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JANUARY 2019

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COVER STORY Julia Mear met Cathy Anholt at her home in Colyton ‘I have an unusual, and possibly rather annoying gift known as ‘total recall’. This means that I can remember virtually every detail of my life, beginning with a vivid recollection of being swaddled in a tight blanket in my pram.

The pram was parked under an apple tree in the garden of our family cottage, where I was born in 1958, the third of eight siblings in an Irish Catholic family. If this all sounds a bit ‘Cider with Rosie’, that’s because we lived just a few miles from Laurie Lee’s home in the rolling Slad Valley in Gloucestershire. My father was a potter and my mother, a nurse.

Unlike children today, we had limitless freedom and any spare time after school was spent wandering the countryside with my sisters.

This allowed me to develop my imagination and inner resources. I was never bored, and I © began to develop a passion for drawing and painting in dozens of visual diaries—a habit that continues to the present day.

The original plan was to follow my mother and older sister into a career in nursing. I trained as a State Registered Nurse at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, sharing a tiny house with half a dozen fellow nurses. However, on one particular night, everything went catastrophically wrong—Together with another trainee, I found myself in charge of a children’s cancer ward in which many terminally ill children were being treated. Why they left two unqualified girls in charge, I will never know, but to my utter dismay, three children passed away that night, and by the following morning I had resolved that this was not the career for me. I have the greatest respect for everyone who works in the NHS, but I was too young and too sensitive to deal with that situation.

Having no income and no real plans, I instinctively returned to the one constant factor in my life—those visual diaries and sketchbooks, which have always been my contact with my inner life. On a whim I applied to take a Foundation Course in Fine Art in Oxford, and here I had a first glimpse of what the future might hold.

It was at a drawing group in Oxford that I bumped into another creative soul, searching for his path. His name was Laurence, and forty years later, we remain soul mates on this strange and fascinating journey through life. With not a penny between us, the two of us hitchhiked to Cornwall and managed to get places at Falmouth School of Art; which was then a legendary hothouse of creativity and experimentation. I chose to spend my three years in the printmaking studios, working on etchings and lithographs. What I produced were peculiar, dreamlike compositions, but someone must have liked them because I left with a First Class Honours Degree and a place on the Postgraduate Course at the Royal College of Art. We rented a shabby, sunny flat above an Israeli Restaurant in Camden Town. Whilst Laurence studied Painting at the Royal Academy; I set off on my bicycle through Regents Park to spend my days exploring line, colour and composition. I worked hard and was offered the Rome Scholarship, and at this time, Laurence and I discovered a passion for travel, which took us to many incredible destinations, such as a five-week trip to India; always returning with inspiration for new work.

In 1984, our first daughter, Claire was born—a golden-haired child, who we adored. Almost overnight, we realised that a flat in North London was not the best place to raise a child and we moved, first to Bath, then to Wantage in Oxfordshire, where Laurence was teaching Art at a school. It seemed natural to have another child, and to our delight and amazement, we were blessed with twins, Tom and Maddy.

We began to talk a lot about life/work balance. Surely there must be a way in which Laurence and I could make a living from our creativity, whilst being available for our family? We had always loved sharing picture books with our little ones, and it seemed only natural to have a go at making some ourselves. Our first books were made quite literally at the kitchen table of our terraced house, surrounded by Tippee cups and half eaten rusks.

To our amazement, a publisher liked what she saw, and we signed our very first contract with Methuen, not realising that children’s books would consume our lives for decades to come.

Laurence’s parents lived near Lyme Regis, and each time we visited, we saw how our three children came alive on the beaches and amongst the trees. One of the great benefits of being self employed is that you can live anywhere, and probably our greatest stroke of fortune was to discover, in 1992, a huge abandoned semi-derelict country house in Uplyme, with leaking roofs and five acres of jungle. It took us nearly ten years to renovate that house, which overlooked the sea in one direction, and Cannington viaduct in the other. This is where our family spent sixteen blissful years. The children went to Mrs Ethelston’s Primary School Cathy Anholt Photograph by Julia Mear and then to Colyton Grammar, where I became a governor for eight years.

By this time, our career in children’s books was well established and over the next thirty years, Laurence and I wrote and illustrated more than 200 titles, which were translated into 30 or more languages around the world. At a later stage, we bought a tiny shop in Lyme Regis and established ‘Chimp and Zee, Bookshop by the Sea’, the world’s first authorowned bookshop, selling nothing but our own signed books. It was a magical place, but when, after a few years we sailed headlong into a retail recession; we let it go with some sadness, but also a sense of freedom at having more time on our hands.

No one goes through life without difficulties, but I have always maintained that, with a degree of courage and tenacity it’s possible to make a decent living, whilst doing something of integrity, that brings pleasure to others. Alongside my creative work, my greatest joy has been my family, and I couldn’t be more proud of our children. Claire studied Anthropology at Cambridge and went on to work with the UN Secretariat, first in New York and now in Geneva, where she lives with her French husband, Adrien. In a peculiar duplication of my experience, Claire also has girl/boy twins: our gorgeous two-year-old grandchildren, Nina and Felix. Our second daughter, Maddy is an actor, writer and comedian, living in Brixton and loving her career. Our son, Tom is a truly gifted painter, based in Berlin with his Turkish partner, Yildiz, and their baby daughter, Ada. Tom’s stunning paintings are exhibited all over the world, most recently at the Saatchi Gallery in London.

With my Irish background, Laurence’s Anglo/Dutch/Persian roots and our international grandchildren, I am a great believer in multiculturalism, and I deeply regret the current trend of nationalism. I love what the Pope said about building bridges, not walls. This has been a fundamental principle of our children’s books and of my current work. I am a globalist in every way.

So what do two family-orientated arty types do when their children spread their wings and fly? Eight years ago, Laurence and I were fortunate enough to find another luminous but neglected house on top of a hill overlooking the sea, outside Colyton. And in recent years, our careers have taken another exciting turn. Laurence began writing full-length novels, including The Hypnotist, his first book for Young Adults. Now he is cowriting a series of brilliantly funny adult crime novels called The Mindful Detective series. The first of which will be published in May 2019 and TV rights are already sold. As for me… I have returned to my first true love— every day I go into my studio, pick up my brushes and paint. Nothing makes me happier. My quirky dreamlike images about motherhood, family, birth and death, are currently selling in Denmark, Australia and Canada. In the UK, I am represented by Arundel Contemporary, and recent work can be seen on my Instagram page or www.catherineanholt.com Now in my 60th year, I value my time more than ever. I feel so privileged to spend my days in the beautiful Devon countryside, in the company of my family, making stories with paint, as I did when I was a tiny girl. The future is never certain, but if you can follow your dreams, and do no harm, then you have lived well.’

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MV UP FRONT Hearing Boris Johnson’s comment that ‘It’s not over ‘til it’s over’ when discussing Brexit with Andrew Marr recently, reminded me of the classic line delivered by Dev Patel in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: ‘Everything will be all right in the end—so if it’s not all right, it is not yet the end’. In the case of the current political meltdown, there is clearly no end in sight. Writing this before the Christmas break, with backstop or no backstop; Brexit or no Brexit; deal or no deal; people’s vote or no people’s vote; election or no election—and the question of how many long knives can be produced on any given day—there appears to be no happy outcome. Watching the many factions as they poured scorn on those that disagreed with them over the last few weeks has made for a miserable run up to the ‘festive’ season—the season of ‘peace and goodwill’.

It doesn’t bode well for the coming New Year either, and it’s hard not to agree with those who suggest that many in our political world, whether in government or opposition, ‘remain’ or ‘leave’, are simply jostling for position rather than serving those that elected them.

I know it is pantomime season, where the story is generally about good triumphing over evil, but this is more like horror. Every morning we seem to wake up to another twist, and the nightmare starts all over again.

It reminds me of the film Groundhog Day where Bill Murray begins each day to the sound of the Sonny & Cher’s I Got You Babe and the day is repeated over and over. In one scene he explains to Andie MacDowell that he has been ‘stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted and burned’, something I imagine Theresa May could relate to. It is all part of the process of Murray’s character seeing the error of his ways, and of course, as it is a traditional story, there is a satisfactory ending. One key difference is there is humour. While there have been a few interesting quotes about Brexit, most of the comedy has been more cutting than funny. So when Brexit the Movie is eventually written, the scriptwriter may have to come up with some pretty spectacular lines. He or she could always steal one from the nimble-fingered computer whizz who asked: “Have we tried unplugging 2016, waiting ten seconds and plugging it back in?” Or they could use another Bill Murray classic: “A few decades ago we had Johnny Cash, Bob Hope and Steve Jobs. Now we have no Hope, no Cash and no Jobs—please don’t let Kevin Bacon die!”

(Or, for a vegan alternative, try Sean Bean or Halle Berry).

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Cover Story By Julia Mear Rowing Back the years By Margery Hookings Around the House Bachelor’s Buttons meet Granny’s Toenails by Philip Strange Coast & Countryside Events Courses and Workshops News & Views Laterally Speaking By Humphrey Walwyn

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House & Garden Diary Matters By Cecil Amor Vegetables in January By Fergus Dowding January in the Garden By Russell Jordan Property Round Up By Helen Fisher Turbot By Nick Fisher

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Food & Dining Braised Eggs with Leeks and Za’atar By Yotam Ottolenghi Thai Style Kedgeree By Lesley Waters People in Food By Catherine Taylor Crispy Pheasant & Pear Salad with Bramble Dressing By Mark Hix

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Rowing Back the years Margery Hookings is invited along to the launch of a very special boat at Hestercombe House and Gardens, near Taunton, where she meets the West Dorset team who created it.

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he punt glides through the calm water of a lake deep in the Somerset countryside.

There’s a television camera focused on the punt and the men who made her. All is going swimmingly. Which is just as well, because it’s a bit of a first for The Beautiful Boat Company, which was formed in March 2018 by four men who met while studying at The Boat Building Academy in Lyme Regis.

They’ve been asked to recreate an Edwardian punt for the pear-shaped lake at Hestercombe, using photographs from the 1900s as their template. They’ve fashioned the vessel out of floorboards salvaged from the old East Reach Hospital in Taunton. The wood includes iroko, sapele and teak and was reclaimed by Hestercombe Gardens Trust chief executive Philip White from East Reach Hospital in Taunton, where the Portman ward was sponsored by the house’s last private owners.

There is quite a gathering here on the side of the lake.

A lady in Edwardian dress, complete with flouncy hat and cocker spaniel, is on board, with Beautiful Boat Company director Sam Smith playing the part of Mr Miller, who, in the old photographs, was the punter. They are accompanied by fellow directors Sam Shepherd and Jamie Chitty, while the fourth member of the team, Simon Olszowski, stays on dry land to be interviewed by a reporter from ITV. Run by a charitable trust, Hestercombe is undergoing a continual process of restoration, maintenance and development of the gardens, which span three centuries of garden history and design.

After the speeches, the boat is officially launched and given the name of Constance, in honour of the lady of the house who lived at Hestercombe for 60 years. It is Constance Portman who is being portrayed in period costume on the punt.

“It’s just as well the naming of the boat didn’t go out to public vote,” Mr White says. “Otherwise it could have been called ‘Punty McPuntface’.

The punt flows across the lake as it if were made for this day, which indeed it was. Gazing across Pear Pond, with

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the house and the hills in the distance, the scene could be straight from Edwardian England, which is very much the point.

The painstaking process of returning a punt to the lake began when Philip White discovered six photographs of a punt from about 1904.

As he explains: “I asked a boatbuilder about these photographs some years ago who said it was an unusual punt; shorter and deeper than most estate or lake punts and finely built in the Thames tradition. Ever since I have wanted to see a punt back on the Pear Pond as we suspect the one in the photographs was sold at the estate sale in 1951.”

Few visitors will know that Hestercombe has the remains of a boathouse on another, currently unrestored, lake, which suggests there may originally have been two punts on the estate. The boat house provided crucial evidence about the length of the punt and suggested that it had a maximum length of about 18 feet. Armed with this information and his passion to see a boat afloat again at Hestercombe, a chance meeting between Philip and The Beautiful Boat Company’s Simon Olszowski led to the punt commission.

Says Sam Smith: “We were thrilled to be shown these intriguing photographs, and be asked if we could start from scratch, piecing together as much information as possible about design from historic plans, drawings and photographs.

We then worked with Philip to agree specification and hull colour and set to work sourcing beautiful wood for the boat’s interior and trim. We used a mix of modern and traditional skills to create a punt in keeping with its heritage and with a traditional look and feel.”

He describes the whole process as a ‘joy’.

“We thought it was lovely to bring back some wood with a historic link to Hestercombe, and we have also enjoyed replicating the pole, oars and a paddle, all of which are clearly visible in the original photographs.”

The team also worked with a foundry to recreate the very unusual square rowlocks visible in the original pictures.

Says Philip White: “We’re delighted to be bringing back the Hestercombe punt, after 110 years. We hope it will allow the gardens to be seen from a different perspective, as those in the 18th century would have been able to enjoy it.

This offers a new and exciting way to view Hestercombe’s unique landscape.”

A PASSION INSPIRED BY WATER

While from very different backgrounds, all four partners of the Beautiful Boat Company share experience of the marine sector, a love of fine craftsmanship and expertise in and passion for projects inspired by water and boats.

Sam Smith served as principal clarinet of the Band of HM Coldstream Guards for 10 years but grew up on a marina so was always fascinated by speedboats. Sam Shepherd spent 10 years serving on mine hunters in the Royal Navy, where he gained additional skills in rope work and splicing.

Jamie worked in IT for the charity sector, but enjoyed a childhood sailing competitively at Beaulieu and, more recently, racing on the Mediterranean classic yacht circuit.

Simon spent his professional life as a shipbroker and is also a keen sailor. He moved to Lyme Regis to do the boat building academy course as a hobby in his retirement but somehow ended up starting a whole new career.

He says: “Having driven a desk all my life in a nice warm office and only producing an out tray it is so rewarding to craft something beautiful...real output in a cold workshop.”

They build to order a range of types and styles of wooden boats of up to 25 feet long.

Based in Lyme Regis, the company’s creations to date include the Rascal, a high-speed 1930s two-seater ‘roadster’ launch, which can also be built as a four-seater model and the Beaulieu Scow, a traditional sailing dinghy for a crew of one or two.

The team also carries out restoration, renovation and rejuvenation work as well as smaller projects inspired by the water. When time allows, the team of four undertakes joinery services to non-marine work, currently in Dorset, Devon and Somerset.

They had a busy summer last year, exhibiting at Countryfile Live, the Contemporary Craft Festival, and the Southampton Boat Show under the auspices of the Boat Building Academy. Their first solo show was Melplash, where they won best trade stand. They also took the Rascal to the Conde Nast Luxury Travel Show at Olympia in November.

For more information visit thebeautifulboatcompany.co.uk

Sam Shepherd, Jamie Chitty, Sam Smith and Simon Olszowski, photograph by Michael Blyth. Other photographs by Madeleine Smith

Around the House LET’S face it, it’s pretty clear that 2019 needs a spring in its step, so why not take a good look at those little jobs that have been niggling away over the last year.

There are a few companies out there that are eager to help.

Bridport Plumbing Supplies are Bridport and West Dorset’s leading independent plumbing merchant.

They are a family owned business run by brothers Marc and Sam Harwood and their father, John. With a good knowledge of renewable energy products as well as big brand products, Bridport Plumbing Supplies are the perfect source for all your plumbing needs. Call Bridport Plumbing Supplies on 01308 420230 or visit http://bridportplumbingsupplies.com If it’s time to sort out some Winter heat, Wyvern Fireplaces may have the answer. Wyvern is a family run business with two of the largest showrooms in the South West. Over 50 fireplace displays in Dorchester and over 40 at Yeovil. Call Wyvern Fireplaces on 01305 268 981 or 01935 424 488 or visit www.wyvernfireplaces.com

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Or, if perhaps you just need to concentrate on the roof, make sure you get in touch with Roofing Gear. Their aim is simple. It’s to provide you with the most comprehensive service a roofing merchant can offer. With many years of experience, their product knowledge is second to none, and they believe their service is unrivalled. So, if you’re an experienced tradesman, or a newcomer to roofing call Roofing Gear on 01305 257828 or email sales@roofinggear.co.uk.

If you need a master thatcher, don’t forget to call RJ Matravers for excellent craftsmanship and professional service. They also grow all their own combed wheat to guarantee the finest thatching materials. Telephone RJ Matravers 07773 286622 or visit www.rjmatraversmasterthatcher.co.uk.

For beautiful interior lighting don’t forget to make a visit to Bridport Lighting in South Street Bridport. Providing modern and traditional lighting in the home for over 25 years, the Bridport Lighting Centre is a treasure trove of lights for all around the house. Call Bridport Lighting on 01308 422318 or email info@ bridportlighting.co.uk When it comes to kitchens, bathrooms, sitting rooms, indeed any room in the house that needs furniture, make sure to get in touch with Chris Chapman in Beaminster. Their’s is a family run business, driven by a passion for design, craftsmanship and customer service. They design, produce, fit and fully manage kitchens, furniture and building projects and are a truly ‘turn-key’ company. For them, its all about the detail, from initial ideas and drawings to completion. Despite their showroom becoming collateral damage when thieves attempted to steal the cashpoint located in their building in Beaminster, they are still busy designing, making and installing a fantastic range of furniture and kitchens. Contact Chris Chapman Ltd on 01308 861121 or via chris@chrischapmanltd.co.uk and make an appointment to come and see some of their beautiful furniture and kitchen designs.

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Bachelor’s Buttons meet Granny’s Toenails in the Marshwood Vale

by Philip Strange

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ast summer, on one of the hottest days of the year, I joined a walk led by Nick Gray of the Dorset Wildlife Trust through some traditionally managed meadows in Dorset’s western Vale. We found fields filled with lush grasses, colourful wild flowers and a profusion of insects. This outpouring of joyous, exuberant growth seemed to embody the essence of high summer and the walk turned out to be one of my wildlife highlights of 2018.

We started from Babers Farm below the village of Marshwood and, after a short walk across several fields clad only in a veneer of golden stubble, we crossed a field boundary to enter another world.

Here a thick carpet of knee-high grasses dominated the sward, still green despite the long spell of hot weather. Richly coloured flowers were woven into the grassy fabric and many small brown butterflies danced among the seed heads. A transient flash of orange was probably a silver-washed fritillary butterfly. Grasshoppers leapt from the grass in broad arcs as we walked and brightly coloured insects fed from the flowers. As I looked up at the bowl of hills surrounding the Vale, a kestrel, pale brown in this brash light, swept silently across the field. It was the perfect summer moment.

Perhaps it was a reaction to all the doom and gloom I had been hearing about our treatment of the environment and the resulting loss of wildlife? Perhaps it was a deeply buried childhood memory of family picnics among flowers on Dorset hills? Perhaps it was simply all the natural beauty around me? Whatever the reason, it felt, for a few moments, as though this was the only place in the world I wanted to be.

These meadows are managed under a higher-level stewardship scheme which pays for the loss of income incurred through traditional, less intensive land cultivation. The meadow flowers and grasses grow during the warmth and wet of spring and summer and hay is cut and removed in mid-July when flowers have mostly set seed. The aftermath growth is grazed by animals in the autumn after which the land is left until the following spring. It was the last day of June when we visited and high summer sees these meadows liberally studded with the flattened white umbels of corky-fruited water dropwort, a member of the carrot family and a Dorset speciality but rare elsewhere. The flowers were very popular with insects, especially hoverflies which buzzed loudly in small groups while hovering by the flowers in a courtship display. A female would sit on a flower head while a male hovered above her; sometimes another male would hover above the first in a “stack”.

The bright yellow slipper-like flowers of bird’s foot trefoil were also very common in the meadows, sometimes growing so prolifically that the flowers merged into drifts of sunny colour. This is such a common flower that we tend to overlook it but perhaps its very familiarity leads to the many popular names attached to the plant such as eggs and bacon, hen and chickens or granny’s toenails. Nick also told us that the plant may have useful anti-worming properties if consumed by sheep.

Dotted around the meadows, sometimes in large clumps, were the unruly purple flowers of knapweed. These are popular with nectaring insects and I saw a colourful burnet moth and several marbled white butterflies. Knapweed is also one of the plants with the popular

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name of Bachelor’s Buttons and Nick told us how, in the past, young women played a love-divination game with the flower heads. A young woman wanting to know if her affections would be returned took a knapweed flower head and plucked off the open florets. She placed the flower head inside her blouse and if, after an hour, new florets had opened, then her love would be reciprocated.

Here is the story told by John Clare in his poem May from the Shepherd’s Calendar: They pull the little blossom threads From out the knapweeds button heads And put the husk wi many a smile In their white bosoms for awhile Who if they guess aright the swain That loves sweet fancys trys to gain Tis said that ere its lain an hour Twill blossom wi a second flower And from her white breasts hankerchief Bloom as they ne’er had lost a leaf A short walk across open countryside took us southwards towards the centre of the Vale, where we found another large traditionally managed meadow. As before, a rich mixture of thick grasses and colourful flowers dominated but I was surprised to find drifts of yellow rattle and a few orchids, looking rather the worse for wear. I began to realise that each meadow has its own character, its own flora, its own colours reflecting the underlying geology and dampness.

Several recent studies have highlighted the decline of insect and bird life in the UK. Factors contributing to this decline include climate change, habitat loss, pollution and pesticide use. For example, the 97% loss of flower-rich hay meadows in the UK during the 20th century linked to agricultural intensification must have seriously affected insect populations as well as birds dependent on insects for food. Some have gone so far as to suggest that unless we modify farming methods, we shall face “Insect Armageddon”. This needs to be taken seriously owing to the important role insects play in, for example, maintaining soil health, digesting waste and pollinating our fruit and flowers.

The meadows that I visited last summer in the Marshwood Vale send a positive message showing that, with careful management, these important habitats can be restored to their former glory, supporting insects and providing food for birds. In more good news, the Magical Marshwood Vale Project (funded by National Grid and coordinated by Dorset AONB and Dorset Wildlife Trust) started in 2018 with the aim of enhancing traditional landscape features and helping to reinstate ecologically important wildlife habitats. This includes the restoration of more wildflower meadows.

I should like to thank Nick Gray for his advice and enthusiasm.

Philip Strange is Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Reading. He writes about science and about nature with a particular focus on how science fits in to society.

His work may be read at http://philipstrange.wordpress.com/

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Coast &Countryside Events TUESDAY 18 DECEMBER West Dorset Ramblers 8 miles Valleys around Cerne. Starts at 10am. Bring picnic, no dogs. All welcome. Please call 01300 320346.

Christmas carols and guided ramble 10am - 1pm. Lift your spirits with Christmas carols and a guided ramble taking in the winter wildlife on Brownsea.

Finish your morning with some warming mince pies and mulled wine in our island church. Adult £25, child £12.50 . Also 20 December. Brownsea Island www. nationaltrust.org.uk.

Poetry Walk at Thorncombe Woods 1.30pm - 2.30pm (Stepping into Nature) All welcome, but especially suitable for people with dementia and their carers, these gentle strolls look at the landscape using senses such as touch, sound and smells to enable those involved to discover the reserve. Meet Claire at the Hardy’s Birthplace Visitor Centre (DT2 8QH).

Call Claire on 01305 251228 for more information or to book. This event is free as it’s part of Stepping into Nature. Visit www.stepin2nature.org for more info.

RNLI Christmas Carols in the George, West Bay with a Grand Raffle from 7pm - 10pm.

