uk.

Axminster Arts Society A workshop on Seascapes in Oils by Roy Lang at All Saints Village Hall 10am – 4pm.

Booking via www.axminsterartsociety. uk.

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Coast &Countryside Lyme History Walks 11am from the Marine Theatre, this and every Wed and Sat in April. www.lymehistorywalks.com 01297443140.

Bridport and District Gardening Club Spring Show United Church Hall, East Street, Bridport. www. bridportgardeningclub.co.uk or Ann Brown on 01308 424055. The show opens at 12noon and entry is free. Teas and light lunches are available and there will be a plant stall.

Walk and Lunch Comrades Hall, Broadwindsor. Choice of long or short walk. Walks start from 10.30am, lunch served from 12.30pm. Booking advisable.

In aid of the Blackdown, Broadwindsor and Burstock churches. For more information and to book your lunch Tel Philip 01460 30517/30661.

Gluten Free Food Fair 12noon - 3pm at the Dorchester Corn Exchange on High East Street, Dorchester. Come and find out more about gluten free diet and coeliac disease for just £1 admission.

Chard Camera Club End of year presentation evening in the Baptist Church Hall, Holyrood Street at 7.30pm.

Quiz Night Crewkerne and District Twinning Association at W I Hall in Misterton. Teams of 4 £6 per person with a ploughmans supper. Bring your own drinks glasses will be provided. Coffee/ Tea is available to purchase. Please book for catering purposes on 01460 75025 / 74808 / 77233.

Dvorak Dorset Sinfonia Cello Concerto in B Minor with Sally Flann, Tchaikovsky 5th Symphony. St Mary’s Church, Dorchester, 7.30pm. Tickets £10, children free available on the door or near the time in advance from Dorchester Tourist Information Centre www.dorsetsinfonia. co.uk.

Geoff Achison and The UK Souldiggers Evershot Hall, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 0JY, 8pm. £10 Ticket info: 01935 891393.

Steve Tilston & Jez Lowe at 8pm.

Tickets: £16 Full. £15 Concessions. The David Hall, Roundwell Street, South Petherton, TA13 5AA. www.thedavidhall. org.uk 01460 240 340 or boxoffice@ thedavidhall.org.uk.

No Finer Life by Graham Harvey 7.30pm Adult £10, Student/U16 £8. The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LZ www.beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Live Cuban music with “Soneando” at The Gateway, Seaton. 8pm with Salsa classes for beginners and improvers followed at 9pm with Soneando performing their Bueno Vista style Cuban and Hot Salsa, music and dancing through

to midnight. Licensed Bar. Doors open 7.45. Tickets £13 in advance or £16 on the door, available from The Gateway Box Office 01297 625699, open Mon-Fri 10am – 4pm, Sat 10am – 1pm. (£1 charge for card payment).

Jazz in the Village Hall Hinton St George. Mike Denham, well-known ragtime and boogie woogie master with jazz trumpeter Andy Dickens, in an evening evoking Mardi Gras in New Orleans and New York swing. Tickets £12 from OUR Shop, Dorothy’s Tea Room hintonstgeorgefestival@gmail.com or call the box office 07500532543.

Sat 1 – Sun 23 April

Springtime trail, Seaton Wetlands Pick up a map from the Lookout and follow the trail exploring the Wetlands. Complete the trail to receive a prize! No booking required, £2 per trail, Seaton Wetlands, Colyford Road, EX12 2SP wildeastdevon. co.uk, 01395 517557, countryside@ eastdevon.gov.uk.

Sunday 2 April

East Devon Ramblers moderate 9.5 mile circular walk from Langdon Hill.

10.30am start and bring picnic. Dogs on short leads. 01297 552313.

Big breakfast Offwell Village Hall, Nr. Honiton, full breakfast and smaller breakfast 9.30am – 12noon, also bric a brac stalls around the room, proceeds to ORG&VHC for New Play Ground Project.

Axminster Chamber Choir Concert 3pm Tomás Luis de Victoria - Tenebrae Responsories & music for Lent and Holy Week by Byrd, Tallis and Morley.

St Peter’s Church Dalwood EX13 7EQ. Tickets £10 to include tea at the door.

Proceeds to the church roof fund www. axminsterchamberchoir.com.

Bridport Chamber Orchestra Concert and teas, St Swithun’s Church, Bridport, 3pm. Music to include the Telemann Viola Concerto, soloist Alexandra Ennis, and pieces by Elgar, Rossini and Dvorak.

Tickets £10 from the Bridport Music Centre and on the door. Children and students free. Further information 01935 824786.

Sidholme Music Room 3pm - 4.45pm.

The Glass Mountain A special showing of the Classic British Black & White Film

by Michael Edgecumbe https://www. hugofox.com/community/friends-ofsidholme-music-room-12917/about-us/.

Diary Of A Hounslow Girl 8pm Corn Exchange, High East Street, DT1 1HF, £12/10 Box office: 01305 266926, www. dorchesterarts.org.uk.

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Watkins & Swarbrick Band Concert Upwey Old School Hall, Church Street, Upwey, Weymouth DT3 5QE. 8pm (doors and bar 7.30pm) Pay what you like at the end of the show, but book seats in advance. Seat reservations essential from the box office 01305 837299.

Monday 3 April

Lym Valley Croquet Club taster session at 10am. A chance to try your hand at this fascinating game. Free session, all equipment provided. Call David BrookeSmith on 07909 111512 to chat and arrange. Our club is beside the Uplyme Cricket Ground.

Axminster Carnival Bingo Axminster Guildhall, doors open 7pm eyes down 8pm.

Jazz Jam Session Do you play an instrument? Do you enjoy jazz and want to try improvising around jazz standards and other well-known tunes? Come along to this informal group – you can play, or just sit and listen. 8pm. £2 to take part.

Bar available. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster.

TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www. themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Scottish Dancing in Chardstock Evening of Social Dancing with instruction with a break for tea and coffee. 7.30pm - 10pm at the Village Hall. No partner required. Cost £1.50.

Contact David on 01460 65981; Ann on 01308 422927; or Andrew on 01297 33461, or just come along. www. chardscottishdancing.org.uk.

Clairvoyance Monday Evenings Start 8pm Admission £3.50 - Under16’s Free enquiries@honitonspiritgroup.co.uk 01404 548420. Masonic Hall, Northcote Lane, Honiton EX14 1NF. Jan Harris from Bristol Tonight £4.

International medium Jan feels it is an extremely important part of her demonstrations to prove the continuation and existence of life after death. Jan saw spirits as a child but ignored this ability until recovering from cancer aged 40 when she felt she had been given a second chance to explore her gift. Rest of programme on www.honitonspiritgroup. co.uk.

Bridport Folk Dance Club 7.30pm 9.30pm in the WI Hall, North Street, Bridport. Enjoy folk dancing mainly in the English tradition from Playford-style to modern-day compositions at Bridport’s long-established weekly club, with club callers and recorded music and frequently on last Mondays of the month live music with guest callers. No partner or previous experience required. Membership

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Coast &Countryside available giving admission at £2.50, otherwise £3. Contact Jane on 01308 898 002 or Monty on 01308 423 442. (Also on 17th, and with live music on 24th).

Easter Bingo at Misterton Village Hall doors open 6.30pm, eyes down 7.30pm.

Usual good prizes, light refreshments, raffle, etc. Plenty of free parking. Books still only £1 for book of 10 games.

Raising funds for St Leonard’s Church, Misterton. Enq. 01460 74808.

Tuesday 4 April

West Dorset Ramblers 8.5 mile Beaminster, Melplash, Oxbridge and Netherbury walk. 10am start. Bring picnic. No dogs. All welcome. Please call 01308 863955.

Axminster & District Probus Club for retired and semi-retired business and professional men meets at 10am for 10.30am in a private room at the A35 Pit Stop, Gammons Hill, Kilmington for a talk by A. Sprague on ‘Benefit Claims and Funding’ and an optional lunch.

Potential members and guests are very welcome. For further details ring 01460 220528.

The Artist’s Garden American Impressionism 7.30pm Tickets: £10, Bridport Arts Centre, DT6 3NR 01308 424204 www.bridport-arts. com. A new film based on the hugely popular exhibition ‘The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement’ from the Florence Griswold Museum in Connecticut, widely considered a home of American impressionism.

Wednesday 5 April

Axminster & Seaton Parkinson’s Support Group meets on the first Wednesday of the month from 10.30pm -12noon at the Scott Rowe Centre in Axminster Hospital. Come along to meet others with Parkinson’s and their carers over a cup of coffee/ tea. £1.50 per session. Talks by medical professionals, short talks by members, quick quizzes etc. Group is in its infancy and is keen to consider suggestions for activities at future meetings. Everyone welcome. For further information contact local volunteer Pauline Beviss on 01297 33903.

Lyme History Walks 11am from the Marine Theatre, this and every Wed and Sat in April. Discover the unique and colourful history of Lyme Regis. Hear stories of amazing people and adventures on land and sea. Experienced Tour Guide Chris Lovejoy, supporting Lyme Regis Museum Mary Anning extension. Lasts

1+1/2 hours. Cost: £8 children half www. lymehistorywalks.com 01297443140.

Colyton, Colyford & District Memory Café 2pm - 4pm in St John Hall, King St, Colyton. Offering a time of friendship and support to those experiencing memory problems, enhanced with social activities and refreshments. Ring Sue on 01297 599477 for more information.

Indoor Short Mat Bowls Every Wednesday 7.30pm – 9.45pm. Woodmead Hall, Lyme Regis, Dorset. Tea, biscuits half time. Cost £1.60. More information 01297 22488, lift available.

Name Calling in Elizabethan Devon Dr Todd Gray MBE used Exeter’s church court papers, one of the richest collections in Devon, to research the insults hurled in Devon from 1540 to 1640.

Words and terms were used to suggest sexual misbehaviour, low intelligence, drunkenness and physical differences!

Axminster Historical Society, 7.30pm The Bradshaw Meeting Room, Axminster Heritage Centre, Silver Street, Axminster, EX13 5AH All welcome.

Folk Dancing in Honiton at Gittisham Folk Dance Club’s regular ‘first Wednesday’ dance night, 8pm - 10.15pm, in the Mackarness Hall, High Street, EX14 1PG. All levels of experience welcome and beginners especially; no partner required. With live music and light refreshments. £3. See website: https://gittishamfolkdanceclub. org Call 01404 813 129 or email secretarygittishamfolkdance@gmail.com for more information.

Thursday 6 April

Axminster Country Market 8.30am - 12noon, Masonic Hall, South St. Home-made & homegrown cakes, savouries, preserves, seasonal fruit & vegetables, flowers, eggs, plants, crafts and cards. Orders taken, meet the makers!

Refreshments, free entry.

Bird watching for children Tower Hide at Seaton Wetlands 10am - 12noon.

Borrow binoculars and discover the birds along the Axe estuary with an experienced volunteer guide who will help you to spot different birds, and let you use an amazing telescope for a really close view. Booking required, suggested donation £2 per child, Tower Hide at Seaton Wetlands, Colyford Road, EX12 2SP wildeastdevon.co.uk, 01395 517557, countryside@eastdevon.gov.uk.

Tatworth Flower Club Floral Demonstration titled” Walk In the Woods” by Kathryn Delve we can be sure of a very enjoyable afternoon.

Homemade cakes Visitors welcome entry

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£5 information Julie Kettle 01297 33924 at Memorial hall TA20 2QA 1.30pm for 2pm.

Art Group An informal untutored group for artists in all media, from oils to acrylics. All abilities welcome. Bring your own materials. Thursdays 2pm - 4pm. £7 per session. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster.

TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www. themeetinghouse.org.uk.

WDHS Retirement Fellowship The West Dorset Health Service Retirement Fellowship meets at 2pm in the Boys Brigade Hall, Sawmills Lane, Dorchester DT1 2RZ when Paul Atterburywill give us a talk entitled “Behind the Scenes at the Antiques Roadshow”. Contact 01305 261676 or 785546 for further information.

Walking discovery of Colyton Every Thursday until 28 September. Walks start from the car park in Dolphin Street at 2pm. £3 per person, U16 free 01297 552514 / 01297 33406.

The Friends of Lyme Regis Museum Talk 2.30pm Woodmead Hall, Lyme Regis. “Ian Fleming’s Inspirational Brother” – the man behind Britain’s most famous fictional spy. Presentation

by David Tucker, Director, Lyme Regis Philpot Museum. A treat for James Bond aficionados. Admission £2 for members of the Museum Friends, £3 for visitors, including refreshments. For further information contact David Cox, 01297 443156. NB Talk is preceded by The Friends AGM. Chard Camera Club The start of the new photography year for the club begins at 7.30pm in the Baptist church hall, Holyrood Street. Members will be renewing their memberships, reviewing the programme for the coming year and holding a production workshop in order to refresh their skills. Any further information can be obtained via www. chardcameraclub.org.uk or by contacting the acting members secretary Mr Malcolm Brocklehurst on 01460 68616.

Bridport Camera Club in association with Bridport Arts Centre: Screening of the visually stunning, thought provoking film The Salt of the Earth, superbly directed by Wim Wenders, following the life and photography of Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado. 7.30pm at Bridport Arts Centre. Trailer, further information and tickets available from Bridport Arts Centre: https://www. bridport-arts.com or phone: 01308 427183.

Richard Digance 8pm Corn Exchange, High East Street, DT1 1HF, £12/10 Box office: 01305 266926, www.

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Coast &Countryside dorchesterarts.org.uk. Many people sing, play guitar and tell stories but not many have supported Steve Martin and Robin Williams, or played a guitar duet with Brian May of Queen. Richard is a rare performer in that he is respected by comedians for his original material and by musicians for being an accomplished performer and guitarist.

NT Live: Twelfth Night Bridport Electric Palace and The Gateway (see below).

Doors 6pm / starts 7pm, £11 (£10.50 + 50p bf) adv / £12 door. Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a new twist on Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken identity.

A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind of mistaken identity and unrequited love.

The Gateway, Seaton. Doors open 6.30pm. Tickets £12.50 in advance (£15 on day) from The Gateway Box Office 01297 625699, open Mon-Fri 10am – 4pm, Sat 10am – 1pm. (£1 charge for card payment).

Friday 7 April

Lym Valley Croquet Club taster session at 10am. A chance to try your hand at this fascinating game. Free session, all equipment provided. Call David BrookeSmith on 07909 111512 to chat and arrange. Our club is beside the Uplyme Cricket Ground.

West Dorset Ramblers 9 mile Kilmington, Dalwood and River Yarty walk. 10am start. Bring picnic. No dogs.

All welcome. Please call 01297 631130.

Family adventure day Liverton Copse, Exmouth 10am to 3pm. A fun, hands-on day with the Education ranger at Liverton Copse. An opportunity for families to work and play together and learn outdoor skills. Den building, fire lighting, cooking, crafts and more. Booking required, £12 per child (all children must be accompanied, aimed at 7-14 years, min. age 5), Liverton Copse, Exmouth (SY 025822) wildeastdevon.co.uk, 01395 517557, countryside@eastdevon.gov.uk.

Bartholomew LaFollette 11am Bridport Arts Centre Tickets: £10/£7 DT6 3NR, 01308 424204 www.bridport-arts.com.

Bartholomew has been identified as ‘the most exciting young classical talent in Britain’ after winning the Arts Club’s and Decca Records’ inaugural Classical Music Award in June 2013.

Food on Friday at Clapton & Wayford Village hall 12noon. Two course hot lunch, roll & butter + unlimited tea/ coffee.; £4.50. Open to all ages; very friendly atmosphere, newcomers really

welcomed, but please book places in advance by phoning June 01460 77057 or Jackie 01460 72324, who will also provide more information if required.

The Living Tree, cancer self-help group.

2pm - 4.30pm Creative writing workshop with acclaimed author/poet Rosie Jackson. http://www.rosiejackson.org.uk/.

Drop in any time between 2pm - 4.30pm at the Friends Meeting House, 95 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NZ. Tel 01308 427851. www.thelivingtree.org.uk.

Country Dancing every Friday afternoon 2pm – 4pm. Masonic Hall, South Street, Axminster. Tea, biscuits half time. Cost £2, more information 01297 34326.

Yeovil Archaeological and Local History Society have an interesting talk by Mary Siraut about ‘Writing the Victoria County History for Somerset’, at 7.30pm at the Holy Trinity Church & Community Centre, Lysander Road, Yeovil, BA20 2BU. Visitors are welcome, £2.

Bridport Green Fortnight: Film: ‘Chasing Ice’ plus Q&A explore one man’s mission to change history by gathering indisputable evidence of climate change, followed by Q&A by local representatives. Bridport Town Hall at 7.30pm. Tickets available from Bridport Tourist Information, South Street or on the night if still available Tickets £5 More details www.transitiontownbridport.co.uk.

Chard History Group Lt.General Sir Barney White-Spunner a former commander of the British Field Army talks about his book Of Living Valour: The Story of the Soldiers of Waterloo.

A gripping account of extensive letters and diaries of ordinary soldiers who took part. At Manor Court Primary, opposite Sainsburys. Refreshment available. New members and guests welcome. Members £2 Guests £3. Free School Yard parking.

For information 01460 66165.

Ebeneza Presents Ian Constantinides Memorial Lecture7 Doors open at 7pm for 7.30pm start. At The Ebenezer, in The Seed Factory, Aller, Somerset TA10 0QN. RSVP, ebenezer@ebenezerpresents. com. Please Note: Bookings by email, not by phone, so please do not call bookings unless you really need to talk to the organisers on the day of the talk, ie to make a late cancellation or booking.

Ebenezer’s phone number: 07879 206 543.

The Racing Office An evening’s entertainment hearing about the varied work of the secretary to a top National Hunt trainer. In aid of Forde Abbey carriage driving branch of the Riding for the Disabled. Thorncombe Village Hall 7pm for 7.30. Tickets £7 to include a

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glass of wine. More details 01460 30312.

Concerts in the West presents Bartholomew LaFollette Award-winning young cellist presents an evening of works by Bach, Schubert, Britten and Brahms. www.concertsinthewest.org. At 8pm. Tickets: £15 (£29 with pre-show supper at 7pm – must be pre-booked).

Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org. uk.

Jazz Café: Elaine Davies & Philip Clouts 8pm Tickets: £10 Bridport Arts Centre DT6 3NR 01308 424204 www. bridport-arts.com. Vocalist Elaine Davies also plays saxophone, flute and clarinet and will perform a variety of well-loved jazz from the Great American Songbook, with Philip Clouts at the piano.

Sidford Canasta Group meets at Sidford Methodist Church, EX10 9RL every Friday at 7.30pm; free parking is available behind Spar. Further details from 01395 579856.

Stompin’ Dave at 8pm. Dorset-based Stompin’ Dave is a vocalist, multiinstrumentalist and dancer. He sings and plays guitar, banjo, fiddle, harmonica, piano and tap dances in an OldTime, flat-footing style, often whilst simultaneously playing and singing.

Tickets: £10 Advance. £12 on the door.

The David Hall, Roundwell Street, South Petherton, TA13 5AA. www.thedavidhall. org.uk 01460 240 340 or boxoffice@ thedavidhall.org.uk.

Concert by the Farey Family A varied programme of folk, gospel and country music at St Michael and All Angels Church, Wayford 7.30pm. Admission £8 including refreshments. All proceeds in aid of church funds. Tickets/information call 01460 78020/72769.

Sound of The Sirens 8pm (doors 7pm) £10 adv/£12 on door Support: Victoria Pearce. Exeter-based Abbe Martin & Hannah Wood, know how to rock a stage and make you believe in every word they sing. Each original song is a responsive rollercoaster, stealing your attention, creating a furious arms in the air festivalvibe that sticks in your head for days or woven with just enough haunting melancholy to silence an audience.

Experience them live. The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LZ www. beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Dorset Wildlife Trust – West Dorset Group ‘An introduction to the flora and fauna of Islay’ - an illustrated talk by Becky Williamson, keen photographer, 10 year resident of Islay and member of Dorset Wildlife Trust; preceded by a brief

group AGM. 7.30 pm, Bridport United Church Hall, East Street, DT6 3LJ. Non-members welcome, £2, (£3 nonmembers) inc. refreshments. Telephone 01308 423442 for more information.

Shady ladies and Sun Seekers by Mary Benger of Burrow Farm Gardens.

Mary Benger advises on the best plants to choose for those difficult shady spots and the areas of full sun. Kilmington Garden Club, Kilmington village hall, Whitford Road Kilmington EX13 7RF 7.30pm Non members welcome £2.

Saturday 8 April

South Somerset Ramblers 10am 5.5 miles Whitelackington Village Hall GR380156 to Stocklinch and Barrington return via Dillington Park Marion and Derek 01460 571093.

The Monmouth Rebellion Forde Abbey and Gardens 10am - 4pm. Join the Taunton Garrison as they prepare themselves for battle with weaponry demonstrations, drill display and musket firing. Normal admission rates apply. Forde Abbey, Chard, Somerset TA20 4LU (t) 01460 220231 www. fordeabbey.co.uk.

South Petherton Methodist Church Spring Sale 10am - 12noon. Entry is free, wide range of well-stocked stalls.

Refreshments served.

Healing Dreams - A Pilgrimage led

by Laurie Slade as event 2 of 4 on ‘Healing and Spirituality’ at ‘A Space for Living Spirituality’ Bridport Quaker Meeting House 10am – 4pm. Donation £5 - £30. Bringand-share lunch. For information and booking, email Janet Lake on iona. lake@aol.co.uk.

South Somerset Monochrome Photographers’ Group Inaugural meeting 10am - 12noon at The Monks Yard, Horton Cross, Ilminster TA19 9PT. A newly established informal group of photographers who share an interest in the art and craft of digital and traditional black & white photography, no competitions or annual membership fees. Come along and listen to a short talk about black and white photography, show some of your monochrome images (prints only) and share your knowledge and techniques. All levels of experience welcome. £3 including refreshments. For more information southsomersetmonogroup@gmail.com or http://southsomersetmono.wixsite. com/group.

What’s that bird? Tower Hide at Seaton Wetlands 11am - 1pm. Hone

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Coast &Countryside your bird ID with an experienced volunteer guide who will help you identify the birds at the wetlands.

Telescopes and binoculars available to borrow. No booking required, free, Tower Hide at Seaton Wetlands, Colyford Road, EX12 2SP wildeastdevon.co.uk, 01395 517557, countryside@eastdevon.gov.uk.

Beer Wurlitzer Theatre Organ Show with Andrew Nix at the Congregational Church, Fore Street, Beer, 2pm, admittance £7 on the door, children free, includes interval refreshments. Everyone welcome, for further info visit www. beerwurlitzer.org.uk or phone 01297 24892.

Egyptian Society Taunton “Senenmut’s Ceiling” by Dr. Bernadette Brady, University of Wales. The Friends Meeting House, Bath Place, Taunton.

2pm start. £7.50 non-members http:// egyptiansoctaunton.wixsite.com/home.

Reiki share at Weycroft Bridge 2pm - 4pm. An opportunity to share and practise Reiki in a relaxed and healing environment near to the river. Even if you have not yet experienced Reiki you are welcome to come along and

find out more about this simple, gentle yet powerful healing system. A Reiki attunement meditation is available to all Reiki practitioners. Please bring along your certificate. Other dates are available.

Please contact Margaret or Allan on 01297 32095 or mobile 07951402717.

Rob Rouse 8pm, Tickets: £14/£12 Bridport Arts Centre DT6 3NR 01308 424204 www.bridport-arts.com.

He’s married, has two kids, a dog and an eye-watering mortgage. Rob takes this trademark comedic storytelling to a career high in this full length show.

Ninebarrow 8pm Corn Exchange, High East Street, DT1 1HF, £12/10 Box office: 01305 266926, www.dorchesterarts. org.uk. Ninebarrow are building a huge reputation for their innovative and captivating take on the folk tradition. Duo Jon Whitley and Jay LaBouchardiere combine breathtaking vocal harmonies and melodies with songs that are rooted in the landscape and history of the British Isles.