WEDNESDAY 19 DECEMBER East Devon Ramblers leisurely 7.5 mile circular walk from Beaminster. 10.00 start and bring picnic. Dogs on short leads.

01297 23424.

Inner Wheel Club of Crewkerne meet for a fun and friendship lunch at Haselbury Mill TA18 7NY on the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 12noon for 12.30pm. Interesting speakers booked.

Prospective new members are welcome to visit, advance booking required. Contact innerwheel@uwclub.net or 01460 63856.

Colyton & Colyford Memory Café Colyford Christmas Café in the Colyford Memorial Hall from 2pm - 4pm. For more information ring Sue Whitell on 01297 599477. Members are welcome to attend sessions in both Colyton and Colyford - see first and third Wednesdays.

Christmas Bingo at Henhayes Centre Crewkerne at 2pm. Good Prizes, raffles and refreshments available. All welcome.

01460 74340.

Devonshire Association Axe Valley Branch: at 2.30pm. An illustrated talk by Colin Pady “Carthorses to Computers”.

At the Pavillion, Peace Memorial Playing Fields, Coly Road, Colyton EX24 5PU. Entrance donation £1 for DA members

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and £3 for non-members. Contact: Brian Denham 01297551529 or brian_denham@ talktalk.net.

Angels Proclaim The Stanchester Quire Christmas Concert of carls and readings, collected from the South West of England, at St Mary’s Church, East Chinnock, BA22 9DR, at 7.30pm. Retiring collection. Details from 01935 864408 or leosca4@gmail.com.

Jurassic Folk 8pm – 10.30pm, Music and song for all to enjoy. Free admission for musicians, singers & spectators. Eyre Court, 2 Queen Street, Seaton, EX12 2NY. For further details call Adrian 01404 549903 or Mike 01404 43429 or www. jurassicfolk.co.uk.

THURSDAY 20 DECEMBER Chard Camera Club at the Baptist Church hall at 7.30pm. In-house completion on the subjects of ‘Close Up’ and two on an ‘Open’ subject. www. chardcameraclub.org.uk or membership secretary Joyce Partridge on 01460 66885.

Living Tree @ The Bull Hotel “Tabletop” games night with nibbles and drinks. A fun evening to round off the year. The Ostler Room, Bull Hotel, East Street, Bridport. Refreshments provided,

Coast &Countryside drinks etc available from main bar, relaxed evening, friends & family welcome. Tel 07341 916 976. www.thelivingtree.org.uk.

Candlelit Carols for Choir and Congregation: Traditional service at Whitchurch Canonicorum Church 7pm.

Mad Dog McRea + support: Beans on Toast 8pm £16.50 in advance, £18 on the door (standing). Here to get your Christmas off to a great start. From self penned songs of adventure, drinking, love and life, to traditional songs of gypsies, fairies, legless pirates and black flies – Mad Dog never fail to capture their audience with their infectious songs. The famous purple happy bus is fired up and ready for action, and there’s room for you – jump aboard! The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LZ www.beehivehoniton. co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

THUR 20 – SAT 22 DECEMBER Season’s Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn (Somerleigh Players) 7.30pm £12 / £10 members & concessions / limited exclusive premium seating options available, see website for prices and further details Dorchester Arts, The Corn Exchange, High East Street, DT1 1HF. 01305 266926 www.dorchesterarts.org.

uk. Somerleigh Players guarantee festive fun. In the author’s own words: ‘a play about love and about how unfair it is.

And success and failure. And jealousy and self-deception. And greed and envy and lust and gluttony. Just an average family Christmas’.

FRIDAY 21 DECEMBER Winter solstice – Corfe Castle 7.15am - 9am. Experience the rare opportunity to watch the sun rise on the shortest day of the year from the castle ruins. Includes a hot drink and breakfast roll. Booking essential 0344 249 1895 £12. www. nationaltrust.org.uk.

East Devon Ramblers moderate 5 mile circular walk from Otterton. 10am start.

Dogs on short leads. 01395 266668.

The Living Tree, cancer self-help group Members’ Christmas social – who knows what may happen. Drop in any time between 2pm and 4.30pm at Friends Meeting House, 95 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NZ. Tel 07341 916 976. www. thelivingtree.org.uk.

Buddy Holly and the Cricketers Holly At Christmas 2018 26 Years of Rock ’n’ Rolling The World!

7.30pm, £19 £18 Bridport Arts Centre

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www.bridport-arts.com. Buddy Holly and the Cricketers once again herald in the Yuletide festivities with Holly at Christmas, the show that is now as traditional as mulled wine and mince pies!

Holly’s hits, other contemporary classics and some Christmas crackers are all wrapped up in a fast, furious and funny feast of entertainment to make the perfect gift for all the family.

Christmas Concert at Henhayes Centre Crewkerne The Phoenix Brass Band doors and Bar open at 7pm with concert starting at 7.45pm. Tickets £10 to include a glass of mulled wine and a mince.

Watkins & Swarbrick in concert Thorncombe Sports & Social Club, Horseshoe Lane, Thorncombe, nr Chard, TA20 4PS at 8pm. Bar, Pay what you think the performance was worth at the end. Booking Essential: 01305 837299 or songsfromthehalls234@gmail.com.

FRI 21 – SATURDAY 22 DECEMBER Lost Lore (Lost Tale Theatre) Friday 7pm, Saturday 4pm & 7pm £12 / £10 members & concessions / £25 family (max. 2 adults) Dorchester Arts, Wolfeton Riding House, Wolfeton, Charminster, Dorchester DT2 9QN 01305 266926

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www.dorchesterarts.org.uk. Using breathtaking sound design and enchanting animation, Lost Lore will transport you to a world of witches, princesses, tricksters and sorcery. Wrap up warm, bring along a blanket and gather around the fire for a spellbinding and unforgettable journey.

SATURDAY 22 DECEMBER Free live music by Plum Jam 11am – 1pm A four-piece band playing semiaccoustic Swing, Retro Pop, Latin and Jazz. Get into the Christmas spirit by coming along and enjoying some foottapping music. Arts Café Bar. The Old Courthouse, Church Street, Axminster EX13 5AQ. 01297 631455.

The Snow Baby 2pm Bridport Arts Centre www.bridport-arts.com. Deep in the remote snowy forest an icy wind blows and snowflakes fall from the sky.

Doris and her Bear Man live on the jill, alone but happy. Wrapped up in a snowy smother, they are in love. But when the snowstorm comes, Doris’ Bear Man disappears! How will Doris survive by herself in a forest plagued with nothing but bad weather and a cloud of hungry crows? Soap Soup Theatre present The Snow Baby, a magical children’s theatre

show with beautiful puppetry, imaginative storytelling and music that will give you goosebumps – a gentle show exploring family, love and loss, with lots of music, confetti and funny bits for the whole family to enjoy!

The Sheldon Singers 7.30pm, St Paul’s Church, Honiton. Christmas Concert including Britten’s ‘Ceremony of Carols’ and congregational carols with organ.

Accompanied by Katie McClaughry – Harp and Sean Tucker – Organ. Tickets £10. Contact Mike on 01404 480136, or on the door.

SUNDAY 23 DECEMBER The Nutcracker screened live from the Bolshoi Ballet, at The Gateway, Seaton.

The holiday classic returns to the majestic Bolshoi stage for this timeless story to enchant audiences of all ages, as Marie’s Nutcracker doll magically transforms into a prince and their wonderful adventure begins. Licensed bar and refreshments.

Doors open 2.30pm, screening starts 3pm. Tickets £15adv/£17.50 on door (if available) online (no booking fee) at www. thegatewayseaton.co.uk, by phone 01297 625699 or in person at The Gateway, Fore Street, Seaton EX12 2LD.

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MONDAY 24 DECEMBER Candlelit 1st Mass of Christmas 6pm St Swithun’s Church North Allington DT6 5DU. Free Parking.

TUESDAY 25 DECEMBER Christmas Day Service 9.30am. St Swithun’s Church North Allington DT6 5DU. Free Parking.

WEDNESDAY 26 DECEMBER East Devon Ramblers strenuous 10 mile circular walk from Salcombe Hill. 10am start and bring picnic. Dogs on short leads. 01297 22030.

FRIDAY 28 DECEMBER East Devon Ramblers leisurely 5.5 mile circular walk from Burleigh Salterton.

10am start. Dogs on short leads. 07786 077407.

The Living Tree, cancer self-help group Social meet-up. Drop in any time between 2pm and 4.30pm at Friends Meeting House, 95 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NZ. Tel 07341 916 976. www. thelivingtree.org.uk.

SATURDAY 29 DECEMBER Mary Anning Walks in Lyme Regis.

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Coast &Countryside See the landmarks of Lyme Regis’s most famous fossil-hunter in small groups with local expert Natalie Manifold. Learn about the life of ‘the greatest fossil hunter ever known’. Explore the town as Mary knew it, see where she lived and where she sold her fossils. The walk follows the old paths and streets of Lyme and is moderately difficult with some steep slopes and approximately 20 steps. Flat shoes and waterproofs are recommended.

The duration of the walk is approximately an hour and a half. 1.30pm - 3pm Cost: £4 – £8. Lyme Regis Museum, Bridge Street, Lyme Regis, Dorset DT7 3QA 01297 443370 Book online: www. lymeregismuseum.co.uk/events/category/ walks/mary-anning-walks/.

Ballroom & Sequence dancing in Sidmouth Dancing with Henry & Jeannie at the Stowford Centre, Sidmouth EX10 9YL (opp Waitrose) from 8pm – 11pm Ballroom, Latin and some sequence. £6 each pay on the door. 01803 325905 www. dancingduo.co.uk.

SUNDAY 30 DECEMBER East Devon Ramblers moderate 9.5 mile circular walk from Wooton Hill. 10am start and bring picnic. Dogs on short leads. 01297 22030.

Angels of Sound Voice Playshop 10am – 12.30pm If you think meditation means only silent navel gazing-think again! Toning is an ‘out loud’ form of meditation, energising the subtle body chakras by joyfully sounding the sacred Sanskrit (actually universal) vowel sounds.

Overtoning,-learning to make audible the usually inaudible overtones present in any note you sing-is a form of sonic ‘magic’ associated with the sacred sound secrets of all esoteric traditions. £12, Booking in advance and further details www. centreforpuresound.org ahiahel@live. com 01935 389655. Oborne Village Hall, Oborne, nr. Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4LA .

Crystal and Tibetan Singing Bowl Soundbath Oborne Village Hall, Oborne, nr. Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4LA 2pm – 4pm. Experience a magical performance of Pure Sound by musician Dean Carter using singing bowls plus sacred vocal overtoning which promotes a deeply relaxing and healing state to rebalance and re-energise your body, mind and spirit. Your ‘participation’ involves simply lying down and enjoying/absorbing the sounds. (You may sit if preferred.) £12, Booking in advance and further details www.centreforpuresound.org ahiahel@ live.com 01935 389655. Bring something

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comfortable to lie on and wrap around you.

MONDAY 31 DECEMBER New Year’s Eve Celebration Ceilidh with Jigs for Gigs at 8.15pm. Bring in 2019 in style with music and dance at The David Hall. Tickets: £17 includes a light supper. No concessions. Booking essential by Friday 14 December. No tickets available on the night. The David Hall, Roundwell Street, South Petherton, Somerset TA13 5AA. www.thedavidhall. org.uk 01460 240340.

TUESDAY 1 JANUARY 2019 The Lyme Lunge A fancy dress dip in the sea at Lyme Regis on New Year’s Day at 1pm. Free entry with a fancy dress parade at 1pm on the beach then a run for the water. Organised by the Rotary Club of Lyme Regis this is the 11th running of this event becoming more popular every year. This year’s charity will be the “Dorset County Hospital Cancer Appeal”. Sponsor forms available via www.what’soninlyme. co.uk. Enquiries to Rtn John Berry. johnberry.mangles@gmail.com.

WEDNESDAY 2 JANUARY Illustrated Talk: To Buy a Whole

Parish: Rousdon and the Peek Family For more than 10 years. Nicky Campbell has been researching the history of the Rousdon Estate and the Peek family who bought it in the 19th century. She tells this wonderful story of social history following a community in Devon from Victorian times. Axminster History Society talk All welcome, £2 guests. 7.30pm at The Bradshaw Meeting Room, Thomas Whitty House, Silver Street, Axminster, Devon, EX13 5AH. THURSDAY 3 JANUARY West Dorset Ramblers 6.5 miles Abbotsbury. Starts at 10am. Bring picnic, no dogs. All welcome. Please call 01300 320084.

East Devon Conservation Volunteering 10am - 3pm, various sites across East Devon. Join the Wild East Devon ranger and volunteers to help with a range of practical tasks across East Devon. Contact the team to register your interest ad find out this week’s task and location. A free event, no booking required. Find out more at wildeastdevon.co.uk. Contact Wild East Devon at: wild@eastdevon.co.uk, 01395517557.

Wellbeing Walk at Radipole Lakes (Stepping into Nature) 11am – 12noon.

This is a relaxed, sociable and gentle monthly walk which is open to all , a health walk for healthy body and mind.

We generally walk about a mile in distance taking 40 minutes to 1 hour, usually around our Radipole reserve in the heart of Weymouth. You may see fabulous wildlife on the walk, but the focus is simply a stroll and chat. This walk is dementia friendly, and particularly suitable for anyone wishing to lose weight, recovering from illness or wanting to improve their mental health and wellbeing. Contact RSPB Radipole Lakes on 01305 778313. This event is free as it’s part of Stepping into Nature. Visit www. stepin2nature.org for more info.

WDHS Retirement Fellowship The next meeting of the West Dorset Health Service Retirement Fellowship at 2pm in the Boys Brigade Hall, Sawmills Lane, Dorchester DT1 2RZ when Jan Tollerfield will give a talk on Frederick Treves. Set up over 30 years ago for retired employees of the Health Service and their partners living in Dorset and meet on the first Thursday of every month. New members welcome.

NT Live (Encore): Allelujah! (15) 7pm Adult £15.30, Student £12.30 The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LZ www. beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Chard History Group in The Ballroom at Phoenix Hotel in Fore St, Chard at 7.30pm. The A.G.M. is followed by John Malcolm, the former Mayor is going to set a difficult verbal Quiz about the Town and surrounding villages. For example “WHO

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was hanged on May 20th 1878 and for WHAT?” or “WHERE was the Royal residence in the village nearby Chard?”

Refreshments are available. New members and guests are welcome. Members £2 and Guests £3. For information call 01460 66165.

Chard Camera Club meeting at the Chard Baptist Church hall, Holyrood Street at 7.30pm for the first meet of 2019. Members will be competing in an in house competition in Digitally Projected Images in the categories of ‘Vanishing Point’ and two open subjects. It could be an ideal time for anyone wishing to enquire about the club and it’s activities to come along and meet the members all enquiries will be pleasantly received.

Further information can be obtained by visiting the website www.chardcameraclub. org.net or by phoning the club members secretary Joyce Partridge 01460 66885.

FRIDAY 4 JANUARY From Desert to Cloud Forest: Flora and Fauna of the Canary Islands Dorset Wildlife Trust, Colin Ryall, a retired lecturer and geologist, gives an illustrated talk on the flora and fauna of the Canary Islands. Starts 7:30pm at the Bridport United Church Hall, East Street, Bridport, DT6 3LJ. Suggested donation of £2.00 (£3 for non-members). www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk.

The Living Tree, cancer self-help group. 2.00pm Tripudio. 2.15pm Art with Libby. Worry busting with Louise Wender. Drop in any time between 2pm and 4.30pm at Friends Meeting House, 95 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NZ. Tel 07341 916 976. www.thelivingtree.org.uk SATURDAY 5 JANUARY West Dorset Ramblers 6 miles - Pub walk. Starts at 10am. Wiseman pub, West Stafford. Bring snack, no dogs. All welcome. Please call 01300 320346.

Bridport & West Dorset Rambling Club 6 mile walk from Seaton Hole via Beer and Branscombe.

10.30am start. Bring picnic. No dogs. All welcome. Please call 01308 898002.

Bridport Seed Potato Day Bridport United Church, East Street - 10.30am - 1.30pm Free admission. Light refreshments available. 60+ varieties of seed potato for sale by the single tuber plus many other seeds and plants.

Dorset Countryside Volunteers will be cutting scrub at Lankham Bottom (near Cattistock West Dorset) in order to maintain wildflower rich grassland for Butterfly Conservation. Always welcoming new people interested in helping look after this special site. For details see www.dcv. org.uk, email DCVpublicity@gmail.com,

or text or message 07923 498760 for them to contact you. Also Sunday 5 January.

MakeShift Ensemble: The Children in the Moon 2pm Treat the family after Christmas with this wonderful show. Join the MakeShift Ensemble’s two fantastic storytellers as they take you on a magical journey with their amazing puppets and songs. The Makeshift Ensemble tells the story of Zack and Lil using beautifully hand-crafted puppets and a larger than life travelling tea machine which brews fabulous stories and doubles as a stage on which the characters can explore, play and bring their tales to life. It’s theatrical fun for all the family! Tickets: £9 Full. £8 Under 12s. The David Hall, South Petherton. www.thedavidhall.org.uk or phone 01460 240 340.

Bridport Ceilidhs at 7.30pm - 11pm in St Mary’s Church House Hall, South Street, Bridport, feature popular local band “Jigs for Gigs” with Ray Goodswen calling. All are welcome regardless of experience for a fun evening of dance with Bring & Share supper. No bar, but the Woodman Inn is just opposite. Tickets £9 on the door, cheaper at £8 if bought in advance at The Music Shop or booked on 01308 423 442 / monty3dayslate AT yahoo.co.uk. See www.bridportceilidhs.wordpress.com.

Andre Rieu’s 2019 New Year’s Concert from Sydney 7pm £10.30. Join the maestro, André Rieu, as he presents his festive concert recorded live in Sydney’s stunning Town Hall. The King of Waltz brings a magical evening of music and dance featuring his world class sopranos, the platin tenors and plenty of surprises!

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

Celebrate Twelfth Night with entertainment by Tinker’s Cuss Band, at Bridport Town Hall, 7.30pm. In aid of the Friends of Bridport Millennium Green. Tickets cost £7.50 (members £6.50) and include Buck’s Fizz and mince pies. Information from Sue Wilkinson, 01308 425037.

SUNDAY 6 JANUARY East Devon Ramblers moderate 10.5 mile circular walk from Steps Bridge.

10am start and bring picnic. Dogs on short leads. 07940 572330.

MONDAY 7 JANUARY Axe Vale & District Conservation Society 10am – 12.30pm Identifying trees in winter. Walk at Holyford Woods.

With Mike Lock. Meet at Seaton Tower lay-by. SY233914. No dogs, please.

Inspired by Archives 10.30am (Stepping into Nature) Enjoy the countryside?

Love history? Enjoy both with pictures,

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maps or recordings at the Dorset History Centre (Dorchester) and learn something new about the natural world and local artists. The group is open to everyone including carers, those with dementia or with mobility, sensory or learning difficulties or those who would just enjoy the company and stimulation. It’s all about relaxing, meeting new people and having fun. Contact Maria on 01305 228947 or m.gayton@dorsetcc.gov.uk to book. Visit www.stepin2nature.org for more info.

Axminster Carnival Bingo Eyes Down 8pm Axminster Guildhall.

Scottish Dancing in Chardstock Evening of Social Dancing at Chardstock Village Hall, tea or coffee included.7.30pm – 10pm. No partner required. Contact David on 01460 65981; Ann on 01308 422927; or Andrew on 01297 33461, or just come along. Cost £1.50. www. chardscottishdancing.org Mondays 14th, 21st, 28th January.

Scottish Country Dancing Ashill Village Hall Nr Ilminster TA19 9LX. Every Monday evening 7.30pm - 9.30pm.

Contact Anita Wilson anitaandjim@ gmail.com or tel 01460 929383.

West Dorset Jive Community Evening Dancing and Cake Event - Free to Attend 7.30pm - Chideock Village Hall, DT6 6JW - All dancers welcome - No need to book, just turn up and bring friends!

Bridport Folk Dance Club at 7.30pm - 9.30pm in the WI Hall, North Street, Bridport DT6 3JQ. Enjoy folk dancing mainly in the English tradition from Playford-style to modern-day compositions at Bridport’s longestablished weekly club, with club callers and recorded music. All welcome, no partner or previous experience required.

Admission £3 for members, £4 visitors (membership available). Taster sessions available at no cost. Contact Mecki on 01308 423 442. Also on 14th, 21st and (live music on) 28th.

TUESDAY 8 JANUARY Seaton Wetlands Tuesday Task Force 9.30am – 12noon, Seaton Wetlands.

Join the Wild East Devon ranger and volunteers to help with a range of practical tasks at Seaton Wetlands. Contact the team to register your interest ad find out this week’s task and location. A free event, no booking required. Find out more at wildeastdevon.co.uk. Contact Wild East Devon at: wild@eastdevon.co.uk, 01395517557.

West Dorset Ramblers 6 miles Weymouth Seafront. Starts at 10am. Bring picnic, dogs optional. All welcome. Please call 01308 898484.

Learn Hedgelaying for Free Looking to find a way to meet new people and to

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help care for the environment? Join this volunteer group and master the traditional craft of hedgelaying. Hedgelaying has long been used to lengthen the life of trees, encourage new growth and thicken the hedge to encourage a greater range of wildlife. This is a practical session led by the resident ranger, Julia Bloom, and is based at Magdalen Farm between Beaminster & Chard. Free of charge to willing volunteers the day runs from 10am - 3pm and includes light refreshments with a simple lunch. Suitable for adults only.

Booking essential - to confirm your place, or find out more information, please visit or website www.magdalenfarm.org.uk/ events or email julia@magdalenfarm.org. uk. Also on 19, 29 January.

Honiton Decorative & Fine Arts Society The magic of pantomime – Ian Gledhill 2pm at The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton, EX14 1LZ. Membership Application forms can be downloaded from www.honiton-dfas.org.uk.

Lipreading & Managing Hearing Loss Bridport Community Hospital 2pm - 4pm.

Learn how to manage your hearing loss by using lipreading and coping strategies, while building confidence in a supportive environment. First session free. 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. Also on 15th, 22nd and 29th.

Axe Vale Stamp Club 7.30pm for 8pm start at the Bradshaw Rooms, Silver Street, Axminster EX13 5AH. Members’ Alphabetic Competition (Letter ‘H’).

Chard WI meeting at Chard Baptist Church Rooms, Holyrood Street TA20 2AH. Speaker Michael Otterbec, Dectectorist, starts 7.30pm. New members welcome. Call Sandy on 01460 239688 or e-mail info.chardwi@gmail.com for more information. Meetings second Tuesday of each month.

Bridport Sangha meditation evenings 7.30pm - 9pm. Quaker meeting House, Contact David Will 07950959572. All are most welcome, Bridport Buddhist Society.

WEDNESDAY 9 JANUARY West Dorset Ramblers 6 miles Maiden Newton & Cattistock. Starts at 10am.

Bring picnic, dogs on leads.

All welcome. Please call 01300 341664.

East Devon Ramblers moderate 8.5 mile circular walk from Sidmouth. 10.30am start and bring picnic. Dogs on short leads. 07546 267229.

Axe Vale & District Conservation Society 10am – 4pm Work Party – Trinity Hill Scrub clearance. Meet at reserve car park (SY307959) Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear and bring a picnic.

Colyford Photographic Club Macro photography – Practical ~Evening – Bring your own camera. at Colyford

Memorial Hall, Swan Hill Road, Colyton EX24 6QJ start time 7.30 pm – there are extra Wednesday’s during the year for workshops as advertised on their web page. A club who encourages New and Seasoned Photographers and can be contacted via colyford.photographic@ gmail.com or 07753 911751 www. colyfordanddistrictphotographicclub.co.uk.

Bridport Camera Club Creative Evening – Showcasing work from members past and present with Simon Nobes, Jill Hunt, Joy Uglow and Mervyn Higgs – infrared, alternative print process, abstract and 360deg photography. 7.30pm Bridport Town Hall, DT6 3HA. New members always welcome. All enquiries call the Club Secretary on 07737 405474 or email secretary@bridportcameraclub.co.uk.

Gittisham Folk Dance Club 8pm - 10.15pm in Gittisham Village Hall, Gittisham EX14 3AF. A friendly club with live music and guest caller every week - this week featuring Jeroka with Simon Maplesden calling. Membership available, with entry at £4; visitors £4.50, includes light refreshments.

All welcome, no partner or previous experience required. Contact Steve on 07793 124 229 or secretary Rosie, secretarygittishamfolkdance@gmail.com.

See https://gittishamfolkdanceclub.org.

THURSDAY 10 JANUARY Dorchester Probus Lunch Meeting at the Gamekeeper, Charminster DT2 9QZ, 12 noon for 12.30pm. The speaker will be John Aplin, the River Baliff for the River Frome. New members very welcome. For more details, contact the Secretary on 01305 269315.

Seaton Garden Club at 2.30pm at the Masonic Hall, Queen Street, Seaton - Illustrated talk by Mike Lock entitled “Wild flowers of East Devon”.

Visitors welcome, charge £2 to include refreshments. Contact details 01297 24049.

Seavington Gardening Club at 7.30pm.

James Cross - Head Gardener at The Bishop’s Palace will be talking about ‘ The Bishop’s Palace ‘ Wells. The meeting will be held in Seavington Millennium Hall . Visitors welcome £2 at the door.

Enquiries Karen Day. 01460 249728.

Crewkerne Gardening Club is pleased to welcome Jane Pearce who will talk on “Ponds & Wildlife” in the Henhayes Centre at 7.30pm. Visitors welcome , £2.50.

Chard Royal Naval Association AGM meeting at the Chard Rugby Football Club, Essex close Chard at 7.30pm. Members of the association will be renewing their membership for another year and would be happy to invite any one showing an interest in becoming members of the very active local branch of a great association.

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person in order to join them. Further details can be obtained from the branch secretary Mr Garry Pennells on 01460 77978.

FRIDAY 11 JANUARY East Devon Ramblers leisurely 5 mile circular walk from Colyton. 10am start.

Dogs on short leads. 07710 160903.

Seaton Wetlands outdoors club 10am - 12.30pm, Seaton Wetlands. Join this social club for over 55s to enjoy walks around Seaton Wetlands and wildlife themed activities. Part of the Connecting Actively to Nature Project. £2 per person, no booking required. Find out more at wildeastdevon.co.uk. Contact Wild East Devon at: wild@eastdevon.co.uk, 01395517557. Also 25 January.

The Living Tree, cancer self-help group. 1pm. Sing with Jane. 2.00pm Tripudio. 2.15pm Peter Harden talks about the wooden clocks he makes.

Therapist: Peter Cove. Drop in any time between 2pm and 4.30pm at Friends Meeting House, 95 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NZ. Tel 07341 916 976. www. thelivingtree.org.uk Food on Friday 12noon, at Clapton & Wayford Village Hall - two course lunch, roll & butter + unlimited tea/coffee, £4.50. Special diets can usually be catered for if requested in advance. 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.

Kilmington Garden Club 7.30pm. Toby Buckland from the BBC Gardeners World will be talking the Village Hall, Whitford Road, Kilmington EX13 7RF. Tickets £10 in advance, to book contact Lesley Rew 07900827689.

T-Rextasy 7.30pm. Marc Bolan, with his band T.Rex, was one of the most flamboyant and charismatic stars of the original glam rock era. With Bolan’s special ingredient of Rock-a-Boogie songs, the band had a string of huge hits throughout the 1970s including Love to Boogie, Telegram Sam, Jeepster and 20th Century Boy. Bridport Arts Centre www. bridport-arts.com.

Roger Marks’ Cornish Jazz Armada Swinging traditional jazz, played by a crew of expert musicians, led by trombonist Roger Marks. At 8pm. Tickets: £15 (£30 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.

The Hut People Taking the audience on a musical journey around the world, this English instrumental outfit is established as one of the best loved acts on the UK folk scene. £10 advance / £12 on the door 10% off for Theatre Friends

Bar opens 7pm, Starts 8pm. Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis 01297 442138 www. marinetheatre.com.

SATURDAY 12 JANUARY Martock Farmers Market 10am – 1pm in the Moorlands precinct, North Street.

Some people have been asking if there is a market in January. Yes, there most definitely is! A Farmers Market isn’t just for Christmas! With a strong presence this month selling everything from cauliflowers to carrots. Phone Fergus Dowding 01935 822202 for a table.

What’s that bird? 11am to 1pm, Hide TBC. Whatever your experience, come along and learn more about the birds found at Seaton Wetlands with an experienced volunteer guide. A free event, no booking required. Find out more at wildeastdevon.co.uk. Contact Wild East Devon at: wild@eastdevon.gov.uk, 01395517557.

Devon Fitspo Sidmouth’s first health and wellbeing event! Some of the best local fitness and health professionals will be giving live demonstrations and talks to inspire an active start to the New Year, and beyond. A great line-up of demonstrations, stalls and exhibitors, promises to make this an unmissable

event packed with health and lifestyle tips, tricks and hacks. Kennaway House www. kennawayhouse.org.uk Call 01395 515551.

Bridport & West Dorset Rambling Club 5.5 mile walk from Weymouth. Sea front and harbour, Nothe Fort, Sandsfoot Castle, Rodwell Trail. 10.30am start. Bring picnic. No dogs. All welcome. Please call 01308 898002.

Ninebarrow 8pm A multi-award-winning Folk duo who are impressing audiences across the country with their innovative and captivating take on the Folk tradition.

Described by Mark Radcliffe as sounding like ‘two halves of one voice’, by Seth Lakeman as ‘a fantastic duo’ and by Kate Rusby as ‘absolutely amazing’, Jon Whitley and Jay LaBouchardiere combine breathtaking vocal harmonies and melodies, delivering songs that are inspired by and rooted in the landscape and history of the British Isles. Tickets: £14 Full. £13 Concessions. The David Hall, South Petherton. www.thedavidhall.org.uk or phone 01460 240 340.

SUNDAY 13 JANUARY East Devon Ramblers leisurely 8 mile circular walk from Charmouth. 10.30am start and bring picnic. Assistance dogs only. 01297 443836.

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The Sunday Session This is a post-roast music session in the lovely bar overlooking the Cobb. It is hosted by Street & Matthews, who are joined by other guests, and there’s a selection of local drinks. Free entry, no tickets Bar opens and starts 3pm.

Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis 01297 442138 www.marinetheatre.com.

Allington Strings Czech Winter Concert 3pm at the Sir John Colfox Academy, Bridport. Musical Director Mark Westwood-Gould presents a varied programme of classical music, all by Czech composers, including works by Dvorak, Janacek, Gluck, Smetana and Myslivecek. Tickets £10 (under 18’s free) are available at the door or can be reserved by emailing Allingtonstrings@ outlook.com.

Wouldn’t It Be Loverly 3.30pm 4.30pm. ‘The Felicitous Four’ present a selection of Lerner & Lowe classics Joan Edgecumbe, John Brindley, Andrew Scott, Dorothy Worthington. Website: Friends of Sidholme Music Room (hugofox) Emails : friendsofsidholmemusicroom@ mail.com. Sidholme Music Room, Elysian Fields, Sidmouth. EX10 9PH. MONDAY 14 JANUARY Lipreading & Managing Hearing

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Coast &Countryside Loss Honiton Methodist Church 10am - 12noon. Learn how to manage your hearing loss by using lipreading and coping strategies, while building confidence in a supportive environment.

First session free. 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. Also on 21st and 28th.

Swanage Eco Therapy Gardening 2pm - 4pm (Stepping into Nature) Based at an old nursery, Greengage, offers a large greenhouse, planting beds and even a toilet block! Join in with various activities such as planting fruit and vegetables, cleaning vegetation and general maintenance. The Greengage nursery is still in it’s infancy so there is something for all abilities. Refreshments and tools will be provided. This activity is free and delivered by Dorset Wildlife Trust as part of Stepping into Nature.

Contact Katie on 01202 692 033 or kwilkinson@dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk to book. Visit www.stepin2nature.org for more info.

ASD and Social Anxiety Group 6.30pm – 8pm Bridport Children’s Centre, Skilling Hill Road, Bridport. A support group for young people 11-18 years and the parents of kids of all ages who struggle like this. Young people will get advice and support. Parents get separate support. For enquiries call Karen 07974 826891. Also 21 and 28 January and during term time.

MET Opera: Adriana Lecouvreur Screened from New York, soprano Anna Netrebko sings in the title role based on the eighteenth-century actress whose real-life intrigues inspired Cilea’s tragic opera. Encore Screening. Duration: 213 minutes including interval. £5 under 18s / £15 adult advance or on the door 10% off for Theatre Friends. Bar opens 4.55pm, starts 5.55pm. Marine Theatre,

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Lyme Regis 01297 442138 www. marinetheatre.com.

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

All ages 19 to 90. Teacher: Julia HopeBrightwell. 2nd + 4th Mondays. 7.15pm for 7.30pm. Cost £8-£10. Othona Community, Coast Road, Burton Bradstock DT6 4RN. Contact Robin 01308 897 130 / biodanza-bridport. co.uk.

TUESDAY 15 JANUARY West Dorset Ramblers 7.5 miles Hidden villages of West Dorset. Starts at 10am. Bring picnic, no dogs. All welcome. Please call 01308 424714.

Winter Talk at Beaminster Museum, Whitcombe Road, Beaminster DT8 3NB. Mark Lewis - Symonds & Sampson – 160 years of auctioneering.

2.30pm, Entrance £3. 01308 863200.

The Tragedy of King Richard The Second Broadcast live from the Almeida Theatre in London. £5 under 18s advance or on the door £11 advance / £14 on the door 10% off for Theatre Friends Bar opens 6pm Starts 7pm Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis 01297 442138 www.marinetheatre.com.

WEDNESDAY 16 JANUARY East Devon Ramblers strenuous 10.5 mile circular walk from Langdon Hill.

10am start and bring picnic. Dogs on short leads. 01395 516897.

Inner Wheel Club of Crewkerne meet for a fun and friendship lunch at Haselbury Mill TA18 7NY on the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 12noon for 12.30pm. One of the largest service organisations for women in the world, offering membership to women over the age of 18 who enjoy fun and friendship and being involved in ‘making

a difference’. Interesting speakers booked.

Prospective new members are welcome to visit, advance booking required. Contact innerwheel@uwclub.net or 01460 63856.

Chardstock Gardening Club 7.30pm. ‘A Rogue’s Gallery for Gardeners’ - talk by gardening writer Sally Nex, with practical advice on organic ways of tackling those pests and diseases in the garden. Chardstock Community Hall, Westcombes, EX13 7BJ. Everyone welcome. No need to book. Visitors £3; tea/coffee and biscuits included. Enquiries: 01460 221619.

Honiton U3A speaker will be Ian Barclay and his talk is entitled – ‘Art, Beauty & Design: The Art Deco’. Art Deco swept the world with its appeal and Ian’s talk will explore its early influences and how the commercial imperatives of large scale commissions expanded the style. The Beehive Centre, Dowell St., Honiton, Doors open 1.30pm for a 2pm start. Members Free and Visitors welcome (suggested donation of £2) Further information: 01404 598008 Website: http://u3asites.org.uk/ honiton.

Devonshire Association, Axe Valley Branch at 2.30pm. An illustrated talk by Martin Horrell “A miscellany of little known facts about Churches” At the Pavillion, Peace Memorial Playing Fields, Coly Road, Colyton EX24 5PU. Entrance donation £1 for DA members and £3 for non-members. Contact: Brian Denham 01297551529 or brian_denham@talktalk. net.

Colyton & District Garden Society talk, ‘The Wildlife of Seaton Wetlands’, by James Chubb, Countryside Team Leader, East Devon District Council. Colyford Memorial Hall at 7.30pm. For information: Sue Price 01297 552362.

The Arts Society West Dorset Thomas Hardy;s ‘Trampswoman’s Tragedy’.

Speaker: Prof William Gibson. The Seaside Boarding House, Burton Bradstock at 2.30pm. For details contact 01308 485487.

Axe Valley Centre National Trust Talk on WW2 South West Airfields by Brian LaneSmith. Colyford Memorial Hall 2.30pm Non-members welcome £2 including refreshments. Further information, Membership Secretary 01297 631801.

Thorncombe Rail Activities Club talk and slide presentation given by Ian Cowling entitled ‘The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway’ at 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 or Google TRAC “traclubsite” for information.

Sherborne Group of the Dorset Wildlife Trust in Digby Memorial Church Hall, Digby Road, Sherborne at 7.30pm, talk abou the New Forest, ‘The Wildlife of a Working Forest’ by Mike Read. Cost £2.50.

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- 10.15pm in Gittisham Village Hall, Gittisham EX14 3AF. A friendly club with live music and guest caller every week - this week featuring Gigs for Gigs with Aileen Wills calling. Membership available, with entry at £4; visitors £4.50, includes light refreshments.

All welcome, no partner or previous experience required. Contact Steve on 07793 124 229 or secretary Rosie, secretarygittishamfolkdance@gmail.com..

See https://gittishamfolkdanceclub.org.

Escaping The Storm 8pm Corn Exchange All £13 / £11 Book Now AsOne Theatre present a thoughtprovoking piece of theatre about one of the 20th Century’s most influential and controversial women. Dorchester Arts www.dorchesterarts.org.uk.

THURSDAY 17 JANUARY West Dorset Ramblers 7 miles Hardy’s Cottage and Dorchester area. Starts at 10am. Bring picnic, no dogs. All welcome.

Please call 01308 423346.

Coffee Morning 10am – 12noon in Clapton & Wayford Village Hall. There will be a raffle, and a cake stall/’bring & buy’ with home-made items, produce etc. Croissants & bacon rolls will also be served. Do come and join us, for an opportunity to meet friends & neighbours or get to know new people, whilst raising funds to improve the village hall facilities.

More details from Julia 01460 72769.

Wellbeing Walk at Radipole Lakes (Stepping into Nature) 11am – 12noon.

This is a relaxed, sociable and gentle monthly walk which is open to all , a health walk for healthy body and mind. We generally walk about a mile in distance taking 40 minutes to 1 hour, usually around our Radipole reserve in the heart of Weymouth. You may see fabulous wildlife on the walk, but the focus is simply a stroll and chat. This walk is dementia friendly, and particularly suitable for anyone wishing to lose weight, recovering from illness or wanting to improve their mental health and wellbeing.

Contact RSPB Radipole Lakes on 01305 778313. This event is free as it’s part of Stepping into Nature. Visit www. stepin2nature.org for more info.

National Trust South Dorset Association “Dorset Archaeology” by Christopher John Tripp BA (Hons.) MA, 2.30pm St Aldhelm’s Church Centre, Spa Road, Weymouth, DT3 5EW. Presented by the National Trust South Dorset Association Members NTSDA £3 Nonmembers, £4 (inc.tea/biscuits). Contact: Judith Young 01305 812150 www. southdorsetnt.org.uk.

South Somerset RSPB Group ‘Dorset’s Best Birdwatching Sites’An illustrated talk presented by Neil Gartshore, a wildlife surveyor and tour leader. 7.30pm The Millennium Hall, Seavington St Mary

Entry: Group members £3, non-group members £4, 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.

Living Tree @ The Bull Hotel. The Ostler Room, Bull Hotel, East Street, Bridport. Andrew Tressider will speak about “Health & Self Care for our Software Being”. Refreshments provided, drinks etc available from main bar, relaxed evening, friends & family welcome. Tel 07341 916 976. www.thelivingtree.org.uk Chard Camera Club meeting in the Baptist Church Hall Holyrood Street at 7.30pm. The members will be entertained

by Mr David Mason giving them an illustrated talk on ‘Street Photography’.

Further details can be obtained form their website www.chardcameraclub.org or by contacting members secretary Mrs Joyce Partridge on 01460 66885.

Paul Jones & Dave Kelly 8pm Founder members of The Blues Band, Paul Jones and Dave Kelly’s tangled and colourful roots go way back into the true undergrowth of the Blues tradition. A live Acoustic set by this dynamic duo is an occasion you’ll remember. If you’re a true Blues fan, everything you need is here!

Tickets: £24. No concessions. The David Hall, South Petherton. www.thedavidhall. org.uk or phone 01460 240 340.

FRIDAY 18 JANUARY East Devon Ramblers moderate 5.5 mile circular walk from the Donkey Sanctuary.

10am start. Dogs on short leads. 01297 552860.

Chef ’s special lunch at Henhayes Centre Crewkerne Roast Gammon, with pineapple Upside down pudding to follow.

Vegetarian is also available. Start with fruit juice and finish with tea or coffee and chocolates Bar opens at 12noon. Lunch is served at 12.30pm to book Tel: 01460 74340 email henhayescentre@btconnect. com At The Ebeneezer…Julian Richards: Stonehenge – The Story so Far. Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start. In The Seed Factory, Aller, Somerset TA10 0QN. £15 on the door. Includes soup supper & glass of wine. To RSVP, please email ebenezer@ebenezerpresents.com.

The Craig Milverton Trio with Enrico Tomasso, Alex Garnett & Nigel Price.

Mainstream modern jazz played by a quintet with impeccable credentials and many awards to their names. At 8pm.

Tickets: £20 (£35 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.

The Living Tree, cancer self-help group. Rob Griffith and Ed Brand from

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Dorset MIND. Therapist Peter Cove.

Drop in any time between 2pm and 4.30pm at Friends Meeting House, 95 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NZ. Tel 07341 916 976. www.thelivingtree.org.uk The Eduardo Niebla Experience Corn Exchange All £15 / £13 1 Hour 30 Mins Book Now Hailed by the Guardian for his “exquisite guitar playing” Eduardo Niebla is a formidable flamenco jazz. Dorchester Arts www.dorchesterarts.com .

SATURDAY 19 JANUARY Axe Vale & District Conservation Society 10am – 4pm Work Party – Pennyhayes Farm Scrub clearance. Meet at Pennyhayes Farm (SY241970) Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear and bring a picnic.

Dorset Countryside Volunteers are cutting scrub at Coney’s Castle (Whitchurch Canonicorum, West Dorset) in order to maintain grassland for the National Trust. They welcome new people interested in helping look after this special site. For details see www.dcv.org. uk, email DCVpublicity@gmail.com, or text or message 07923 498760 for them to contact you. Also Sunday 20 January.

Bridport & West Dorset Rambling Club 7.5 mile walk from Wooton Fitzpaine. Guppy, Lambert’s Castle, Northaye Farm, Conegar Hill. 10.30am start. Bring picnic. No dogs. All welcome.

Please call 01308 898002.

Pied Piper 2pm Bridport Arts Centre www.bridport-arts.com.

Beetle Snowman Drive with a pudding at Blackdown Village Hall, DT8 3LE, on the Lyme Regis to Crewkerne road (B3165). 6.30pm for 7pm start, bring the family for an evening of fun and wear your Christmas jumper too! £5 adult, £3 child, £15 family 2 + 2. For more information and to help make sure we have enough puddings, contact Philip 01460 30517/30661.

The Black Ven Spoken Word and Acoustic Music open mic nights at the Galley Cafe in Lyme Regis. Get warm and cozy on the third Saturday of the month.

All welcome. Bring your ears and your songs, ballads, poems, story and acoustic music for a warm welcome and friendly reception. Sign up 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start £2 entry one and all. With Keian’s delicious home-made cakes, hot drinks and full bar available. blackvenpress@ gmail.com.

Lyme Regis Comedy Club with Stuart Goldsmith This edition is headlined by ‘A charming, expert stand-up’ (The Sunday Times). Famed for the Comedian’s Comedian podcast which shines a light on his fellow comics, guests have included Russell Brand, Jimmy Carr, and Tim Minchin. He’s joined by three other comedians in this great value night out. £8 advance / £10 on the door 10% off

for Theatre Friends. Bar opens 7pm, Starts 8pm. Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis 01297 442138 www.marinetheatre.com.

SUNDAY 20 JANUARY East Devon Ramblers leisurely 8 mile circular walk from Chard. 10am start and bring picnic. Dogs on short leads. 01404 45944.

Bellows, Songs & Snatches 3.30pm – 4.30pm. Steve Minett, musical instrument maker, player and singer. Website: Friends of Sidholme Music Room (hugofox) Emails : friendsofsidholmemusicroom@mail.com.

Sidholme Music Room, Elysian Fields, Sidmouth. EX10 9PH. MONDAY 21 JANUARY Inspired by Archives 10.30am (Stepping into Nature) Enjoy the countryside?

Love history? Enjoy both with pictures, maps or recordings at the Dorset History Centre (Dorchester) and learn something new about the natural world and local artists. Contact Maria on 01305 228947 or m.gayton@dorsetcc.gov.uk to book. Visit www.stepin2nature.org for more info.

Chard & Ilminster District U3A invites all U3A members, retired visitors are very welcome to a talk by the writer, composer and singer Miranda Pender. Admission is free with tea and biscuits provided. Early booking is recommended. Find out what the U3A is all about. 2pm The Guildhall, 14 Fore St, Chard TA20 1PH. More info Tel 01460 68629 Website https://u3asites.org. uk/chardilminster/home Email: lewbat@ outlook.com.

Axminster Carnival Bingo Eyes Down 8pm Axminster Guildhall.

Beaminster WI will celebrate its 101st birthday and debate the range of resolutions suggested by the National Federation of Womens’ Institutes at 7.30pm in Beaminster Public Hall. Guests are welcome to attend two meetings per year without charge.

Musbury Garden Club with local resident and semi-retired botanist Mike Lock. Mike began his career studying the diet of hippos and ended as an editor at Kew Gardens.

The Latin names of plants often confuse and irritate gardeners. Mike will try and mitigate this by explaining how names are formed and what some of them mean, so helping us make better choices for our gardens. Mike’s talk will begin at 7.30pm in Musbury’s village hall, with refreshments served from 7pm. All welcome. Nonmembers £2.50.

TUESDAY 22 JANUARY Seaton Wetlands Tuesday Task Force 9.30am – 12noon, Seaton Wetlands. Join the Wild East Devon ranger and volunteers to help with a range of practical tasks at Seaton Wetlands. Contact the team to register your interest ad find out this week’s task and location. A free event, no booking required. Find out more at wildeastdevon.

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Mother Goose presented by All Saints Pantomime Society. 7.30pm. box office opens on Jan 8th. Call 01297 35687 or email her at barbara.foulkes@ btinternet.com for tickets.

co.uk. Contact Wild East Devon at: wild@ eastdevon.co.uk, 01395517557.

Dorset Industrial Archaeology Society “The History of Poole’s Foundries” is the subject of David Warhurst’s lecture to the Society. Meetings start at 7.30 pm in the Dorset Room, Colliton House, Colliton Park, Dorchester (opposite County Hall).

Non-members welcome (small donation suggested). Further details from:01305 871863 Open Afternoon 2.30-4.30pm at Henhayes Centre Crewkerne. Do you know someone who would like company or a hot meal? We will be holding a social afternoon with displays of all our regular activities. If you book your first meal we will only charge you half price. Vikki Starr will be providing musical entertainment during the afternoon.