Swing into Spring Concert with Weymouth Choral Society and The Quangle Wangle Choir 7.30pm, All Saints’ School. A varied and lively

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programme is on offer, with very special guests The Quangle Wangle Choir (director Juliet Harwood), a community group much famed for their enthusiastic and delightful performances. The evening will culminate in a selection of songs reflecting the beauty and energy of the coast and ocean, so appropriate for this seaside town. Tickets, priced £10.

Sat 8 – Sun 23 April

Great Dinosaur Egg Hunt at Easter Dinosaur Museum, Icen Way, Dorchester DT1 1EW 10am – 5pm. www.thedinosaurmuseum.com. Explore the museum to seek out the answers to the dinosaur mystery and win a Dino Medal in Britain’s original and award winning attraction - brilliant fun for kids. See website for details.

Sunday 9 April

Spring Charity Plant Sale at Mapperton 10am - 4pm. Admission £3 to Plant Sale. Children Free. House and Gardens are extra. Over 30 stalls of specialist nurseries and garden-related gifts from all over the South and West of England. Becky Cotterill becky@

gardenbreaks.com.

Made in Dorset A Celebration of all things made grown or created in Dorset.

At Cerne Abbas Village Hall, Cerne Abbas DT2 7GY. 10.30am – 3pm. Come and enjoy an array of works and produce from across Dorset in beautiful Cerne Abbas. Stalls from local producers and artisans, a curated collection of works from a range of Dorset artists and makers as well as creative clay and felting workshops. Entrance £3 to include tea or coffee with biscuits. Free entry for children. Light lunches raffle and cake stall. All proceeds to Alcohol Education Trust kate@alcoholeducationtrust.org www.alcoholeducationtrust.org.

Bolshoi Live: A Hero Of Our Time Bridport Electric Palace, Doors 3pm / starts 4pm, £11 (£10.50 + 50p bf) adv / £12 door. Pechorin, a young officer, embarks on a journey across the majestic mountains of the Caucasus, on a path set by his passionate encounters.

Disillusioned and careless, he inflicts pain upon himself and the women around him.

A Hero of our Time from the Bolshoi Ballet at The Gateway, Seaton. Pechorin

Licensed Bar and Refreshments. Doors open 3.30pm. Tickets £15 (£17.50 on day) from The Gateway Box Office 01297 625699, open Mon-Fri 10am – 4pm, Sat 10am – 1pm. (£1 charge for card payment).

Monday 10 April

Lym Valley Croquet Club taster session at 10am. A chance to try your hand at this fascinating game. Free session, all equipment provided. Call David BrookeSmith on 07909 111512 to chat and arrange. Our club is beside the Uplyme Cricket Ground.

The Probus Club of Yeovil E Debenham, Baronet of Bladen. The Yeovil Court Hotel at 12noon for social interaction, a healthy luncheon and an interesting talk.

New members are always made very welcome. Please contact Geoff Byham, Secretary, 01935 881422 or geoff@ byhamgm.plus.com.

Chard, Ilminster & District U3A invites anyone who has retired from full employment to come along to Chard Guildhall at 2pm for a cup of tea/coffee and biscuits and listen to a talk about The

Mary Rose with Peter Lansdown.

Musbury Garden Club 7.30pm at Musbury Village Hall. Elizabeth Holman will give an illustrated talk about how to renovate a tired garden. Refreshments from 7pm. All welcome. £2.50 nonmembers.

Biodanza @ Othona Express, Connect, Relax! Dance like no one’s watching, no steps to learn, no partner needed, uplifting world music and holistic health benefits.

For all ages from 19 to 90. 7.15pm for 7.30pm. Join in with teacher Julia HopeBrightwell (Jewell). Cost £8 (Cons avail).

Othona Community, Coast Road, Burton Bradstock DT6 4RN. Contact Robin 01308 897 130 / biodanza-bridport.co.uk.

Radipole & Southill Horticultural Society (Weymouth) Southill Community Centre at 7.30pm. The invited speaker is Neil Lucas from Knoll Gardens (Wimborne) and he will presenting on the subject of “More WOW and Less Work!”. Refreshments will be available. Everyone is welcome 01305 788939.

Scottish Dancing in Chardstock Evening of Social Dancing with

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Coast &Countryside instruction with a break for tea and coffee. 7.30pm - 10pm at the Village Hall. No partner required. Cost £1.50.

Contact David on 01460 65981; Ann on 01308 422927; or Andrew on 01297 33461, or just come along. www. chardscottishdancing.org.uk.

Mon 10 – Tue 11 April

Go Wild! Holiday Club. Nature Connection, Wild Crafts and Campfire Cooking Sarah Churchill & Helen O Hara host two days of activities set inside the glorious setting of The Discovery Area at Thorner’s School in Litton Cheney DT2 9AU. Discover the delights of this two-acre site, nestled within the beautiful Bride Valley. 10am – 3pm, Ages 5 – 12, £22 per child -12 spaces per day Sibling discount £20, two day bookings are £20 per day per child. To book a place, contact Sarah Churchill: 01308 897 564. sarahchurchill@phonecoop.coop.

Tuesday 11 April

Uplyme & Lyme Regis Horticultural Society Outing Compton Acres, Poole.

Coach leaves Uplyme VH at 9.15am.

Cost £16 Please ring Annie Kobus 01297 443346 to book. Visitors are welcome for an extra charge of £3.

Wildlife safari Fire Beacon Hill 10am - 12noon. Bugs, butterflies, birds, dragonflies and possibly even some snakes. Put on your best safari gear and come for a ramble with our arranger to explore this heathland site and learn all about the creatures who call it home.

Bring binoculars and a camera. Booking required, free, Fire Beacon Hill, exact location given on booking. wildeastdevon. co.uk, 01395 517557, countryside@ eastdevon.gov.uk.

Colyton & Colyford Probus Club meets at the Swallows Eaves Hotel, Colyford at 10am for coffee after which Clive Baker will give a talk ‘Novi Survat: Devon based Charity in Support of Disabled Children in Goa’. New members welcome: David Evans: 01297 553007.

Tea Dance at St Francis EX10 9XH 01395 579856.

Ile Valley Flower Club at Broadway Village Hall. Flower Arranging Demonstartion presented by Susan Griffiths from Plymouth Titled “Madam Du Paris”. Starts 7.30pm visitors and new members welcome.

Broadwindsor Jammers Guitar Club Meet every 2nd Tuesday in the month at the Comrades Hall in Broadwindsor, 2pm - 5pm. Playing popular songs from the 40’s - 70’s using song sheets with chords.

All levels of ability are most welcome.

For further information contact Geoff Kerr on 01308 867221.

Chideock in the 1840s An illustrated talk by Bruce Upton from the Bridport Local History Centre, at Chideock Village Hall, 7.15pm for 7.30pm start. Entrance for visitors £4 - Members free. Raffle and Refreshments available. A Chideock Society event.

Tue 11 – Fri 14 April

Award Winning Bridport Musical Theatre Company 7.30pm Tickets: £12/ No Concessions Bridport Arts Centre DT6 3NR 01308 424204 www.bridportarts.com.

Wednesday 12 April

West Dorset Ramblers 7 mile Chideock, Den Hay and Symondsbury walk. 10am start. Bring picnic. No dogs. All welcome.

Please call 01297 489567.

Mosterton Ramblers morning walk (approx 3hrs) in the Blackdown area, followed by lunch tba. Meet at Orchard Way 9.30am, transport available. Details from Chris on 01460 76405.

Seaton and District Probus Club Val Sutherland ‘A Letter from the Past’. 10am at Seaton Methodist Church, small hall.

The club is open to retired and semiretired men over 55. New members/ prospective members welcome. Please contact Stephen Lord on 01297 21872 for more information.

Easter crafts and challenges Cranbrook 10am - 12noon. Easter family fun in the country park! Make spring and Easter themed crafts and take part in fun challenges. No dogs. Weather permitting.

Children must be accompanied. No booking required, £3 per child, Cranbrook Country Park by standing dead trees, on Post Coach Way. wildeastdevon.co.uk, 01395 517557, countryside@eastdevon. gov.uk.

Vietnam and the Far East An experienced traveller, photographer and public speaker, Christopher Legrand will examine some of the history, culture and scenery of Vietnam, a rapidly developing country. He will describe meeting with Buddhist nuns, and visiting Thailand and Indonesia as well as Vietnam.

His presentation culminates in a close encounter with a Komodo Dragon. Coffee served from 10am - 10.45am followed by talk at 11am – 12noon. Woodmead Halls, Hill Road, Lyme Regis DT7 3PG. Organised by U3A Heritage Coast Lyme Regis – free for members, non-members £2 donation suggested. To join U3A, see website www.lymeregisu3a.org or telephone 01297 444566.

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Axe Valley Centre, National Trust talk by Sam Bridgewater on East Devon Pebbled Heaths and the Otter Valley.

Colyford Memorial Hall, 2.30pm.

Non-members welcome admission £2 including tea/coffee.

Coffee Concert 10.30am – 12noon.

Lower your Blood Pressure. Words and music from Sue Gunn-Johnson and Peter Fung. Proceeds shared with the Friends of Sidmouth Town Band. Sidholme Music Room, Elysian Fields, Sidmouth, EX10 8UJ. An Elephant In The Garden by Michael Morpurgo, Children’s Theatre – Corn Exchange 2.30pm and 7pm (doors open 1/2 hour before performances) £11 / £9 members and concessions.

Family Quiz at the Pilot Boat Inn, Lyme Regis at 5pm. Organised by The Friends of Lyme Regis Museum for adults & children, with activities for children to earn Bonus Points for their team. For further information contact Angela Main on 01297 442116.

Bridport Camera Club Open themed competition 5 Miles from Home judged by Matthew Austin. 7.30pm Chancery House, Bridport, DT6 3JT. New members are always welcome. For further information please phone the Club Secretary on 01308 482658.

The Beehive Acoustic Café 8pm 10.30pm Free. This mostly acoustic session of folk, blues and roots is hosted

by Terry Stacey. Everyone is welcome to perform or have a drink and listen to some very talented local musicians. The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LZ www.beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Thursday 13 April

Axminster Country Market 8.30am - 12noon, Masonic Hall, South St. Home-made & homegrown cakes, savouries, preserves, seasonal fruit & vegetables, flowers, eggs, plants, crafts and cards. Orders taken, meet the makers!

Refreshments, free entry.

Easter crafts and challenges Reed Base at Seaton Wetlands 10am - 1pm. Easter family fun at Seaton Wetlands. Make spring and Easter themed crafts and take part in fun challenges. No booking required, £3 per child, Reed Base at Seaton Wetlands, Colyford Road, EX12 2SP wildeastdevon.co.uk, 01395 517557, countryside@eastdevon.gov.uk.

South Somerset Ramblers 10.30am 4.6 miles Mosterton – Admiral Hood GR 457054. Please park at rear of CP. Richard and Wendy 01935 862340.

Dorchester and District Probus Club

for retired and semi-retired business and professional men meets at 12noon for 12.30pm lunch and talk at the Gamekeeper, North St., Charminster.

Potential members are very welcome.

For further details contact Bill Lowes on 01305 261417 or email williamlowes167@btinternet.com.

Art Group An informal untutored group for artists in all media, from oils to acrylics. All abilities welcome.

Bring your own materials. Thursdays 2pm - 4pm. £7 per session. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Seavington Gardening Club 7.30pm in the Millennium Hall. A talk by Myra Cox - “Flower Arranging for Village Shows”. Flower arranging materials will be on sale. Visitors welcome - £2 payable at the door. Refreshments available plus a raffle. For more information please contact Karen Day tel. 01460 249728.

Sherborne and District Gardeners’ Association Spring Show in Main Hall, 7.30pm. Digby Hall, Hound Street, Sherborne. £2 for visitors.

Plant Heritage Dorset Rose gardens of Mottisfont Abbey, Speaker Jonny Norton, Head gardener of NT Mottisfont. 7pm for 7.30pm, Conference Room, Kingston Maurward College, Dorchester, DT2 8PY www.nccpg.com. Visitors welcome £2.50, students £1 at the door.

Chard Royal Naval Association The association will be holding a skittles

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LOOKING TO INCLUDE AN EVENT? Charity and fund-raising entries in Coast & Countryside Events are free of charge. Please check times with organisers or venues.

Email: info@marshwoodvale.com before the 10th of the month.

and pasty night at the Happy Return, East Street at 7pm for 7.30pm.

Thorncombe Gardening Club talk “Bulbs through the year”, presented by Chris Ireland-Jones from Avon Bulbs.

7.30pm Thorncombe Village hall. Non Members welcome - entry £4 on the door.

Automotive Art presented by The YCAA. The Johnson Studio, in The Octagon Theatre at 7.30pm. Tickets from Box office - £6. With Mike Penn, the founding curator and trustee of Haynes International Motor Museum, showcases incredible car-related art, See art and design in engineering and its media impact. Artists and car enthusiasts will enthuse.

Friday 14 April

West Dorset Ramblers 8.5 mile Abbotsbury, Langton Herring and Portesham walk. 10am start. Bring picnic.

No dogs. All welcome. Please call 01300 320168.

Readers’ Group Spend an afternoon once a month with like-minded people, a good cup of tea or coffee and a chat about the latest ‘read’. All books are provided by the library service. 2.30pm - 4pm. £4 per session (includes refreshments).

Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org. uk.

The Sheldon Singers Rutter Requiem and music for Good Friday, 6.30pm at St Mary’s Church Uffculme. Retiring collection http://www.sheldonsingers.org. uk/.

Mike Denham & his Sunset Café Stompers The region’s favourite trad jazz band get the joint jumping - and stomping! At 8pm. Tickets: £15 (£29 with pre-show supper at 7pm – must be pre-booked). Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster.

TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www. themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Rusty Shackle 8pm £8 in advance, £10 on the door (standing). South Wales based indie folk, roots band with catchy tunes and stunning high-energy level performances. “Rusty Shackle come on like a punk Bellowhead or a poppier Pogues.” The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LZ www.beehivehoniton. co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Fri 14 – Sat 15 April

6th Tatworth Beer Festival at Tatworth Playing Fields Fri 4pm – 10.30pm, Sat 4pm – 11pm. Live Music Saturday night with “Grouvecat”, BBQ available. Monies raised will contribute to the upkeep of recreational facilities for the village.

Further details http://tatworthpf.wixsite. com/tatworth1970.

Easter Egg Hunt 11am – 3pm Stonebarrow Hill, Golden Cap Estate. £2.50 per child. A different self led hunt over 2 days, look for the clues to track down where Bunny has hidden his precious choccy eggs while enjoying incredible views of the Jurassic Coast. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/golden-cap/ whats-on.

Friday 14 – Monday 17 April

Alice in Wonderland Easter Egg Trail Forde Abbey and Gardens. The gardens at Forde Abbey are transformed this Easter into a fantasy landscape with elegant tea parties, a fretful white rabbit, the maddest of Hatters and a cast-list of characters straight from the pages of childhood dreams. Forde Abbey, Chard, Somerset, TA20 4LU (t) 01460 220231 www.fordeabbey.co.uk.

Easter Egg Hunt 11am – 3pm Hive Beach, Burton Bradstock. £2.50 per child.

Self led hunt. The Easter bunny has gone to the seaside, follow the clues to find where Bunny has hidden your chocolatey prize. Fun for all the family. www. nationaltrust.org.uk/burton-bradstock/ whats-on.

Saturday 15 April

Bird ringing demonstration Discovery Hut at Seaton Wetlands 9am. A rare chance to see birds up close as they are ringed by the Axe Estuary Ringing Group for surveying and monitoring. This event is highly weather dependant. No booking required, free, Discovery Hut at Seaton Wetlands, Colyford Road, EX12 2SP wildeastdevon.co.uk, 01395 517557, countryside@eastdevon.gov.uk.

Local Crafts & Collectables Fair 10.30am - 3pm. Held ‘by kind permission’ at the Baptist Church Hall, Silver Street, Lyme Regis. Free admission. Well behaved dogs on leads are welcome. Supporting F.O.R.C.E. a local Cancer Charity in Exeter. For more details, please ring 01297 445232.

Lyme History Walks 11am from the Marine Theatre, this and every Wed and Sat in April. Discover the unique and colourful history of Lyme Regis. Hear stories of amazing people and adventures on land and sea. Experienced Tour Guide Chris Lovejoy, supporting Lyme Regis Museum Mary Anning extension. Lasts 1+1/2 hours. Cost: £8 children half www. lymehistorywalks.com 01297443140.

Easter Family Fair 11am - 5pm Easter Egg Trail, Food Stalls by Local Producers, Family Dog Show with The Groom Room, Face Painting, Lambs,

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Chicks, Food and Drink, Static Tractor Display, plus lots more. Free Entry.

Frogmary Green Farm, South Petherton, 01460 249758, www.frogmarygreenfarm. co.uk.

Easter Bingo Offwell Sports and Social Club, Nr. Honiton, doors open 6.15pm eyes down 7pm, lots of lovely prizes, good night all for all the family. Proceeds to Offwell Sports and Social Club.

Richard Digance - Golden Anniversary Tour at 8pm. Tickets: £16 Full. £15 Concessions. The David Hall, Roundwell Street, South Petherton, TA13 5AA. www.thedavidhall.org.uk 01460 240 340 or boxoffice@thedavidhall.org.uk.

Ferocious Dog – The Red Tour Bridport Electric Palace, Doors 7pm / starts 8pm, £13.50 (£13 + 50p bf) adv / £16 door.

E15 8pm Tickets: £12/£10 Bridport Arts Centre DT6 3NR 01308 424204 www. bridport-arts.com. Britain’s housing crisis and how one group of women refused to be marginalised. This is the beginning of the end of the housing crisis.

Recommended age: 13+.

Monday 17 April

Lym Valley Croquet Club taster session at 10am. A chance to try your hand at this fascinating game. Free session, all equipment provided. Call David BrookeSmith on 07909 111512 to chat and arrange. Our club is beside the Uplyme Cricket Ground.

Uploders Chapel Coffee Morning 10am – 12noon. Free of charge refreshments while you browse though books and quality bric-a-brac and pick up a cake to take home. Live background music.

Charmouth Vintage Fair Easter Monday Community Hall 10am - 4pm. All Day Catering Enquiries: Tel: 01297 560634.

Next Date: Monday 1 May. Second-hand Book Sale Shelters, Lyme Regis, from 11am. Second-hand books will be on sale in the Marine Parade Shelters from 11am. The sale is being run by the Friends of Lyme Regis Museum.

For further information contact Valerie Hayward 07926 969 831.

Broadchurch Series 3 – Charity Fundraiser Screening Electric Palace Bridport 01308 424901. The recommended viewing age is 15 yrs+.

Tuesday 18 April

Second-hand Book Sale and Cake Sale Marine Parade Shelters, Lyme Regis, from 11am. Run by the Friends of Lyme Regis Museum. For further information contact Valerie Hayward 07926 969831.

Wednesday 19 April

Lyme History Walks 11am from the Marine Theatre, this and every Wed and Sat in April. Discover the unique and colourful history of Lyme Regis. Hear stories of amazing people and adventures on land and sea. Experienced Tour Guide Chris Lovejoy, supporting Lyme Regis Museum Mary Anning extension. Lasts 1+1/2 hours. Cost: £8 children half www.lymehistorywalks.com 01297443140.

Axminster Art Society A Demonstration of Watercolours and Rivers by Rob Dudley, in The United Reformed Church Hall, Chard Street Axminster 2.30pm 4.30pm www.axminsterartsociety. uk.

West Dorset Decorative & Fine Arts Society Vivaldi in Venice.

Speaker: Peter Medhurst. Highlands End Leisure Centre, Eype at 2.30pm. For details contact 01297 443615.

Honiton U3A Peter Hood ‘Food Through the Ages - A gourmet, and

not so gourmet, look at recipes from the past’. Includes a few samples.

The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton. Doors open 1.30pm for a 2pm start. Members Free - Visitors welcome (suggested donation of £2). Further info: 01404 598008 or Website: http://u3asites.org.uk/ honiton.

Misterton Tennis Club Tennis Coaching for Juniors and Adults weekly from 4pm at the courts at Recreation Ground Unity Lane Misterton. First 2 sessions are Free.

For more details telephone out LTA Accredited Coach John Barrington on 07989 664597 or Chris Ellis on 01460 74368 for general information.

Thorncombe Rail Activities Club talk and slide presentation given

by Alan Wild entitled ‘Railways around Bournemouth’. Thorncombe Village Hall, TA20 4NE and starts at 7.30pm. Non Members are welcome, there are refreshments, a raffle and the parking is free.

Contact Richard Holt, Chairman Tel. 01460 30428.

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Coast &Countryside Wed 19 – Sun 23 April

From Page to Screen in conjunction with Bridport Arts Centre. Bridport Electric Palace See film details and book tickets at www.frompagetoscreen.org.uk. Save the dates for the UK’s only film festival that celebrates the adaptation of books into films.

Thursday 20 April

Axminster Country Market 8.30am - 12noon, Masonic Hall, South St. Home-made & homegrown cakes, savouries, preserves, seasonal fruit & vegetables, flowers, eggs, plants, crafts and cards. Orders taken, meet the makers!

Refreshments, free entry.

Burton Bradstock guided walk led by Elizabeth Gale. ‘The sale in 1958 and some more’ meet playing fields 10am.

Approx. 2 hours level walking £4 each in aid of Rotary charities Enquiries 01308 459039.

What’s that bird? Island Hide at Seaton Wetlands 11am - 1pm. Hone your bird ID with an experienced volunteer guide who will help you identify the birds at the wetlands. Telescopes and binoculars available to borrow. No booking required, free, Island Hide at Seaton Wetlands, Colyford Road, EX12 2SP wildeastdevon. co.uk, 01395 517557, countryside@ eastdevon.gov.uk.

National Federation of Occupational pensioners (NFOP) Dorchester & Weymouth Branch meet at 2.15pm at St Peter’s Church Hall, Dorchester. The speaker is Margaret Wellspring on ‘My Elvis Road Trip’. Contact Jeane on 01305 753417 for more information.

Bridport and District Gardening Club 7.30pm Choosing the Right Vegetable Variety by Joy Michaud. WI Hall, North Street, Bridport, DT6 3JQ. Chard Camera Club Presentation by local photographer Matilda Temperly on images of Floods, Fashion and Circus. Anyone interested in seeing this presentation should come to the location for 7.30pm on the night. Any further information can be obtained via www. chardcameraclub.org.uk or by contacting the acting members secretary Mr Malcolm Brocklehurst on 01460 68616.

The Living Tree cancer self-help group,

evening meeting: 7pm - 9pm at the Ostler Room, Bull Hotel, East Street, Bridport.

Speaker: Martyn Allen on ‘Churchill’s Secret Army’ . Refreshments provided, drinks etc available from main bar, relaxed evening.

South Somerset RSPB Group ‘Saving Nature in the South West’ An illustrated talk presented by Nick Bruce-White, RSPB Regional Director for South West England. 7.30pm The Millennium Hall, Seavington St Mary. Entry: Group members £2.50, non-group members £3.50, under 18’s free (tea/coffee & biscuits included) – wheelchair access.

Non-members very welcome. For further details contact: Denise Chamings (group leader) on 01460240740 www.rspb.org. uk/groups/southsomerset.

Tatworth W.I. meeting in Tatworth Memorial Hall at 7.30pm. Simon Dawson talking about life on his Exmoor small holding.

Bridport & District Gardening Club 7.30pm Speaker Joy Michaud ‘Choosing the Right Vegetable Variety’. Women’s Institute Hall, North Street, Bridport, DT6 3JQ. Peter Gough, 01308 459469.