West Dorset Ramblers 8.5 miles The Frome and Piddle Estuaries. Starts at 10am. Bring picnic, dogs optional. All welcome. Please call 01308 898484.

Martock History Group Brenda Webb will talk to us on the story of Montacute House, the most famous Hamstone house in the world, built to thrill the visitor over 400 years ago and still doing that today.

7pm for 7.30pm, at Martock School, Elmleigh Road. Admission £3 or annual subscription for only £10. Contact Fergus Dowding on 01935 822 202 for more info.

WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY East Devon Ramblers leisurely 8 mile circular walk from Feniton. 10.30am start and bring picnic. Dogs on short leads.

07926 076302.

Colyford Photographic Club Speaker Mr James Brown – Wildlife Photography how to capture the perfect image at Colyford Memorial Hall, Swan Hill Road, Colyton EX24 6QJ start time 7.30 pm – there are extra Wednesday’s during the year for workshops as advertised on their web page. A club who encourages New and Seasoned Photographers and can be contacted via colyford.photographic@ gmail.com or 07753 911751 www. colyfordanddistrictphotographicclub.co.uk.

Colyton Parish History Society 7.30pm Entrance fees £2 for members, £4 for non-members - meetings open to everyone. Colyton Town Hall. ‘Taking Some of Your Own Medicine’ Talk by Jon Pratt & Social Evening. A social evening which will include an interesting

Fri 1 Feb

Mike Denham’s SpeakEasy Unmissable vintage jazz. At 8pm.

Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973.

talk on age old, home produced remedies plus a history of the Colyton Chemist shop together with a display of their old artefacts. Quiz and refreshments as well.

Wilde Wednesdays: A Woman of No Importance Starring Anne Reid, this is a screening of Oscar Wilde’s comedy, recently filmed live at the Vaudeville Theatre in the heart of London’s West End. Duration: 155 minutes including interval Certificate U. £5 under 18s advance or on the door. £11 advance / £14 on the door 10% off for Theatre Friends. Bar opens 6pm Starts 7pm.

Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis 01297 442138 www.marinetheatre.com.

Gittisham Folk Dance Club at 8pm - 10.15 pm in Gittisham Village Hall, Gittisham EX14 3AF. A friendly club with live music and guest caller every week - this week featuring Chris Toyne with Janet Bulpin calling. Membership available, with entry at £4; visitors £4.50, includes light refreshments.

All welcome, no partner or previous experience required. Contact Steve on 07793 124 229 or secretary Rosie, secretarygittishamfolkdance@gmail.com.

See https://gittishamfolkdanceclub.org.

FRIDAY 25 JANUARY East Devon Ramblers moderate 5.5 mile circular walk from Salcombe Hill. 10am start. Dogs on short leads. 01395 514733.

Poundbury Rotary Club quiz The club’s next big event is the quiz at the Brownsword Hall, Poundbury. Teams of six ideally, but any number and the club will make up teams on the night. Just £5 per person, and each member of the winning team receives a bottle of wine.

All the proceeds re going to the Rotary Club charities. Contact the club to book a place. Parkers, 24 Peverell Avenue West, Poundbury, Contact Mark on 01305 340860 or m.parker@parkersproperty. com.

Flying Folk Eclectic folk night, introduced by Jemima Farey with special guest Luke Daniels. At 8pm. Tickets: £10 (licensed bar; no suppers). Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www. themeetinghouse.org.uk.

The Living Tree, cancer self-help group. 2pm Rachel Oaten talks about wills, powers of attorney, body donation (Human Tissue Act 2004) and probate/ administration of estates. Therapists:

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Antiques and Collectables Fair at Axminster Guildhall, EX13 5NX 9.30 - 3.30. Small furniture, Textiles, China, Glass, Silver, Jewellery, Books, Pictures etc. Enquiries 07977 591 736

Anne Escott and Peter Cove. Drop in any time between 2pm and 4.30pm at Friends Meeting House, 95 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NZ. Tel 07341 916 976. www. thelivingtree.org.uk Somerset Wildlife Trust Ilminster/ Chard group Wildlife Photography around Ilminster and neighboring Counties. An opportunity to enjoy wildlife and its behaviour in the countryside as seen through the camera of published local photographer Robin Morrison.

Often fascinating, occasionally funny, sometimes sad but always rewarding and there for us all to see with a little patience. At the Parish Hall, North Street, Ilminster TA19 0DG. 7.30pm. No need to book. Entrance by donation £2.50 members, £3.50 non-members, no charge for children. Refreshments available.

Sales table. Parking at roadside, town or Tesco car-parks. Enquiries: Valerie 01460 234551.

And then they came for me: Remembering the world of Anne Frank 8pm Ed Silverberg was Anne Frank’s first boyfriend. Eva was the same age as Anne and lived in the same apartment block as her in Amsterdam until Anne and her family went into hiding. Eva and her family were also arrested by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps. More than 1.25 million people were killed in AuschwitzBirkenau where Eva and her family were sent. Dorchester Arts www.dorchesterarts. org.uk.

SATURDAY 26 JANUARY Bridport & West Dorset Rambling Club 8 mile walk from Mosterton. South and North Perrott, Misterton.

10.30am start. Bring picnic. No dogs. All welcome. Please call 01308 898002.

Seaton Beer and District Branch RNLI SOS Table Top Sale in the Mariners Hall, Beer, Devon, EX12 3JB Open to sellers 8am. Sale open from 9am to 12.30pm.

Table hire £6 for one or £10 for two.

Contact Secretary Wendy Cummins.

Telephone (01297) 23040 or email wac500@hotmail.co.uk Come along for tea, coffee and Bacon Baps. A variety of stalls including crafts, cakes, jam and chutneys, books, jewellry and bric-a-brac and raffle. All welcome.

The Spiral Centre’s Way Forward Meeting in the Spiral Sanctuary at Combe Farm Axmouth EX12 4AU at 7pm. Come

and join us for our annual social evening (with refreshments) to find out more about the Spiral Centre and discuss ideas for our upcoming programme of events. Please contact Christina Bows on 01297 23822 for further information or visit our website: thespiralcentre.wordpress.com.

Bridport Seed Swap 10-12 at Ropemakers Inn, West St. Bridport Bring your surplus seeds to swap or simply come and take what you fancy for a donation to charity. For more info call Eileen 01308 421678 Quiz & Supper Evening at Clapton & Wayford Village Hall 7pm All welcome; come in a team or join one on the night – prizes for winning team. Licensed Bar & Raffle. £9 includes supper; all proceeds to village hall development. To assist with catering, please book in advance on 01460 75380.

Breakfast/Brunch at Henhayes Centre Crewkerne served from 10am to noon (Last orders 11.30) Great value at £4.50 Egg, sausage, bacon, tomato or beans, toast, tea/coffee Extras available @ 50p each.

Vegetarian breakfast is also available No need to book, for more info Tel:01460 74340 Steve Knightley: Roadworks 8pm Steve once again takes to England’s highways and byways to present Roadworks – a show which builds on the success of his sell-out

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2018 solo tour, Songs and Stories. This is a stripped-back, one-man show that’s infused with wit, warmth and alchemy, beautifully illustrated by his trenchant songs of history, love and conscience.

Tickets: £19. No concessions. The David Hall, South Petherton. www.thedavidhall. org.uk or phone 01460 240 340.

The Tuckers Jazz Club 8pm The Louise Parker Quartet. The Tuckers Arms, Dalwood, Near Axminster, EX13 7EG (just north of the A35 between Axminster & Honiton) Tickets £10 Info. at www. dalwoodvillage.co.uk 01404 831 280.

SAT 26 – SUNDAY 27 JANUARY Glass Festival The weekend will be made up of a day of demonstrations by contemporary masters using a hot kiln set up in the barn, followed by a chance to have a go yourself on the Sunday.

Watch the alchemy first-hand as a master glassmaker takes a glowing orb of molten glass and skillfully transforms it into a vase, bowl, glass or sculpture. Book a day ticket for Saturday 26 January at £60 which includes access to all the days demonstrations and our Glass Maker’s lunch. An under 16’s ticket is £30 for the day. Tickets for individual talks and demos are £12 each, £6 for children under 16 years old. Tickets for Sunday’s bauble making workshop and demo by Emsie Sharp are available separately. Messums Wiltshire, Place Farm, Court St, Tisbury, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 6LW www. messumswiltshire.com 01747 445042.

SUNDAY 27 JANUARY Farmhouse Breakfast at Whitchurch Canonicorum Village Hall DT66RF from 9am - 2pm. Come and enjoy a traditional breakfast, brunch or lunch with lots of choice of cereals, fruit, yogurts, juice, full English cooked breakfast, toast and tea/coffee using local produce. Costs £8.50 for adults and £5 for children under 10, eat as much as you like. Profits to the Village Hall and a contribution from the raffle to Weldmar Hospicecare.

01297489375 for more details.

East Devon Ramblers moderate 8.5 mile circular walk from Peak Hill. 10am start and bring picnic. Dogs on short leads.

01395 519828.

Allington Strings Czech Winter Concert 3pm at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Furnham Road, Chard TA20 1AE. Musical Director Mark WestwoodGould presents a varied programme of classical music, all by Czech composers, including works by Dvorak, Janacek, Gluck, Smetana and Myslivecek.Tickets £10 (under 18’s free) are available at the door or can be reserved by emailing Allingtonstrings@outlook.com.

Lord Byron – Music & Poetry of the Time 3.30pm – 4.30pm Ekaterina

Shetcliffe: piano, Yulia Northlidge: violin...and friends. A costumed event, dress up if you like! Website: Friends of Sidholme Music Room (hugofox) Emails : friendsofsidholmemusicroom@mail.com.

Sidholme Music Room, Elysian Fields, Sidmouth. EX10 9PH. Jazz in the Bar: Latin Jazz with Pete Canter From bossa-nova to rhumba, jazz musicians have found Latin music to be a continuing source of inspiration.

Explore it at the Marine’s bar overlooking the Cobb. £8 advance / £12 on the door, 10% off for Theatre Friends. Bar opens 7pm, starts 8pm. Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis 01297 442138 www.marinetheatre. com.

Acoustic Night 7.30pm – 10.30pm All styles and forms of performance welcome – not just music. If you wish to perform please drop an email at folk@chriswatts. org to secure a slot. The David Hall, South Petherton. www.thedavidhall.org.uk or phone 01460 240 340.

SHIVERS 8pm by Adam Z Robinson (The Book of Darkness & Light in association with LittleMighty) Corn Exchange, Dorchester Arts www. dorchesterarts.org.uk.

MONDAY 28 JANUARY Swanage Eco Therapy Gardening 2pm - 4pm (Stepping into Nature) Based at an old nursery, Greengage, offers a large greenhouse, planting beds and even a toilet block! Join in with various activities such as planting fruit and vegetables, cleaning vegetation and general maintenance. This activity is free and delivered by Dorset Wildlife Trust as part of Stepping into Nature. Contact Katie on 01202 692 033 or kwilkinson@ dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk to book. Visit www.stepin2nature.org for more info.

Golden Cap Association Winter Talk The Golden Age of Travel, Talk by Paul Atterbury. The 1920s and 1930s were indeed the Golden Age of Travel with Cunard, the Orient Express, Pullman trains and flying boats. Paul embarks on an alluring journey into this golden age of ocean liners and rail travel. Paul has presented a television programme on the BBC whilst travelling on board a train headed by the famous steam locomotive ‘The Flying Scotsman’. Bridport United Church Hall, East St, Bridport. 2.30pm.

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 Eyes Down 8pm Axminster Guildhall.

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

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19 to 90. Teacher: Julia Hope-Brightwell.

2nd + 4th Mondays. 7.15pm for 7.30pm.

Cost £8-£10. Othona Community, Coast Road, Burton Bradstock DT6 4RN. Contact Robin 01308 897 130 / biodanzabridport.co.uk.

Bridport Folk Dance Club at 7.30pm - 9.30pm in the WI Hall, North Street, Bridport DT6 3JQ. Enjoy folk dancing mainly in the English tradition from Playford-style to modern-day compositions at Bridport’s longestablished weekly club, on this evening with live music for “A Pair of Shears” and guest caller Dick Williams. All welcome, no partner or previous experience required. Admission £3 for members, £4 visitors (membership available) Taster sessions available at no cost. Contact Mecki on 01308 423 442.

TUESDAY 29 JANUARY West Dorset Ramblers 7 miles Bridport Countryside. Starts at 10am. Bring picnic, no dogs. All welcome. Please call 01305 854137.

Afternoon tea and entertainment at The Speedwell at 2.30pm. All are welcome to a tasty afternoon tea, with light musical entertainment provided by professional singer Vicki Starr & also a demonstration of folk dancing, at The Speedwell, 5 Abbey Street, Crewkerne, TA187HY. Tickets only £5 from Information Centre, Town Hall, Crewkerne or phone 01460 72417 Merriott Gardening Club David Usher will be talking on Herbaceous Plants. David was Head Gardener at Hestercombe Gardens responsible for the restoration, development and care of the Jekyll Garden - this should be informative and interesting. Please meet at the Tithe Barn at 7.30pm - refreshments and raffle.

Everyone welcome - non-members £2 at the door. Please contact 01460 72298 for more information.

WEDNESDAY 30 JANUARY East Devon Ramblers moderate 8.5 mile circular walk from Hawkchurch. 10am start and bring picnic. Dogs on short leads. 01395 260114.

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

Bridport Camera Club Club Competition 2. Judged by John Tilsley.

A challenging theme that offers plenty of opportunity to think outside the box. 7.30pm Bridport Town Hall, DT6 3HA. New members always welcome.

All enquiries call the Club Secretary on 07737 405474 or email secretary@ bridportcameraclub.co.uk.

Gittisham Folk Dance Club at 8pm - 10.15pm in Gittisham Village Hall,

Gittisham EX14 3AF. A friendly club with live music and guest caller every week - this week featuring the Raleigh Reelers with Ray Goodswen calling. Membership available, with entry at £4; visitors £4.50, includes light refreshments. All welcome, no partner or previous experience required. Contact Steve on 07793 124 229 or secretary Rosie, secretarygittishamfolkdance@gmail.com.

See https://gittishamfolkdanceclub.org.

THURSDAY 31 JANUARY Chard Camera Club Members and anyone showing an interest in the club, should meet at the Baptist Church Hall, Holyrood Street at 7.30pm where they will take part in an annual interclub competition against Wellington Camera Club. Further details can be obtained from the website www. chardcameraclub.org or by calling the members secretary Joyce Partridge on 01460 66885.

I’m Not Running This is an explosive new political play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live. £5 under 18s advance or on the door £11 advance / £13.50 on the door 10% off for Theatre Friends. Bar opens 6pm, starts 7pm. Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis 01297 442138 www.marinetheatre.com.

THUR 31 JAN – SAT 1 FEBRUARY Mother Goose presented by All Saints Pantomime Society. A traditional family pantomime but with the ‘All Saints’ treatment! Performances start at 7.30pm.

Tickets are £6 and £3 and the box office opens on January 8th. Please ring Barbara on 01297 35687 or email her at barbara. foulkes@btinternet.com for tickets.

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Courses&Workshops TUESDAY 18 DECEMBER Table Wreath Floral Design Workshop 10.30am - 1.30pm The Salty Monk in Sidmouth £85. A florist lead morning workshop where you will learn how to make a beautiful fresh foliage and flower table design to include lunch. www. floralities.co.uk 01395 519746 or 07807 615902.

THURSDAY 20 DECEMBER Collagraphy Discover this versatile printing process, using different low relief textures – anything from textiles, to leaves, buttons, card and string.

With Claire Jeanes. 1.30-4.30pm. £15 (excluding materials). Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www. themeetinghouse.org.uk.

SATURDAY 22 DECEMBER Christmas Holiday Crafting 10.30am 3.30pm Leader Gillian Beckman-Findlay.

Drop in and have a go at one of our many crafts - including silk painting, decopatch, ceramic painting, block printing, wet felting, sand art, pebble painting and sewing - there’s something for everyone.

Coastal Craft Collective, 10 Marine Place, Seaton, Devon EX12 2QL, 01297 691362, www.coastalcraftcollective.co.uk. Also 29 December.

SUNDAY 23 DECEMBER Christmas Bonbon Dish with Oasis Floral Design 1.30pm - 4.30pm The Salty Monk in Sidmouth £95. A florist lead after workshop where you will make a beautifully fresh oasis design in a ceramic gold and white striped bonbon dish and be treated to afternoon tea. www. floralities.co.uk 01395 519746 or 07807 615902.

FRIDAY 28 DECEMBER By the Loom - A Fun Craft Day Axminster Heritage hands-on spinning and weaving group. Everyone welcome beginners and the more experienced.

10.30am – 3pm £3 More info: 01404 831207 or phone to book a place. An Axminster Heritage Craft Day The Bradshaw Meeting Room, Thomas Whitty House, Silver Street, Axminster, Devon, EX13 5AH. SUNDAY 6 JANUARY Clean and Clear Day Retreat Yoga and Nutrition Vision Board workshop 10am - 4.30pm. The Kingcombe Centre, Toller Porocorum. More information and bookings @ Eventbrite or www.

thewelllifelab.com Or telephone Helen on 07704093016.

MONDAY 7 JANUARY Developing Reflex Drawing Technique Learn to draw spontaneously in a new series of three fun classes; Tutored by Marie Blake, formerly a professional art teacher, who now focuses mainly on her own work See: http://www.marieblake. com/ £4 per class 2pm – 4pm Spaces are limited, please phone to book. More info: 01404 831207 An Axminster Heritage Craft Day, The Bradshaw Meeting Room, Thomas Whitty House, Silver Street, Axminster, Devon, EX13 5AH. Clay Sculpture A friendly and informal untutored group that meets weekly at IAC. All abilities welcome. Pay as you go - no need to book in advance. Materials not provided. Mondays 10am-3pm. £7 per weekly session. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East St, Ilminster TA19 0AN. 01460 54973.

Solo Charleston Course New 4 Week Course - Monday 7, 14, 21 & 28 January 6pm - 7pm - Chideock Village Hall, DT6 6JW - £22 per course book in advance at www.dynamic-dance.uk/book-online - All welcome.

TUESDAY 8 JANUARY Watercolours Until 2 April (excl 19 Feb).

Learn the techniques of watercolour in these friendly and relaxed classes. All abilities welcome. Tuesdays 10am-12pm or 1-3pm. £180 for 12 week term. Book with tutor Nicky Clarke on 01460 281773.

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

Art History Course with Dr Stephen Bemrose Botticelli – Tuesdays until the 12th February. Titian – Thursdays from the 10th January until the 14th February.

For more information, please email, s.c.d.bemrose@exeter.ac.uk. Kennaway House, www.kennawayhouse.org.uk Call 01395 515551.

Art Classes with Hannah Twine Learn to draw and paint human and animal subjects. The first Tuesday of each month, for 7 months, starting on the 8th January until the 2nd July. For more information, contact 07912 627071 or email hannah. twine@googlemail.com. Visit www. hannahtwine.co.uk. Kennaway House, www.kennawayhouse.org.uk Call 01395 515551.

Learn Hedgelaying for Free Looking to find a way to meet new people and to help care for the environment? Join this

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volunteer group and master the traditional craft of hedgelaying. Hedgelaying has long been used to lengthen the life of trees, encourage new growth and thicken the hedge to encourage a greater range of wildlife. This is a practical session led by the resident ranger, Julia Bloom, and is based at Magdalen Farm between Beaminster & Chard. Free of charge to willing volunteers the day runs from 10am - 3pm and includes light refreshments with a simple lunch. Suitable for adults only.

Booking essential - to confirm your place, or find out more information, please visit or website www.magdalenfarm.org.uk/ events or email julia@magdalenfarm.org. uk. Also on 19, 29 January.

WEDNESDAY 9 JANUARY Acrylics Until 13 February. Develop your own personal painting style in this wonderfully versatile medium. Suitable for all abilities. Wednesdays 10.30am-12.30pm. £66 for 6 classes. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www. themeetinghouse.org.uk.

An Introduction to Portraits Until 13 February. For students with some prior experience. Learn how to capture a likeness and hone your observational skills, working from photographs and the live model With Juliet Farnese.

Wednesdays 2pm - 4pm. £75 for 6 classes.

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

Art class of drawing and painting 9.30am – 12.30pm £16 most materials supplied. Mangerton Mill Tara 07505268797 Also 16, 23, 30 January.

THURSDAY 10 JANUARY Art class of drawing and painting 9.30pm – 12.30pm £16 most materials supplied. Mangerton Mill Tara 07505268797. Also 17, 24, 31 January.

Solo Charleston Course New 4 Week Course - Thursday 10, 17, 24 & 31 January 1.30pm – 2.30pm - Studio 2, Bridport Leisure Centre, DT6 5LN - £22 per course book in advance at www.dynamicdance.uk/book-online - All welcome.

SATURDAY 12 JANUARY Asymmetric Waste Paper Basket 9.30am - 4.30pm, Reed Base at Seaton Wetlands. Make a small round willow basket in a day. £45 per person, booking required. Find out more at wildeastdevon. co.uk. Contact Wild East Devon at: wild@

eastdevon.co.uk, 01395517557.

Willow workshops at Broadwindsor Craft Centre with Jo Sadler. Hedgerow basket £45pp Book now jojo.sadler@ hotmail.co.uk visit josadlerwillowartist. bigcartel.com 07531417209.

(no class 22nd February), 18th January until 15th March. 9.30am - 12.30pm.

For more information, please call 07801 064578. Or email kaili_fu@hotmail.com Kennaway House, www.kennawayhouse. org.uk Call 01395 515551.

mark-making. £100 for the day including lunch tea and coffee. For any bookings either the office number 07720 637808, email info@sculpturebythelakes.co.uk or the website link to events: https://www. sculpturebythelakes.co.uk/mainevent.

MONDAY 14 JANUARY Modern Jive 6 Week Beginners & Intermediates Course until Monday 18 February 7.30pm – 10.30pm - Chideock Village Hall, DT6 6JW - £36 per course book in advance at www.dynamic-dance. uk/book-online - All welcome.

FRI 18 – SATURDAY 19 JANUARY Drop Tassel Workshop: the Art of Passementerie with Anna Crutchley.

10.30am - 4.30pm. A two day workshop looking at traditional techniques of making full-size tassel for interior decoration. £200 including lunch, tea and coffee. For any bookings either the office number 07720 637808, email info@sculpturebythelakes.co.uk or the website link to events: https://www. sculpturebythelakes.co.uk/mainevent.

SATURDAY 26 JANUARY Bookkeeping Taster Workshop Emma Grant leads a workshop for those wanting to learn how to finance. From 9.30am 1.30pm. For more information, contact info@learntofinance.co.uk. Kennaway House, www.kennawayhouse.org.uk Call 01395 515551.

Willow workshops at Broadwindsor Craft Centre with Jo Sadler. Boxing Hare £75pp Book now jojo.sadler@hotmail. co.uk visit josadlerwillowartist.bigcartel. com 07531417209.

Meditation Day Retreat with Lama Chodrak - How to work with thoughts and emotions using Meditation. 10.30am - 4.30pm. £55 including lunch. For any bookings either the office number 07720 637808, email info@sculpturebythelakes. co.uk or the website link to events: https://www.sculpturebythelakes.co.uk/ mainevent.

Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop with Thomas Stone MCI Hort MPGA 10.30am - 3.30pm. £65 which incudes a light lunch, refreshments and entry to the sculpture park. For any bookings either the office number 07720 637808, email info@sculpturebythelakes.co.uk or www. sculpturebythelakes.co.uk/mainevent.

TUESDAY 15 JANUARY Workshops in Creative Process and Self Expression level 2 begin today in Bridport. 10 Tuesdays 9.30am-12.30pm excluding half term holiday. ‘Serious play’ with art materials combined with group discussions, enquiry and reflective practice.

Max 12 participants. Suitable only if you have attended part 1 of the course in Bridport or London. Contact Mary Caddick to discuss the course & to book a place 07557 275275 m.caddick@gmx.net.

WEDNESDAY 16 JANUARY Mindfulness based on Stress Reduction 8 consecutive weeks, Wednesdays, 16th January until 6th March from 2pm - 4pm. For more information please contact Kennaway House on 01395 515551 or visit www.massage-mindfulness. co.uk. Kennaway House, www. kennawayhouse.org.uk Call 01395 515551.

THURSDAY 17 JANUARY Creative Process and Self Expression Workshops (Level 1) begins today in Bridport - The Chapel in the Garden. 10 Thursdays 9.30am - 12.30. ‘Serious play’ with art materials & group discussions.

Max 10 participants. Successful course at London’s Central St. Martins’ College for 20+ years. Suitable for artists & designers as well as beginners wanting to explore + develop creativity and self expression further. Great if you are looking to find or change creative direction, feeling creatively stuck etc. Fun and challenging.

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

FRIDAY 18 JANUARY Felt Making Discover the tactile art of felting by making felt scarves, bags, slippers - or whatever takes your fancy! Beginners to advanced welcome.

10am - 3pm. £25 per monthly session (excluding materials). Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www. themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Chinese Brush Painting Classes with Kaili Fu. Learn a new art form in a friendly and relaxed group, led by Chinese artist Kaili. 8 consecutive weeks, Fridays

SATURDAY 19 JANUARY Marmalade Make and Bake Course with Vivien Lloyd A fantastic opportunity to learn how to make traditional Seville Marmalade with award winning preserves chef and food writer Vivien Lloyd. Spend the day in our magnificent cookery school learning all there is to know about Marmalade and Seville Oranges and how to make different flavoured marmalades. And if that is not enough you will also make the most wonderful marmalade loaf! Lunch is included. 9.45am - 4pm Frogmary Green Farm, South Petherton 01460 249758 www.frogmarygreenfarm.co.uk.

WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY Sausage Making Course with Clinton Bonner from award winning Butchers Bonner’s of Ilminster. A fun evening learning how to make and flavour your own sausages. Includes a delicious hot dog at the end of the session along with a glass of wine and a good big bag of sausages to take home with you.

7.30pm - 9pm, Frogmary Green Farm, South Petherton 01460 249758 www. frogmarygreenfarm.co.uk.

FRIDAY 25 JANUARY Slow Stitch Develop your creative skills through the simple and mindful process of creating designs on fabric with stitch.

Bring your own hand sewing kit. With Paula Simpson. 10am-12.30pm (and 1.30-4pm if morning session full). £15 (excluding materials). Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www. themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Drawing from Nature with Laura Rich. 10.30am - 4.30pm. This one day drawing workshop will offer the perfect opportunity to soak up the beautiful surroundings of Sculpture by the Lakes and produce carefully considered, mindful drawings direct from source material gathered during the day. Laura will take you through drawing exercises aimed at learning to see structure and fee up your

MONDAY 28 JANUARY Coker WEA course “1930’s Crime Fiction” Tutor Greta Depledge. A six week course, Hardington Village Hall, BA22 9PQ, 2pm - 3.30pm. Cost £33, Ref:- C3530179 For more information look at the WEA web site or tel:- 0300 303 3464 Local contact:- 01935 863954. www.wea.org.uk.

WEDNESDAY 30 JANUARY Mindfulness Courses with Heike Hollersung Self-esteem and Assertiveness Skills – 6 consecutive weeks, Wednesdays, 30th January until 6th March from 11am-1pm. For more information please contact Kennaway House on 01395 515551 or visit www.massage-mindfulness. co.uk. Kennaway House, www. kennawayhouse.org.uk Call 01395 515551.

THURSDAY 31 JANUARY A Demonstration Evening with Tim Maddams The farm are delighted to welcome celebrated Game chef Tim Maddams for an evening of thoughtful Game Cookery Demonstrations, nibbles, laughter and cheer as we celebrate the finest of seasonal British Game.

7pm - 9pm Frogmary Green Farm, South Petherton 01460 249758 www. frogmarygreenfarm.co.uk.

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News &Views

HONITON

ILMINSTER

CREWKERNE

A new charity shop has opened on the High Street, set up and run by people with learning disabilities. Creative Opportunities for Independence is part of My Support and Care Services, which earlier this year entered into a share-buy with fellow Honiton business Independence Enabling Ltd. Artists will display and sell their work in the shop, which will also sell furniture, ornaments and decorations.

Lesley Barker, director of My Support and Care Services, said those involved were excited to show the public the outcome of their hard work.

She added that the shop would enable adults with learning disabilities to showcase their full potential and get on the right track to securing paid work. For more information about My Support and Care Services, call 01404 42624.

Plans are to be submitted to South Somerset District Council to build 144 homes and an employment site at Hort Bridge.

The land has been vacant since the closure of Horlicks Farms and Dairies in 2001. Plans were approved around 10 years ago to develop the site—long considered by local people to be an eyesore—but never came to fruition. The latest plan by landowners Dairy Gold would see a mix of two, three and four bedroom houses, as well as employment land. A spokesman for the Save Shudrick Valley Group, which opposed development in the Shudrick Valley to the east of the town, said: “It would tidy up what has been an eyesore entrance into the town for over 18 years and provide housing in a location alongside other residential units.”

Jo Roundell Greene, who lives at Hewish, has met for the first time a 90-year-old man who was sheltered as a child refugee by her grandfather, Clement Attlee.

Paul Willer fled from the Nazis in the run-up to the Second World War. He said it was an ‘overwhelming experience’ to meet Jo. They hugged many times. They met at a private tea in the House of Lords, hosted by Ms Roundell Greene’s cousin, Earl John Atlee.

It came ahead of an event in the Houses of Parliament, organised by the Association of Jewish Refugees, to mark the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransport which saved thousands of children who were escaping from the Nazis. Mr Willer was ten when he was taken into the home of the then opposition leader in 1939.

Enabling independence

‘Eyesore’ set to be developed

LYME REGIS

Seaside pub is sold South West brewing and pub company the St Austell Brewery have bought The Rock Point Inn at Lyme Regis for an undisclosed sum from owner Gail Caddy. The sale also includes The Cobb Gate Fish Bar. It’s the Cornwall-based company’s first pub in Dorset. Its property director Adam Luck said the firm always considered the wider South West region as its ‘heartland’ and had been growing its free trade business for many years. The premises, part of which is Grade II listed, will be closed for several months while refurbishment takes place. The company says it will be carrying out a ‘full and sensitive restoration’ as well as working with Lyme Regis Museum to find out more about the exact age of the pub and fish bar before it reopens.

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‘Overwhelming experience’

WEST DORSET

Bathing water quality tops ratings

Beaches across West Dorset have received top ratings by the Environment Agency. West Bay, Charmouth, Eype, Seatown and Burton Bradstock all received an ‘excellent’ rating, while Lyme Regis was rated ‘good’. Across the country, 97.9% of bathing waters passed tough standards following water testing at 420 locations. Some 92.4 per cent of the beaches and inland lakes tested were given a rating of ‘excellent’ or ‘good’. From May to September, staff from the Environment Agency take up to 20 samples from each location before being tested in the laboratory. In the early 1990s, just 28 per cent of bathing waters would have met today’s standards.

Improvements have happened over the last two decades in part due to EA regulations reducing pollution from companies and industry, and the work of local councils and communities.

Humph’s Festive Crossword Laterally Speaking by Humphrey Walwyn

ACROSS 6 Bram Stoker’s character is a pain in the neck (7) 7 Valuable dated object (7) 9 In one’s birthday suit (5) 10 Holiday beach seating (4, 5) 11 Variety of long-grained rice (7) 13 As described by Carol, the night was like this (6) 15 Chesil Beach coastal village (4, 9) 19 Emigre confused by the authorities (6) 20 Place for plays (7) 23 A musical bird in a pear tree (9) 24 In the same song as 21 Down, which animal featured on the sixth day? (5) 26 Old Biblical news (7) 27 Eight-limbed sea creature (7)

DOWN 1 Cars are banned on this Channel island (4) 2 Religious founder sits cross-legged (6) 3 Spin padre around to see a shorebird (9) 4 Christmas leg warmer contains gifts (8) 5 What is three to nine? (6, 4) 6 According to Strauss, this river is blue (6) 7 Shape of a bridge (4) 8 White plumed waders (6) 12 Seasonal horsedrawn transport (6, 4) 14 Motel site modified for a Christmas kiss (9) 16 Tropical evergreen tree with tangy fruit (8) 17 Where to roll on a roll-on (6) 18 Somerset ____ : an area of flat land from the Mendips to the Blackdown Hills prone to flooding (6) 21 The day of Christmas when maids are a-milking (6) 22 The Roman date in March when Julius Caesar was assassinated (4) 25 Jurassic Coast village about one and a half miles from Bridport (4)

WIN A COPY OF ‘LATERALLY SPEAKING’: We have five copies of Humphrey’s hilarious book to give away to the first five correct crosswords drawn out of a hat at the end of January.

Send your entries to Marshwood Vale Magazine, Lower Atrim, Bridport, Dorset DT6 5PX to reach us before January 18, 2019.

No cash equivalent available. Judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

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House&Garden

Bridport Cohousing - tackling the problem of social isolation

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n a recent TED talk, architect Grace Kim shared her perspective on the loneliness epidemic: ‘Loneliness doesn’t always stem from being alone; loneliness is a function of how socially connected we feel to the people around us—and it’s often the result of the homes we live in.’

Although we are technologically more ‘connected’ than ever through the use of our mobile devices and social media, we are also feeling more lonely and socially isolated than ever. In 2014 Britain was voted the loneliness capital of the world.

Recent studies have found the issue to be a serious threat to our public health and longevity, with effects comparable to obesity. These outcomes have been connected with high rates of people living alone, and the UK government responded to the problem by appointing the first ever Minister for Loneliness, Tracey Crouch. Her ‘loneliness strategy’ was not to be focused on the elderly, but would recognise how feelings of loneliness could deeply affect people at many times in their lives.

“It’s a common misconception that it only happens in later life,” she told a conference organised by the Campaign to End Loneliness, supported by a coalition of charities. Ms Crouch said she had been shocked by the negative impact of isolation, which can affect young people, new parents, the bereaved, those who had lost touch with their family, as well as those in old age.

What is Cohousing and why is it different?

Cohousing is an intentional neighbourhood that has been designed to enable casual social contact, and planned by its residents to provide self-contained accommodation and personal space combined with shared extra facilities like a ‘common house’ where residents can go to enjoy social activities like preparing and eating a meal together or having a party.

Bridport Cohousing was formed a decade ago when a group of people decided that they wanted to create an environmentally minded cohousing neighbourhood in Bridport.

Because affordability is such a big issue in Bridport it was decided to form a Community Land Trust that rented and sold houses at 80% of open market value and which would make it possible for more local people to afford to live there.

All those wishing to live in the neighbourhood become members of the CLT and get involved in making the project happen.

The project has developed into a vision of a mutually supportive neighbourhood with sustainable living at its heart. Diversity too is very important for the group so that there will be a good mix of ages, family units and single people all living on the seven-acre site which is next to the Community Hospital in North Allington.

The project has recently received its full planning permission to build 53 affordable homes on its land—from 1-bed apartments to 2, 3 and 4-bed houses, arranged in terraces that follow the contour

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lines of the land, with the common house in the centre, for use by all. This will form the social hub, and it is anticipated that it will have many functions to suit the various needs of the people living there.

One of the loneliest activities in the day can be around mealtimes in the evening, especially for those who live on their own, whether they are young or old. Coming home from work, day after day, to an empty house, or getting a meal for yourself after losing a lifelong partner can be a sad affair, and it is all too easy to get a microwaved ready meal and sit down in front of the TV on your own for the night.

Imagine that there was an option to walk out of your front door and into a warm and inviting common house where you could sit down with your neighbours and friends and enjoy a freshly cooked meal using some of the produce from the community garden that you help tend at the weekend.

Imagine children running about in front of the houses without the dangers of cars driving past (a feature of cohousing is that cars are parked around the periphery of the site) Imagine going out to do a bit of gardening and having a whole bunch of friends on hand to help you to turn the compost heap! Imagine having as much privacy as you need but never having to feel isolated or lonely again.

Older women who have been widowed and are living alone are particularly likely to be lonely, especially if this is exacerbated by illness, and young single mums are a group who have to cope with

a lack of support at home. Loneliness also can be linked to a lack of permanence or sense of belonging—such as young renters who may feel unconnected to their local community.

When people move into cohousing, they form a kind of social contract with their neighbours.

Everyone signs up to do a small amount of voluntary work—a couple of hours in the week— this can be peeling spuds for a shared supper, weeding a veg patch, cleaning one of the guest bedrooms, giving someone a lift to the station, helping to do some paperwork in the office or babysitting for a neighbour.

In return, they get to be part of a community.

They get cheaper service charges because they won’t be paying for a maintenance contract.

They get respected as a valuable contributor to the whole project (no matter how old or infirm they are) and they get like-minded people living next door to them who care about making the world a better place, just as they do.

Bridport Cohousing is currently selling some of its homes off plan and anticipates starting groundworks early in 2019. To register interest in becoming a member, please visit www.bchomes.org.uk.

By Lin Scrannage

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Diary Matters

By Cecil Amor

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appy New Year to all. The Christmas festivities may be over, but there should be a pantomime somewhere nearby to soften the blows of the bills, etc.

January is the first month of the New Year when by tradition we all make good resolutions, turn over a new leaf and start a new page—that is start our new diary. That is if you have bought the diary, or had it given to you. I already have mine and inscribed my name on the first page, but I did not buy it. It arrived from the institution I have belonged to for many years, together with the latest journal. The front cover carries the year “2019” in silver on the front cover and also “Fellow”, which leaves no doubt of my gender! My usual entries are prosaic including meetings I expect to attend and other appointments, such as dentist, doctor, hairdresser, etc. As it is a pocket size, there is little room for more information unlike the diarists of days gone by, such as Samuel Pepys and George Fox. George Fox, a Quaker came to Bridport in 1657 to speak to those of his movement and perhaps enrol others. In his diary he told of religious persecution writing “a shopkeeper, not of our religion stirred up the priest and magistrates and laid a snare”. But they caught by mistake a local man Thomas Curtiss and “they boasted they had catched George Fox and were in a great rage when they found it was not me”. Fox managed to get away from the neighbourhood safely.

Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary on 15th February 1665 that “With Creed to Gresham College—where I had been by Mr Povy the last week proposed to be admitted a member; and was this day admitted, by signing a book and being taken by the hand by the President, my Lord Brunkard and some words of admittance said to me. But it is a most acceptable thing to hear their discourses and see their experiments; which was this day upon the nature of fire, and how it goes out in a place where the ayre is not free, and sooner out where the ayre is exhausted; which they showed by an engine on purpose...

Above all, Mr Boyle today was at the meeting, and above him Mr Hooke”. Hooke became famous for his microscope and his work with springs and forces. Robert Boyle who lived for some time at Stalbridge Manor, in north Dorset, produced the air pump to create a vacuum and enunciated “Boyle’s Law”.

Pepys also wrote about Stonehenge and Avebury as well as the return of King Charles II, but he does not seem to have mentioned our local rope industry, although he must have been aware of it, from his position as Clerk to the Navy Board. He also wrote about the threat from the Dutch, the Plague and the Great Fire of London.

In 1754 a Richard Pococke wrote of a visit to Abbotsbury where he saw “the Abby and a very large barn. On a hill to the south is a beautiful chapel of St Catherine and then a large bay into the land call’d the West Fleet. This swannery belongs to Mrs Horner, the lady of the manor. In severe weather a sort of swan comes, call’d a Hooper. “Tis supposed they come from the north”. Do they still?

Then in 1774, John Hutchins tells how in “June 1757 a mermaid was thrown up by the sea, between Burton and Swyre, thirteen feet long. The upper part of it had some resemblance to human form, the lower was like that of a fish: the head was partly like that of a man, and partly like that of a hog. Its fins resembled hands: it had forty-eight large teeth in each jaw, not unlike those in the jaw-bone of a man”.

A Dorset diarist, Mary Frampton, who was the sister of Squire Frampton of Moreton, wrote in 1830 that “The months of January and February were very severe—much suffering attended the state of the poor from the previous summer, having been too wet to enable them to get in their turf for fuel; the villages in these districts,

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where turf constitutes the common fuel, were particularly ill off ”.

Later that year there was unrest which made many people think of the French Revolution. Squire Frampton took the lead in suppressing any English Riots and Mary Frampton wrote in November 1830 “Incendiaries rapidly spread from Kent and there were riotous mobs, breaking and destroying machinery used in husbandry and also surrounding gentlemen’s houses, extorting money and demanding an increase of wages... My brother Frampton harangued the people at Bere Regis... This spirited conduct caused to be very unpopular, and threats were issued against him and his house” Frampton joined a large number of farmers, all special constables upwards of 150 against a mob urged on by women behind hedges and the Riot Act was read. It was reported that threats were made against Mr Frampton, but no fire took place on his estate. Moreton House was not attacked. But Mary Frampton wrote that “Most of the threshing machines in this (Dorchester) neighbourhood were either laid aside or destroyed by the farmers themselves and no rising occurred very near Dorchester”.

Another Dorset Diarist of the time, Fanny Burney, was a correspondent of Mary Frampton and commiserated with her over her worries about the rioters. Soon after, in 1834 the attention of Squire Frampton was drawn to the “Tolpuddle Friendly Society”, an embryo trade union whose members had sworn an oath at initiation which contravened an Act of 1797. Six members were tried at Dorchester and found guilty and sentenced to transportation for seven years. I am sure the readers will know this story which is retold every year in Tolpuddle. Fanny Burney was also acquainted with Mrs Fitzherbert, a Catholic and a widow of Edward Weld of Lulworth, who later secretly married George, Prince of Wales contrary to the Royal Marriage Act. He left her, to marry Princess Caroline of Brunswick, but was believed to still love Mrs Fitzherbert and fathered several children by her.

Fanny Burney also chronicled her memories of the holidays of King George III in Weymouth in the 1790s, writing that every street, shop, bathing machine window and hat was labelled “God save the King”, also around the waists of the royal dippers. “Flannel dresses, tucked up, no shoes or stockings, with bandeaux and singular appearance”. All the men were expected to kneel before the King, but Fanny revealed that the Mayor could not, as he had a wooden leg!

In August 1867 William Allington met Alfred, Lord Tennyson, on the Isle of Wight to travel to Dorchester, where they talked to William Barnes about Maiden Castle. They travelled first by steamer and then railway (second class) via Maiden Newton to Bridport.

He wrote that from Bridport they walked “along the dusty road to Martin’s Lake and on to Charmouth, where we had beer and cheese in a little inn...Down into Lyme Regis, narrow streets and modest little Marine Parade”. On the Cobb, they read “Persuasion” by Jane Austen.

You may think little has changed in Lyme Regis, but you cannot get a train from Dorchester to Bridport now, even via Maiden Newton.

It is fascinating to learn details of social history from personal diaries. Perhaps now you could emulate these diarists and start your stories today for the interest of future readers. Once more Happy New Year to you all.

Bridport History Society sees in the New Year on Tuesday 8th January 2019 at 2.30 pm in Bridport United Church Main Hall, East Street. The programme will include WWI army uniform and music.

All welcome, Visitors entrance fee £3.

Cecil Amor, Hon President, Bridport History Society.

Turning the clock back in Powerstock

Belgian band WĂ–R

A BELGIAN band turns the clock back more than 250 years for a thrilling new musical performance, making its first appearance on the Artsreach circuit at Morden on Friday 25th January and Powerstock Hut on Saturday 26th.

If it sounded good then, why not today? Almost 300 years ago, some musicians from around Antwerp, Brussels, Gent and Leuven decided to write down their favourite music. As time passed, however, the paper turned yellow, the ink began to fade, and the music itself was left to gather dust along with the faded manuscripts.

That is, until now! With their finely textured arrangements, Belgian band WĂ–R injects new energy into 18th century tunes from the Flanders region of their home country, shining an inventive spotlight with a modern twist on tunes from these manuscripts.

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Vegetables in January

By Fergus Dowding

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ant to double your productivity this year? The technique of sowing or transplanting a second crop between ones soon to finish increases productivity, especially valuable if you have a small growing area.

For instance last year, leeks sown in April were dibbed in late June between sweetcorn. The soil was bone dry, the leek were well watered in and then looked like they had died, all the leaves flaccid. But a couple of weeks later they were looking perky again, and after we ate sweetcorn in August the leeks grew strongly and now a good size.

This intercropping is so useful for maximising your growing space—summer crops with winter ones jostling for space during the full-on months of midsummer. So in June we transplsnted chard in a bed of March sown lettuce, and in May planted butternut squash against a bed of early potatoes. After delicately digging out the potatoes, and by August the squash covered the area, their main month of growth. You can also plant squash between rows of peas and broad beans, when they are finished in July, the squash soon fill the area.

There is also the practise of catch cropping in the Spring, where you can grow rows of lettuce between newly sown parsnips or carrots. By the time the parsnips are getting going, the lettuce are finished. Sowing parsnips between overwintered purple sprouting or spring cabbage has worked well for us too, especially if you keep the seed rows well watered until germinated.

Another favourite is to transplanting winter salads in the greenhouse between tomatoes in September, then to sow carrots and garlic between the rows of salad in October where the tomatoes were, keeping the precious indoor space busy and productive.

The idea is not new, and many people have been doing it for a long time.

You get more for your money by doing it, and it is good for your soil to keep it busy all the time. Did you hear about the man who went to see his doctor complaining that he was having a terrible identity crises. One moment he thought he was a teepee, the next a wigwam. The doctor said “You’re too tense”.

Small chard transplanted between lettuce that are coming to the end of their cropping life in July.

The soil bone dry, but with two later watering sessions the chard soon filled the space.

The author plopping modules of Little Gem into ready made holes in September. They will fill the space by the time the tomatoes are finished.

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Sally’s advice on pests and diseases SOMERSET based gardening writer, Sally Nex, will be giving a talk at the Chardstock Gardening Club on Wednesday 16 January.

Filled with practical advice on organic ways of tackling pests and diseases in the garden, Sally’s talk is entitled ‘A Rogue’s Gallery for Gardeners’.

Sally will discuss ways to prevent little beasties from attacking your plot in the first place, and how to limit the damage if and when they do.

The talk will be held at Chardstock Community Hall, Westcombes, EX13 7BJ and will begin at 7.30pm. Everyone is welcome and there is no need to book.

Visitors entry fee is £3 and tea or coffee and biscuits are included. For more information telephone 01460 221619.

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January in the Garden

By Russell Jordan

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ith the excesses of Christmas out of the way, there is a fitting air of sobriety in January which chimes with the bleakness of the winter weather. The shortest day has passed, so lengthening daylight hours provide something positive to hang on to, but it will take a couple of months for the warming effect of the weak winter sun to have much effect. Having said that, on dry, bright, days, it’s a joy to get outside and make the most of anything that is providing interest in the, stripped bare, garden bones.