Lyme Voices Community Choir 7.30pm – 9.15pm at the Baptist Church middle hall, Silver St., Lyme Regis, DT7 3NY. Sing for fun. Learn by ear.

Everyone welcome. Contact Pete Linnett 01297 445078 or email petelinnett@ naturalvoice.net.

Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman at 8pm. One of the UK Folk scene’s most enduring partnerships. Twice winners of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Duo. Tickets: £15 Full. £14 Concessions.

The David Hall, Roundwell Street, South Petherton, TA13 5AA. www.thedavidhall. org.uk 01460 240 340 or boxoffice@ thedavidhall.org.uk.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead at The Gateway, Seaton. Daniel Radcliffe, Joshua McGuire and David Haig star in this 25th anniversary production of Tom Stoppard’s brilliantly funny situation comedy, broadcast live from The Old Vic. Licensed bar and refreshments. Doors open 6.30. Tickets £12.50 in advance (£15 on day) from The Gateway Box Office 01297 625699, open Mon-Fri 10am – 4pm, Sat 10am – 1pm. (£1 charge for card payment).

Friday 21 April

West Dorset Ramblers 10 mile Ringstead and Holworth coast path walk.

10am start. Bring picnic. No dogs. All welcome. Please call 01300 320084.

Askerswell Jumble Sale Bridport United Church Hall, 10am. Coffee will be served. New-to-you, Bric-a-Brac, Books, Produce, etc.

Chef’s special lunch at Henhayes Centre Crewkerne. 3 course meal Roast Lamb, followed by Fruit Crumble start with fruit juice and finish with tea/coffee and chocolates. Bar opens at 12noon, lunch served at 12.30pm only £8. Please book 01460 74340.

The Living Tree cancer self-help group.

2pm Chrissie and Vicky from Beau Hairdressing will tell us about My New Hair and what they can offer people pre and post-chemo. Drop in any time between 2pm - 4.30pm at the Friends Meeting House, 95 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NZ. Tel 01308 427851. www. thelivingtree.org.uk.

Lyme Bay Photographic Club Stu Culley, commercial photographer, photographic tutor and freelance videographer. Woodmead Halls, Lyme Regis, DT7 3PG starting at 7.30pm. www.lymebayphotographicclub.org.

Jazz Divas The songs of Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and Sarah Vaughan, performed by acclaimed big band singer Lee Gibson and The Martin Dale Quartet. At 8pm.

Tickets: £14 (£28 with pre-show supper at 7pm – must be pre-booked). Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Quiz Night at The Gateway, Seaton.

Doors open 7 pm. Tickets £5 from The Gateway Box Office 01297 625699, open Mon-Fri 10am – 4pm, Sat 10am – 1pm.

We Are Brontë 8pm Corn Exchange, High East Street, DT1 1HF, £12/10 Box office: 01305 266926, www. dorchesterarts.org.uk.

Jazz Divas The songs of Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and Sarah Vaughan, performed by acclaimed big band singer Lee Gibson and The Martin Dale Quartet. At 8pm.

Tickets: £14 (£28 with pre-show supper at 7pm – must be pre-booked). Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East

Looking ahead Sat 29 - 30 April

Sitting Spiritually Open Garden Weekend 10am - 5pm both days, Free entry & parking. Bramble Hayes, Yawl Hill Lane, Uplyme, Dorset DT7 3RP T: 01297 443084.

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Sat 29 April - Mon 1 May

The Cerne Giant Festival – A series of activities which celebrate the culture and heritage of life in Dorset. For more information email still.family@virgin.net

Sun 30 April

Dorset Knob Throwing Festival. 10 years of Throwing Knobs! 10am – 4pm. This year at Kingston Maurward. www. dorsetknobthrowing.com

Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Jazz Night with Mike Denham and Andy Dickens 7.30pm Hinton St George, St George’s Hall.

Saturday 22 April

Children’s Art Chest Saturday morning art club led by artist Margaret Micklewright. Ages 8+. 10.30am 12.30pm. £5 per session (including materials). Please bring an overall.

Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org. uk.

Specialist Nurseries Plant Fair 10am 4pm Knoll Gardens. Free.

St George’s Day open day at St George’s Centre with all hall users (including Royal Manor Workshops) and workshop tenants hopefully taking part. Come along and see what is going on, you never know, you might find a new hobby or interest.

Manor Workshops, St George’s Centre, Reforne, Portland, Dorset, DT5 2AN. Friends of Weymouth Library 10.30am Paul Atterbury on antiques. More details from The Secretary 01305 832613.

Booking advisable as space is limited in the library. Reserve a place at the library desk, payment on booking where possible.

East Devon AONB Heritage Conference Farmsteads and the Historic Landscape. For further information, please contact: Philippe Planel Tel: 07983 279825 philippeplanel@gmail. com. Lunch included. £15 per person, please book.

Axe Valley Centre, National Trust Spring Fair Colyford Memorial Hall 10.30am - 1pm. Admission £1. Cakes & Produce, Books, Bric-a-Brac, Crafts & Plants, Raffle and a stall from Sidmouth National Trust Shop.

C.U.P.I.D. the mutual support group for ostomists, meeting 10am - 12noon at the Dorford Centre, Bridport Road, Dorchester DT1 1RR. Teddy Bear’s Parachute Jump from St Mary’s Church tower Thorncombe. 2pm - 4pm. All teddies welcome to celebrate 150 years since the church was built.

Details from 01460 30312.

Organ Recital by John Challenger Assistant Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral at 3pm in St Mary’s Church

Beaminster. Promoted by The Friends of Beaminster Festival to include pieces by Alain, Bach, Vierne & Walton. Tickets are £12 and available from Yarn Barton Centre, Beaminster, Bridport Music or on the door.

Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Met Opera Live) at The Gateway, Seaton.

Licensed Bar and Refreshments. Doors open 5.30pm. Tickets £15 (£17.50 on day) from The Gateway Box Office 01297 625699, open Mon-Fri 10am – 4pm, Sat 10am – 1pm.

Scottish Dance in Chardstock 7.30pm - 10.30pm. Cost £3. Bring a plate of food to share. Contact David on 01460 65981; Ann on 01308 422927; or Andrew on 01297 33461, or just come along. www. chardscottishdancing.org.uk.

Stacey Kent 8pm Corn Exchange, High East Street, DT1 1HF, £22/20 Box office: 01305 266926, www.dorchesterarts.org. uk.

Barn Dance 7.30pm, Salway Ash Village Hall. Live band, professional caller and bar. Tickets £10 per person (includes a Hog Roast). Available from Salway Ash School or from Tor Hopkins: 07817 406 721, torhopkins@icloud.com. All profits

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will go towards new play equipment at the school.

Bridport Ceilidhs welcomes back GIG CB! with the anarchic Chris Shaw calling, Church House (St Mary’s) Hall, South Street, Bridport DT6 3NW. Book by phone on 01308 423 442 or email monty3dayslate@yahoo.co.uk. www.bridportceilidhs.wordpress. com.

Acoustic Night 7.30pm - 11pm. All styles and forms of performance welcome – not just music. Anyone who wishes to perform please email folk@chriswatts.org to secure a slot.

The David Hall, Roundwell Street, South Petherton, TA13 5AA. www. thedavidhall.org.uk 01460 240 340 or boxoffice@thedavidhall.org.uk.

According to Arthur by Paddleboat Theatre Co. 3.30pm Adult £8, U16 £6, Family of four £25. An inspirational and heartwarming tale of an old man who re-engages with the outside world, and the adventurous life he once led. Join Arthur on his search for the Moon. Family theatre for 3+The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LZ www.beehivehoniton. co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

The Tuckers Jazz Club 8pm.

Tony Roberts Quintet. A Birthday Celebration Gig for his 80th year.

The Tuckers Arms, Dalwood, Near Axminster, EX13 7EG (just north of the A35 between Axminster & Honiton) Parking in the Village Hall Car Park. £10 advance or at the door. 01404 831280 www. dalwoodvillage.co.uk.

Sunday 23 April

Dorset Countryside Volunteers Beach Clean at Abbotsbury in West Dorset. New people welcome at this event suitable for a wide age range, so bring the family. For details see www.dcv.org.uk, email DCVpublicity@gmail.com, or text or message 07923-498760 for them to contact you.

Open Day at Bridport & West Dorset Golf Club 10am – 4pm.

Bridport & West Dorset Golf Club, Burton Road, DT6 4PS, 01308 421095. www.bridportgolfclub. co.uk.

Classics at the mill 10am - 4pm at the Haselbury mill nr Crewkerne.

Classic car show and family fun day in aid of Motor Neurone Disease contact info@classicsatthemill.co.uk or www.classicsatthemill.co.uk.

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St George’s Day Lunch at 12.30pm. St John’s Church, Waterlake Road, Tatworth, Somerset TA20 2NZ. Tickets - £6 available from Helen Johnson 01460 220221.

Bumper Jumble Sale, Teas & Homemade Cakes Clothes, books, bric-a-brac, games, toys and more.

2pm - 4pm at Loders Village Hall, Loders, Nr Bridport Fund raising for Loders Young Players. Contact 01308 420767.

ShelterBox Tea Dance Popular local organist John Westlake plays April dance. Stowford Centre, Sidmouth EX10 9YL from 2.30pm.

The venue has one of the best floors for dancing in East Devon, with a licensed cafe for teas, coffee & cake. Tickets (£7 for ShelterBox) for this event available from 01395 579856.

Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman 8pm Corn Exchange, High East Street, DT1 1HF, £14/12 Box office: 01305 266926, www. dorchesterarts.org.uk.

Monday 24 April

Lym Valley Croquet Club taster session at 10am. A chance to try your hand at this fascinating game. Free session, all equipment provided. Call David BrookeSmith on 07909 111512 to chat and arrange. Our club is beside the Uplyme Cricket Ground.

The Wildlife and Ecology of the Exe Estuary and the Jurassic Coast Talk by Rod Lawrence.

Bridport United Church Hall, East St, Bridport. 7.30pm. Presented by the Golden Cap Association (West Dorset). Non-members welcome.

Admission £3. Includes tea or coffee and biscuits. For further information 01308 863577.

Axminster Carnival Bingo Axminster Guildhall, doors open 7pm eyes down 8pm.

Biodanza @ Othona Express, Connect, Relax! Dance like no one’s watching, no steps to learn, no partner needed, uplifting world music and holistic health benefits.

For all ages from 19 to 90. 7.15pm for 7.30pm. Join in with teacher Julia Hope-Brightwell (Jewell).

Cost £8 (Cons avail). Othona Community, Coast Road, Burton Bradstock DT6 4RN. Contact Robin 01308 897 130 / biodanza-bridport. co.uk.

Bridport Folk Dance Club’s ‘last Monday’ features live music from guests Eileen Barrett and Mike Highfield, with Eileen Nightingale calling. At 7.30pm - 9.30pm in the WI Hall, North Street, Bridport. Entry £4 on band nights, otherwise admission at £2.50 for members (£2 fee) or nonmembers £3. Contact Jane on 01308 898002 or Monty on 01308 423442.

Scottish Dancing in Chardstock Evening of Social Dancing with instruction with a break for tea and coffee. 7.30pm - 10pm at the Village Hall. No partner required. Cost £1.50.

Contact David on 01460 65981; Ann on 01308 422927; or Andrew on 01297 33461, or just come along. www.chardscottishdancing.org.uk.

Tuesday 25 April

West Dorset Ramblers 8 mile walk between the Axe and the Coly. 10am start. Bring picnic. Dogs optional. All welcome. Please call 01308 898484.

Colyton & Colyford Probus Club meets at the Swallows Eaves Hotel, Colyford at 12noon for lunch after which Paddy Magrane will speak about ‘The Crime Thriller &

psychotherapy’. David Evans: 01297 553007.

Tea Dance All Saints EX10 8ES 01395 579856.

Lyme Regis Society AGM at 2.30pm, and Keith Shaw is giving a talk about ‘The Warings and South Cliff’. All Welcome. Free for Members of Lyme Regis Society, U3A and Friends of the Museum. Visitors £3.

Dorset Industrial Archaeology Society “Thomas Telford” is the subject of Peter Brown’s lecture to the Society. Meetings commence at 7.30pm in the Dorset Room, Colliton House, Colliton Park, Dorchester (opposite County Hall). Non-members welcome (small donation suggested).

Further details from 01305 785968 or 871863.

Met Opera: Eugene Onegin 6pm A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and English National Opera.

Bridport Arts Centre, DT6 3NR 01308 424204 www.bridport-arts.com.

in the Waytown area, followed by a pub lunch. Meet at Orchard Way 9.30am, transport available. Details from Chris on 01460 76405.

Coffee Morning 10am - 12noon. Free Entry. The David Hall, Roundwell Street, South Petherton, TA13 5AA. www.thedavidhall.org.uk 01460 240 340 or boxoffice@thedavidhall.org.uk.

Seaton and District Probus Club Talk by David Duke on legal tips for the retired. 10am at Seaton Methodist Church, small hall. Please contact Stephen Lord on 01297 21872 for more information.

The Living Tree cancer self-help group. Creative writing and book making workshop with Kim & David from Squirrel Press at Watercleaves.

To book please ring Jo on 01308 427851. www.thelivingtree.org.uk.

Colyton & Colyford Probus Club meets at 10am at Colyton Grammar School, courtesy of Headteacher Mr N Harris, for a visit to the School. David Evans: 01297 553007.

Wednesday 26 April

Mosterton Ramblers invite you to join their morning walk (approx 3hrs)

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Courses&Workshops Saturday 1 April

Happy Village free motion quilting with Anne Jones. Please bring your own sewing machine. Limited places available so book early. 10am – 4pm in The Studio at The Royal Manor Workshops, St George’s Centre, Reforne, Portland, Dorset, DT5 2AN. Cost is £10 for members and £12.50 for non members. To book a place, please ring Jenny Greenwood on 01305 821791.

Mindfulness drop-in class at Axminster Health and Wellbeing Centre 7.30pm - 9pm. Experienced meditators and beginners all welcome. No charge, donations appreciated. No need to book. Contact Kath Woods, accredited mindfulness teacher, 01404 831605 or just turn up.

Sunday 2 April

Easter Baking Course to include Hot Cross Buns, Croissants, Brioche Buns, Sweet or Savoury Couron and Focaccia.

9.45am - 3pm, Frogmary Green Farm, South Petherton 01460 249758 www. frogmarygreenfarm.co.uk.

Monday 3 April

Clay A friendly and informal untutored sculpture group that meets weekly at IAC. All abilities welcome.

Mondays 9.30am - 3.30pm. £7 per weekly session. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Thursday 6 April

Outdoor Yoga Knoll Garden, Wimborne. Six week course, individual sessions available, 9am – 10am. Enjoy an hour of energizing yoga in the tranquility of the garden before it opens to the public, then stay to enjoy the garden and visiting wildlife. First of a 6-week course. £48 per 6-week course.

Book online or call 01202 873931.

Social Media led by Dorset Community Action. This two hour ‘Bite Size’ course is aimed at voluntary, community and charity groups and will give an overview of social media, why it’s increasingly important and how to use it to support an organisation. Looking at facebook

and twitter and giving examples from the voluntary, community, and charity sector of how to get the best out of these tools. The course will be followed up with more practical sessions at a later date. Bring a laptop (fully charged if possible) and charger for use during the course. The course is designed for new and existing groups who want to get a basic understanding on using social media. 9.45am registration for 10am - 12noon finish. Cerne Abbas Village Hall, Cerne Abbas, Near Dorchester, DT2 7GY. Cost: £30pp for voluntary and community groups, £40 pp for statutory groups. Refreshments (Tea/Coffee and biscuits) provided. Call 01305 250921 for further details.

Introduction to Silver Clay Art workshops at Artwave West £80.

Artwave West, Morcombelake, Dorset, DT6 6DY 01297 489746 www. artwavewest.com.

Saturday 8 April

Spring Herb Day Nr Bridport, Dorset.

A one-day workshop learning about the medicinal benefits of the plants that grow wild amongst our hedgerows, gardens and green areas. £45 inc. lunch, refreshments and handouts.

For more information or to book a place. hedgerowdee@hotmail.com, 07876711407, www.hedgerowherbs. co.uk.

Willow Wigwam Plant Support Workshop Learn how to make a simple, durable willow wigwam for your garden.

Chiselborough Village Hall, Somerset.

10am – 12noon, £15. For more info or to book please contact Sophia on 07904454227 or sophias_reality@ hotmail.co.uk.

Sat 8 – Mon 10 April

Making a Successful Market Garden 9.30am – 4.30pm at Trill Farm. This 3 day course focuses on how to run a successful market garden business, covering 3 very different organic vegetable production systems from 3 experienced vegetable growers; Ashley Wheeler runs Trill Farm Garden and is a founding member of Landworkers’ Alliance, Charles Dowding runs an intensive no dig garden in Somerset,

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and Hugh Chapman runs Longmeadow Organic Vegetables and a successful organic smallholding in the Cerne valley.

Suitable for people who are looking into starting up a small scale market gardening business, as well as those who have already started. Option for 1, 2 or 3 days and accommodation at Monkton Wyld Court. Book tickets at www. landbase.org.uk call 01297 560342 or email contact@landbase.org.uk.

Monday 10 April

Clay A friendly and informal untutored sculpture group that meets weekly at IAC. All abilities welcome.

Mondays 9.30am - 3.30pm. £7 per weekly session. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Figure Drawing This is a non-tutored drawing session from the clothed model.

Two models will be provided each session for one hour each. Please bring your own paper and drawing materials.

Book with Andrew Sutton 07814 641609 or andrewjsutton@hotmail. com. Mondays 6.30pm - 8.30pm. £7 per weekly session. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Thursday 13 April

Easter Willow Display 10am – 12noon. Make a colourful Easter twig display with your own hand made felt decorations, £25 at studio. Contact Lucy on 0777 1588999 or info@ boarsbarrow.com. www.boarsbarrow. com. Boarsbarrow Design Workshops, Boarsbarrow Studio, The Barn House, Loders, Bridport, DT6 3SA. 01308 485035/456958.

Saturday 15 April

Willow Wigwam Plant Support Workshop Learn how to make a simple, durable willow wigwam for your garden.

Ham Hill Country Park HQ, Somerset, TA14 6RW. 10am – 12noon, £15. For more info or to book please contact Sophia on 07904454227 or sophias_ reality@hotmail.co.uk.

Tuesday 18 April

Cooking for One Demo with HALFF (Health and Local Food for Families) 11am – 12.30pm. Free healthy cooking demonstrations giving hints and ideas for cooking for one and covering nutritional advice for type 2 diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure. At the United Reformed Church, Chard Road, Axminster. No need to book, just turn up, it’s free. Call Hannah on 01297 631782 for more information or email hannah@halff.org.uk.

Workshops in Creative Process and Self Expression stage 1 begins today in Bridport - Chapel in the Garden.

10 Tuesdays 9.30am - 12.30pm - excluding half term holiday.

‘Serious play’ with art materials combined with group discussions, enquiry and reflective practice. Max 10 participants. Successful course at London’s Central St. Martins’ College for 20+ years. Suitable for artists & designers through to beginners. Are you looking to change direction, feeling creatively stuck?

Perhaps you need something different from art classes, or you are beginning to explore your creativity or you are simply curious and enquiring.

Contact Mary Caddick (MA DipAT) asap to discuss the course & to book a place 07557 275275 m.caddick@ gmx.net.

Wednesday 19 April

Learn to Cook Healthily with HALFF (Health and Local Food for Families) 11am - 1pm. A free hands-on course of six sessions, including help with meal planning, understanding food labelling, cooking hints and tips to help make your life easier as a carer. You’ll even receive a free meal to take home.

At the Masonic Hall, South Street, Axminster. To book a place, or for more information, call Ros on 01297 631782 or email admin@halff.org.uk .

Thursday 20 April

Knit, Stitch & Crochet Too From casting on to the finished garment.

Come and share your ideas and be inspired - whatever your level of skill from beginner to master knitter.

2.15pm - 4.15pm. £4 per session (includes refreshments). Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse. org.uk.

Thurs 20 April – 25 May

Exotic Animals in Pastel Pencils Discover the versatile medium of pastel pencils, using a different exotic animal each week as your subject matter. Tutor Linda Hampson.

Suitable for beginners and improvers.

Thursdays 10am-1pm. £60 for 6 weeks. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Friday 21 April

Felt Making Discover the wonderfully tactile and rewarding art of felting by making felt scarves, bags, slippers - or whatever takes your fancy. Beginners to advanced welcome. 10am - 3pm. £23 per monthly session (excluding materials). Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Sunday 23 April

Open Day at Bridport & West Dorset Golf Club 10am – 4pm.

A chance to find out – or remind yourself – what it feels like to hit a golf ball. Free introductory or refresher lessons for all the family, a putting competition, a chance to walk or play a few holes, or even try a bunker shot. Come along any time to find out about our membership and coaching options, including our after-school junior lessons, after complimentary rounds for bona fide golfers looking to change clubs.

Bridport & West Dorset Golf Club, Burton Road, DT6 4PS, 01308 421095. www.bridportgolfclub.co.uk.

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Courses&Workshops Monday 24 April

Clay A friendly and informal untutored sculpture group that meets weekly at IAC. All abilities welcome.

Mondays 9.30am - 3.30pm. £7 per weekly session. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Lipreading and Managing Hearing Loss Try a free session at Honiton Methodist Church 10am - 12noon. Find out how lipreading can help you to hear more and pick up some tips to help you cope with your hearing loss. Small, friendly group. Tea, coffee and biscuits provided. Contact Ruth for further details ruth@bizleyart.com 01297 442239 or just come along on the day.

Figure Drawing This is a nontutored drawing session from the clothed model. Two models will be provided each session for one hour each. Please bring your own paper and drawing materials. Book with Andrew Sutton 07814 641609 or andrewjsutton@hotmail.com. Mondays 6.30pm - 8.30pm. £7 per weekly session. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster.

TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www. themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Art and Design History Course: ‘High Renaissance, Mannerism and The Baroque’ (painting, sculpture, architecture and the decorative arts), led by Pam Simpson MA, lecturer at University of the Arts in London and Bath Spa. Starts Monday 24th April for six weeks. Starts at 2pm, finishes at 3.30pm. Course fee £60, to be paid at the first session. ‘The White Room’, which is at the rear of The Chapel in the Garden, The Unitarian Chapel, East Street, Bridport. Please email or telephone Pam to reserve a place, chris.pamsimpson@btinternet.com or telephone her on 01300 321715.

Tuesday 25 April

Cooking for One Demo with HALFF 11am - 1pm (Health and Local Food for Families) Free healthy cooking demonstrations giving hints and ideas for cooking for one and covering nutritional advice for type 2 diabetes,

heart disease, high blood pressure and modified diets (eg puree/fork mashable). At the United Reformed Church, Cross Street, Seaton EX12 2LH. No need to book, just turn up, it’s free. Call Laura on 01297 631782 for more information or email laura@halff. org.uk.

Wednesday 26 April

Adventures in Crochet – Bunting Explore the exciting craft of crochet, learn basic stitches, traditional designs and complete short projects. With tutor Lynne Raddall. For more details contact Lynne: lynneyraddall@yahoo.co.uk.

10am - 1pm. £22 per session (excluding materials). Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster.

TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www. themeetinghouse.org.uk.

The Living Tree cancer self-help group. Creative writing and book making workshop with Kim & David from Squirrel Press at Watercleaves. To book please ring Jo on 01308 427851. www.thelivingtree.org.uk.

Thursday 27 April – 8 June

Oil Painting Discover the rich medium of oil painting with tutor Belinda Ireland. Beginners welcome as well as those wanting to expand existing skills.

Learn the basic elements of painting, colour mixing, composition and values.

Thursdays 1.30pm - 4.30pm. £60 for six weeks. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster.

TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www. themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Friday 28 April

Sketchbook bookbinding workshop at Leafwork , Whitchurch Canonicorum 10.30am - 4pm. Sew and bind this A4 sketchbook in a day. It’s robust enough to take out and about, attractive enough to give as a gift and easy to make again at home. Opens completely flat. £45, materials included. To book or for more details please contact nesta@ leafwork.co.uk or phone 01297 489976.

Beginners welcome.

Rag Rugs Come and make beautiful rag rugs from recycled materials. Be warned - it’s addictive! 11am-1pm.

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£10 per monthly session. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Art Group An informal untutored group for artists in all media, from oils to acrylics. All abilities welcome. Bring your own materials. Thursdays 2pm - 4pm. £7 per session. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Saturday 29 April

Planning and Planting a Fruit Orchard The course is led by fruit tree specialist Tom Nancarrow from Pip & Stone Fruit Tree Services and Adam’s Apples. For those looking to plant a small family orchard or maybe a community orchard in the local town?

Also possibly for those with greater ambitions of starting a new juice and cider enterprise? This one-day course puts participants on the right path to planting an orchard of healthy and productive fruit trees suitable for their location and needs. Predominantly classroom-based learning with slides and discussion, with some practical sessions for tree planting and formative pruning. £80 for the day including lunch. LandBase, Monkton Wyld Court, nr. Charmouth, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 6DQ, 01297 560342, courses@ landbase.org.uk.

Drawing natural, found objects from the Dorset Landscape Art workshop at Artwave West – £60. Artwave West, Morcombelake, Dorset, DT6 6DY 01297 489746 www.artwavewest.com.

Willow crafts: the cheese tray, stick platter and simple round basket, Reed Base at Seaton Wetlands 10am - 4pm.

Make a choice at time of booking.

Make a basket in a day, includes all materials and expert tuition. Must be 16+ with good strong hands. Booking required, £40 per person, Reed Base, Seaton Wetlands, Colyford Road, EX12 2SP wildeastdevon.co.uk, 01395 517557, countryside@eastdevon.gov.uk.

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News &Views BRIDPORT

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SOMERSET

A former salmon poacher has published his memoirs. Jimmy Gay, of Bridport, had HO HO HO A Poaching We Will Go published by local printers Creeds after suffering a heart attack. Mr Gay, who was caught and fined several times and jailed twice for his crimes, was originally a butcher. He said he became a professional salmon poacher after being unable to provide his family with the lifestyle he wished for them. He said he wrote the book after suffering a heart attack, which made him think a bit more about the past. A donation of £1 from each book sale will go to Young Epilepsy. Copies are available at The Book Shop, West Bay Angling Centre and Allington Stores.

Some 16 people have lost their jobs at Budgens supermarket in Falkland Square, Crewkerne.

In Littlemoor, Weymouth, 48 employees are out of work. A total of 34 stores closed after administrators PwC failed to find a buyer for the group. Food Retailer Operations Limited (FROL) acquired the stores from The Co-op in July 2016 and, since then, the company had ‘experienced difficult trading conditions’, according to a statement issued by the company. A total of 815 staff are being made redundant from stores across the country. The Co-op has offered to find jobs for ex-colleagues in the 36 affected stores. An employee at the Weymouth store said staff were devastated ‘as we are one big family’.

The county is to pilot an innovative partnership aimed at tackling the shortage of nurses. Health trusts across Somerset have teamed up with education providers to train one of the first waves of nursing associates. The new role will help forge a new career path between health and care support workers who have a care certificate, and graduate registered nurses by offering opportunities for health care assistants to progress into nursing roles.

Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust worked with partner organisations to develop a successful bid to Health Education England.

Sue Balcombe director of Nursing and Patient Safety at Somerset Partnership, said: “Nurses are often the backbone of health care delivery.

But nationally and locally, we struggle to recruit enough.”

Ex-salmon poacher writes a book

Job losses as supermarket closes

HONITON

Brewery donates to Legion Otter Brewery has raised more than £2,000 for the Royal British Legion by the sale of its winter beer, Poppy Otter.

The brewery at Luppitt has supported the charity, which provides lifelong support for people in the Armed Forces, for 12 years.

Patrick McCaig, of Otter Brewery, said the company shared ‘a very close personal affinity’ with the values the Legion held dear. He added that it was “a great feeling” that Poppy Otter could help raise money for the Legion. “A big thank-you once again to all our drinkers who did their bit in helping the Poppy Appeal continue the great work they do,” he said.

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New nursing initiative

DORSET

Another deadly dog disease case confirmed

Dog owners in Dorset are being warned about the deadly disease Alabama Rot. Cocker Spaniel Maggie died from the disease— known as CRGV—after being walked near Bournemouth. The case, the ninth in Dorset, was confirmed by a vet. Heartbroken owner Cathy Moss warned other dog owners to be vigilant. An early sign of the disease is unexplained redness, sores or swelling of the skin—particularly on the paws or legs—but they can also be found on the body, face, tongue or mouth. The disease can cause fatal kidney failure. Signs include vomiting, reduced hunger and tiredness. It is not known what causes the disease so vets encourage owners to wash their pets after muddy walks. For more information visit alabamarot.co.uk.

Disneyfication

Laterally Speaking by Humphrey Walwyn

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read that trouble continues to bubble in Cornwall where English Heritage is accused of commercialising Tintagel Castle, the legendary birthplace of King Arthur. In recent months they’ve commissioned a sculpture of Merlin carved into the rock face plus an eight foot high bronze statue of King Arthur plonked on top of the nearby cliffs. According to some, this is crass commercialism or ‘Disneyfication’ but I can’t see a problem if it’s a sympathetic design (which I think it is) and it also brings in much needed tourist loot to help with conservation. Since English Heritage completed their Arthurian Art, Tingtagel castle is now one of their biggest moneyspinners with its gift shop selling ‘sword in the stone snow globes’ (bargain at £15 a shake) and a full-sized “Excalibur” sword at a Guinevere-weeping price of £250.

However, the whole Arthurian thing is still pure fiction. King Arthur (if he existed at all) might be buried in Glastonbury, on top of Pilsden Pen or under the traffic lights in Chard for all we know. For Camelot, read Colyton or Cattistock. The Arthurian Legend could have happened anywhere in the Marshwood Vale. There’s no need to be restricted by historical fact. Invent a good story, put up a statue and open a gift shop – that’s the way to boost our summer visitors.

Here are some Disneyfication ideas for west country tourism: Christmas: According to legend, the famous Devon Saint Boniface was the creator of the very first Christmas tree (yes really) and he was apparently born in Crediton. So, where’s the Christmas Tree museum, giant 200 foot Tree Statue or Total Tree Party? I gather Crediton Parish Church already puts on a nice little show each year but we need global coverage and events. The good townsfolk could dress in green and put fairies on their heads every Thursday before Christmas. Monty Don launches the BBC’s Festival of Trees while the gift shop (of course, there’s a gift shop!) sells tree decorations, tinsel and ‘Ho-HoHo’ crying plastic Father Christmases.

Incidentally, make sure the shop sells every known spare Christmas light bulb. No one else sells all the spares, which means you

have to buy a complete new set of lights when just one bulb breaks! Maddening!

Last Christmas I had to throw away six old sets of lights. Anyway, the shop will make a fortune. Expand the legend and commercialise the opportunity. Be shameless. Be Trump-like. Go for it.

Teddies: There’s already a fine Teddy Bear Museum in Dorchester, but I’m sure this only scratches the bear skin of a massive global Hub of Teddies. We need a leap of imagination here… perhaps Rupert Bear was born near the Corn Exchange? Was Yogi ever spotted in Kingston Maurward?

Photo opportunities include being hugged by various celebrity teddies, make a bear competitions, teddy recipes and all types of bear necessities for sale in a new Bear Hypermarket and online Bear-Mart. Road signs in the new Brewery Square can be renamed as ‘Grizzly Gardens’, ‘Panda Place’ and ‘Koala Korner’ while you can drink at the new Baloo Jungle Book Bar which serves real ale and ‘…every type of Bear’. Winnie the Pooh has already been Disneyfied, but perhaps Michael Bond (Paddington Bear’s author, now aged 91) could be persuaded to write a new story ‘Paddington Goes To Poundbury’?

Anything’s possible. There’s always a fine line between taste and tat but in this case you could really make commercial vulgarity fashionable.

Cakes: Athelney in Somerset is famous as the place where King Alfred burnt the cakes in the ninth century. What better venue for the new TV ‘Bake Off’ series!

Paul Hollywood could ride through Bridgwater wearing a crown as the team bakes Alfred’s Exotic Fruit Babas in a dung fuelled Aga. Or something…

This whole medieval period in history is so topical that it loudly screams ‘Disney Theme Park’ as a commercial opportunity. Not only do we have King Arthur as already mentioned, but we also have BBC TV’s latest blockbuster ‘The Last Kingdom’ plus the endless ‘Game of Thrones’, ‘Lord of the Rings’ and other sword slashing myth and legend epics. So, where’s our national Sword and Sorcery Theme Park? Obviously Somerset’s the place for a new Camelot

Devon resident dressing up for Tree Party (see this page)

style Disneyland complete with virtual reality jousting (with Health and Safety bendable lances and CGI horses) and Lancelot Knight rides etc. Fun for all the family, provided you don’t mind being scorched by dragon’s breath. Arthur and Alfred – both begin with the same letter, so mix them up a bit and nobody will know. Never let the Truth get in the way of a good concept.

Marriage: You may know that the hilltop chapel overlooking Abbotsbury in Dorset is named after St Catherine, the patron saint of spinsters. In olden days, young women used to climb up there to pray for a husband, so it’s absolutely perfect as the site for a new online dating agency—Swan Match Makers. The chapel would also double as a speed dating venue at 10am every Saturday (£20 per half hour for ladies, free for men).

If queues were too long, they could visit the sub-Tropical gardens and practice wearing fig leaves.

Unfulfilled regular visitors who had yet to find a mate, would be taken by coach to the nearby new Cerne Abbas Giant Sex Shop sponsored by Ann Summers (not sponsored by Disney who probably wouldn’t approve). Situated at the bottom of the hill, this Giant Sex-o-Market would feature various huge artistic objects and inflatable members. The venture will be a gigantic success until closed down by West Dorset District Council following complaints of indecent exposure by a group of jealous visiting tourists from London.

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he much anticipated 2017 Marshwood Arts Awards opens for entry on Monday April 3rd.

The fourth in a series that began in 2008, the Marshwood Arts Awards was designed to highlight and promote the wealth of creativity in the South West and quickly attracted artists and makers from much further afield.

This year the Awards are divided into four categories; - Painting & Drawing - Photography & Digital Media - Sculpture - Applied Arts (to include products such as: Furniture & Works in Wood, Ceramics & Glass, Fashion & Textiles, Jewellery, Metalwork and Decorative Arts.)

Artists are invited to submit work to any one, or more of the categories and the relevant judge will select three entrants from that category (Nine entrants will be chosen from the Applied Arts Category).

Those chosen will exhibit in a high-profile mixed exhibition at the Bridport Arts Centre from 4th November – 2nd December 2017.

Artists to exhibit in this year’s Painting & Drawing category will be chosen by renowned artist Tom Hammick.

Tom is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Painting and Printmaking at the University of Brighton and Visiting Lecturer Fine Art University of Ulster and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD University). He has work in many major public and corporate collections including the British Museum (Collection of Prints and Drawings), Victoria and Albert Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale de France (Collection of Prints and Drawings), Deutsche Bank, Yale Centre for British Art, and The Library of Congress, Washington DC. Tom Hammick is a British artist based in East Sussex and London. Moved by the minutiae in life, he reflects on man’s place in the world. With an emotive handling of colour, Hammick creates psychologically charged spaces in which figures, alone or in groups, are cast adrift. Recurring motifs of isolated human dwellings (forest cabins, modernist houses, studios or compounds) appear to withhold an internal drama behind their flattened planes. The suggestion of a hidden narrative is palpable; that by excluding the viewer from the action, they might discover the truth of its meaning. While linked to a romantic tradition, searching for poetic meaning through the awe-inspiring power of nature, Hammick’s work shares sensibilities with contemporary narrative forms, summoning the uneasy atmosphere of a crime thriller, or a dystopian suburban nightmare.

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JUDGES announced for

MARSHWOOD

ARTS AWARDS

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Matilda Temperley

Selecting Photography and Digital Art Matilda is an award-winning photographer.

Her work regularly appears in international publications such as, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Harpers Bazaar and National Geographic. Matilda’s work is inspired by marginalised societies. Her sell-out book, Under The Surface—Somerset Floods won the Royal Photographic Society’s Vic Odden Award in 2015.

Her second book, Omo—Change In The Valley documents human rights abuses in Ethiopia. In May 2017 Matilda’s third book, The League of Exotic Dancers—Legends of American Burlesque (Oxford University Press) will be published. www.matildatemperley.com

David Worthington Selecting Sculpture

David Worthington is a sculptor who has been working principally in the medium of stone.

After training in Barcelona and New York, he worked in London before moving to Dorset.

Worthington also works in bronze, cement, tarmac, and paint. For several years he has been making wax drawings over a water-colour base, images that frustrate the viewers ability to see them clearly. He has been developing mobile stone sculptures. Balanced on bearings these can be manually rotated. They encourage interactivity, and have an amazing response from the public who seem to delight in playing and climbing on them. For Worthington, sculpture is about the body, and if the audience’s bodies can also be part of the process, so much the better. www.davidworthington.co.uk

PHOTOGRAPHY

HOW TO ENTER

ENTRIES need to be returned by 6pm on Friday 15th September 2017 to: info@marshwoodvale.com. l Cost of entry is £15 per category - not per work. l A maximum of 6 works can be entered in each category. l Please email images of up to 6 individual works per category (one image per work) to info@marshwoodvale.com. These images should represent a body of work, as artists will be selected on their complete entry, not on individual pieces. l Please put Arts Award 2017 in the Subject header. l Each Digital image should be no larger than 3MB. Should the overall file be more than 10MB please use a service such as the free WeTransfer.com. l Please attach the following information for each work: Category, Title, Medium and Measurements in cms,

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Please also provide an artist statement of up to 100 words plus all contact details to include telephone, email and mailing address.

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John Makepeace Selecting Applied Arts

John bought Parnham House, Dorset in 1976 and founded the Parnham Trust to provide integrated courses in design, making and management for aspiring furniture makers.This was alongside but separate from his own furniture workshops. With his team of craftsman, he has completed commissions for the V&A, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the Arts Institute, Chicago, and private collections in the Britain, the United States and China. Last year, he won the Prince Philip Designers Prize 2016. www.johnmakepeacefurniture.com

Harriet Wallace-Jones Selecting Applied Arts Trained at Central St Martin’s and The Royal College of Art Harriet Wallace-Jones was awarded Silver Medal of Achievement and elected Liveryman by The Worshipful Company of Weavers. She is a founding partner in the hugely successful Wallace Sewell design studio. In 2017 Wallace Sewell celebrates twenty-five years of creating their original and exciting woven British designs. www.wallacesewell.com

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House&Garden Some People v Reginald D Hunter

The Human Cost of War

ONE of the country’s most popular comedians, Reginald D Hunter comes to the Marine Theatre at Lyme Regis on 25th April with his new show, Some People v Reginald D Hunter.

During the 15 years in which he has lived in the UK, Reginald’s searingly honest material has garnered him a popular fanbase that spans the generations.

His many television appearances

THE nightmare of Helmand, and the lasting effects of war on soldiers and their families is explored in Much Further Out Than You Thought, written and performed by Giles Roberts at the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, on 5th April.

The play is the story of a fictional soldier, Lance Corporal James Randall who left tours of duty in Helmand six years ago, but lives with the reality that Helmand is far from leaving him.

On Remembrance Sunday he delivers a birthday message to his son from his living-room in south London in a last-ditch attempt to reconcile their broken relationship. Surrounded by action figurines and boyhood memorabilia, James unfolds a fragmented story of fathers and sons, heroes and failures, in which the worlds of civilian Britain and frontline Afghanistan catastrophically collide.

Much Further Out Than You Thought is a powerful look at the human cost of war. Lance Corporal James Randall doesn’t exist, but the traumas that live inside him most certainly do.

have included 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. He also starred in a three-part BBC2 series Reginald D Hunter’s Songs Of The South which documented a road trip from North Carolina to New Orleans through 150 years of American popular song.

Age Recommendation is 18+. For tickets visit the Marine theatre website www.marinetheatre.com or call the box office on 01297 442138.

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Group receives vital funding

By Margery Hookings

Bridport Round Table awards its biggest-ever donation to cancer exercise scheme at Bridport Leisure Centre

PARTICIPANTS turned out in force when Bridport Round Table presented its biggest ever donation—to an exercise scheme for people with cancer.

There was loud applause when Simon Miles from the Round Table handed over a cheque for £5,000 to Stepping Out, which takes place at Bridport Leisure Centre, and pledged to give a further £1,000 for the two subsequent years.

The scheme—thought to be the only one of its kind—is organised by The Living Tree, a cancer support group founded by Dr Jo Cotton and Jo O’Farrell in Bridport in 2012.

Dr Cotton said: “There is a huge amount of evidence that physical exercise can help reduce the chances of relapse after cancer treatment, reduce fatigue, help cope with the consequences of treatment, improve self-esteem and generally promote recovery.”

Stepping Out began two years ago with funding from Macmillan, West Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group, Dorset County Council and the Olympic Legacy Fund. There are twice-weekly sessions, held in the Rugby Club pavilion, with gentle circuit classes on Monday mornings and a wide variety of exercise, including Nordic walking, walking football, aquafit, yoga, pilates, dance and table tennis.

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ly after two years and comment on how much it has helped them to cope with living with a diagnosis of cancer.”

With funding coming to an end, the Round Table’s donation will enable the scheme to continue throughout 2017 whilst more sustainable, long-term funding is secured.

“I’d like to say an enormous thank you to the Round Table for the donation,” she said. “It was just a shot in the dark when we contacted them, after leisure centre manager Nick Neale suggested we do so. People are really benefiting from Stepping Out and we want it to continue.”

Mr Miles said the request for funding arrived the day before a club business meeting. “It came in at the right time.

We had funds available and it made total sense for us to give it to them.”

Bridport Round Table raises funds throughout the year from events such as the annual beer festival and the Boxing Day swim. “We have supported a few younger groups, which we’re very happy to do, but it was a real pleasure to support a community group like The Living Tree with Stepping out,” Mr Miles said.

Among those benefiting from the scheme is Paul Grant, 76, from Salway Ash. “When Stepping Out started, I was part of the trial group and was the only man,” he said. “I call it ‘pre-habilitation’. There’s this idea going round that if you’re about to undergo surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy, the fitter you are, the better the outcome.”

After being referred to the Stepping Out scheme, Mr Grant went through a

one-to-one appraisal with Jo Perfect to make sure the exercises were right for him. (She does this with all participants, tailoring them according to the individual.)

There then followed two sessions over twelve weeks. “As you exercise and develop, Jo adjusts them to make them more challenging or stop if they’re too much.”

He readily confesses that when he took part in the trial group, his aim was to prove that it was a waste of time. “I did a fitness class once and that was a waste of time. But the Stepping Out classes are challenging, individually tailored and fill me with endorphins and give me a real buzz. I’ve been doing it ever since.

I’m very fit now. I’ve lost weight and gained muscle and energy.”

Another participant, Catherine Mason, said: “In the past, I’ve never been one for being in a group, but it’s been great.”

Carol Marshall attends the Stepping Out classes with her husband, Ken. He’s the cancer sufferer, she is not. But she joins in the exercises with him, confiding that it was a ‘struggle’ to get him along at the outset.

But the Charmouth couple are pleased to be part of it. Mr Marshall said: “I started in September and it’s been brilliant.”

Mrs Marshall said: “We just love it.

Everyone is so positive and upbeat and supportive.”

Read more about Stepping Out here: www. bridportleisure.com/activities/stepping-out.

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Social housing drama at Bridport A POWERFUL piece of political theatre, inspired by the real-life campaign of a group of single mums who fought against eviction from their homes, comes to Bridport Arts Centre on Saturday 15th April at 8pm.

The message of the drama, E15, written by Matt Woodhead and Helen Monks is: “We want social housing, not social cleansing.” The play is produced by LUNG Theatre, associate artists of The Lowry at Salford, who specialise in making theatre with communities, by communities and for communities.

The two writers spent two years working with the Focus E15 Campaign, a group of women campaigning for better housing. Facing skyrocketing rent and forced relocation out of London, 29 single mothers united

to confront Newham Council’s gentrification of their hometown. The play is adapted from the women’s testimonies, showing the impact of Britain’s housing

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crisis and how one group of women refused to be marginalised.

The writers say: “We first met the Focus E15 mums when we went to campaign with them at their weekly street stall on Stratford Broadway in Newham, London. From the beginning, something that shines through are the characters of the mums, particularly Jasmin Stone and Sam Middleton who have passion, strength and a true love that is so clearly driven by being a mum.

“The story of the Focus E15 mums has a silver lining.

They are the evidence of the power of people. From Hull to Lincoln, Bridport, Folkestone and Battersea, this story needs to be heard so we can all put the mum’s mantra into practice: educate, agitate, organise.”

Fun for All at Lyme Regis Fossil Festival An annual event for the whole family Lyme Regis Fossil Festival takes place between Friday 28th April and Sunday 30th April 2017. Activities are held 10am-5pm, providing plenty of opportunities to learn and have fun and events are held throughout the town, creating a vibrant festival atmosphere.

The festival is free to attend and offers a variety of educational pursuits and entertainment. This year’s theme is Time, Tides and Tectonics, exploring the global forces which have impacted—and continue to impact—our world and the Jurassic Coast in particular. There is a varied arts and science programme, including talks and fossil walks, providing something for everyone. There will also be stalls selling a variety of fossils, jewellery and dinosaur gifts.

Please note that although the Festival is a family event Friday is schools’ day, so some Festival partners may not be able to accommodate the public on that day. For full information visit www. fossilfestival.co.uk.

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Vegetables in April

By Fergus Dowding

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pril is a big sowing month, the sun rising ever higher with life and energy on the soil increasing and making it easier for strong germination.

April is traditionally fickle, with warm spells and then cold ones. So try and sow when the BBC forecast a few warm days so the seeds start their life before the next cold snap. While it is easier to sow in the warmth of May, you then have nothing to eat until July, when everything is ready at the same time. In other words it’s worth the extra effort now.

Work up a good soil tilth with a rake. You should soon have a good crumby seedbed—if not, your soil needs attention! Scattering compost on the surface in autumn lets it break down over the winter, and if you don’t dig your soil you then have a good tilth ready when you need it. Using well rotted compost is important as bits of straw and unrotted plant matter are slug food.

A major hindrance is the slug. There are lots hatching out now, and it’s best to deny them any food from the beginning. Most slugs live under the surface, invisibly gnawing at roots. By the time you see a weed, it and several failed weeds have fed your slimy friends, and so try and weed all the time, before the weeds are visible. It is quick to hoe or rake gently over the top surface regularly.

Sadly many people prefer deluging the ground with slug pellets.

Remember it is not only slugs you are killing, and that prevention is always better than a cure. My carrot seedbed is being fed with water steeped with rotting garlic, hoping the smell will encourage slugs to go the other way.

As we enter the Spring Gap, birds get puckish and so even my chard has fleece over it. Fleece is good all round, it keeps a seedbed warm and moist, and birds and rabbits off. Mice and rats love our peas each spring so we mostly sow them in modules.

We have been finding our new left-hand hoe works really well, because weeds come up anti-clockwise in the northern hemisphere. Hoe! Hoe! What to sow this month Outdoors: all the English favourites, such as maincrop peas and potatoes, leek, beetroot, calabrese/sprouting, radish, onion sets, lettuce, carrots & parsnips.

Indoors: early in the month celeriac, mid month: courgettes, basil, sweetcorn and early May: cucumber, French and runner beans. Transplanting any of these outdoors before the weather is seriously warm is risky, so it may be better to sow later than this.