Snowdrops are the most obvious candidate for blooming during the coldest weather and they are a ‘no-brainer’ in even the smallest garden. Due to the fact that they are a comparatively tiny bulb, liable to become dessicated if lifted and stored for autumn planting, they are usually recommended for planting ‘in the green’. This means that it’s worth making a note now, if you identify areas in your garden which are lacking, in order to seek out snowdrops offered ‘in the green’, in a couple of months time, at the point when they are dying down.

They are easy to send in the post, generally wrapped in damp newspaper, so searching for a nursery online is an option if no local supplier is apparent. It’s important to obtain them from a legitimate grower because there are still some rogues out there who might be tempted to profit from digging them up, from woods and hedgerows, where snowdrops have become naturalised.

In fact, they look their best when growing as huge drifts under woodland trees or shrubs. Flowering very early in the year, dying down before leaves reappear to close the canopy above, means that they can be added to almost any garden as an ‘under storey’ wherever there is bare soil beneath deciduous specimens. When growing them in large drifts, in naturalistic settings, the straightforward Galanthus nivalis, the non-improved species, is the most suitable and cost-effective type to plant.

Once you’ve established a decent population of your own then annual lifting and dividing of the biggest clumps, after they’ve flowered, is the quickest way to increase their number and the area of the drift. They will, naturally, seed themselves around so, even left to their own devices, the area they occupy will increase, slowly, over time.

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either naturally, or by deliberate breeding and selection, between different snowdrops. Over the years many named varieties have been selected so a quick search on the ‘www’ will yield plenty for you to choose from if you wish to acquire snowdrops with particular traits, such as larger flowers; broader foliage; degrees of doubleness etc.

I prefer to confine my ‘special’ snowdrops to terracotta pots in order that their special attributes can be more readily appreciated during the relatively fleeting moment that they are in full flower.

This also has the advantage that they can be brought indoors, for a day or two, when at their best so that the weather cannot diminish them and their moment of peak perfection does not go unnoticed.

The other advantage of growing them in pots is that they can be given extra special treatment, a little extra feeding while in leaf for example, and they are therefore quicker to multiply and increase in size and number. When sufficiently increased I may then liberate them into prime spots in the garden, safe in the knowledge that I still have the ‘insurance policy’, of keeping a number of them safely confined to a pot, just in case they become ‘lost’ in their garden position.

One area where ‘special’ snowdrops may well be most appreciated is underneath those particular shrubs which are grown for their colourful winter stems. Cornus species yield many of these in a range of hues including bright green, vivid yellow, fiery orange and strong red—another search of internet images will quickly identify varieties fitting each of those descriptions. For years I’ve relied on Cornus sanguinea ‘Midwinter Fire’ to provide a really blazing display during the darkest winter months. It’s not as vigorous as the Cornus alba derived varieties which, I think, is an advantage as it’s less likely to get really huge and coarse in a garden situation.

The more vigorous dogwoods are invaluable to provide coloured stems in a mixed hedge, for example, or when used ‘en masse’ in naturalistic planting schemes, especially in boggy pond or stream margins. Once established it is important to cut them down in early spring, either completely or as pollards, in order to get the best stem colour because it’s the newest growth that has the brightest colour. Cutting them back completely, ‘stooling’, every year will weaken them, over time, if they are not also given a mulch, plus feed, during their late spring / summer growing season.

One last thought for January is that, being a ‘slow’ time of year,

it’s worth looking back as well as forwards—inspired by the dual-faced god, Janus, from whom this month is traditionally assumed to have been named. One thing that I try to do, although I generally fail to record it properly, is to make a note of plants, or garden ideas, that crop up throughout the year but actually require seeds or plant to be acquired at a later date. One useful aspect of using ‘Instagram’, as a source of gardening inspiration, is that you can save images into a virtual ‘folder’ as an aide memoire.

I am resisting the urge to fill my garden with dahlias, which I’m sure have been on the ascendant due to their Instagram-friendly easiness, but I do save images of plants that have caught my attention and are most easily procured as seed which, by definition, needs to be actioned around now. A quick glance at my ‘App’ yields Dianthus superbus as a plant which caught my attention last year, when it was in flower, but needs to be grown from seed sown in February—hence NOW is the time to do something about obtaining the seed (and I note that ‘Chiltern Seeds’ offer it, along with many other specialities, so I’ll be adding it to my existing order from them).

The thought of compiling, then sending off, seed orders is, I think, a suitably positive note to conclude ‘January in the Garden’ given that it can be a particularly depressing month to cope with...

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PROPERTY ROUND-UP

Ready to Go in 2019—Properties with No Onward Chain

By Helen Fisher

TATWORTH £120,000

A clean, bright and spacious one bedroom cottage with dual aspect open plan kitchen/diner plus generous dual aspect sitting room. Bedroom with attic space and built in wardrobe. Benefiting from double glazing throughout plus a separate exterior plot for either private parking or a garden.

Paul Fenton Estate Agents Tel: 01460 68222

KILMINGTON £349,950

A very sweet and presentable 1930s detached bungalow with 3 bedrooms in a pleasant residential road. Original features inc: picture rails and period doors. Plus benefiting from a multi-fuel stove and double glazing. Large private rear garden and good sized car port.

Gordon and Rumsby Tel: 01297 553768

BRIDPORT £750,000

A unique high quality, newly built, detached home with 4 bedrooms.

Contemporary design features combined with high thermal insulation and beautiful light, spacious open plan living. West facing large lawn garden with decked area for sunset and countryside views towards West Bay. Symonds and Sampson Tel: 01308 422092 48 The Marshwood Vale Magazine January 2019 Tel. 01308 423031

SHERBORNE £235,000

A beautifully presented 2 bedroom character cottage in a conservation area.

Centrally positioned within a short walk of the town. Features open fireplace with ornate surround and mantle. Lovely long and easily maintained rear garden with sun terrace. Resident parking available.

Greenslade Taylor Hunt Tel: 01935 813577

LITTON CHENEY £700,000

A truly delightful period 4 bedroom house with a 2 bedroom Chapel conversion. Period features inc: open fireplaces, picture rails and sash windows. Large farmhouse kitchen and vaulted bedroom. Mature, productive garden with greenhouse. Set in a central village location.

Symonds and Sampson Tel: 01308 422092

FORDINGTON £285,000

A charming character property with 3 bedrooms all beautifully presented.

Generous sized sitting room with open fireplace, cornicing and ceiling rose.

Benefiting from a newly fitted bathroom and loft space. Mature garden with patio area and off road parking.

Goadsby Tel: 01305 264500

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Turbot

By Nick Fisher

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he French Revolution was a hideous and bloody affair. There was a violent uprising among the masses who systematically attacked and pillaged the posh folk, ending up with a flurry of nobby heads being chopped off by Madame Guillotine.

Heads rolled. Hearts stopped. And the streets ran red with blue blood.

Still, none of this had any impact on one fish-loving chef, Grimod de la Reyniere, whose only diary entry relating to the whole revolution affair, simply stated: “Disaster.

Not a single turbot for sale in the market for weeks”.

Amongst the great gourmands of Europe, the turbot has always been held in almost mystical esteem. Not just a grande favourite of the French, the Spanish are so enamoured of the succulent, thick tranches of flesh that poached, grilled or baked turbot provides, they were even prepared to go to war over the fat-finned things.

In 1995, Canadian warships seized Spanish fishing vessels on international fishing grounds because they suspected them of using illegal-sized net mesh and of taking more than the agreed quota. And of course, the Spanish trawlermen did have illegal nets on board and did have total catches that exceeded their legal limits. But the Canadians, so incensed by the behaviour of the Spanish fleet, broke certain sea laws in their rigorous attempt to stop the overfishing of this valuable and delicious species. The Spanish accused the Canadians of high seas piracy, and the damning evidence that the warships seized eventually wasn’t used against the Spanish because it was deemed to have been gathered in an illegal manner. As always, lawyers grew fat. Fishermen grew even more grumpy.

And the future of turbot grew even bleaker than a picnic at the North Pole.

Turbot is the largest of the flatfish family that includes plaice, brill and flounders. Their body is almost circular and about half as long again as it is wide.

Although interestingly, these big flatfish don’t start off flat, they begin life ‘round’ like most other fish. The large females spawn in early spring, laying up to 14 million eggs in a lifetime. The turbot eggs have a droplet of oil attached to the egg sac, which makes

each egg buoyant. As a result, instead of the eggs lying on the seabed where a queue of aquatic bottom-feeding critters would line up to scoff them, the eggs float up to the upper layers of the water column. After two weeks, the eggs hatch, and the young fry will swim around for their first year in a conventional ‘upright’ position. They feed on plankton for the first year, until they metamorphose into flat fish with squashed heads and two eyes set close together on top.

As the metamorphosis takes place, the right eye migrates around the head towards the left eye, as the fish migrates down the water column to the seabed, where it will start to earn its living amongst the other bottomfeeding crew.

Turbot have huge articulated mouths which can open to suck in a vast array of big snacks and big baits. Turbot are killers. They eat the slower bottom-dwelling fish like poor cod and pout; they’ll crunch up crabs, mussels and all manner of crustaceans, and they eat any dead stuff that’s rotting away on the seabed. They certainly prefer a fresh bait, like a mackerel or whiting fillet presented on the seabed, but they’ll eat frozen or old manky baits too if the food is short.

Unlike bass or sea bream, turbot are couch potatoes. They do hunt a bit at the start and end of the tide runs, but mostly they like to lie buried in the sand and mud and wait until something dumb, dead or tasty happens to pass by.

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On the south-west coast, down here in Dorset, we’re pretty blessed with the presence of turbot. The Shambles sand bank just a couple of miles outside of Weymouth Harbour is a favourite mark for boat fishing for turbot. And the Chesil beach is famous for coughing-up some stunning specimens, especially fishing big mackerel baits close behind the surf after a gale has been blowing.

Lots of bass anglers who like to lob a whole squid or mackerel into the scour line behind the breaking surf, often hook a big turbot by accident. Which, believe me, is a very happy accident to happen to anyone.

On a boat, we normally try to drag a fresh bait along the snagless sandy undulations of the Shambles bank. A mackerel fillet, lightly hooked through the narrowest tail end of the fillet is lowered on a five-foot leader beneath a five-ounce lead. The boat drifts sideways across the bank, at any point when the tide isn’t running hard. The back end of the ebb or flood is good, and even slack water can be productive. Turbot don’t feed when the tide is racing; they’ll move away from the big tide currents and find themselves somewhere slack to hide their slacker selves.

For the real turbot connoisseur, there is a fabulous bit of kit to be had. The turbotiere is a turbot-shaped fish kettle which is used to steam or poach the whole fish. And, one famous nineteenth-century chef insisted that you should never remove the fins of the turbot when cooking, because they are a delicious treat, to be saved for the charming host. Fin-tastic.

Food&Dining

Badger to enhance recipes BADGER Beer, brewed in Dorset since 1777, has partnered with the awardwinning chef academy and cookery school, WhitePepper, in Poole.

The new partnership, under the supervision of Michelin-starred chef, Mark Treasure, will look at how beer can enhance certain recipes. The first recipe to feature Badger will be the Dorset Beer Bread which is taught in a one-day breadmaking class, called Bread at Bere Farm.

Founded in 2010 by Luke Stuart, WhitePepper is a top-tier chef academy and independent cookery school providing cookery classes from amateur to professional level as well as offering corporate events. The school has an enviable collection of accreditations and strives to inspire cooks of all levels.

Sarah Pace, Brand Manager for Badger Beer, says: “With beer becoming an ever more popular ingredient in cooking and food pairing, we wanted to broaden our reach and the highly skilled team at WhitePepper would allow us to further educate our consumers on expanding their beer repertoire.”

Mark Treasure, WhitePepper chef director, says: “We are delighted to be collaborating with Badger Beer as our exclusive beer supplier, to enable us to use the beer both as an ingredient and as an accompaniment to our cooking.

“Badger Beer has a rich history and heritage dating back to 1777 which will inevitably provide a real talking point for our guests, as well as, of course, some characterful beer to enjoy with our wide-ranging menus. With local sourcing being so important to us, Badger Beer was our natural beer partner.”

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Guest Recipe

YOTAM OTTOLENGHI Yotam Ottolenghi is a cookery writer and chef-patron of the Ottolenghi delis, NOPI restaurant and ROVI. He writes a weekly column in The Guardian’s Feast Magazine and a monthly column in The New York Times and has published six bestselling cookbooks: Plenty and Plenty More (his collection of vegetarian recipes); Ottolenghi: The Cookbook and Jerusalem co-authored with Sami Tamimi; and NOPI: The Cookbook with Ramael Scully. Sweet, with Helen Goh, is his baking and desserts cookbook. Yotam has made two ‘Mediterranean Feasts’ series for More 4, along with a BBC 4 documentary, ‘Jerusalem on a Plate’. www.Ottolenghi.co.uk @Ottolenghi

BRAISED EGGS WITH LEEK AND ZA’ATAR This is a quick way to get a very comforting meal on the table in a wonderfully short amount of time. It’s a dish as happily eaten for brunch, with coffee, as it is for a light supper with some crusty white bread and a glass of wine. The leeks and spinach can be made up to a day ahead and kept in the fridge, ready for the eggs to be cracked in and braised.

INGREDIENTS

DIRECTIONS

• 30g unsalted butter • 2 tbsp olive oil • 2 large leeks (or 4 smaller), trimmed and cut into ½cm slices (530g) • 1 tsp cumin seeds, toasted and lightly crushed • 2 small preserved lemons, pips discarded, skin and flesh finely chopped (30g) • 300ml vegetable stock • 200g baby spinach leaves • 6 large eggs • 90g feta, broken into 2cm pieces • 1 tbsp za’atar • salt and black pepper

1. Put the butter and 1 tablespoon of oil into a large sauté pan, for which you have a lid, and place on a medium high heat. Once the butter starts to foam, add the leeks, ½ teaspoon of salt and plenty of pepper. Fry for 3 minutes, stirring frequently, until the leeks are soft.

Add the cumin, lemon and vegetable stock and boil rapidly for 4–5 minutes, until most of the stock has evaporated.

Fold in the spinach and cook for a minute, until wilted, then reduce the heat to medium.

Serves 6

Extracted from Ottolenghi Simple

by Yotam Ottolenghi, Tara Wigley and Esme Howarth (Ebury Press, £25) Photography by Jonathan Lovekin

2. Use a large spoon to make 6 indentations in the mixture and break one egg into each space. Sprinkle the eggs with a pinch of salt, dot the feta around the eggs, then cover the pan.

Simmer for 4–5 minutes, until the egg whites are cooked but the yolks are still runny.

3. Mix the za’atar with the remaining tablespoon of oil and brush over the eggs. Serve at once, straight from the pan.

January 2019 Food Markets Please check dates and times with venues or organisers

Poundbury, Queen Mother Square - 9am - 1pm Shaftesbury, Town Hall - 9am - 1pm Thur 10th Wareham, Town Hall, East Street - 9am - 1pm Blandford, Blandford Forum - 9am - 1pm Fri 11th Bridport, Arts Centre, South St - 9am - 1pm Sat 12th Martock, Moorlands Shopping - 10am - 1pm Yarcombe, Village Hall - 10am - 12noon Purbeck, Commercial Road, Swanage - 9am - 1pm Thur 17th Honiton, St Paul’s Church, High St - 8.30am - 1pm Fri 18th Sherborne, Cheap St - 9am - 1pm Wimborne, Market Square - 9am - 1pm Sat 19th Crewkerne, The Henhayes Centre - 9am - 1pm Wareham, Town Hall, East Street - 9am - 1pm Thur 24th Dorchester South, High Street - 9am - 4pm Sat 26th Barrington, Village Hall, 10am - 12noon Yeovil, Middle Street - 9am - 2pm Sat 5th

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THAI STYLE KEDGEREE

LESLEY WATERS

INGREDIENTS

DIRECTIONS

For the Thai paste • 30ml/2tbsp rapeseed oil • 5cm piece ginger, peeled and chopped • 1 green chilli, halved, deseeded and chopped • 2 red chillies, halved, deseeded and chopped • 1 stick lemongrass, trimmed and chopped • 1tsp coriander seeds • 1 shallot, chopped • 1 garlic clove, crushed • 1 small bunch coriander, stalks only, chopped (reserve leaves for below)

1. Place all the Thai paste ingredients in a processor and whiz until just smooth.

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40g butter 1 onion, chopped 175g paella rice 700ml hot vegetable stock

To serve: • 300g smoked, cooked fish such as mackerel skinned and cut into slices.

• 4 eggs Serves 4

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2. In a large pan, heat the butter, add the onion and cook for 10-12 minutes or until softened and golden. Stir in the Thai paste and cook for 2 minutes. Stir in the rice and cook, stirring, for 1-2 minutes.

3. Add ½ the hot stock. Bring to the boil, and then reduce the heat to a simmer. When the liquid is all absorbed pour in the remaining stock and stir occasionally until the rice is just cooked and most of the liquid absorbed.

4. Just before serving, poach the eggs. Crack the eggs and slide them into a shallow pan of simmering water and leave for 3 minutes, then remove the pan from the heat and, using a slotted spoon, remove the eggs. If you like your egg cooked a little more and not quite so runny, leave it for a few more minutes.

5. To serve, spoon the rice into serving bowls and top with smoked fish, poached egg and coriander leaves. Serve straight away.

PEOPLE IN FOOD

John Worswick - photograph and words by Catherine Taylor

JOHN WORSWICK The best way to catch John Worswick is as he is emerging from the deck of his yellow boat, pulling himself up the ladder on to the quay in West Bay, clothed in a dry suit, and a sack of freshly gathered hand-dived scallops over his shoulder. Those in the know wait for him, in the hope of buying scallops by the dozen, from the man who only minutes before has been on the seabed. However, they are live, so a certain level of knowledge must be with the purchaser, as the scallops click and pop open and shut in the open net bags.

John has been scallop diving for 20 years now. He goes out in the morning, with his small team in all weathers, searching along the Jurassic Coastline seabed for the fan-shaped shells to harvest. Arriving back in the early afternoon, John unloads their haul to sell to large fishmongers in the area. They clean down the boat, and that’s it for another day.

The sea has provided a living for John for almost all his working life. Before moving to Dorset, he lived in Southend on Sea, where he grew up. Spending a childhood learning to sea fish from his father, they would search the beaches for bait, to save money. During a holiday from his new job in the civil service, John realised he made more money gathering lugworms to sell to tackle shops than at his desk employment. He promptly handed in his notice and continued to gather and sell bait for the next 20 years. It was only when he happened to go scallop diving with a friend shortly after moving to Bridport that John switched his focus.

Entranced by the underwater world, when John goes on holiday he aims for warmer climes but continues to dive, so he can take underwater photos of the sea life he so admires. Next year the Maldives are calling, with John hoping to get some good shots to mount on the walls of his house, alongside other marine holiday snaps.

John loves what he does and finds his way of life almost stress-free. In fact, the most stressful time of year, he says, is waiting for his luggage to come through the conveyor belt at the airport on holiday.

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CRISPY PHEASANT AND PEAR SALAD WITH BRAMBLE DRESSING I’ve rather got into experimenting with what we’ve shot and I’m sure I’m not going to bore you with too many game bird recipes, especially pheasant as I get asked constantly what can I do with pheasant apart from roast it. My response is normally everything but roast it, as it tends to be a bit of a dry old bird even in the most skillful hands. The thighs for me are the best bit, drumsticks are too fiddly with the needle like tendons and only good for a soup with the carcass and the breasts I love making into escalopes and crumbing them with a fried egg on top. Particularly good for breakfast and quite a surprise to shooting guests.

INGREDIENTS • • • • • •

MARK HIX

6-8 pheasant thighs, boned and skinned 200g or so of goose or duck fat Salt and freshly ground black pepper 10 juniper berries, chopped 3 cloves of garlic, peeled 1 bay leaf

To serve • Vegetable or corn oil for frying • Doves farm gluten free self raising flour for coating, well seasoned • 50-60g buttermilk or yoghurt • 1 ripe pear, peeled, cored and sliced • A handful of small leaves like pennywort, land cress or rocket For the dressing • 8-10 fresh or frozen blackberries • 1tbs good red wine vinegar • 4 tbs extra virgin rapeseed oil Serves 4

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Put the thighs in a pan with the goose fat, seasoning, juniper berries, garlic and bay leaf, bring to a simmer and gently cook on the stove or in a medium oven with a lid on at gas mark 4 for an hour or until tender.

Leave to cool in the fat then remove, dry off any fat and cut the thighs into 3 or 4 pieces.

To make the dressing: crush the blackberries with a fork and mix in the vinegar and oil and season to taste.

Preheat about 8cm of oil to 160-180°C in a large thick bottomed saucepan or electric deep fat fryer. Pass the pieces of pheasant through the seasoned flour, dusting off any excess then through the buttermilk and through the flour again.

Deep fry in two or three batches, turning as they are cooking with a slotted spoon for 2-3 minutes until crisp then drain on some kitchen paper.

To serve, arrange the pheasant, leaves and pears on serving plates and spoon the dressing over and around.

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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Snow Patrol

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After a seven year gap since their last studio album, Snow Patrol are about to tour with their new release, Wildness. The band, whose early hits include Run and Chasing Cars are fired up with enthusiasm for a mammoth tour.

Gary Lightbody talked to Fergus Byrne about why the new album is a breakthrough in so many ways.

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W

hen Gary Lightbody first formed the band that would later become Snow Patrol, his father wondered why he didn’t get a proper job. He wasn’t the first and probably won’t be the last parent to voice that question. However, he is one of the few that got the opportunity to see their child’s ‘little University band’ achieve real success, and in time, to understand what it was that his son was trying to do.

In a poignant video for the song Soon from their latest album, Wildness—a song about Gary’s father’s Alzheimer’s—we see film of him leaving his home in Bangor in Northern Ireland to get the ferry to Scotland.

His father’s voice in the background says: ‘There’s son off to Scotland to make his fortune’. Later, before the first bars of the song’s haunting melody begins, there is a blurry shot of the ferry as it makes its way out to sea.

His father muses ‘Here we have the next stage of Snow Patrol’s flight to Scotland’. The underlying pain in his father’s voice and the helpless uncertainty in his words

possibility that one day he will understand that feeling of forgetting. ‘Soon you’ll not remember anything, but then someday neither will I.’ He admits that while writing that lyric he was aware that one day he might fall victim to the same disease himself, but that was more of a side thought. It was more about kinship and understanding.

‘It was more to connect the two of us’ he says, to feel ‘empathy, not just sympathy.’

After forming a band on their first day at The University of Dundee, Gary and his fellow musicians undertook the same torrid journey that thousands of other bands followed. Band members’ left, new ones joined, and some were fired, while throughout their early recordings, the name changed twice. They were signed by a record company and dropped, then later signed by another. Gary remembers one occasion when they arrived for a gig to find there was literally only one person in the audience. For Snow Patrol, like so many others, it took many years before they achieved the industry’s legendary ‘overnight success’. Songs such as Run and Chasing Cars showed a song-writing depth and musical power that began to draw a loyal fan base, eventually seeing the band produce a string of number one albums.

But despite the success and the excitement of touring and playing in front of thousands of appreciative fans, Gary was battling his own demons. He has often admitted he suffered from depression from a young age, and although he says he has never been suicidal or tempted to self-harm, he has put voice to the fact that at times he wondered if it would be better not to be alive.

Although that thought is a distance from contemplating suicide, it’s a short road.

However, it is a long way from where he is today.