Heated seed bench in the greenhouse: everything sown in seed trays and pricked out into modules, soon ready for transplanting. Helps get a strong and early start in the garden.

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April in the Garden

By Russell Jordan

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t the point of writing, I have yet to complete the planting of my own bare-root trees. For some reason, I succumbed to the worst cold I’ve had in years and, foolishly, instead of taking the necessary time off, to fully recuperate, I worked while ill only to collapse at the weekends.

Having lost three weekends, when I should have been getting on with my own garden, I am selfishly praying that April does not heat up too quickly and that a cool month will buy me some time to complete winter gardening tasks, despite it being well into the ‘official’ spring. If the weather does prove to be warm and dry, with fewer than usual April showers, then all my late-planted, bare-root, specimens will require some careful coaxing, with supplementary watering, until I’m sure they have established.

With rising average temperatures and a diminishing risk of hard frost there’s more opportunity to sow hardy annuals this month than there was last. Also, sowing lawns from scratch can take place now, following rigorous seedbed preparation, as long as you can provide some sort of protection from heavy downpours which would otherwise wash the seed and fine tilth away.

Despite completing a degree in Horticulture, I must confess that lawn care is not something I’ve ever been taught ‘academically’. It’s generally seen as such a specialist vocation that it is lifted out of general horticultural education and treated as something akin to a ‘Dark Art’. If you do enter the murky world of ‘grounds keeping’ or, the possibly even more suspect, ‘golf course management’, then you must do courses aimed specifically at how to achieve the perfect turf.

In the ‘bad old days’, which, curiously, many ‘environmental types’ like to think of as the ‘good old days’, a lot of lawn care relied on pouring all manner of toxic, but naturally derived (by which I mean not ‘synthesised’), chemical preparations onto lawns. The idea was to kill worms because worm casts were the enemy of a perfectly smooth green.

The lack of worms to aerate the soil, beneath the grass, caused poor root growth due to the lack of oxygen in the now worm-free subsoil. To alleviate, the groundsman would have to expend a lot of time and energy ‘spiking’ the lawn areas in order to artificially add the air holes which the worms used to do naturally. This is a special sort of madness! Fortunately, nowadays, we are much more savvy to the need for soils to be ‘living’, to be healthy, so

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the widespread use of ‘vermicides’ has died out.

As far as amateur lawn care is concerned, the main area of improvement, which should be done soon, is a ‘weed and feed’ preparation. As long as you follow the instructions, on whichever product you have chosen, then it’s pretty fool-proof as they tend to do ‘exactly what they say on the tin’—not that they come in a tin, of course, more likely to be a sack or bottle.

The ‘feed’ element will cause rapid grass growth, of course, so cutting a little more often, but not too short, will be necessary to encourage more lateral growth, of individual grass plants, which is desirable if they are to take full advantage of any gaps in the sward left by the, hopefully, dying weeds. Be careful what you do the clippings as most lawn treatments containing selective weed killers specify that a certain time must elapse before treated lawns can have their cuttings used for composting. You may have to bag up the first few cuts and take them to the recycling centre—formerly known as ‘the dump’.

Away from lawns, plants which have been wrapped up in fleece, to fend off the worst of the winter cold, can be unwrapped during mild spells. Keep the fleece close at hand for rapid deployment when frost threatens. Open cold frames, greenhouses and conservatories, whenever it is sunny, to encourage ventilation and assist the hardening off process. If you took tender perennial cuttings in the autumn, and they are still in pots or seed trays, then these should be separated out and potted up as soon as growth resumes.

Herbaceous perennials can be propagated easily, before they are too advanced in growth, simply by chopping sections out of the clump while they are still in the ground or by lifting the whole stool and carving it up with a sharp spade. Pot up some sections into fresh compost, creating new plants, then replant the remaining third, or so, incorporating a handful of general feed into the planting hole. Remember to water in well, to settle the roots, even if the ground is already wet.

If you are anything like me, especially if you have a similarly ‘claggy’ soil, then you may yet to set foot on your herbaceous, or mixed, borders. My absolute bugbear is compacted soil (see earlier) and the more the borders are stepped on during the dormant months the deeper they should be forked, come the spring, to get air back into them. If there have been sufficient periods of dry, warm, weather, before now, then I may have stolen a march

(no pun intended) and already done my major border spruce up.

Chances are, I’ll be doing it at the start of April when at least it’s easier to see where my precious herbaceous perennial are and so avoid trampling them.

It’s also time efficient because I can go through the borders like a dose of salt; weeding, feeding (‘fish, blood & bone’), pea-sticking and, to lock in moisture and suppress weeds, ending with a ‘skin’ of organic mulch on top of the aerated, weeded and fed, soil.

I still rely on the local ‘Komit Kompost’ for bulk mulch, for extra jobs, but, in the garden I work in, we produce enough homemade compost for the veg beds and main herbaceous border plus a bit held back for planting container grown plants as the need arises. By the time it get used in the garden, it’s had two whole years to rot down so, on the whole, it’s pretty free from viable weed seeds.

If I require completely sterile, homemade, organic matter then I can always sterilise a batch myself but my soil steriliser only handles about half a barrow at a time—not really cost effective if lots is needed.

The main reason for buying in bags of compost is that it should be completely sterile, if not then you have cause to complain, and complying to certain industry standards. As ever, if I need to check whether a particular brand is any good, I refer back to the last ‘Which?’ report.

Old habits die hard and I do owe them for my initial training as a ‘Researcher / Writer’!!!

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Mind your language

By Cecil Amor

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had thought that the local dialect (or as some used to say “lingo”) had disappeared until one day we were lunching in a local hostelry and a young lad, of about 8 or 9 years, entered looked around and said “Wheres our table to?” This is certainly not “East Enders” language learnt from the TV. Since then my ear must have become attuned for it, as I have frequently heard “Wheres it to?” since.

If “gone” is inserted before “to” the phrase is perhaps improved?

Years ago I remember a song performed on the radio which from memory went “Wur be thick blackbird to? Fur I be atter ‘e”. This is all I can remember, except a suggestion that it was from Hampshire, but it could as easily have originated anywhere in the West Country. When we were in Sussex we had a regular caller, a poultry farmer who sold us eggs and his local speech could easily have passed for West Country.

John le Carre (David Cornwall) in his book The Pigeon Tunnel refers to his father Ronnie’s voice “when I was young it was still Dorset, with his “r’s” and long “a’s”. By the time I was an adolescent he was almost— but never quite—well spoken”. My son often asks me “how many “rr’s” did you say then?”, when he catches me in an unguarded moment. Even our top people have these, for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once reverted to what I assume was her native tongue when she rebuked an opponent as being “frightened” and then said “frit”. An elderly Yorkshireman once told me about people being badly “treated” as “tret”, which I assume is a similar part of speech.

In recent years we have had three west country musical groups. Acker Bilk MBE, came from Pensford, North Somerset and became nationally known with his Paramount Jazz Band and his own clarinet. You may remember his goatee beard, bowler hat and striped waistcoat, singing with a west country “burr”. He died in 2014. One of his tunes was That’s My Home which I find emotional, and his hit Stranger On The Shore which he called “strangler”. His nickname “Acker” is sometimes used in the west country for “mate” or “friend”.

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Another Somerset group “The Wurzels”, was originated by Adge Cutler, who unfortunately died in a road accident. The group was reformed and has produced Drink Up Thy Zider and the Combine Harvester song. They also revived “Wur be thick blackbird to?” in 1976.

Our own Dorset group, “The Yetties” from Yetminster have recently retired, but Bonny Sartin, the lead singer has given solo performances locally, combining history and song. Their repertoire included Dorset Is Beautiful, “Buttercup Joe and the music of Thomas Hardy.

Over the border the Wiltshire Regiment marching song is The Vly Be On The Turmot (the fly is on the turnip).

Our two local writers, Thomas Hardy and William Barnes were familiar with much of our local dialect and used it particularly in their poetry. William Barnes’ Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect written in 1879 includes A List of Some Dorset Words, from which I have selected a few, as follows: Axan = ashes of a fire. Backbran’ = block of wood at the back of a fire.

Barton = stack or cow yard, probably familiar to most of us still.

Beae’nhan’ = maintain, e.g. an opinion—this recalls a friend of my father who occasionally visited to discuss a Parish Meeting he had attended and said once “them as don’t come to the Meeting should’nt criti-kise”, regularly emphasised by tapping his walking stick on the floor.

Bissen = thou bist not. I have often wondered if this is the same word as the German, in “Du bist”.

Bluevinny = blue mouldy, which we all recognise as the local cheese.

Caddle = a muddle, when one knows not what to do first.

Cassen = canst not. Charm = a noise of many voices.

Coossen = couldest not. Didden = did not.

Drong = narrow way. Duck, or Didden = dusk.

Dunch = dead nettle. Eltroot = cowparsley. Emmet = ant.

Evet, or Eft = newt. Flag = water plant. Giddy Gander = meadow orchid.

Girt = great. Goodnow = good neighbour.

More for another time!

Bridport History Society meets on Tuesday April 11th at 2.30 pm in the Main Hall, The United Church, East Street to learn about “The Dorsets in 1917” from Chris Copson. All welcome, visitors fee £2-50.

Cecil Amor, Hon. President Bridport History Society.

The wonderful transition from winter to spring is the catalyst required to re-invigorate and re-enthuse gardeners everywhere. The winter can be a slog and many of the tasks that should be carried out during the dormant season are undertaken in fairly unpleasant conditions with only the hope of the spring to keep us going. I seemed to carry out an almost endless amount of rose pruning this year and as the winter fades to a memory my hands will benefit from being less swollen and peppered with thorns!

Our climate, and along with it our environment, show signs of changing and, for at least the last few years, the ‘dormant’ season seems to span roughly 48 hours around the middle of January. A few climbing roses are now almost officially evergreen, spring bulbs flower earlier and earlier and many shrubs seem to suit themselves with regards their flowering time. Even apples, for which we should carefully choose compatible pollinators, flower so erratically that planning is very difficult if not impossible. Twice in recent years I have had apple varieties in my orchard flower and set fruit in the autumn, while still bearing mature fruit set during the spring? On more than one occasion, when faced with a frustrated client’s gardening conundrum, I have had to remove my battered hat, try to smooth away my own furrowed brow and admit that the erratic behaviour of the plant in question is simply unfathomable!

Some of the old rules are definitely under threat but I still believe in the core horticultural principals that I carry from my apprentice years and I have now gathered thirty years of experience with which to mould and adapt them to suit the challenges of today. During spring and summer the garden should be a beautiful, inclusive, restful and romantic idyll, as intrinsic to our lives as are every other room in the home, and as restorative from our winter malaise as the sight of the first swallow.

Of course we are all different (thank goodness!) and for some the beauty can be found in lines of symmetry and strong structure, and for others curves and chaos. Peace might be found through the sound of water or a wind-chime, or an Aspen or the hum of a million insects amongst bright coloured flowers.

I would be nervous to advise on matters of romance but a rose bower might help things along, or soft shaded seclusion, or a swathe of wild flowers, or vibrant, passionate hot colours to bolster a faint heart!?

If you have arrived at a new garden, or wish to alter things to maximise and revitalise the potential of the one where you are, then I would be pleased to hear from you and to help where I can. Enjoy the new season!

Good Gardening!

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PROPERTY ROUND-UP

Broadchurch Country

By Helen Fisher

BROADOAK £325,000

An attractive 3 bedroom detached cottage dating back to the 17th Century.

Character features include exposed beams, inglenook fireplace and exposed floor boards. Large south facing gardens with decking area and far reaching country views. With long driveway and extensive parking. National Grid pylons very near by.

Humberts Tel: 01308 422215

WOOTTON FITZPAINE £825,000

A charming, detached modern family home built in 1990 in a period style with 5 double bedrooms. Open plan kitchen with 4 oven Aga and bright, well-proportioned rooms. Gardens surround the property and back onto open farmland. Large ornamental pond. wooden workshop, garaging, kennels, ample parking.

Jackson-Stops and Staff Tel: 01308 423133

WAYTOWN £540,000

A charming 5 bedroom period cottage set in a rural hamlet yet close to Bridport. Character features include; flagstone floors, marble fireplace, window shutters and master bedroom with vaulted ceiling. Private gardens at the front with apple trees and off road parking. Scope for modernisation.

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MEADOWLANDS £565,000

This 4 bedroom, detached character home is set in an exclusive development in a tucked away location, yet within easy access to West Bay harbour.

Modern and well designed interior with family kitchen with Aga. Private and well maintained gardens with a thatched gazebo. Ample parking and detached double garage.

Kennedys Tel: 01308 427329

WEST BAY £175,000

A 1 bedroom, top floor apartment in a Grade II listed building with amazing views over the historic harbour and Jurassic Coast. Kitchen/ diner with views over the beach and cliffs. With added benefit of ownership of the 4th floor attic space. Phone entry security system and communal gardens.

Symonds and Sampson Tel: 01308 422092

WEST BAY £670,000

A modern, spacious 4 double bedroom property in a coastal location. Open plan family kitchen, double aspect sitting room with bay window with sea views. Gardens to the front with raised beds and patio area. Garage and parking for 2 vehicles.

Stags Tel: 01308 428000

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Pier Fishing

By Nick Fisher

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here’s a place in my heart which is two hundred yards long, made of rusty iron and sun bleached planks...

Cromer Pier, is my spiritual seafishing home. I first cast a line from it in 1970.

Badly. I had little idea of what I was doing and little hope of catching fish. I was a displaced Glasgow boy. Removed at the age of ten from urban saftey, to the unknown, uncharted wastes of North Norfolk.

I had no friends. Nowhere to go. When I found the pier. With a totally unsuitable rod and a newspaper parcel of shop bought-bait, I started to fish the pier, flinging lumps of lead and oversized hooks, out into the North Sea with the unfettered optimism of a village idiot.

As far as learning-curves go, mine was a steep incline. An elephant’s trunk of effort. But in the long lonely summer of my evacuation from the city I knew, I did what most blokes do, buried my head in the sand, and just did something simply for the sake of doing something.

It paid off. Gradually, by some quirk of fate and fortune I caught fish. Nothing grand. The odd codling, whiting, dabs and flounders. A bass. Not a big bass. But a bass all the same. More to the point, I made friends.

Local lads and holiday makers would find their way through the rusty green turnstile at the entrance to the pier. Or else, be deposited by parents, buying time to go on shopping expeditions or lunchtimes boozing in the Hotel de Paris. Tentatively at first, but more easily as the days wore on, we’d swop bait and tackle, or play games, running around the amusement arcade while our baits got eagerly nibbled off by crabs.

Occasionally, there’d be drama. Someone would hook something large, which usually got broken off in the jagged sharp stanchions below. Or else beardy men would come charging along the pier boards, huffing and shouting only to disappear into the life boat shed at the end.

Minutes later, we’d be entertained by a crash and a huge V-shaped tidal wave as the lifeboat would launch down the slipway at the end of the pier, and huge wakes of white foam would spiral into the air, as the lifeboat steamed out to sea to rescue some drowning poor souls. Or more likely, tow in a crab boat with a rope wrapped round its prop.

In the height of summer, with the beaches thronging with pink and peeling midlands millworkers, who’d come down for a week’s R&R, the fishing matches would begin. Organised by the town, these were low-key affairs. At least, for the juniors, they were not exactly charged with a sense of do-or-die competition.

My finest hour arrived one Saturday afternoon when I took second place in a junior match, with a bag which consisted of one eel, one codling and a good-sized crab. This haul and a half, earned me a purse which included a half-pound box of Quality Street and a Radio North Sea T-shirt. Which, ironically was probably something of a collector’s item. Radio North Sea went on to become the infamous pirate station Radio Caroline. But, I didn’t know that then. And the life of that hardworn T-shirt was just the same as the life of all my other clothes. Short and dirty.

By the end of that summer my love of pier fishing was well established, and so was my new coterie of friends. Strangely enough, the pier, and my daily attendance there, gave me a life-long love of rusty projections into the sea. I’ve fished many a pier since, from Dover to Dubai, and from Herne Bay, Kent, to Cocoa Beach, Florida.

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In Dover, I’ve lined up shoulder-to-shoulder with the Essex mob, hurling strings of four or six feathers out into the Spring tides, as the first mackeral of the season swing round the corner of the south coast. When it’s good, the fishing is so easy you find yourself doing all sorts of strange things to make it more difficult. Otherwise the black dustbin liner bag of mackeral you’d landed at the end of the day is too full and too stinky to be of any use.

In Dubai, there’s a huge pier which juts out in the shadow of the most expensive hotel in the world. At night the hotel’s gorgeous multi-coloured lights illuminate the ex oil rig barge docking pier. Barracuda and snapper, sting rays and trevally, all patrol, just outside the shadow of the lights. Flashes and splashes of spray turn purple in the glow as bait fish leap and sea-sprint, trying to escape the big-toothed marauders who come in from the deep, under cover of darkness.

In Herne Bay, a pier long since chopped off from the land by fierce seas and storms, we’d take a boat out, tie it to the rusty uprights and climb onto the debris of Victorian iron and wood. Below us, between the steel uprights, in the summer warm water, migratory bass would seek shelter and ambush smaller fish. Using Kentish-style short rods and trotting reels, we’d drop fat lug worm between the rotten planks to feel twitchy bass bites and haul the odd capture precariously onto the boards.

In Florida, I’ve fought with pelicans, keen to take the sheepshead and snapper straight from my hook. Great big-beaked grey birds would sit and watch you for hours. They’d accept scraps of bait eagerly and clank their huge hollow beaks in thanks. You’d think you’d made a friend. Their big eyes blinking with kindness. But then, as soon as you brought a flapping fish to the surface, the friend would turn into an enemy. The peaceful pelican would turn into a pier-dwelling raptor, stooping to pounce on your catch with all the bad intent of a downtown mugger.

After all the fancy foreign piers I’ve visited, last summer I decided to make a pilgrimage back to the pier of my youth. So with sons in tow, we took to the boards once more. The fish have gone, of course. All except some fat mullet. Very fat mullet. That cruise up and down the length of the pier dodging fisherman’s weights, teasing young lads to drop crab lines in their direction. But of course they always miss.

Fishing was pointless. The foreign trawlers have long since scraped every last finned-thing off the bed of this portion of the shallow flatbottomed North Sea. But crabbing was ace.

Local lads and holiday makers dropped handlines tied with huge hunks of bacon off the railings. Moments later they’d gingerly haul the line back up with two or three shore crabs hanging by one claw, trying to make their minds up whether one more beak full of Danish streaky was worth being dragged into outer space for.

Being a fisherman, I had to go and buy a serious crabbing drop net and a builder’s bucket. Baited with squid, my boys started to haul in green snapping shore crabs by the dozen. Once the bucket was full, they’d tip them all out and start again.

To many it would seem like a mindless activity. But it kept them happy and made them lots of friends. With every haul a group of boys and girls would gather round and help catch the scuttling green nippers as they scurried across the boards. Everybody screamed. And squealed and soaked up the Norfolk sun. Not least of all me.

Food&Dining New Devon company cooks up a Mixed Grill

BEYOND Face, a new Plymouth-based theatre company championing black and minority ethnic artists, comes to the Cygnet Theatre at Exeter with Mixed Grill, on 22nd April at 7:30pm.

After going out for some Caribbean food, Alix thinks that Lewis should learn how to make a proper Caribbean curry.

After all, he is a quarter mixed race, and really should connect more with his roots.

Lewis doesn’t see what the big deal is.

Their upbringing has been very different; their thought process is very different. Alix thinks too much about, well everything, and Lewis just goes with the flow and takes life as it comes.

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SEARED PEPPERED BEEF AND WATERCRESS SALAD AND HORSERADISH DRESSING INGREDIENTS

LESLEY WATERS

▪ 450g / 1lb baby new potatoes, par boiled ▪ 2 tablespoons olive oil ▪ 250g / 9oz baby plum tomatoes ▪ 115g / 4oz sugar snap peas, trimmed blanched and refreshed ▪ 4 x 115g / 4oz fillet steaks ▪ 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce ▪ 100g / 3 ½ oz watercress ▪ Salt and freshly ground black pepper

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DIRECTIONS 1

Preheat the oven to gas mark 7 / 220 C / 425 F. Place the par-boiled potatoes in a roasting tin and toss with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Season and roast in the oven for 25-30 minutes until browned.

2

Place the cherry tomatoes in a roasting tin and toss with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Season and roast in the oven for 15 minutes.

3

Meanwhile, slice the sugar snaps lengthways and set to one side. In a bowl, combine all the dressing ingredients and season to taste. Season the beef with plenty of black pepper and sprinkle over the Worcestershire sauce. Sear in a hot griddle pan for 1-2 minutes each side or until cooked to your liking. Set to one side to rest.

4

To serve, toss the watercress with the sugar snap peas and place on one large or four individual serving plates. Scatter over the potatoes and tomatoes. Slice the beef fillet on a slant and lay the slices in a slight fan shape over the salad. Finally top the beef with a dollop of the horseradish dressing and serve at once, handing any remaining sauce separately.

April 2017 Food Markets Please check dates and times with venues or organisers

Sat 1st Sat 8th

Sun 9th Thur 13th Fri 14th Sat 15th Thur 20th Fri 21st Sat 22nd Thur 27th Fri 28th

Poundbury, Queen Mother Square, 9am - 1pm Shaftesbury, Town Hall, 9am - 1pm Bridport, Bridport Arts Centre, 9am - 1pm Martock, Moorlands Precinct, 10am - 1pm Yarcombe, Village Hall - 10am - 12noon Purbeck, Commercial Rd, Swanage, 9am - 1pm Weymouth, Westham Bridge, 10am - 3pm Wareham, Town Hall, East Street, 9am - 1pm Blandford, Blandford Forum, 9am - 1pm Wimborne, Market Square, 9am - 1pm Crewkerne, Falkland Square, 9am - 1pm Honiton, St Paul’s Church, High St, 8.30am- 1pm Sherborne, Cheap St, 9am - 1pm Dorchester South, High Street, 9am - 4pm Barrington, Village Hall, 10am - 12noon Wareham, Town Hall, East Street, 9am - 1pm Weymouth, St Thomas St, 9am - 2pm

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EGG, PURPLE SPROUTING, GARAM MASALA I love the complex yet delicate flavour of garam masala. This traditional Indian spice mix is often used to add fresh spicy flavours to a dish at the end of cooking and, provided you start with a good-quality blend that is well within its use-by date, it needs little more than a touch of heat to bring it alive. Combined with butter, it makes a gorgeous dressing for broccoli and eggs.

INGREDIENTS

HUGH FEARNLEY WHITTINGSTALL

▪ 3 large eggs, at room temperature ▪ About 250g purple sprouting broccoli, woody ends removed ▪ 50g butter ▪ 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil ▪ 1 garlic clove, grated or very finely chopped ▪ 2 teaspoons garam masala ▪ Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper Serves 2

DIRECTIONS 1

Bring a pan of water to a rolling boil. Add the eggs, return to a simmer and cook for 6 minutes. Immediately drain and hold the pan of eggs under cold running water. This stops the eggs cooking at the right point: the yolks should still be a little soft when you cut into them. Carefully peel the eggs (under a trickle of cold tap water is easiest) and set them aside.

2

You can either steam or boil the purple sprouting broccoli. I like to steam it as it retains a little more of its fantastic colour this way and the delicate florets are less likely to get waterlogged. Either way, cook the broccoli for 2–6 minutes until just tender (just-picked home grown spears will only take a couple of minutes, shop-bought ones a little longer). Drain if necessary.

3

Melt the butter with the extra virgin olive oil in a small pan over a medium heat. Add the garlic, then the garam masala. Turn the heat down low and gently cook the spicy butter for 1–2 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

4

Put the broccoli on a large warm plate or individual plates. Halve the boiled eggs and place on the broccoli. Dress the eggs and broccoli with the warm, fragrant butter. Season with a little more salt and pepper and serve.

This recipe features in “River Cottage Easy”, written by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, published by Bloomsbury, and available from rivercottage.net. Photography © Simon Wheeler Enjoy a taste of River Cottage at our Food Fair over the weekend of 27-29 May. We’ll have cookery demos, hands-on cooking masterclasses and great food. There will be plenty of entertainment for the kids with donkey rides, bubble workshops, falconry displays and more. Tickets are £17.50 and under 16s are free. For more details and to book see www.rivercottage.net or call Tamsyn in our Events Team on 01297 630302.

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SHAVED ASPARAGUS AND BLACK COW CHEDDAR SALAD Thinly-shaved raw asparagus make a great and unusual salad. You can also add other shaved raw vegetables to this salad, such as fennel and radishes; and most cheeses, from goat’s to Parmesan, will work well too.

INGREDIENTS

DIRECTIONS

▪ 8 thick stems of asparagus, woody ends trimmed ▪ A couple of handfuls of small tasty salad leaves and herbs, washed and dried ▪ 120g Cashel blue cheese

1

To make the dressing, blend all of the ingredients in a liquidiser, season to taste and adjust the consistency with a little water if it is too thick.

2

Cut the asparagus into long strips as thinly as possible on the angle; you can also shave it into long strips with a mandolin, though be careful of cutting your fingers! Leave in iced water for 20 minutes, then drain and dry.

3

To serve, arrange the salad leaves and asparagus on serving plates, spoon over the dressing and break the cheese into nuggets on top.

FOR THE DRESSING

MARK HIX

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30ml cider or white wine vinegar 2tsp Tewkesbury or Dijon mustard 40g Black cow cheddar cheese 120ml vegetable oil 30ml water

Serves 4 HIX Oyster and Fish House is Mark’s local restaurant that overlooks the harbour in Lyme Regis and boasts the most stunning panoramic views across the Jurassic coast – this is easily one of the most picturesque spots to enjoy British fish seafood. To book please call 01297 446 910.

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PEOPLE IN FOOD

Zoë Marshall, photograph and words by Catherine Taylor

ZOË MARSHALL Kingston Black, Ellis Bitter, Tremletts Bitter, Browns, Somerset Redstreak and Major; those in the know will recognise these as varieties of cider apple trees.

All can be found in Zoë Marshall’s 10 acre orchard in Netherhay, which she has planted and nurtured alongside her Garden Designer husband, Duncan. Together they shared a dream and bought a field in 2001 wanting something for their future. Now the couple are ready to share the fruits of their labour under the apt name of The Gardener’s Orchard.

Always intended to be a cyclical enterprise, the orchard works for itself. Sheep graze under the boughs, horses munch the hay, the trees benefit from the horse manure and chickens wander round pecking away, scratching at the weeds. As for the fruit, this is transformed into traditional farmhouse cider, which in turn is used to make cider cake. Zoë uses her family’s secret recipe to make speciality fudge and sells it, with the cider cake and cider, at local stores, fairs and markets, as well as through their website.

Zoë grew up on a farm near Crewkerne. She has idyllic memories of hauling bales and riding around on a tractor, sat next to her father. Working for years as a farm secretary, she met Duncan at agricultural college.

Zoë maintains strong links with the farming community, still working one day a week for a local farming family. She helps Duncan with his garden design business and makes fudge or cake two days a week. The couple work together in their orchard, all while raising their two girls, who have just about flown the nest.

Now, Zoë is happy doing what she loves every day, and by her side, is the man who declares he “knew within two seconds, she was the woman” for him. In amongst the cider, cake and fudge emerges a true love story.

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Arts &Entertainment

Ann Jellicoe

A lifelong knack for reinvention

The trail-blazing dramatist Ann Jellicoe will be 90 this year. Drawing on a candid interview Jellicoe gave to the British Library in 2005, Ines Cavill looks back at a rich creative life characterised by bold innovation and canny reinvention—an imaginative capacity to adapt to changing personal and professional circumstances that would forge new theatrical forms in the process.

Photographs courtesy The Roger Mayne Archive / The Mary Evans Picture Library

Above and Left: The Knack by Ann Jellicoe at the Royal Court, 1962

B

orn in Middlesborough in 1927, Jellicoe loved performance and writing from a young age. She adored her junior dance class and creating charades at school. ‘From when I was four years old I wanted to go into the theatre, I didn’t have an easy childhood, my parents separated and the world of fantasy struck me early—that you could go into another situation….I would lie awake the day before a charade had to be put on at school and in my head I would write everything, the whole dialogue’.

She went on to the Central School of Speech and Drama where a key stimulus was improvisation, ‘there was a remarkable teacher—I remember seeing another student improvising a dream where he was playing a trumpet that turned into a bird and flew away... improvisation was the start of something quite new, it was like a door—an opening into a cavern you could explore’.

Despite having been a star student first acting jobs eluded her till friends got her a place in repertory in Aberystwyth, ‘I came out with Central’s chief prize but not being a pretty girl—in an age when we hadn’t had the Berliner Ensemble where plain girls were allowed to be interesting—I didn’t immediately get work’. But Jellicoe was just plain passionate about all aspects of theatre and would soon be more involved in creating plays than acting in them. In 1949 she was commissioned to make a fascinating study of the relationship between acting and the theatre’s architecture. Unconscious Influences on the Theatre led her to work with ‘Open Stage’ and at the Sunday (Cockpit) Theatre Club she would produce and direct plays that explored this form, including a first one-act play of her own.

Jellicoe’s big career breakthrough came in 1955 when she was the runner up in The Observer’s playwriting competition—a search for new talent by their acclaimed theatre critic Kenneth Tynan. ‘It was wonderful! The phone rang and within 24 hours you were having lunch with the directors of the Royal Court Theatre and their designer is coming round to your room with a model… it was unbeliev-

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able’. At The Royal Court she would be the only woman in its innovative Writers’ Workshop.

Her radical winning play The Sport of My Mad Mother took its title from the Hindu religious saying ‘All creation is the sport of my mad mother Kali’. Set in Cockney London it used absurdist dialogue and physical theatre to weave a fantastical tale of young misfits. Initially a commercial failure that lasted only 14 performances, it was later performed around the world in many languages and is now considered ripe for a British revival. The Guardian theatre critic Michael Billington wrote in March 2014, ‘it’s a mind-blowing piece that combines social anarchy with verbal jazz and ends with a triumphant hymn to female fertility… The Knack also deserves another look, but it is this one that showed her to be a radical theatrical pioneer’.

With typical responsiveness Jellicoe changed tack in the face of this initial blow to her confidence—with starry Sixties results.

‘The reception of that play was like being cannoned into a brick wall, so I thought I better write a comedy’. That 1962 comedy, The Knack, was a massive hit at The Royal Court and Off Broadway where it would play 685 shows under the direction of Mike Nichols.

‘Without doubt it was the most exciting time of my life. The 60s were beginning to swing and anything seemed possible at The Court. I wrote The Knack whose characters all grew from people I knew. Rita Tushingham was wonderful, she could mime anything, just do it off the top of her head. George Devine, the artistic director, was an extraordinary man—referring to the title of my first play he once said “I regard myself as your mad uncle”’. The Knack also gave her a memorable telephonic run-in with The Lord Chamberlain looking to exercise the last reprimands of the dying censorship powers from the 1843 Theatres Act; ‘Oh haw haw haw Miss Jellicoe I’m afraid this is going to be a rather difficult conversation’, so it went something along the lines of ‘If I take out “bum” will you allow so and so?’ Occasionally somebody did walk out of The Knack and they were heard to say in the foyer ‘But mother, I can’t hear anything dirty!’. And although the play’s focus is the sexual competition among three roommates when a provincial young woman enters their London world, Jellicoe insists ‘it seems to be about sex—what it’s really about is how people should treat other people’.

The Knack’s star continued to rise with its successful adaptation to the big screen in 1965, winning the Palme D’Or at that year’s Cannes Film Festival. Director Richard Lester was between making A Hard Day’s Night and Help, putting The Knack in a pivotal Sixties stylistic spot—it’s full of French New Wave influences and Lester’s visual trademarks like subtitles and shot repetition.

It even features three icons—Jane Birkin, Jacqueline Bisset and Charlotte Rampling—making their cinematic debuts as extras. Rita Tushingham revives her central role as Nancy, the contemporary young woman whose wit and warmth would chime with 1966’s Georgy Girl. The shy schoolteacher Colin, so desperate to gain his lodger’s ‘knack’ with the opposite sex, is played by a young Michael Crawford honing the accident-prone persona that would become Frank Spencer in the BBC sitcom Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em. The Knack was partly based on Jellicoe’s second husband Roger Mayne, whose stunning street photography mirrored her ‘theatre of demonstration’; a shared intention to show not tell. ‘Roger had a house like Colin’s, I was living with him and he had a lodger like Tom and a hilarious character just like Tolen who obviously tried to make a pass at me and he got nowhere! We moved from ‘The Knack’ house on Addison Ave to a very nice house in Richmond because you couldn’t have brought a child up there. We also had a cottage

The Reckoning, Lyme regis. First ever Community Play, written and directed by Ann Jellicoe

in Dorset, an absolutely idyllic place with roses round the door and thatch—we would pile everything into the car at any opportunity and we so hated going back to London. I just got fed up with London and I assumed I would just go on writing plays...’

They made the permanent move to Colway Manor in Lyme in 1975 after her last role at The Royal Court as literary manager promoting women playwrights including Caryl Churchill. But how was Jellicoe to go on writing plays? She enjoyed creating dramas for younger children (a series of ‘Jelliplays’) that were attuned to the ages of their son and daughter, Tom and Katkin, and as they settled in school in Lyme she imagined a much more ambitious production, The Reckoning. It proved too big for a secondary school to stage and as it grew to involve an eighty-strong local cast of all ages a powerful template emerged from this first Community Play: an original work written for and about a particular community, performed in shared space for audience and cast and staged by a professional production team. Jellicoe went on to form the Colway Theatre Trust and produce two decades of work exploring this form from Dorset to Denmark.

‘And so I lived happily ever after and did I don’t know how many plays...’

As part of the Sixties theme within this year’s From Page to Screen Film Festival in Bridport there will be a screening of The Knack at the Bridport Arts Centre at 2pm on Sunday April 23. Ann Jellicoe will reflect on the original play and its adaptation with her daughter Katkin Tremayne and there will be a display of her late husband Roger Mayne’s photographs from the play—retrospectives of his work are also currently on show at the Photographers’ Gallery in London and at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery in Honiton.

But looking forward, it is the spirit of community theatre that Jellicoe nurtured in West Dorset which continues to thrive. The Dorchester Community Plays Association have announced that their 7th play will be a new commission by the playwright Stephanie Dale. In Lyme Regis the Monmouth Community Play will be staged at the Marine Theatre and seafront in July. Bridport is producing the very next piece of community theatre, FLEA! at The Electric Palace 23-27 May—written by Andrew Dickson who first encountered the town through the early Community Play The Poor Man’s Friend.

These three current local productions reflect the enduring influence of a creative visionary who has enabled so many to see differently.

‘That white horse you see in the park could be a zebra synchronised with the railings....’

For information on the line up of films at this year’s From Page to Screeen Festival visit www.frompagetoscreen.org.uk.

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Museums&Galleries 1 - 19 April

Vanessa Bowman, Fiona Millais and Jenny Wheatley The Jerram Gallery, Half Moon St. Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3LN 01935 815261. www.jerramgallery. com.

1 April – 23 April

Easter at The Town Mill Visit Lyme Regis’s Town Mill to see volunteer millers in action as they harness the power of the River Lym to turn the waterwheel, gears and millstones to produce traditional Town Mill flour.

From 10-17 April, visitors can drop into Kate’s Kitchen and decorate an Easter Egg shaped biscuit. There will also be art and craft activities to enjoy in our Community Room on Monday 17 April.

The Mill’s creative artisan businesses and art galleries will also be open to purchase a unique souvenir of your visit to the creative heart of Lyme Regis. The Town Mill, Mill Lane, Lyme Regis DT7 3PU.

1 April – 22 June

40 Years of Twinning Beaminster Museum - celebrating the anniversary of the link between Beaminster and St James in France. Opening times: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Bank holidays 10.30am - 4pm. Sundays 2pm - 4.30pm.

For more details see website www. beaminstermuseum.wordpress.com. Tel: 01308 863623 (answerphone message).

1 April – 29 October

Wood You Know Beaminster Museum exploring the local history of woodlands, wood and woodworkers. Opening times: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Bank holidays 10.30am - 4pm. Sundays 2pm - 4.30pm. For more details see website www.beaminstermuseum.wordpress.com.

Telephone number 01308 863623.

Until 2 April

Axminster Arts Members’ exhibition Nineteen members of Axminster Arts are showing their diverse talents at the Arts Café, with oils, watercolours, textiles, mixed media and photography. Enjoy this highly varied exhibition in the historic grade II listed Old Courthouse building right in the centre of Axminster. EX13 5AQ. 01297 631455. Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 9am – 3pm & Sunday 10am – 2pm.

3 April – 7 May

Oliver Warman Exhibition at the Axminster Arts Café. His working life was spent in the army and he painted (always in oil colours) all over the world.

He showed in the Royal Academy for ten years and now teaches a small band of students locally, whilst continuing with his work lecturing at Oxford and London universities on War 1869 onwards and the Holocaust. Arts Café, Old Courthouse, Axminster EX13 5AQ. 01297 631455.

Opening hours: Mon-Sat: 9am – 4pm, Sunday 10am – 2pm.

Until 8 April

Emerging Group exhibition by 12 Good Women, plus 3 guest artists. Textile art, ceramics, mixed media, enamels and more. Monday - Friday 9.30am - 4.30pm.

Saturday 9.30am - 2.30pm. Free. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Simon Hitchens: Touch Stones is best known for his large scale sculptural work. b-side are exhibiting studio work and film as part of Simon’s new project ‘Touch Stones’ at Outpost. “My studio practice underpins everything and is centered on my fascination with rock and what position it holds in our psyche. My public

commissions are continually informed by these studio explorations..” Outpost 77 Fortuneswell, Portland, DT5 1LY. David Gommon : Dreaming of Dorset 1948-85 A full exhibition of his work. The Art Stable, Child Okeford, Blandford, Dorset, DT11 8HB 01258 863866. www. theartstable.co.uk.

10 – 29 April

Two Painters and a Sculptor A trio of North Dorset artists show their work in Somerset for the first time. Featuring painters Sue Bates and Sue Fawthrop, and wood turner/sculptor Darren Wheeler. Monday - Friday 9.30am 4.30pm. Saturday 9.30am - 2.30pm.

Free. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org. uk.

Until 11 April

Materials: Contemporary Crafts The Malthouse Gallery, The Town Mill, Mill Lane, Lyme Regis DT7 3PU. 10.30am - 4.30pm. Free admission. www. townmillarts.co.uk. “Materials” welcomes diverse and talented makers to the Town Mill for its very first contemporary craft group exhibition. Over 15 makers will be showing products and pieces in a range of medium including glass, ceramics and metal. Showcasing awardwinning furniture maker Alice Bloggs and celebrated textiles by local artist Hugh Dunford Wood. In an ever-increasing virtual world, an appetite is building for the handmade, where design and decision is in harmony with raw materials - be they fabric, porcelain or paper.

Until 12 April

Colour & Clay The Courtyard Gallery, The Town Mill, Mill Lane, Lyme Regis DT7 3PU. 10.30am - 4.30pm. Free admission. www.townmillarts.co.uk. Two East Devon artists share their enthusiasm for creating pieces that are organic in nature and material. Elizabeth Richie explores the elements of water and earth in her striking new paintings. Ali Herbert explores some repeated bowl and cup forms.

Materials: Contemporary Craft at The Town Mill Over 15 makers will be showing products and pieces in a range of media including glass, ceramics and metal. We are especially pleased to showcase award winning furniture maker Alice Bloggs and celebrated textiles by local artist Hugh Dunford Wood. The Malthouse Gallery, The Town Mill, Mill Lane, Lyme Regis DT7 3PU. 10.30am - 4.30pm. Free admission. www. townmillarts.co.uk.

Until 14 April

Spring Exhibition Artwave West.

Sophie Capron, Louise McClary, Kathy Little, Suchi Chidambaram, Val Hudson,

Liz Salter and Rebecca FontaineWolf. Artwave West, Morecombelake, Dorset DT6 6DY 01297 489746 ww.artwavewest.com.

14 – 26 April

Triple Vision The Malthouse Gallery, The Town Mill, Mill Lane, Lyme Regis DT7 3PU. 10.30am - 4.30pm. Free admission. www.townmillarts.co.uk.

Photographers John Marriage, Moya Paul and Dave Wicken experiment with the photographic image and process, using colour and digital constructions to produce an abstracted and playful sideways look at the world.

Walk of Art The Courtyard Gallery, The Town Mill, Mill Lane, Lyme Regis DT7 3PU. 10.30am - 4.30pm. Free admission. www.townmillarts.co.uk. This exhibition showcases paintings by Sue Lewin and Kathy Scott and bronze resin sculptures

by Toni West. Exploring their shared fascination of the natural surroundings of walks along the coast and countryside paths.

Until 15 April

Colour Values - Group 7 Group 7 includes; Brian Bishop, Martyn Brewster, Bonnie Brown, Fran Donovan, Michael

Griffiths, Ursula Leach & Peter Symons.

The group is concerned with painting & printmaking, the work evokes emotional responses that explore colour & medium.

Allsop Gallery, Bridport Arts Centre, South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3NR Open, Tues-Sat: 10am – 4pm. Free admission. 01308 424204 www.bridportarts.com.

Paintbox - Janet Mitchell “Nature is a wonderful: I cannot improve or encroach on it. But a paintbox is like a piano to a composer, full of endless possibilities, colour combination, variations in depth, intensity and the juxtaposition of areas.”

Cafe / Foyer Spaces, Bridport Arts Centre Open, Tues-Sat: 10am – 4pm. Free admission. 01308 424204. www.bridportarts.com.

15 – 17 April

Five Artists Easter Open Studios 111m4pm. Kit Glaisyer, Caroline Ireland, David Brooke, Marion Taylor and Charlotte Miller. St Michael’s Studios, Art & Vintage, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3RR

Museums

Please telephone for opening hours ALLHALLOWS MUSEUM

High Street, Honiton.

01404 44966. www.honitonmuseum.co.uk

AXMINSTER HERITAGE

Silver Street, Axminster.

01297 639884.

BEAMINSTER MUSEUM

Whitcombe Road, Beaminster.

01308 863623. www.beaminstermuseum. wordpress.com

BLANDFORD MUSEUM

www.chardmuseum.co.uk.

CHIDEOCK MUSEUM

Church of Our Lady, North Road, Chideock. 01308 488348. www.chideockmartyrschurch.org.uk

COLYTON HERITAGE CENTRE

Market Place, Colyton www.colytonheritagecentre.org

CREWKERNE & DISTRICT MUSEUM

The Heritage Centre, Market Square, Crewkerne. 01460 77079.

Bere’s Yard, Blandford Forum. 01258 www.crewkernemuseum.co.uk 450388.

DORSET COUNTY www.blandfordtownmuseum.org High West Street, Dorchester.

BRIDPORT MUSEUM 01305 262735.

South Street, Bridport. www.dorsetcountymuseum.org.

01308 422116.

EXMOUTH MUSEUM www.bridportmuseum.co.uk.

Sheppards Row, off Exeter Road, CASTLETON Exmouth. 07768 184127.

WATERWHEEL MUSEUM

Oborne Road, Sherborne. www.castletonwaterwheelmuseum. org.uk

CHARD MUSEUM

Godworthy House, High Street, Chard. 01460 65091.

FAIRLYNCH ARTS CENTRE AND MUSEUM

27 Fore Street, Budleigh Salterton.

01395 442666.

GROVE PRISON MUSEUM

Governors Gardens, The Grove, Portland. 01305 715726.

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ILCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSEUM High Street, Ilchester

(at the side of the Town Hall).

01935 841247.

LYME REGIS MUSEUM

Bridge Street, Lyme Regis.

01297 443370.

NOTHE FORT

Barrack Road, Weymouth. 01305 766626. www.fortressweymouth.co.uk.

PORTLAND MUSEUM

Sidmouth. 01395 516139.

THELMA HULBERT GALLERY, ELMFIELD HOUSE

Dowell Street, Honiton.

01404 45006.

THE MILITARY MUSEUM OF DEVON AND DORSET

The Keep, Bridport Road, Dorchester. 01305 264066. www.keepmilitarymuseum.org.

TOLPUDDLE MARTYRS MUSEUM

217 Wakeham Portland. 01305 821804.

Tolpuddle, nr Dorchester.

01305 848237.

ROYAL ALBERT MEMORIAL MUSEUM & ART GALLERY

3 Trinity Street, Weymouth. 01305 779711 or 812341.

Queen St, Exeter, EX4 3RX. 01392 665858.

SEATON MUSEUM

Top Floor, Seaton Town Hall, Fore Street, Seaton. 01297 21660.

SHERBORNE MUSEUM

Abbey gatehouse, Church Lane, Sherborne. 01935 812252. www.sherbornemuseum.co.uk.

SIDMOUTH MUSEUM

Hope Cottage, Church Street,

TUDOR HOUSE

www.weymouthcivicsociety.org.

WATER SUPPLY MUSEUM

Sutton Poyntz Pumping Station, Sutton Poyntz, Weymouth.

01305 832634 www.wessexwessex.co.uk.

WEYMOUTH MUSEUM

Brewers Quay Hope Square, Weymouth. 01305 457982 www.weymouthmuseum.org.uk

Until 17 April

Finding Pathways: Anne Davies, Andrew Bird paintings. Petter Southall furniture. Anne Davies and Andrew Bird both grew up in the Peak District and draw their inspiration from the landscapes of the Industrial Revolution, old mills and rows of worker’s cottages decaying now and embedded into the dramatic rugged hills and valleys. In different ways, both love to paint the combination of countryside and architecture found both there and in coastal Cornwall, celebrating texture, pattern, space and light, the compound impressions of place. Sladers Yard West Bay Road, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4EL. Tel. 01308 459511

21 April – 27 May

Presence Amy Albright, Paul Denham, Martin Goold, Susan Laughton and Chris Taylor. Artwave West, Morecombelake, Dorset DT6 6DY 01297 489746 ww.artwavewest.com.

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GALLERY

Highlights

A Dream of Sker House - 14x14 c1998 by the late Michael Morgan from a major show of his paintings at the Marine House at Beer.

April 22 - May 5.

Until 22 April

Beyond the Lens - Roger Mayne photography exhibition An exhibition of rarely seen, large-scale photographs by one of Britain’s most outstanding photographers Roger Mayne opens this March at THG (Thelma Hulbert Gallery) in Devon. Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) famously documented the children and young residents of Southam Street in West London in the 1950s and 60s. These photographs led to him becoming one of Britain’s most important post-war photographers.

His work has been exhibited widely including both at the V&A and the National Portrait Gallery, London.

The photographs in this exhibition were taken by Mayne from the 1950s to the 1970s and were hung in a barn at his home in Lyme Regis, Dorset. From London street scenes to exotic landscapes, they are crudely mounted photographs shown in their fragile state, in contrast to Mayne’s usual pristine photographs exhibited in galleries. Upstairs in the Project Space will be featured a selection of Mayne’s photographs for the Shell Guide to Devon from 1975, which was written by his wife, the playwright Ann Jellicoe. Open Tue to Sat, 10am to 5pm. Free, donations welcome. Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Elmfield House, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LX. Tel 01404 45006 www.thelmahulbert.com.

22 April - 5 May Bronze like the Chant of Bees by Louise McClary 100cm 100cm.

Artwave West, Morecombelake until April 14.

Major Show of Paintings by Michael Morgan RI (1928 - 2014).

Over 40 works spanning the years 1998 – 2012. Also introducing paintings by Grandson Ben Morgan.

Contact the gallery for a free 40-page catalogue and invitation to the launch day on Saturday 22 April from 11.00am. The paintings are also on the web site and are for sale. Marine House at Beer, Fore Street, Beer, Devon EX12 3EF www. marinehouseatbeer.co.uk info@marinehouseatbeer.co.uk Telephone 01297 625257.

22 April – 3 June The Poetry of Philip Sutton—paintings and works on paper, including new work opens at Sladers Yard, West Bay on April 22.

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Cape Farewell Allsop Gallery, Bridport Arts Centre DT6 3NR 01308 424204 www.bridport-arts.

com. For the last three years The Arts Development Company and Cape Farewell have been running residencies for artists to work with farmers to examine our relationship with food, farming and the wider environment.

22 April - 18 June

The Poetry of Philip Sutton RA paintings, works on paper and new work. Sladers Yard West Bay Road, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4EL. Tel. 01308 459511.

25 April – 27 May

Jennie Dutton: The Dementia Darnings The Dementia Darnings, takes a selection of photos of the artist’s mother who had dementia and reproduced them as large scale portraits in wool and thread.

Bridport Arts Centre, DT6 3NR 01308 424204 www.bridport-arts. com.

28 April – 10 May

Glazed Sky-Traced Earth The Courtyard Gallery, The Town Mill, Mill Lane, Lyme Regis DT7 3PU. 10.30am - 4.30pm. Free admission. www.townmillarts.co.uk. New work

by Lyme Regis-based painter Jools Woodhouse and potter Ali Herbert.

The two-week exhibition is a culmination of their recent individual discoveries of new styles, colour, form and influences that have come from living close to the sea.

Until 29 April

The Transformed Land Curated

by Paul Newman, this exhibition features a diverse collection of artists whose practice centres on nature, focusing on observation and process; why artists return to a particular place and what it means to them to work with it. Presenting and juxtaposing contrasting mediums, the exhibition considers what turns landscape into ‘place’. A series of specially-written artist statements will invite viewers to explore the idea of how we affect places and how they affect us as well as provide a unique insight into what it is that draws us to certain spaces.

Times vary. This free event will be open during Box Office hours. It may be closed during performances. The Brewhouse Theatre & Arts Centre, Coal Orchard, Taunton, Somerset TA1 1JL Box Office: 01823 283 244. www.thebrewhouse.net.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO INCLUDE YOUR GALLERY?

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PERFORMANCE Tuesday 28 March

BOURNEMOUTH, BIC, Olly Murs.

BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Idomeneo from the Met by satellite, 5pm.

BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Welsh National Opera in Le Vin Herbe, by Frank Martin, 7.15.

PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Drum Studio, Little Bulb in Wail, to 1 April.

Wednesday 29 March

BRISTOL, Hippodrome, WNO in La Boheme, and Thurs, 7.15.

02 Academy, The Jesus and Mary Chain.

EXMOUTH, Pavilion, Original 60s Show, with Dave Berry, etc.

LYME REGIS, Marine, Lyme Youth Theatre in The Monstrum, Gothik melodrama by Kellie Smith, National Theatre Connections entry, to Fri, 7.30.

TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Maddy Prior with Hannah James and Giles Lewin, 7.30.

Thursday 30 March

DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Dorchester Youth Theatre in Pronoun, by Evan Placey, and Friday, 7.30.

DULVERTON, Town Hall, Dogwood in No Finer Life, play by Graham Harvey, 7.30.

EXETER, Northcott Theatre, Le Navet Bete in Dracula, The Bloody Truth, to Sat. Phoenix, Steve ’n’ Seagulls.

POOLE, Lighthouse, Oysters 3, folk, 7.30.

Friday 31 March

BOURNEMOUTH, Shelley Theatre, Barb Jungr sings Bob Dylan, 8.

BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Comedy Cafe Big Night Out, 8.

BRISTOL, Hippodrome, WNO in Madame Butterfly, and Sat, 7.15.

HONITON, Beehive, Noble Jacks, folk, 8.

ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Flanders and Swann Recaptured, with James Mitchell and Grahame O’Connor, 8.

TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Vienna Festival Ballet in Cinderella, to Sun, various times.

YEOVIL, Westlands, Joel Dommett Live, comedy, 8.

Saturday 1 April

BATH, various venues, Bath Comedy Festival, to 17 April.

BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, Susan Calman, 8.

BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Ambreen Razia in Diary of a Hounslow Girl, 8.

BRISTOL, Old Vic, Balleyboyz in Life, and Sun, 7.30.

Colston Hall, Paul Weller.

HONITON, The Beehive, Dogwood in Graham Harvey’s No Finer Life, and Q and A with author, 7.30.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Papa Le Gal and King Porter Stomp, 8.30.

SEATON, Gateway, Soneando, Cuban Salsa, 7.45.

SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Steve Tilston and Jez Lowe, folk, 8.

WESTON SUPER MARE, Playhouse, Elkie Brooks, 7.30.

YEOVIL, Westlands, Rich Hall’s Hoedown, comedy, 8.

Sunday 2 April

DALWOOD, Nr Axminster, St Peter’s Church, Axminister Chamber Choir, Music for Lent and Holy Week, 3pm.

DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, The Diary of a Hounslow Girl, 8.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, That’ll Be the Day, 7.30.

Monday 3 April

BOURNEMOUTH, BIC, Russell Howard, comedy, to Wed. BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Story Slam, 7.30.

EXETER, Northcott Theatre, Northanger Abbey, to Thurs, 7.30, Wed mat 2.30.

Tuesday 4 April

BATH, Theatre Royal, Headlong in Pygmalion, to Sat. BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes, to Sat.

Wednesday 5 April

BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Caro Emerald.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Giles Roberts in Much Further Out than you Thought, drama about Afghan veteran, 8.

Thursday 6 April

BATH, Theatre Royal, Ustinov Studio, German season, F Murray Abraham in The Mentor, to 6 May. Electric Palace, Tamsin Grieg in Twelfth Night, live by satellite from the National Theatre, 7pm.

BRISTOL, Old Vic, Messiah, BOV and the English Concert, to Sun, 7.30.

Tobacco Factory, Shakespeare at the TF in Moliere’s Tartuffe, to 6 May. DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Richard Digance, 8.

EXETER, Cygnet Theatre, Jim Payne and Wren Music, folk, 7.30.

HATHERLEIGH, Lower Pulworthy Farm, Concerts in the West, Batholomew Lafollette, cello, Caroline Palmer, piano, Bach, Schubert, Britten, Brahms, 7.30.

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SEATON, Gateway, Tamsin Grieg in Twelfth Night, live by satellite from the National Theatre, 7pm.

YEOVIL, Westlands, Dr John Cooper Clarke, performance poetry, 7.30.

Friday 7 April

BOURNEMOUTH, BIC, Rick Astley.

Pavilion, Omid Djalili, comedy.

BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Batholomew Lafollette, cello, Caroline Palmer, piano, Bach, Schubert, Britten, Brahms, 11am: Jazz Cafe, Elaine Davies, vocals/sax/flute/clarinet, with Philip Clouts, piano, Great American Songbook, 8.

EXETER, Northcott, OperaUpClose in Verdi’s La Traviata, and Sat, 7.30.

EXMOUTH, Pavilion, Chicago Blue Brothers, 7.30.

HONITON, The Beehive, Sound of the Sirens, folk rock, 8.

ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Batholomew Lafollette, cello, Caroline Palmer, piano, Bach, Schubert, Britten, Brahms, 8.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Twelve Million Volts, the outbound project, work in progress, 6pm.

SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Stompin’ Dave, 8.

Saturday 8 April

BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Rob Rouse, comedy, 8.

CREWKERNE, The Dance House, Concerts in the West, Batholomew Lafollette, cello, Caroline Palmer, piano, Bach, Schubert, Britten, Brahms, 7.30.

DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Ninebarrow, folk, 8.

EXETER, St Thomas Methodist Church, Exeter Bach Society, Durufle, Zelenka, Bach, Faure, 7.30.

EXMOUTH, Pavilion, Some Guy’s Have All the Luck, Rod Stewart tribute, 7.30.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, disco.

Sunday 9 April

BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Bolshoi Ballet in A Hero of Our Time, filmed in Moscow, 4pm.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Open Attic in Much Ado About Puffin, to Wed, various day times: Jazz in the Bar, with Jesse Molins, guitar, 8.

SEATON, Gateway, Bolshoi Ballet in A Hero of Our Time, filmed in Moscow, 4pm.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Weymouth School of Ballet in Divas, Legends and Superstars, 2 and 7pm.

YEOVIL, Octagon, Danny Harmer, George Sampson and Andy Abraham in Robin Hood, 6, and Mon 1 and 5pm.

PERFORMANCE Monday 10 April

BATH, Theatre Royal, Jodie Prenger in Shirley Valentine, to Sat, Wed/Sat mats.

EXETER, Northcott Theatre, Exeter Musical Society in Thoroughly Modern Millie, to Sat, 7.30, Fri/Sat mats 2.30.

Tuesday 11 April

BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Bridport Musical Theatre Co in Showstoppers, to Fri, 7.30.

BRISTOL, Old Vic, La Strada, play inspired by Fellini film, to 22 April.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Cirque du Hilarious, 7.

YEOVIL, Octagon, Sinfonia Classica, Jennifer Pike, violin, Timothy Ridout, viola, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, 7.30.

Wednesday 12 April

DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Alison Reid in Michael Morpurgo’s children’s play An Elephant in the Garden, 2.30 & 7.

County Museum, Endymion Ensemble, Beethoven, Brahms, 7.30.

EXETER, Barnfield, Middle Weight in Remedies: A Ballad of Broken Britain, to Sat, 7.30.

YEOVIL, Octagon, Jasper Carrot’s Stand up and Rock, and Thurs, 7.30.

Thursday 13 April

LYME REGIS, Marine, Tony Robinson’s Walking Through History – England’s Last Battle: the West Country 2015, film, part of Monmouth programme, 7.30.

Friday 14 April

HONITON, The Beehive, Rusty Shackle, Welsh folk roots, 8.

ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Mike Denham and the Sunset Cafe Stompers, jazz, 8.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, LR Beer Festival, with live music, and Sat. WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Robin Hood, with Danni Harmer, George Sampson and Andy Abraham, 2 and 6pm.

YEOVIL, Westlands, Poptastic, with SClub, 5ive, Big Brovas and Booty Luv and East 17, 8.

Saturday 15 April

BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Ken Dodd.

BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, E15 in drama about social housing, 8.

Electric Palace, Ferocious Dog, 8, SIDMOUTH, Manor Pavilion, SMT in 42nd Street, to 22 April.

SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Richard Digance, 8.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Russell Kane, Right Man, Wrong Age, comedy, 7.30.

YEOVIL, Octagon, Dick and Dom Live, 2 and 6pm.

Sunday 16 April

BRISTOL, Colston Hall, Gypsy Kings.

YEOVIL, Westlands, Jewels, ballet recorded by satellite from ROH, 2pm.

Monday 17 April

BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, live charity screening of Broadchurch Series 3 finale, with Chris Chibnall, in aid of Dorset Rape Crisis and Dorset SARC, 9pm.

EXETER, Northcott Theatre, Encore4 Dance, triple bill, 7.30.

EXMOUTH, Pavilion, Panto Co in The Little Mermaid.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Black Venn Poetry Workshop, noon.

Tuesday 18 April

BATH, Theatre Royal, Sacha Regan’s all male The Mikado, to Sat, Wed/Sat mats.

BRISTOL, St George’s, The Wind in the Willows, Cellophony with Simon Callow, Schubert, Berio, Liszt, Birchall Wind in the Willows premiere, 7.

EXETER, Barnfield Theatre, Dancing at Lughnasa, to Sat, 7.30.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Angel Heart in Freya - A Viking Saga, puppets, 5 and Wed noon.

PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Lyric, WNO in Le Vin Herbé: The Drum, Fifth World in All the Little Lights, to Sat.

Saturday 22 April

DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Stacey Kent, jazz, 8.

EXETER, Northcott Theatre, Polka Theatre in Babe, The Sheep-Pig, and Sun, 11am and 2.30.

Cygnet Theatre, Beyond Face in Mixed Grill, 7.30.

The Bridge Inn, Doghouse Roses and Joseph Parsons Duo, folk roots, 7.30.

HONITON, The Beehive, Paddleboat in According to Arthur, 3.30.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Jake Legg Jug Band, 8.

Sunday 23 April

BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, The Shires.

BRISTOL, Colston Hall, Al Stewart.

DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman, folk, 8.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Jazz Brunch with Charlie Bicknell and Philip Clouts, 11am.

YEOVIL, Octagon, The Dance Factory, showcase, Dance Dance Dance, 7.

Monday 24 April

Wednesday 19 April

BOURNEMOUTH, BIC, Diversity.

BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, From Page to Screen, film festival, to 23 April.

PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Lyric, WNO in La Boheme, and Fri.

Thursday 20 April

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Publick Transport in We Are Bronte, 7.30.

PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Lyric, WNO in Madam Butterfly, and Sat. SEATON, Gateway, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, by satellite from the Old Vic. SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman, 8.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, The WOW Show, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.

YEOVIL, Octagon, Swansea City Opera in Lakme, 7.30.

Friday 21 April

Peggy Lee and Sarah Vaughan, 8.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Lyme Comedy Club, 8.

YEOVIL, Octagon, Lee Nelson, Serious Joker, comedy, and Sat, 7.30.

BUDLEIGH SALTERTON, Budleigh Jazz Festival, to Sun. DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Publick Transport in We Are Bronte, 8.

HINTON ST GEORGE, St George’s Hall, H St G Festival, Mike Denham, piano, Andy Dickens, trumpet, jazz, 7.30.

ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Lee Gibson and Martin Dale Quartet, Ella Fitzgerald,

EXETER, Northcott Theatre, Didy Veldman’s Umanoove 1, The Happiness Project, contemporary dance, 7.30.

PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Lyric, The Commitments, to Sat. YEOVIL, Octagon, Aljaz and Janette in Remembering Fred, 7.30.

Tuesday 25 April

BATH, Theatre Royal, ETT in Nell Gwynn, to Sat, Wed/Sat mats.

BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Eugene Onegin, by satellite from the Met, 6.

BRISTOL, Old Vic, Cheek by Jowl in The Winter’s Tale, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 1.30.

EXETER, Northcott Theatre, Count Arthur Strong, The Sound of Mucus, comedy, 8.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Some People v Reginald D Hunter, comedy, 8.

EVENTS IN MAY: Please send May event details in by April 5th.

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PREVIEW On Stage - In and Around the Vale Comedy and Trampolining PORTESHAM

MAX Calaf Seve literally jumps for joy in Anyday, a surreal, comic and delightful show from this Spanish circus and physical theatre artist, who is coming to Portesham village hall on Saturday 29th April at 7pm for one date with Artsreach.

Anyday is a circus show like no other.

It’s the charming tale of Max who lives the same day everyday on a trampoline, with only his little pet bird for company.

Follow the two friends as they shake up their normality with breathtaking trampoline skills and hilarious clowning, in a brilliant show for all the family. With an original score by Matt Huxley, Anyday explores loneliness with moments of light, shade and ultimately joy.

Rob Rouse BRIDPORT

ROB Rouse is married with two kids, a dog and an eye-watering mortgage. You might think a career as unpredictable as stand-up comedy was not a good choice but he’s sure that it was absolutely the right way to go.

In any case, it’s far too late to try something else now, so he ‘s coming to at Bridport Arts Centre on Saturday 8th April to share his story, leading the audience on an irresistibly hilarious journey of enforced introspection, which, he says, has taught him to relinquish any attempts to control his life and to face down literally one of the most awkward situations you’re ever likely to hear about.

Most definitely a middle-aged bloke, Rob happily holds his hands up as being

ers recreate all those complex orchestral arrangements and intricate harmonies.

Brooding with the Brontes TOURING

Rob Rouse coming to Bridport in April

about as ‘un-sexy’ as it’s possible to be in terms of broad brush ‘Key Marketing Demographics’, but as a stand-up, he is in the form of his life.

Beach Boy days BRIDPORT

FANS of what many considser to be the USA’s greatest pop group, The Beach Boys should make a date with Bridport Arts Centre on Friday 28th April for The Beach Boys Story.

It’s an evening for everyone who loves all those wonderful hits—including Surfin’ USA, Wouldn’t It Be Nice, Sloop John B, Good Vibrations, God Only Knows, California Girls and I Get Around.

It’s a show that is guaranteed to leave you with a smile on your face, and a song in your heart. as the five perform-

PUBLICK Transport brings a uniquely funny and engaging interpretation of the Bronte myth to Lyme Regis, Dorchester and Poole, from 20th to 21st April.

Angus Barr, the Bristol-based company’s artistic director, and Sarah Corbett inhabit, illustrate, deconstruct and gently satirise the myths that surround the Bronte siblings and the dark and gothic stories they wrote in their vicarage home on the Yorkshire moors.

We Are Brontë is a madcap physical show, that uses the brilliant physical theatre skills of the two performers, to explore themes of love, madness, isolation and revenge.

With minimal props, effective music and sound effects, the show evokes the brilliance and darkness of the Brontes world—but there is also plenty of humour, not least in the daring Q&A session in the middle of the performance.

Who knows where the audience will take them—but you may meet Kate Bush along the way!

We Are Brontë is at the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis on 20th April, Dorchester Corn Exchange on 21st and Poole Lighthouse on 22nd April.

Award Winning Cellist TOURING

CONCERTS in the West’s April series brings an award-winning cellist Bartholomew LaFollette for recitals

Broadchurch Finale at the Palace THE final episode of the third and last series of Broadchurch will be screened live at Bridport’s Electric Palace on Monday 17th April, with writer Chris Chibnall on hand to answer questions after the film.

The screening will be a charity fundraiser, supporting Dorset Rape Crisis and the Dorset Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) both of which were consulted extensively while Chris was writing the engrossing drama, which has captured the public imagination as the first series did back in 2013.

Chris Chibnall said he wanted to tell the story after continued increases in the number of sexual offences being reported to police.

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ful performance as the rape victim at the centre of the drama, and Lenny Henry as the owner of the farm shop, which Marshwood Vale readers will recognise as Washingpool’s (the sharp-eyed will have spotted Simon Holland in one early scene).

Broadchurch producer Dan Winch says: “It’s been a privilege and pleasure working with the charities. We’re full of admiration for the amazing work they do and this will be a chance for us to help donate to this vital cause. It will also be an opportunity for us to thank the wonderful people of Bridport for their support across all three series.”

Tickets for the live screening of Broadchurch are available from electricpalace.org.uk, the box office or telephone Bridport Tourist Information Centre on 01308 424901.

at Hatherleigh in Devon, Bridport and Ilminster Arts Centres and a new venue, The Dance House, in Crewkerne, from 6th to 8th April.

LaFollette, who will be accompanied by pianist Caroline Palmer, was described by the Irish Times as being “as free in touching the heartstrings as he was in dashing off dazzling runs.” His programme will include one of Bach’s cello suites.

LaFollette studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. His career was launched by the Young Classical Artists Trust and he has performed at many leading venues, including Wigmore Hall, Barbican Centre, Bridgewater Hall and Royal Festival Hall. In 2013 he won first prize at The Arts Club’s and Decca Records’ Classical Music Award. He was also the first person to receive the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s Ardan Award.

Caroline Palmer studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and was a finalist in the Busoni competition.

She has played in the USA and in much of Europe and is well known as both a solo pianist and chamber musician.

The programme includes JS Bach Cello Suite No 4 In E Flat Major; Schubert Arpeggione Sonata In A Minor D821; Britten Cello Sonata In C Major (1960); Brahms Cello Sonata No 2 In F, Op. 99.

The concerts are at Lower Pulworthy at Hatherleigh on Thursday 6th April at 7.30pm, Bridport Arts Centre on Friday 7th at 11am, Ilminster Arts Centre Friday evening at 8pm, and The Dance House, Crewkerne, on Saturday at 7.30pm.

April Music DORCHESTER

MUSIC-lovers have a rich choice from Dorchester Arts at the Corn Exchange, from one of the world’s great jazz singers to Dorset’s riding stars folk duo.

Richard Digance, coming on 6th April, has a vast repertoire and an amazing record of performing with stars as different as Steve Martin, Robin Williams and Brian May of Queen. A performer who is respected as much by comedians as by musicians, he is a multi-talented entertainer, award-winning composer, songwriter, poet and author.

Ninebarrow, at the Corn Exchange on 8th April, bring a fresh and captivating sound to the West Country folk scene. Described by Seth Lakeman as

Stacey Kent coming to Dorchester Corn Exchange in April

‘a fantastic duo’, Jon Whitley and Jay LaBouchardiere combine breathtaking vocal harmonies and melodies with songs that are rooted in the landscape and history of the British Isles.

Grammy-nominated jazz singer Stacey Kent comes to Dorchester on 22nd April, with a new programme, featuring music from her latest album Tenderly, including beautiful arrangements of classics including The Very Thought of You, In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning and Embraceable You. One of the British folk scene’s most popular duos, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman (brother of Seth and Sam) will be at Dorchester on 23rd April. Twice winners of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Duo—2013 and 2016—they have been described as “songwriters par excellence” (fRoots).

Since 2010, the Skimmity Hitchers have been ploughing their own furrow through the West Country music scene— their gigs are part hoedown, part cabaret and part folk-punk free-for-all, but always entertaining. They are at the Corn Exchange on 28th April.

Monmouth LYME REGIS

PREPARATIONS for the 2017 community play at Lyme Regis continue with a screening of Tony Robinson’s Walking Through History—England’s Last Battle: The West Country (2015) at the Marine Theatre on Thursday 13th April at 7.30pm.

The evening, part of the series of Monmouth Project events, will be an introduction to the background of the

Monmouth Rebellion, which is inextricably linked with Lyme, where the ill-fated rebels first landed in 1685.

On 28th April, in the Marine bar from 6pm, David Sebborn, who was education and outreach officer at Bridgwater’s Blake Museum, will give a costumed account of Parson Paschall’s Tale, “the sad story of the Monmouth Rebellion, 1685, told at first hand by the Reverend.

Andrew Paschall, Rector of Chedzoy.”

The community play, directed by the Marine’s Clemmie Reynolds, follows the success of last year’s Tempest of Lyme, and will be staged in the open air by the theatre in July.

Ferocious Dog BRIDPORT

PROUDLY political folk rockers Ferocious Dog come to Bridport’s Electric Palace on Saturday 15th April, with their exciting fusion of rock, reggae and Celtic sounds.

Led by Ken Bonsall, the Dogs sing impassioned songs of a broken Britain. Ken’s son Lee, a veteran of the Afghanistan encounter, suffered PTSD after his return to the UK, and took his own life. When Ken and his wife Karen realised that many street sleepers were former servicemen, they started setting up soup kitchens and helping the homeless.

This escalated into a Food Drop, now a feature of every Ferocious Dog concert.

Audiences are asked to bring food and clothing to the gigs, which are then distributed locally to those who need it.

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On Screen - In and Around the Vale SATURDAY 1 APRIL

The Fallen Idol (Classic) (PG) by Carol Reed, UK 1948, The cinema at the warehouse, Ilminster. For t&c and more information please see www. cinemaatthewarehouse.co.uk.

T2 Trainspotting (18) (2017) 117 mins Bridport Electric Palace.

TUESDAY 4 APRIL

The Artist’s Garden American Impressionism 7.30pm Tickets: £10, Bridport Arts Centre, DT6 3NR 01308 424204 www.bridport-arts.com.

WEDNESDAY 5 APRIL

A United Kingdom (12A) Kilmington Village Hall, doors and bar open 6.45pm show 7.15 pm. Information: www.

Kilmingtonvillage.com/moviola.htm or Tel: 01297 32335.

THURSDAY 6 APRIL

Tangerines (Mandariinid) (2013, Estonia/Georgia, 87 mins) Subtitles at Clapton & Wayford Village Hall, doors open at 7.30pm for 8pm start. Ring Mick Wilson on 01460 74849 or Di Crawley on 01460 30508.

SATURDAY 8 APRIL

Sing (U) 10am & 3pm The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LZ www. beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Loving (12A) (2016) 123 mins plus Q&A with Clive Stafford Smith.

Bridport Electric Palace Doors 6.30pm / starts 7.30pm, £5 on the door. Advance tickets www.electricpalace.org.uk/films.

A Street Cat Named Bob (12A) at The Gateway, Seaton and Hinton St. George 7.30pm. Tickets £5 from The Gateway Box Office 01297 625699, open MonFri 10am – 4pm, Sat 10am – 1pm. (£1 charge for card payment). Also on at Hinton St. George presented by ‘Flix in the Stix’ in the Hinton Village Hall at 7.30pm. To reserve Tickets please contact Bob Kefford on 01460 72563.

MONDAY 10 APRIL

Arrivals Beer Film Society. 7pm for 7.30pm screening. Bar, raffle and ice cream. Members £3.50. Non members £5.00. All welcome.

A Street Cat Named Bob presented

by Moviola in Beaminster Public Hall.

7.30pm (doors open 7pm). Ring Elaine on 01308 861746 £5 (in advance) £5.50 (on door).

The Light Between Oceans (12A) 132 minutes. At Hawkhurch Village Hall, 7pm for 7.30pm. Tickets £6 on the door.

WEDNESDAY 12 APRIL

North to Alaska Evergreens Cinema.

The cinema lights will dim at 1.45pm, tea and biscuits will be served during the

showing, for just £1.50. Ice creams will also be available. Everyone is welcome to come along to Age UK Dorchester’s centre in Prince of Wales Road, and enjoy an afternoon of wonderful entertainment and good company. For further information please contact Lucy or Carol on 01305 269444.

THURSDAY 13 APRIL

Fried Green Tomatoes (PG-13).

Afternoon Cinema at The Gateway, Seaton. Doors open 1.30.Tickets £4 inc. tea/coffee from The Gateway Box Office 01297 625699, open Mon-Fri 10am – 4pm, Sat 10am – 1pm. (£1 charge for card payment).

FRIDAY 14 APRIL

The Girl on the Train at 7.30pm (doors open at 7pm). Tickets £5 in advance from Eleos, Barron’s and the Post Office, or £6 on the night. Refreshments available. CineChard, every 2nd Friday of the month.

SATURDAY 15 APRIL

The Lego Batman Movie (PG) 10am & 3pm Adult £6.50, U16 £5.50, Family £20 (2 Adults +2 U16s) or (1 Adult+3 U16s).

The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LZ www.beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Phoenix (12) by Christian Petzold, Germany 2014, 98mins. Film starts at 7.45pm, doors open at 7.15pm. the cinema at the warehouse, Ilminster. For t&c and more information please see www. cinemaatthewarehouse.co.uk.

MONDAY 17 APRIL

Broadchurch Series 3 – Charity Fundraiser Screening The final episode live, followed by Q&A with Chris Chibnall & other members of the Broadchurch team. Doors 8pm / Live TV transmission 9pm* £5 (no bf). Tickets available in advance from electricpalace. org.uk, the Palace Box Office or by telephoning Bridport Tourist Information Centre on 01308 424901. The recommended viewing age is 15 yrs+.

FRIDAY 21 APRIL

The Crow’s Egg India: 2014: PG: 91mins. Filmcrew - The Crewkerne and District Community Cinema, Wadham School, Mount Pleasant, Crewkerne TA18 7NT. Admission begins and refreshments from 7pm; films start at 7.30pm. www.crekernefilm.wordpress. com. Admission for the year - £25.

Membership call Joan Clemow 01935 822656 or otherwise Rick Canning 01460 271215.

A United Kingdom (12A) 2016 at 8pm.

Presented by Petherton Picture Show.

Stars: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike,

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Jack Davenport. Tickets: £5. The David Hall, Roundwell Street, South Petherton, TA13 5AA. www.thedavidhall.org.uk 01460 240 340 or boxoffice@thedavidhall.org.uk.

I, Daniel Blake (15) 7.30pm Tickets: Adult £6.50, U16 £5.50. Directed by Ken Loach. The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LZ www.beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Arrival (12A) Comrades Hall, Broadwindsor. An expert linguist employed to communicate with extraterrestrials. Starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Tzi Ma, Mark O’Brien.

Tickets £6 on the door or call 01308 867644.

MONDAY 24 APRIL

A Street Cat Named Bob (2016, 12A). ‘Movies on Monday’, Axminster Heritage Centre. Film starts at 2pm, doors open at 1.30pm. Tickets £4 plus refreshments, advance booking on 01404 831207.

FRIDAY 28 APRIL

Somewhere in Time (PG) 2pm Tickets: £3.50 includes tea and biscuits. The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LZ www.beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Denial (12A) 7.30pm Adult £6.50, U16 £5.50, Family £20 (2 Adults+2 U16s) or (1 Adult+3 U16s). The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LZ www. beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Arrival (15) at 8pm. Presented by Petherton Picture Show. Tickets: £5. The David Hall, Roundwell Street, South Petherton, TA13 5AA. www.thedavidhall.org.uk 01460 240 340 or boxoffice@thedavidhall.org.uk.

A United Kingdom (PG-13) at The Gateway, Seaton and Tatworth Memorial Hall – see below. Doors open 6.30pm and you can bring food for your table.

If you simply want to watch the film it starts at 7.30pm. Tickets £5 from The Gateway Box Office 01297 625699, open Mon-Fri 10am – 4pm, Sat 10am – 1pm. Also T & F Movies is showing the film in Tatworth Memorial Hall at 8pm.

The doors open at 7.15pm and the entry charge is £4.

SATURDAY 29 APRIL

Member’s choice of film followed by AGM. the cinema at the warehouse, Ilminster. For t&c and more information please see www.cinemaatthewarehouse. co.uk.

For details of From Page to Screeen Festival visit www.frompagetoscreen.org.uk.

Health&Beauty Best Village Entry is Nigh Dorset Best Village competition entry deadline is fast approaching. Entries for the main competition have to be in by 5pm on Monday 10th April, however in the case of other sections the final deadline is 3rd July.

The competition is organised by Dorset Community Action (DCA).

Besides the main “Best Village� competition, there are four other sections.

For more information visit the website www. dorsetcommunityaction.org. uk/dbv.

DCA is encouraging groups to save paper and postage by entering the competition online if possible.

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DOG TRAINING

SURFACE PREPARATION

Proofreading, editing, transcription, secretarial for writers and businesses.

Excellent references.

Penny Dunscombe 07825339289.

All About The Dog West Dorset - positive dog and puppy training with Jane Mallett, member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers UK. Classes and one-to-one instruction for training and for fun. Fully insured. AATDWD01@ gmail.com 07948 664155 allaboutthedogwestdorset .co.uk and facebook.

Alberny surface preparation offers an in house service for the stripping of home & garden furniture, doors & gates. Vehicles or parts & anything that needs Restoration. 01460 73038, email allan@ alberny.co.uk, F/B Alberny Sandblasting

May 17

PEST CONTROL Mole pest control. Traps not poison. Robin Gundry 07802 800124 / 01404 881555

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Apr 17

GARDEN HELP Mandy Cave garden maintenance. If you need help please ring 01460 221319. MJ. 07855 250382 mandy_cave@ btinternet.com May 17

RESTORATION Furniture Restoration.

Antiques large and small carefully restored. City and Guilds qualified. Ten years experience in local family firm. Phil Meadley 01297 Jun 17 560335.

HOUSESITTING Going Away?

Retired couple available to housesit. Years of experience, references available Please contact Paul and Lorraine Attwell 01308 426534.

Experienced mature lady available for house and pet sitting. Fully insured, references available. Tel Misterton 01460 74214 July help. Practical couple with well-behaved dog can animal/garden sit in exchange for accomodation. Experience with horses, sheep, chickens. References available. 07773 687991.

ACCOMMODATION WANTED

Active cheerful retired professional N/S lady seeks long term let within easy reach of Bridport.

Please phone 07785 544482

CARAVAN WANTED Wanted caravan or space to rent for one.

Local man working full time in Bridport looking for a caravan or space to rent for one long term around the Bridport area, willing to pay a monthly rent. Also have practical skills, carpentry, metalwork and gardening Contact 07871 988080.

HOLIDAY RENTAL Delightful traditional cottages to rent in Finistère (Brittany). Wonderful peaceful gardens. 3km from fine sand and tranquil beaches. 1h30 from Roscoff. From £300/ week. Tel: 07716179689 or email: auroreparkin@ hotmail.com

FOR SALE 2 Hardback books by Ivo Peters The Somerset and Dorset Railway 1950s and 1960s lovely £5 01297 552131.

FOR SALE Yardmaster Metal Apex shed 7’4” x 6’ deep. Good condition. Buyer dismantle £60 01308 897249.

Phil & Teds Double pushchair. Beige. Very good condition. £90 07904 134008.

3 Individual Emma Bridgewater French Bowls 13cm / 5” Diameter 7cm / 3” tall Individually priced as below:--- Blue Hearts £30.00 - Green / Blue Stars £20.00 - Blue Chicken £20.00. All in good (First) condition and signed by the artist. Cash on Collection from Weymouth, Dorset. 01305 86036 A large Portmeirion Botanic Garden Salad / Fruit Bowl. 29cm / 11” Diameter 13cm / 5” Height Good condition with No Chips or Crazing, small scratch inside the bowl.

Cash on collection from Weymouth, Dorset £25.00 01305 816036 Corona / Mexican pine coffee / lamp table with rustic studs. Ideal for use all around the home. 58cm / 23”sq top 51cm / 20” high Cash on Collection from Weymouth, Dorset £20.00 01305 816036 SAD ‘Litepod’ lightbox for sale. Hardly used, compact & portable, very good condition. £40 tel: 01308 482466

SITUATIONS VACANT Marquee and event staff required for a busy summer season with our friendly and professional team, May – October. You will need to be enthusiastic and hardworking but experience is not essential.

Please call Alex on 07796 957771 or email your cv to info@rochestershire.co.uk

FOR SALE Dyson d26 vacuum cleaner, floor model with all attachments and handbook. filters cleaned. have bought lighter version. £110.

01460 261026 Trident thermostatic mono bloc chrome on brass bath tap as new only £15.00 for quick sale. Tel. 01460 63866/07968053268 TV Soundbar Yamaha YAS-93 120 w surround system complete with optical cable and remote control. As new condition. £70. Tel. 01297 624383.

Sofa, small cottage style, floral linen covers loose cushions, 4’ 6” wide, 3ft deep for sale. Very comfy... but covers a bit worn.

Groom wanted. Reliable individual required to muck out and feed horses on the weekends.

Immediate start. Located Corscombe DT2 0PA. Call 07585 118161 or 01935 891230.

FOR SALE £30. 01297 489546/01297 561498 Black vinyl office swivel chair for sale. £20. 01297 489546/ 01297 561498 Giles cartoon annuals 40+20 duplicates £20 01297 631749 Toshiba 32” TV. In excellent condition. £50.

Tel: 01305 251751 (Dorchester) Kenwood Chef mixer, stainless steel bowl. Only used twice. Liquidiser included (still in box). £90 Tel: 01305 251751 Really versatile vintage table which could be used as a hall table, serving table or just a lovely piece of furniture with 3 drawers. shelf beneath and brass handles. This needs to be viewed to fully appreciate it as the photos do not do

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Unfortunately due to space constraints there is no guarantee of insertion of free advertising.

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FOR SALE it justice. Painted in light cream and finished in antique wax with a soft shabby chic appearance.

124 cm long, 54 deep 72 high Enquire about delivery within 25 miles of Ilminster.

Photos available £165 01460 55105 19th Century Victorian School Desk, a rare find with turned legs even more rare in mahogany. Perhaps a public school or made for a child being taught at home A drawer to one side which runs the full width of the desk. A most unusual piece with good patina.

71cm wide, 48 deep and 88 high. Photos available £155 01460 55105 Beautiful solid light wood fire surround and matching curved over mantel mirror with carved acorn detail to both. The surround is 140cm wide, 118 high. The mirror is 127 wide and 102 high. Both are in very good condition. Please feel free to view without obligation to appreciate the quality of these pieces. Mirror sold

separately £110 surround £100 or £180 for both.

Photos available 01460 55105 1920 Hand crafted Antique Childs Chair made from beech Details Authenticated. For child up to 4 years £200 Tel: 01297 552841 Prestige 5 Litre Slow Cooker Stainless Steel Brand New Un Used Cost £55 will Accept £35 Tel: 01297 552841 Tefal Air Fryer Family size White Used once Cost £140 will Accept £95 Tel: 01297 552841 Two Ercol Jubilee armchairs, recent new cushions and covers, very good condition. £75 or best offer. buyer collects dorchester tel. 01305 561319 Dark brown soft leather effect 2 seater sofa and 2 armchairs. Excellent condition £225 ono. Buyer to collect. Tel 01308 488694 Chest of Drawers Edwardian, solid wood,

Win a book from Little Toller Books

Send in your answer on a postcard, along with your name and address to: Hargreaves Quiz, Marshwood Vale Magazine, Lower Atrim, Bridport, Dorset DT6 5PX. Study the clues contained in the rhyme and look carefully at the signposts to work out which town or village in South Somerset, West Dorset or East Devon is indicated. The first correct answer drawn out of a hat will win a book from local publisher Little Toller Books.

There is no cash equivalent and no correspondence will be entered into.

Last month’s answer was Athelhampton. The winner was John Cull from Dorchester.

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FOR SALE original handles. 2 small over 3 large drawers, good condition. 49cmD x 104cmH x 104cmL. £50.

01404 871602 Armchair Edwardian, sprung back and seat, very good condition. £50. 01404 871602 Stairlift.Simplicity 950L Left Hand. Straight. Perfect working order. In situ.

Bargain £250. 01460 234534 2 x 2m new solid oak block worktops, still boxed. 40mm thick. Would sell separately. £150 each. Buyer to collect.

Phone 07870 818479 3 x internal doors. 3x5 glass panels inset. £15 each or 3 for £30. Phone 07870 818479.

Electric Guitar Stratocastet style & Amplifier. Soft guitar case, guitar strap. Guitar Cable.

Tremolo arm. Allen Key for truss rod adjustment.

10 Watt Amplifier GM-210.

The Guitar is in immaculate condition & only been played in the home No knocks or scratehes. £65 ONO Phone 01308 424797 Angle Grinder.

9” Heavy Duty. 2200W Inc: 8 Unused Grinding Wheels. Very little used.

Excellent condition. £35 ONO Phone 01308 424797 Metal wheelbarrow £25 ono 01460 74214 Bed Settee (Double) Coffee coloured draylon Closed: 140cm wide/ 90cm depth/ 80cm height Length when open 190cm £20 01297 631283 Second World War “The War Illustrated” paperback magazines from 1939 to 1945 full of numerous photographs and description. Over 200 issues. £50 01297 553577 Denby Manor Green china collection, around 60 items.

Denby Greenwheat china collection, around 25 items.

Please ring for details. All offers considered. Can e-mail detailed list. 01297 553577 Enid Blyton books collection. Around 70 books. £70 the lot. Can e-mail list. 01297 553577 Pool/Snooker Table

approx. 6’x3’ (183x91cm) with cues, rests and balls.

Excellent condition £85. Tel 01297 678440 Antique Farm Machinery, ideal restoration or garden ornaments: Vintage Sack Truck/ Hoist with cast iron wheels. In working order showing original manufacturer and selling agents names £175.

Bamford Mill £80. Horse Drawn Plough £40. Bale Grab £40. Tel:01297 678440 Ladies bike, hybrid, touring,7 gears, little used,release wheel, v.g.c.

PEOPLE AT WORK white/purple. £150 o.n.o. telephone 01460 73797 Illuminated magnifying glass 4”D, stand with heavy base for table or workbench, perfect for fine craftwork £45 01297 489020.

2 Conservatory chairs good condition £45. Steriorecord player, CD, Cassette stacking system £25 ono 01297 678652.

White kitchen larder 9 bases, 6 wall, 2 corner oven hob view now collect Feb 17 £300 ono clean good condition 01395 515253.

Ladies navy blue suede ankle boots by Moshulu

ELECTRICAL Richard Payne-Withers, photograph and words by Catherine Taylor

RICHARD PAYNE-WITHERS

BUILD

AERIALS

Richard Payne-Withers, owner of The Alleyways Antique Centre in The Art and Vintage Quarter of Bridport, first met his wife, Sam, disguised as a character from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. It was Halloween, she was dressed as a devil, and said yes to a date not knowing what he actually looked like. Two days later, one surmises she was impressed with the dapper figure in a suit with a carnation on his lapel, as 23 years on they are still together. They get on so well they now both run the emporium in St. Michael’s Trading Estate, working seven days a week, with only two Sundays off a month.

But as Richard points out, it’s fun and not like normal work as they love doing it. Whether at The Alleyways, doing paperwork in the office in North Mills Trading Estate, completing a house clearance or buying from an auction or sales room anywhere in the South, Richard is generally working. He bought The Alleyways in 2011, building the number of traders operating under one roof from 18 to 50. “It’s like one big family, we all help each other and have a laugh at the same time. People come here for the shopping experience we offer, along with the friendly service”, says Richard.

So successful are the couple at working as a team, they are opening a new venture at the end of April; Bridport Antiques. 3,000 square feet of space located in the old Amsafe Building, on West Street, the new shop is a culmination of six years hard work.

A great socialite, Richard loves his friends and enjoys a pint or two down the Tiger Pub, dabbling in a game of crib on a Tuesday night. And when not squeezing in a bit of time on his allotment, you’ll find Richard obsessing about penguins…but that’s another story entirely.

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WANTED

SURFACE PREPARATION

Secondhand tools wanted. All trades. Users & Antiques. G & E C Dawson. 01297 23826. www.secondhandtools. co.uk.

Postage stamps. Private collector requires 19th and early 20th century British. Payment to you or donation to your nominated charity. 01460 240630.

Vintage & antique textiles, linens, costume buttons etc. always sought

by Caroline Bushell. Tel. 01404 45901.

Dave buys all types of tools 01935 428975.

Mar 17

Jul 17

Vintage enamel advertising and transport motoring related signage.

Good prices paid. Call 07967 055487 May 17 To advertise here telephone 01308 423031

Mar 17

All items 100 years old. Furniture, clocks, barometers, pictures, silver, gold, pocket watches. Any condition over 50 years. Experience in antiques 01308 281012.

Records wanted by enthusiastic collector. Best prices. Please telephone 01305 266174.

Apr 17

FOR SALE size 4 - never worn £4 ono.

Ladies winter-weight cloth navy jacket as new - size 14 - cost £50 will accept £8.

No reasonable offer refused 01404 815232.

Teak bureau perfect condition Sutcliffe make, space needed W33” D16” H39” £85 dropleaf front with storage cupboards underneath 01395 516832.

Oven and grill, fits under worktop, white, bottled gas, clean GWO can deliver £60 01460 220081.

Sony compact stereo hi-fi, turntable old charm dark wood hi-fi cabinet quantity

LPs £20 07983 164325 (Sidmouth).

2 Gents showerproof coats 46”chest in good condition £6.95 each. 3 x 2K fan heaters £6 each. “Binatone” corded telephone still in box £6.75. Pair of black leather car seat covers £7.50.

Adadis black rucksack £4.99. Smoke alarm £5.95.

4 stainless steel knives forks and dessert spoons £9.99 01935 829137.

Contemporary wallpapers three designs designer quality offered at one third of original purchase price £19 per roll ono 01308

Alberny Restoration In-house blast cleaning for home and garden furniture, doors and gates.

Agricultural/construction machinery and tooling.

Vehicles, parts and trailers etc. 01460 73038, email allan@alberny.co.uk, FB Alberny Sandblasting

FOR SALE 423143.

“Lindam” adjustable stairgate perfect condition £15. Cat loo covered litter tray £10. China flowrepots £2 each 01297 443930.

AEG SC25 Circular saw on floorstand cost £350 selling for £125 ono more details ring 01297 443930.

Titan ecosafe bonded oil storage tank ES1225B costs £1300 new selling due airsource replacement.

Almost new £900 ono 01297 443930.

Stag drop leaf table 1’8” x 3’ opens to 3’x3’ £40.

Brabantia automatic rotary cloths dryer unused £30 01308 488959.

OASE Pondvac £50. Free to good home quantity of fly-fishing magazines.

Filing cabinet inserts. 01308 488959.

Traditional style brass oil lamp 22” high. Perfect in a county cottage £12 01297 489020.

Two thick duvet style sleeping bags, matching fabric, will zip together to

STORAGE

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FOR SALE make double £10 each vgc 01297 489020.

Two seater settee mint condition £45. Pink Draylon reclining chair £35. Tumble dryer £55. TV 15” £45 as new 01308 281012.

Pottery wheel Leach type kick wheel £80 phone 01460 234276.

Davina McCall Magnetic 2-in-1 cross trainer as new £50 01308 898463.

Abako LPG gas fire plus full 15KG flo gas cylinder £15. Baby stairgate £15.

Tailer lighting board £15 01297 560365.

Countax C400H Hudrostatic Briggs & Stratton engine 38” cutting deck very tidy tractor mower with sweeper collection £750 ono 07796563475.

M&S Red dressing gown as new size 22 £15.

Panasonic 1700w vacuum cleaner with tools £25.

H20W5 Steam cleanser (inc floor) £30 01935 421919.

Small mahogany coffee/ side table with spindle legs 30”x15”x 18” high £15 ono 01395 579719.

Leather 2 seater sofa white VGC £75 Move forces sale 01404 758445.

Large Antler suitcase diark blue pullalong with keys super condition £15 ono phone 07594 687485 anytime.

Collector’s franklin mint 1929 Rolls-Royce Phantom 1 cabriolet de ville new still boxed plus display cabinet £50 01297 20750.

3 person dome tent in carry bag £15 ono 01395 579719.

G-plan teak 54” wide x 82” high, cupboard below, pull down top, book shelves, good condition, £50 bargain 01305 871778.

Bargain! Brand new close boarded side gate 1500 high, 80 wide with all fittings and latches never been used telephone 01935817170 £65.

Adjustable Torque wrench 1/2” drive. Excellent condition £10 no offers tel Seaton 01297 20151.

Complete set of 8 boules plus jack all contained in strong green canvas holdall excellent condtion £12. tel

Seaton 01297 20151.

G plan oval table 107cm x 162cm (extends to 208cm) and 6 dining chairs. Good condition £80 01460 221085.

Ekornes Stressless Recliner red/maroon leather plus footstall £95 01297 552561.

Paper shredder cross/ cut £13 ono. Sky box Thompson RS232 £20 ono ex con. WWII Pictorial History book set £40 ono

DT6 6EN 01297 489725.

Banana chair hand made cost £300 now £50 to clear.

Chainsaw good WO but need auto/oiler sorting £30 ono 01297 489725 DT6 6EN. TIME magazines 2014 - Sept 2016. Completely unspoiled issues £45 the lot.

Buyer collects £30 01308 456228.

Pride mobility Go-chair new batteries, three years

old, very little use, includes charger, very good condition £450 01460 73657.

Sony LCD TV Bravia 26 KDL-2652020 with remote & instruction manual £70.

Imperia Pasta making machine £25 01460 220588.

5” foot florescent light with defuser VGC £10 ono.

Heated massage chair & stool, brown leather type unwanted gift £75 ono please phone 01308 423620.

Walter Elliott framed/ signed prints 22”x17” £55 each 1) Easter Bonnet and 2) Jesus Christ (Compassion) 01308 459030.

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