‘How I feel right now is light years away from how I felt at certain points making the record, or at certain points of my life since my teenage years’ he says. ‘I’ve struggled with it. I know a lot of people do. In teenage years a lot of things are shifting, not just physically but mentally too. We sometimes carry some things that maybe don’t need to be carried. I did a lot of that. I’m not a hoarder for physical things, but I’m a hoarder in my mental life. I will just keep the things that seem to wound me around for ages, like harmful souvenirs. And in the last few years, I have just done my level best to try to remove each one of those things as they come up. With sobriety, I was able to do that pretty successfully. Obviously, it’s an on-going process; you can’t just rub your hands together and say that’s me done now.’

Since the release of Wildness, Gary has talked openly about his struggles with depression and alcoholism. He doesn’t want to be a spokesperson for mental health issues or the many abuses and diversions that exacerbate such problems, but with the release of Wildness, he wants to show that there is a way forward. ‘I see it

Snow

‘I didn’t talk about it until I was forty.

I wish I’d done it sooner. It’s liberating.’ are laced with the suppressed emotion of a parent losing their child. It’s made all the more poignant by the fact that his father would later lose the ability to conjure up and share those memories.

But Gary remembers the day they made the video for the song as ‘up there, at least in the top five days that I’ve ever spent with my Dad’, even though it is a heartwrenching collage of old family VHS, interspersed with film of Gary and his father watching it together as they also look at old family photographs.

He admits that they were ‘estranged’ through much of his teenage years, simply because their two worlds were so different. ‘I had got into rock n’ roll, and it wasn’t his world, and he didn’t understand it’ says Gary. ‘It was a struggle for him to get his head around what the hell I was doing.’ Especially, he laughs, as for the first ten years there were no hits. But, like many estranged relationships, they managed to rebuild an understanding. Achieving some success, playing in bigger venues and playing at home in Ireland—where his father came to see them—helped heal the father/son fracture.

On the day that they shot the video for the song, they shared what Gary describes as ‘a connection that I never truly had since I was a boy—that feeling of oneness. He became the Lion again—rather than what’s happening now.’ In the lyric, Gary sings about the

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everywhere, in friends, in family’ he says. ‘Everybody struggles with their mental health in some way.’ He feels he has gained enormously from having changed his lifestyle and taken the opportunity to talk with people about the problems that, as a boy growing up in Ireland, you simply didn’t talk about. ‘Almost the avoidance of it is the problem’ he says. ‘That’s what I’d felt for years, and that’s why I didn’t talk about it until I was forty. I wish I’d done it sooner. It’s liberating.’

That liberation and positivity comes through in the overall feel of Wildness. Gary explained that, though it took a long time to make, it was a labour of love. It’s all about moving forward and the fact that it is possible to pull away from the demons that drive some people to darker places. ‘It’s not a record of sadness, not a record of wallowing, not a record of depression’ he says. ‘It is a record about trying to find a way out of that. It is a joyful record, a hopeful record. It is born maybe of sadness, but it doesn’t linger there, it doesn’t dwell there. It isn’t a record that is immersed in that sort of lowness. There’s so many high parts to it, so many uplifting things in it.’

It is also a record that showcases the power of Snow Patrol’s music, something that is always so apparent in their live shows. On January 27th the band will play at the Bournemouth International Centre. It’s part of what people tend to describe as a ‘gruelling’ tour of travel and performance with little downtime. However, Gary doesn’t see the extended road trip as gruelling as people make out. ‘It can be pretty tough going if you are under the weather’ he says. ‘But if you’re not under the weather it’s a joy. It’s better to be playing most nights. It’s much better. You build up a head of steam; you build up momentum, you’re more comfortable on stage, you get a flow going. There’s dynamite in that.

I’m really looking forward to it.’

After the English, the Irish and European legs of the tour they are off to South America, the USA, then the festivals and then Australia and the Far East. The tour takes the band into a series of gigs at the end of next year where they hope to play some special gigs to celebrate their 25th year as a band. Maybe even play some smaller more intimate gigs. In the meantime now is a good time to take the opportunity to see them.

Patrol Snow Patrol are at BIC Windsor Hall, Bournemouth​on Sunday 27 January 2019.

For tickets visit www.bhlivetickets.co.uk

Museums&Galleries 29 DECEMBER – 23 JANUARY Winter Art Sale 2D and 3D artwork by local Devon and Dorset artists will be on sale at tempting prices. Ideal for that post-holiday treat! The Malthouse Gallery, The Town Mill, Mill Lane, Lyme Regis DT7 3PU. Open daily 10.30am - 4.30pm. Free admission. www.townmillarts.co.uk.

2 – 19 JANUARY Open Prizewinners’ Exhibition New work by the prizewinning artists of the 2018 Ilminster Open: Nancy Farmer, Perry Chapman, Mark Stevens, Leo Davey, Michael Tarr, Gary Cook, Margaret Micklewright, Annie Musgrove. Free. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org.uk.

3 JANUARY – 9 FEBRUARY Russ Snedker ‘Creatureist’ In Russ Snedker’s latest works ‘Creatureist’ he explores the fragmentation of life under our skies and below the surface in our rapidly dystopian malaise of water. His geometric shapes, attention to detail and flowing lines over layers of translucent colours and texture, capture your attention and draw you into his world of creativity and imagination, leaving you feeling mesmerised beguiled and perhaps just a little euphoric. Bridport Arts Centre www.bridport-arts.com.

5 JANUARY – 3 FEBRUARY Focussed Inspired by several successful photographic exhibitions last year, this new wintertime showcase will focus on recent work by Dorset and Devon-based photographers. The Courtyard Gallery, The Town Mill, Mill Lane, Lyme Regis DT7 3PU. Open daily 10.30am - 4.30pm. Free admission. www.townmillarts.co.uk.

12 JANUARY – 9 FEBRUARY South West Academy Exhibition An exhibition of work by members of the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts, featuring work from established artists including Alan Cotton and Ray Baulkwill and new academicians, who have recently joined the Academy including Annie Ward, Jan Phethean, Matt Hoile and Isabel Coulton. Thelma Hulbert Gallery (THG), Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LX, www.thelmahulbert.com 01404 45006.

UNTIL 17 JANUARY Positive and Negative Space Curated

by Harriet Mummery, Live Project Space, TheGallery. An inside look into the artist studio with work from BA (Hons) Drawing students. The work on display is in response to the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2018. AUB Arts University Bournemouth www.aub. ac.uk.

19 JANUARY – 6 MAY Matthew Day Jackson: Pathetic Fallacy The title for Jackson’s exhibition ‘Pathetic Fallacy’ is a literary term used to describe the attribution of human emotions onto inanimate objects in nature. This is the starting point for the artist’s investigation in Somerset, where Jackson has been living with his family as artist-in-residence at Hauser & Wirth Somerset since August 2018.

Durslade Farm, Dropping Lane, Bruton Somerset BA10 0NL, 01749 814 060 www.hauserwirth.com.

Catherine Goodman Catherine Goodman was artist-in-residence at Hauser & Wirth Somerset from January – May 2018. The gallery will present an exhibition of new works by the artist.

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mental collages. Central to her process is the act of drawing from observation, whether from life, objects or the great masters and their works. Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Durslade Farm, Dropping Lane, Bruton, Somerset BA10 0NL, 01749 814 060 www.hauserwirth. com.

UNTIL 20 JANUARY 2019 After Eighties: paintings by Fred Cuming RA, Robin Rae RCA and Alfred Stockham RCA RWA with pottery by Richard Batterham and furniture by Petter Southall. In loving celebration of four masters of their art, all well over eighty and all still working. Including recent work

by Fred Cuming RA, Alfred Stockham and new pots by Richard Batterham and a mini retrospective for Robin Rae’s 90th birthday. Craft, gifts, art books, accessories and furniture by leading artists and makers. Sladers Yard, West Bay Road, West Bay, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4EL. 01308 459511 www. sladersyard.co.uk.

21 JANUARY – 9 FEBRUARY Inspired by Nature Group exhibition by artists who are informed and inspired by the natural world. Paintings, sculpture, photography, textiles and ceramics. Free. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org.uk.

26 JANUARY – 3 FEBRUARY Priceless The Malthouse Gallery is proud to host again this annual exhibition of artwork created by students of all ages from Woodroffe School. The Malthouse Gallery, The Town Mill, Mill Lane, Lyme Regis DT7 3PU. Open daily 10.30am - 4.30pm. Free admission. www.townmillarts.co.uk

START OF THE YEAR UNTIL 24 FEBRUARY Material: Light – Michael Hulls Over the last twenty years Michael Hulls has worked exclusively in dance, particularly with choreographer Russell Maliphant, and has established a reputation as a ‘choreographer of light’. His break out year in 2016 saw the first ever non-dance installation at Sadler’s Wells, a work later displayed at Messums Wiltshire. For his return he joins an elite group of artists including Judy Pfaff and David Spriggs who have been invited to make a solo response to the unique setting of our thirteenth-century tithe barn. Messums Wiltshire, Place Farm, Court St, Tisbury, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 6LW. info@messumswiltshire.com, 01747 445042.

No shortage of entertainment in January

UNTIL 9 JUNE Exeter’s Fine Art Collection: Women Artists Shining a spotlight on women artists in RAMM’s fine art collection, this exhibition features works from the 1770s until 2011. Works include the suffragette artist Olive Wharry (1886-1947) and her views of Exeter after the blitz.

Included also are works by the popular Victorian children’s book illustrator Kate Greenaway and detailed watercolour studies of birds and insects by Miss Ann Lee painted in the 1770s. A key painting in this exhibition will be ‘In Sight - Lord Dundonald’s Dash on Ladysmith’ by the artist Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869-1958), who in the 1890s had the well-deserved reputation as the most gifted painter of the horse the century had ever seen. This work will be on public display for the first time in decades following a successful fundraising appeal for its conservation. There are also modern works by Barbara Hepworth, Gillian Ayres, Mary Martin, Dame Laura Knight, Primrose Pitman and Judith Ackland, amongst others. Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Queen St, Exeter EX4 3RX www.rammuseum.org.uk.

South West Academy Exhibition - 12 January to 9 February 2019 An exhibition of work by members of the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts South West Academy Academicians and Associate Academicians join together for the annual South West Academy.

Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Elmfield House, Dowell Street, Honiton, Devon EX14 1LX Telephone 01404 45006

Beauty And The Beast: Sing-A-Long - 3 January at 2pm A special sing-along screening of Disney’s spectacular version of this classic.

Dorchester Arts, The Corn Exchange, High East Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1HF. Telephone 01305 266926

Peterloo - 24 January at 7:30pm Directed by Mike Leigh. An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reform and protest against rising levels of poverty. The Peterloo Massacre was a defining moment in British democracy which also played a significant role in the founding of The Guardian newspaper.

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PERFORMANCE TUESDAY 18 DECEMBER BATH, Theatre Royal, Peter Pan, with Jon Monie and Paul Nicholas, to 13 Jan: the egg, The Scarlet Pimpernel, to 13 Jan, various times, Snow Mouse, to 20 Jan, various times: Ustinov Studio, Diana Quick in The Model Apartment, to 22 Dec. BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Rita Simons and Noel Brodie in Sleeping Beauty, to 8 Jan. BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Brian Conley and Gok Wan in Cinderella, to 6 Jan. Old Vic, A Christmas Carol, to 13 Jan: Weston Studio, Chloe and the Colour Catcher, to 6 Jan, various times: Living Spit’s Nativity, to 22 Dec, 8: Cooper’s Loft, Travelling Light in Igloo, to 6 Jan, various times.

Tobacco Factory, The Borrowers, to 20 Jan: Spielman Theatre, Theatre Rites in Beasty Baby, music and puppets, for ages 3 to 6, various day times to 6 Jan: Shesus and the Sistas in The Gift of Presents, cabaret, comedy carol concert and therapy, for adults only, evenings to 30 Dec. St George’s, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, dir-keyboard Steven Devine, Bach Christmas Oratorio, 7.

EXETER, Northcott, Jack and the Beanstalk with Steve Bennett, to 6 Jan. Corn Exchange, Aladdin, various times, to 1 Jan. EXMOUTH, Pavilion, Jethro - the Count of Cornwall, comedy.

POOLE, Lighthouse, Chris Jarvis in Dick Whittington, to 31 Dec. SALISBURY, Playhouse, Beauty and the Beast, to 13 Jan: Salberg Studio, The Night Before Christmas, to 30 Dec. TAUNTON, Brewhouse, The Wizard of Oz, to 30 Dec, various times.

Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, Cinderella, to 23 Dec. WESTON SUPER MARE, Playhouse, Linda Lusardi and Mike Goble, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, to 5 Jan, various times.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Dick Whittington, to 5 Jan. YEOVIL, Octagon, Aladdin, to 6 Jan. WEDNESDAY 19 DECEMBER BRISTOL, St George’s, Cara Dillon, 7.30.

DORCHESTER, Herrison Hall Charlton Down, Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir, dir David Gostick, Noel! Noel!,with David Warwick, piano, 8pm.

EXETER, University Great Hall, BSO, cond Pete Harrison, Last Night of the Christmas Proms.

EXMOUTH, Pavilion, Band of HM Royal Marines.

SHERBORNE, Abbey, Festive Choral Evensong, 5.30.

THURSDAY 20 DECEMBER BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, The Man Who

Invented Christmas, film, 11am: White Christmas, (1954), 2pm.

DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Somerleigh Players in Ayckbourn’s Season’s Greetings, to Sat, 7.30.

EXETER, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter Little Theatre Co in Robin Hood, to 5 Jan, various days and times.

EXMOUTH, Pavilion, FAB Beatles Christmas party.

HONITON, Beehive, Mad Dog McRea, 8.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, The Last Baguette in The Little Matchgirl, 6.30.

FRIDAY 21 DECEMBER BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Buddy Holly and the Cricketers Holly at Christmas, 7.30.

DORCHESTER, Wolfeton Riding House, Lost Tale Theatre in Lost Lore, storytelling, and Sat, 7, Sat mat 4pm.

EXMOUTH, Pavilion, Rule the World, Take That tribute.

HONITON, Beehive, It’s A Wonderful Life, Capra 1946 film, 2pm: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, Disney film, 7.30, and Sat 11am.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Antony and Cleopatra recorded from the National Theatre, 7pm.

SATURDAY 22 DECEMBER BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Soap Soup Theatre in The Snow Baby, 2pm.

EXETER, Northcott, Paddleboat Theatre in Hansel and Gretel, to 30 Dec, 11am.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life, free, 7pm.

SIDMOUTH, Parish Church, The Isca Ensemble with Emmanuel Bach and Joel Munday, violins, 7.30.

YEOVIL, Westlands, Back to the 80s with SClub, Big Brovaz and Booty Luv, 8.

SUNDAY 23 DECEMBER BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, The Nutcracker, from the Bolshoi, 3pm.

SHERBORNE, Abbey, Abbey Carol Service, 3pm.

MONDAY 24 DECEMBER EXMOUTH, Pavilion, Trio Entertainment in Aladdin, to I Jan, various dates and times.

SHERBORNE, Abbey, Blessing of the Crib, 3pm: First Eucharist of Christmas, 11.30pm.

SATURDAY 29 DECEMBER SIDMOUTH, Manor Pavilion, SADS in Treasure Island, pantomime, to 5 Jan, various times.

MONDAY 31 DECEMBER SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, New Year’s Eve ceilidh, 8.15.

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TUESDAY 1 JANUARY POOLE, Lighthouse, BSO, cond Thomas Rosner, Fflyr Wyn, soprano, New Year Johann Strauss Gala, 3pm.

WEDNESDAY 2 JANUARY EXETER, University Great Hall, BSO, cond Thomas Rosner, Fflyr Wyn, soprano, New Year Johann Strauss Gala, 7.30.

THURSDAY 3 JANUARY DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast singalong, fundraiser, 2pm.

FRIDAY 4 JANUARY TAUNTON, Brewhouse, BSO, cond Thomas Rosner, Fflyr Wyn, soprano, New Year Johann Strauss Gala, 7.30.

SATURDAY 5 JANUARY BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, film, 11am: Wildlife, film, 7.30.

HONITON, Beehive, Andre Rieu New Year’s Concert, 7.

SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, The Makeshift Ensemble in The Children in the Moon, 2pm.

SEATON, The Gateway, Andre Rieu New Year’s Concert, and Sun, 7.

YEOVIL, Westlands, Andre Rieu New Year’s Concert, 7pm and Sun, 3pm.

TUESDAY 8 JANUARY SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Calendar Girls, the musical, with Fern Britton, Sara Crowe, Ruth Madoc, to 19 Jan. THURSDAY 10 JANUARY BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Motown the Musical, to 2 Feb, 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30.

SEATON, The Gateway, The Madness of George III, by satellite, 7pm.

WOOTTON FITZPAINE, Village Hall, Alaw, welsh folk, 7.30. AR FRIDAY 11 JANUARY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, T-Rextasy, 7.30.

EXMOUTH, Pavilion, Simon Weston, 7.30.

HONITON, Beehive, The Madness of George III, with Mark Gatiss, recorded by satellite, 7.

ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Roger Marks’ Cornish Jazz Armada, 8.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, The Hut People, piano accordion and percussion, new folk, 8.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Hello Again, the Story of Neil Diamond, 7.30.

SATURDAY 12 JANUARY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, MET Live, Adriana Lecouvreur, 5.55.

Electric Palace, Ratatouille, film 11am: A Star is Born, with Lady GaGa, film 7.30.

PERFORMANCE EXETER, Northcott, Beyond the Barricades, 20th anniversary tour, 7.30.

EXMOUTH, Pavilion, Hells Bells, tribute.

HONITON, Beehive, Peterloo, film, 7.30.

SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Ninebarrow, folk, 8.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, BSO, cond Thomas Rosner, Fflyr Wyn, soprano, New Year Johann Strauss Gala, 7.30.

YEOVIL, Octagon, Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers.

Go Down in the Woods, adult pantomime.

HONITON, Beehive, Zandra Rhodes - 50 Years of Fashion, catwalk show and talk

by Claire Branfield, 7.30.

ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Craig Milverton Trio, with trumpeter Enrico Tomasso, saxophonist Alex Garnett and guitarist Nigel Price, jazz, 8.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, The Last Witness, film, and Q and A with director Piotr Szkopiak, 7.30.

SUNDAY 13 JANUARY PIDDLETRENTHIDE, Village Hall, Alaw, welsh folk, 7.30. AR

SATURDAY 19 JANUARY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Norwich Puppet Theatre in The Pied Piper, 2pm: Lee Nelson, Serious Joker, comedy, 8 Electric Palace, Fantastic Beasts - the Crimes of Grindelwald, film, 11am: First Man, film, 7.30.

HONITON, Beehive, Tulip Fever, film, 7.30.

WEST STAFFORD, Village Hall, Tangram Theatre in A Hundred Different Words for Love, 7.30. AR WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Buddy Holly - a Legend Reborn, 7.30.

YEOVIL, Octagon, Prof Alice Roberts, Digging into the Past, 7.30.

MONDAY 14 JANUARY DORCHESTER, Plaza, Dorchester Film Society, Loving Vincent.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Adriana Lecouvreur, with Anna Netrebko, recorded by satellite from the Met, 5.55 TUESDAY 15 JANUARY BATH, Theatre Royal, Rain Man, to Sat. BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, The Tragedy of King Richard II from the Almeida, 7pm.

HONITON, Beehive, The Tragedy of King Richard II from the Almeida, 7pm.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, The Tragedy of King Richard II from the Almeida, 7pm.

PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Matilda, the Musical to 16 Feb. YEOVIL, Octagon, Spirit of the Dance.

WEDNESDAY 16 JANUARY DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, As One in Escaping the Storm, play about Marie Stopes, 8pm.

EXETER, Northcott, University Theatre Co in Lord of the Flies, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.

THURSDAY 17 JANUARY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Finding Your Feet, film, 11am: Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man, satellite encore, 7.30.

SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Paul Jones and Dave Kelly, blues, 8.

FRIDAY 18 JANUARY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Jazz Cafe with Andy Williamson, tenor sax, 8.

Electric Palace, Bohemian Rhapsody, film, 7.30.

BROADWINDSOR, Village Hall, Tangram Theatre in A Hundred Different Words for Love, 7.30. AR BURTON BRADSTOCK, Village Hall, The Longest Johns, acapella folk, 7.30. AR DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Eduardo Niebla Experience, jazz, 8.

EXETER, Barnfield Theatre, The Counterfeit Sixties, 7.30.

EXMOUTH, Pavilion, Hansel and Gretel

SUNDAY 20 JANUARY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Incredibles 2, film, 3pm: Spitfire, film, 7.30.

Electric Palace, La Bayadere, live by satellite from the Bolshoi, 3pm.

EXETER, Corn Exchange, Hans Rey Riding Life, illustrated talk, 8.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis Comedy Club with Stuart Goldsmith, 8.

SEATON, The Gateway, La Bayadere, live by satellite from the Bolshoi, 3pm.

TUESDAY 22 JANUARY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, City of Ghosts, documentary about Raqqa, Bridport Film Society, 7.30.

PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Drum Studio, The Wrong Crowd in Snow White and the Happy Ever After Beauty Salon, to Sat. TORQUAY, Princess Theatre, Circus of Horrors, Psycho Asylum.

YEOVIL, Octagon, YAPS in Jack and the Beanstalk, to Sat, 7.15, to Fri, Sat 1.30 and 6.30.

WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, A Woman of No Importance, recorded by satellite from the Vaudeville Theatre, 11am DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Steve Knightley, Roadworks, folk, 8.

EXETER, Northcott, University Footlights in Oklahoma!, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.

Corn Exchange, Dan Snow, An Evening with the History Guy, 7.30.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, A Woman

of No Importance, recorded by satellite from the Vaudeville Theatre, 7pm WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Circus of Horrors Psycho Asylum, 7.30.

THURSDAY 24 JANUARY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, King of Thieves, film 11am: Peterloo, film, 7.30.

Electric Palace, A Winter’s Tale, by satellite from Shakespeare’s Globe, 7pm.

DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Dorchester Film Society, Custody.

EXETER, Corn Exchange, The Sixties Invasion, with Marmalade, Dozy Beaky Mick and Titch, The Tornados, 7.30.

SEATON, The Gateway, Salvador Dali In Search of Immortality, Exhibition on Screen, 2pm.

FRIDAY 25 JANUARY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Degas - Passion for Perfection, Exhibition on Screen, 7.30.

Electric Palace, Widows, film, 7.30.

EXETER, Corn Exchange, The Circus of Horrors in Psycho Asylum, 7.30.

HONITON, Beehive, The Queen of Spaces, live by satellite from Royal Opera, 6.45.

ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Flying Folk with Luke Daniels, 8.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Dan Snow, An Evening with the History Guy, 7.30.

SATURDAY 26 JANUARY EXETER, Corn Exchange, The Story of Guitar Heroes, 7.30.

HONITON, Beehive, Mary Poppins Returns, film, 3 and 7.30.

MINEHEAD, Butlins, Wille and the Bandits.

POWERSTOCK, Hut, WOR, Back to the 1780s, music from Flanders, 7.30. AR SIDMOUTH, Parish Church, Sidmouth Music, Sean Shibe, guitar, Bach, VillaLobos, Scottish lute music, 3pm.

SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Steve Knightley, Roadworks, folk, 8.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Waterloo - the Best of ABBA, 7.30.

SUNDAY 27 JANUARY BOURNEMOUTH, BIC, Snow Patrol.

BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Queen of Spades, by satellite from ROH, 6.45.

CHARD, Church of the Good Shepherd, The Allington Strings winter concert,

by Czech composers inc Janacek and Dvorak,3pm.

DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Adam Z Robinson in Shivers, new ghost stories with violin accompaniment by Ben Styles, 8.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Latin Jazz with Pete Canter, saxophone, 8.

YEOVIL, Octagon, Circus of Horrors Psycho Asylum.

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PREVIEW On Stage - In and Around the Vale Traditional Welsh Music VILLAGES

TRADITIONAL Welsh music trio ALAW are coming to Dorset for a New Year tour with Artsreach, including dates at Wootton Fitzpaine on Thursday 10th January at 7.30pm and Piddletrenthide Memorial Hall on Sunday 13th at 4pm.

Whether unearthing rare gems or reimagining a well loved melody, they treat their music with a deftness and sensitivity that is thoroughly absorbing.

Combined with powerful song writing and original tunes, this makes for a musical experience that will stay with the listener long after the concert has ended.

Oli Wilson-Dickson, Jamie Smith and Dylan Fowler have a long history of working together, sharing projects such as The Devil’s Violin, Szapora and The Ian McMillan Orchestra. Oli and Jamie are well known throughout the folk world as the frontline of Jamie Smith’s Mabon. From stirring song to driving jigs—they communicate their music with relaxed humour and a genuine affection that is truly infectious.

The Longest Johns BURTON BRADSTOCK

BRISTOL-based a capella group The Longest Johns make their Artsreach debut at Burton Bradstock village hall, on Friday 18th January at 7.30pm.

Born out of a mutual love of traditional folk songs and shanties, the Johns rock maritime songs alongside the more unusual and less traditional folk tunes. After forming as a five-man group in 2015, they’ve taken their harmonies to new heights, while retaining the right mix of quality and hilarity.

Whether performing songs that are hundreds of years old, or their own original creations, the Johns bring a new feel to au-

The Longest Johns are in Burton Bradstock in January

diences wherever they go, all with a hearty cheer and a row-ho-ho!

Remembering Anne Frank DORCHESTER

THE story of Anne Frank resonates down through generations. And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank is a multi-media play by the American writer James Still, which is being presented at Dorchester Corn Exchange on Friday 25th January at 8pm.

The title comes from a famous poem, “First they came ...”, by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892– 1984). It is about the cowardice of German intellectuals following the Nazis’ rise to power and subsequent purging of their chosen targets, group after group.

Ed Silverberg was Anne Frank’s first boyfriend. Eva Schloss was the same age as Anne and lived in the same apartment block in Amsterdam until Anne and her family went into hiding. Eva and her family were also arrested by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps. More than 1.25 million people were killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau where Eva and her family were sent.

Eva said: “After the war, people said it would never happen again, and people didn’t want to talk about it—it was some-

thing that happened, let’s forget about it, now we live in a different life. What’s happening now in Bosnia and what’s happening in many other places…we’re still doing the same thing and again the world just looks on.”

And Then They Came for Me combines tapes of interviews with Anne Frank’s friends who survived the Holocaust—Ed Silverberg (formerly Helmuth Silberberg) and Eva Geiringer Schloss—with actors recreating scenes from their lives. It is part oral history, part drama, part remembrance.

Winter Concert BRIDPORT

THE New Elizabethan Singers will perform two of the great choral works of the turn of the late 19th century for their winter concert on Saturday 2nd February.

The concert, at St Swithun’s Church, Bridport, features Bruckner’s monumental setting of the Te Deum, first performed in 1885, and the colourful, operatic Messa di Gloria by Puccini, which was first performed in Lucca in 1880.

The choir, directed by Matt Kingston, will be accompanied by an orchestra and professional soloists. The concert starts at 7pm and tickets are available at Goadsby and Bridport Music, both in South Street.

Unique Instrumental Duo LYME REGIS

AN unusual duo of piano accordionist and percussionist—The Hut People—open the 2019 music programme at the Marine Theatre in Lyme Regis on Friday 11th January.

Described in The Scotsman as “a brilliantly unique sound ... defiantly unbounded

by British traditions as they stride into world music,” Sam Pirt and Gary Hammond take the audience on a musical

Marie Stopes on Portland DORSET-based AsOne Theatre tells the largely unknown story of the birth control pioneer Marie Stopes and her years living on Portland in Escaping The Storm, which begins a winter tour with Dorchester Arts at the Corn Exchange on Wednesday 16th January.

One hundred years since Dr Stopes published her book Married Love, which brought the issue of birth control into the public domain, she is recognised as one of the 20th century’s most influential and controversial women. This is the first play about her life and impact.

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(played by AsOne’s director and founder Jane McKell) has bought the Higher Lighthouse as a refuge from the storms battering her on the mainland. How will she change the islanders’ ways of thinking and how will she be changed by Portland?

There are further performances on 9th February at Palace Theatre, Paignton, and 14th February at Weymouth Pavilion. The play has been produced in association with Portland Museum Trust, Pennsylvania Castle, Portland Quarry Trust, and Atlantic Academy, with funding from Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery.

PREVIEW

Tangram Theatre brings ‘A Hundred Different Words for Love’ to Broadwindsor and West Stafford in January

journey around the world.

The instrumental duo The Hut People, who are favourites on the festival scene, are firmly established as one of the best loved acts on the UK folk scene. Mixing global rhythms with folk tunes from Quebec to Spain and Scandinavia to Sussex, this is a quirky celebration of our rich musical heritage.

Expect feel-good dancing tunes, audience participation, step dancing, Quebecois footpercussion, all played with good humour aplenty.

The Hut People’s latest studio album is Routes, released on the Fellside label. They also supported The Young’uns on their 21date nationwide tour—gaining a plethora of new fans up and down the country.

Words for Love VILLAGES

TANGRAM Theatre makes a welcome return to the Artsreach circuit in January with a new show, A Hundred Different Words for Love, starting on Friday 18th January in Broadwindsor.

Three years ago, James met the love of his life. A year ago, they broke up. This is James’s story of falling in love and landing broken-hearted. It’s also about him being Best Man of Honour at Sarah and Emma’s wedding. And it’s the story of a quest: to

find the right words to make sense of love.

This hilarious, heart-lifting story of romance, despair, and above all, friendship comes from James Rowlan, one of the UK’s most acclaimed storytellers.

Tangram are also at West Stafford village hall on Saturday 19th January; both performances start at 7.30pm.

Plymouth to New Orleans ILMINSTER

NEW Year music at Ilminster Arts Centre at the Meeting House ranges from New Orleans jazz to multi-instrumental west country folk, with the first gig bring the Cornish Armada Jazz Band from Plymouth to Somerset on Friday 11th January.

Led by trombonist Roger Marks, the band is widely reckoned to be “the best in the West” and over the years has also developed a high reputation nationally and across Europe. Roger is a trombone virtuoso, whose influences include Chris Barber, Kid Ory, George Masso and many others but his melodic style is very much his own.

The mood is modern on Friday 18th, when the Craig Milverton Trio is joined by trumpeter Enrico Tomasso (four times winner of the British Jazz Awards), rising star tenor and alto saxophonist Alex Garnett, who is semi-resident at Ronnie Scott’s, and guitarist Nigel Price, the 2016 British Jazz

Award winner for guitar.

There is one of the arts centre’s occasional Flying Folk evenings on Friday 25th, when a programme of eclectic folk music, compered by local folk singer Jemima Farey. The headliner is multi-instrumentalist Luke Daniels, who plays finger style guitar, wooden flute, concertina and sings beautifully as well—he also uses an electophon, a 20” diameter steel disc-playing device that combines original 19th and 21st century music technology.

In his 20s, Luke, while touring as a member of the Riverdance band, taught himself to play on the concert grand Steinways he found stored in large theatres across North America.

All three gigs begin at 8pm.

Old Blues at Jazz Cafe BRIDPORT

TENOR sax virtuoso Andy Williamson joins resident pianist Philip Clouts for the January Jazz Cafe at Bridport Arts Centre on Friday 18th at 8pm.

Andy is known for blowing exceptionally good tunes on the tenor sax and for his repertoire of somewhat risqué old blues songs.

He has played with his own bands—the Honkin’ Hep Cats and Big Buzzard Boogie Band—on BBC Radios 2, 3 and 4 and at Buckingham Palace, and as a sideman with

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Tom Robinson, Suggs, and Martha Reeves & the Vandellas. His versatile style on sax and voice creates an interesting, eclectic and highly enjoyable performance.

Ghostly Shivers DORCHESTER

WINTER and ghost stories go together and Dorchester Arts has an exciting chilling evening lined up on Sunday 27th January at 8pm when LittleMighty brings Shivers, a trio of new ghostly tales to the Corn Exchange.

The Book of Darkness And Light features story-teller Adam Z Robinson with musician Ben Styles, who together create a thrilling performance, set to the haunting sounds of the violin.

These are supernatural mysteries to make your flesh creep, your skin crawl, your neck prickle and your blood still ... Is that monstrous thing coming for you? Is it all in your mind? A trick of the light? Or something far more sinister? One thing is for certain: these stories will give you the shivers.

Q&A with post-war director LYME REGIS

A NEW film which looks at a dark period in post-war Eastern Europe is being screened at the Marine Theatre in Lyme

Museums ALLHALLOWS MUSEUM

High Street, Honiton.

01404 44966. www.honitonmuseum.co.uk

AXMINSTER HERITAGE

Regis on Friday 18th January, and includes a question and answer session with the director Piotr Szkopiak and producer Carole Harding.

Set in 1947, The Last Witness is the story of a young, ambitious journalist who risks love, career and ultimately his life to uncover the true identity of an Eastern European refugee and his connection to one of Stalin’s most notorious crimes—the massacre of Polish officers at Katyn.

The Last Witness stars Alex Pettyfer, Talulah Riley, Michael Gambon and Robert Wieckiewicz.

Folk and Jazz DORCHESTER

NEW Year music with Dorchester Arts brings two hugely popular performers— stars of the folk and jazz worlds—to the Corn Exchange.

On Friday 18th January, the Eduardo Niebla Experience features the great flamenco jazz guitar virtuoso with guitarist Matthew Robinson and tabla player Dharmesh Parmar. Niebla constantly seeks new musical terrain across the worlds of jazz, classical, world and pop music. His many collaborations have included George Michael, Craig David, sitar maestro Nishat Khan and the Dante String Quartet.

On Wednesday 23rd January, Steve

Pied Piper puppets BRIDPORT

ONE of the best-loved of northern European folk tales has been adapted by Norwich Puppet Theatre. The UK’s only theatre which is dedicated to puppetry brings The Pied Piper to Bridport Arts Centre on Saturday 19th January at 2pm.

It’s a familiar story—the town of Hamelin is over-run by rats and the mayor and town council call for help. When the Pied Piper plays his flute the rats run, the greedy mayor rubs his hands and the children dance…

Norwich Puppet Theatre’s humorous and irresistible one person show combines a skilful mix of puppetry, foot-tapping music and storytelling and will have audiences young and old entranced.

www.chardmuseum.co.uk.

CHIDEOCK MUSEUM

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

COLYTON HERITAGE CENTRE

www.axminsterheritage.org

Market Place, Colyton www.colytonheritagecentre.org

MUSEUM High Street, Ilchester

(at the side of the Town Hall).

01935 841247.

LYME REGIS MUSEUM

Bridge Street, Lyme Regis.

01297 443370.

NOTHE FORT

www.beaminstermuseum.

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

217 Wakeham Portland.

01305 821804.

www.crewkernemuseum.co.uk

ROYAL ALBERT MEMORIAL MUSEUM & ART GALLERY

www.blandfordtownmuseum.org

BRIDPORT MUSEUM

South Street, Bridport.

01308 422116.

DORSET COUNTY

High West Street, Dorchester.

01305 262735. (Closed) www.dorsetcountymuseum.org.

EXMOUTH MUSEUM

www.bridportmuseum.co.uk.

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

CASTLETON WATERWHEEL MUSEUM

FAIRLYNCH ARTS CENTRE AND MUSEUM

Oborne Road, Sherborne.

27 Fore Street, Budleigh Salterton.

01395 442666.

www.castletonwaterwheelmuseum. org.uk

CHARD MUSEUM

Godworthy House, High Street, Chard. 01460 65091.

GROVE PRISON MUSEUM

Governors Gardens, The Grove, Portland. 01305 715726.

ILCHESTER COMMUNITY

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Dowell Street, Honiton.

01404 45006.

The Keep, Bridport Road, Dorchester. 01305 264066.

www.fortressweymouth.co.uk.

Bere’s Yard, Blandford Forum.

01258 450388.

THELMA HULBERT GALLERY, ELMFIELD HOUSE

THE MILITARY MUSEUM OF DEVON AND DORSET

CREWKERNE & DISTRICT MUSEUM

BLANDFORD MUSEUM

SIDMOUTH MUSEUM

Hope Cottage, Church Street, Sidmouth. 01395 516139.

Barrack Road, Weymouth.

01305 766626.

Whitcombe Road, Beaminster.

01308 863623. wordpress.com

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Please telephone for opening hours

Silver Street, Axminster.

01297 639884.

BEAMINSTER MUSEUM

Knightley has a solo gig, Roadworks.

Best known for his work with the hugely popular acoustic group Show of Hands, Knightley here takes the audience on a musical journey along the winding roads of his career. The setlist includes classic gems and gives a rare glimpse into the personal playlist of a songwriting legend, with tribute to some of his influences, from Dylan to Radiohead.

PORTLAND MUSEUM

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

SEATON MUSEUM

www.keepmilitarymuseum.org.

TOLPUDDLE MARTYRS MUSEUM

Tolpuddle, nr Dorchester.

01305 848237.

TUDOR HOUSE

3 Trinity Street, Weymouth.

01305 779711 or 812341.

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

www.weymouthcivicsociety.org.

SHERBORNE MUSEUM

Abbey gatehouse, Church Lane, Sherborne. 01935 812252.

Sutton Poyntz Pumping Station, Sutton Poyntz, Weymouth.

01305 832634

www.sherbornemuseum.co.uk.

www.wessexwessex.co.uk.

SHIRE HALL MUSEUM

WATER SUPPLY MUSEUM

WEYMOUTH MUSEUM

High West Street, Dorchester.

01305 261849

Brewers Quay Hope Square, Weymouth. 01305 457982

www.shirehalldorset.org

www.weymouthmuseum.org.uk

On Screen - In and Around the Vale FRIDAY 21 DECEMBER Nostalgic Cinema: It’s A Wonderful Life (U) 2pm £3.80. The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LZ www. beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (PG) 7.30pm Adult £6.80, U16 £5.80 Family of four £22. The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LZ www. beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050. Also 22 Dec. SATURDAY 22 DECEMBER The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (PG) 11am Adult £6.80, U16 £5.80 Family of four £22. The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LZ www.beehivehoniton. co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Dunkirk Supper and film night, £30 for welcome cocktail, 2 course supper and film ticket. Dinner at 7pm and film at 8.30pm.

Alexandra Hotel, Pound Street, Lyme Regis, Dorset, DT7 3HZ. 01297 442010 www.hotelalexandra.co.uk.

Arthur Christmas Family Film night, £7 per adult / £5 per child includes popcornfilm at 6.30pm. Children’s supper available from 5pm (pre booked). Alexandra Hotel, Pound Street, Lyme Regis, Dorset, DT7 3HZ 01297 442010 www.hotelalexandra. co.uk.

THURSDAY 27 DECEMBER Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Tickets £5 More info or to book: 01404 831207 Doors open 1.30 for 2pm The Bradshaw Meeting Room, Thomas Whitty House, Silver Street, Axminster, Devon, EX13 5AH. THURSDAY 3 JANUARY The Death of Stalin Clapton & Wayford Film Society. Pre-booked guest tickets are £4 per film. For more information, to join or to pre-book, please email mickpwilson53@btinternet.com or ring Mick Wilson on 01460 74849 or Di Crawley on 01460 30508.

Beauty and The Beast Sing-a-Long 2pm, £4 Dorchester Arts, The Corn Exchange, High East Street, DT1 1HF 01305 266926 www.dorchesterarts.org.uk.

FRIDAY 4 JANUARY Bohemian Rhapsody (12A) 7.30pm Adult £6.80, U16 £5.80 Family of four £22.

A foot-stomping celebration of Queen, their music and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury. The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LZ www. beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

TUESDAY 8 JANUARY Hotel Salvation (12A) by Shubhashish Bhutiani, India, 2017, 103 minutes, Hindi with English subtitles. A dream convinces 77-year-old Dayanand Kumar that his end

could be near. Wanting to die in the holy city of Varanasi his dutiful son, Rajiv, is left with no choice but to drop everything and make the journey with his stubborn father.

After checking into Mukti Bhawan (Hotel Salvation) a guesthouse devoted to people to die there, things take unexpected turns.

Doors open 7pm for 7.45pm film. Bridport Film Society, Bridort Arts Centre – for more information on how to join and book tickets go to www.bridportfilmsociety.co.uk.

Members and guests only. Enrollment can be made by application form obtained from the Art Centre, The Bookshop and other venues.

THURSDAY 10 JANUARY The Book Shop (PG) 11am and 7.30am.

England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town.

While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). Bridport Arts Centre wwww.bridport-arts.com.

FRIDAY 11 JANUARY The Big Sick (2017) (15) Written by the star Kumail Najiani and his wife Emily V Gordon, based on their own courtship.

When Emily (grad student) contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail (a Pakistani born cab driver and stand-up comic) finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family’s expectations, and his true feelings. FilmCrew – Crewkerne Community Cinema at Wadham School and starts at 7.30pm. Doors open at 7pm.

Tickets are £6 for visitors. Membership is £25 a year for 9 films.

MONDAY 14 JANUARY Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again presented by Moviola in Beaminster Public Hall. Five years after the events of Mamma Mia! (2008), Sophie prepares for the grand reopening of the Hotel Bella Donna. Come and enjoy the evening.

7.30pm (doors open 7pm) Tickets at Yarn Barton 01308 862715 Or ring Elaine on 01308 861746, £5 (in advance) £5.50 (on door).

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (PG) Odcombe Movie Night at 8pm. Village Hall doors open at 7.30pm Tickets: £5 in advance, £6 on door. Phone: 07934 737104 for tickets.

THURSDAY 17 JANUARY Finding your Feet 11am Starring: Imelda Staunton, Celia Imrie, Timothy Spall Bridport Arts Centre www.bridport-arts. com.

FRIDAY 18 JANUARY The Last Witness Q&A and screening with Director Piotr Szkopiak and Producer Carol Harding. Set in 1947, and starring Michael Gambon, the film is about a journalist who risks his life to uncover the identity of an Eastern European refugee and his connection to one of Stalin’s most notorious crimes. Certificate 15 £6 advance / £8 on the door 10% off for Theatre Friends. Bar opens 6.30pm Starts 7.30pm.

Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis 01297 442138 www.marinetheatre.com.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society shown by Milborne Movies at Milborne St. Andrew Village Hall Doors and Bar open at 7pm and the film starts at 7.30pm. London, 1946: Juliet (Lily James), a charismatic and free-spirited writer, receives a letter from a member of a mysterious literary club started in Nazioccupied Guernsey. Her curiosity piqued, Juliet decides to visit the island. There she meets the delightfully eccentric members of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. This is both an old-fashioned romance and a detective story, all set on the beautiful island of Guernsey, with a wonderful cast of actors led by Lily James.

MONDAY 21 JANUARY PETERLOO (12A) 154 mins.

This portrayal of the infamous 1819 Peterloo massacre is Mike Leigh’s grandest and most ambitious film yet. Open at 7pm for 7.30 start. There will be no short film. Tickets cost £6 on the door, or £5 beforehand at the village shop. Caroline (cdilke@googlemail.com) TUESDAY 22 JANUARY City of Ghosts (15) by Matthew Heinman, USA, 2017, 91mins, English. A documentary film going behind the scenes in Syria following the citizen journalist collective ‘Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently’. This group film scenes with their smart phones, upload them to YouTube and Social Media, showing the world the true violence and psychopathic hatred of ISIS. Their aim is to debunk the propaganda being disseminated by Islamic State. Doors open 7pm for 7.45pm film.

Bridport Film Society, Bridort Arts Centre.

For information on how to join and book tickets go to www.bridportfilmsociety.co.uk.

Members and guests only. Enrolment can be made by application form from the Art Centre, The Bookshop and other venues.

FRIDAY 25 JANUARY Peterloo (PG-13) Mike Leigh’s new film, set in 1819. £5 advance / £6.50 on the door 10% off for Theatre Friends. Bar opens 6.30pm, starts 7.30pm. Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis 01297 442138 www. marinetheatre.com.

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Health&Beauty Bridport sessions open for young people with mental health issues IN January a new facility is opening in Bridport for young people with mental health issues. This follows the success of similar projects set up by Mind in Somerset, in Yeovil, Chard, Langport and Frome.

Every other week Mind will offer help to 11-18-year-olds and 18-24-year-olds respectively from 6-8pm.

The facility will provide a safe, caring and stimulating space for the young people at the Bridport Youth Centre and the two-hour sessions will include group discussions, one to ones, games, cooking and eating together.

Run by professionals and volunteers the

project is a key part of the charity’s aim to improve mental health in the community and help young people in this time of crisis with increasing numbers suffering from anxiety and depression. The members attending the Chard group say they ‘receive helpful advice’; and, ‘feel part of a family where no one is judged’.

“Over the past few years I have seen a significant increase in the number of children being admitted to hospital with issues affecting mental health, such as depression and eating disorders,” says Dr Michael Fernando, Consultant Paediatrician at Yeovil Hospital.

Mind in Somerset Youth Services Coordinator, Mickey Hickman, says: “Effectively the group is for young people with anxiety and stress issues. This is a rolling programme of structured interventions and social interaction. We hope that local GPS and pastoral care teams in school will identify possible candidates in the first instance.”

There will be an Open Evening at the Bridport Youth Centre at 6.30 on Monday 7th January, and the first session for 18-24-yearolds will be on Monday 14th January (6-8pm).

The first session for the 11-18-year-olds will be on 21st January from 6pm.

Charity benefits NHS retirees THE next meeting of the West Dorset Health Service Retirement Fellowship will be on Thursday, 3rd January 2019 at 2pm in the Boys Brigade Hall, Sawmills Lane, Dorchester DT1 2RZ when Jan Tollerfield will give a talk on Frederick Treves.

Membership of the Fellowship provides an opportunity for NHS and social care staff and their partners to meet and spend time with other likeminded people, to enjoy existing friendships, make new friends and enjoy themselves together.

The Fellowship is a registered charity and has in the region of 10,000 members across the UK. The West Dorset Health Service Retirement Fellowship was set up over 30 years ago for retired employees of the Health Service and their partners living in Dorset and meets on the first Thursday of every month except August and December.

In addition to the monthly meetings, they have coach outings, a theatre trip and Christmas lunch.

If you work or if you have retired from the NHS, an NHS partner organisation or from social care services, you are invited to become a member of the Fellowship.

Membership is open to current and former staff— and their partners—from all NHS and social care settings and disciplines. For more information telephone 0800 9151455.

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Learn more about mental health services and support our patients DETAINING people under the Mental Health Act is a big responsibility and Dorset HealthCare needs empathetic, hardworking local people to ensure they only do this in the appropriate cases.

Mental Health Act Panels are made up of independent people who review whether the trust has the authority to continue to detain a patient under the Act. Dorset HealthCare is looking for people from a range of backgrounds to take on the important role of Mental Health Act managers.

They’ll consider verbal and written evidence from doctors, nurses, social workers and others and make a decision with two other panel members on whether to continue a person’s detention or to discharge them.

DHC Non-Executive Director Sarah Murray, who serves as a MHA manager, said: “This is a hugely important and satisfying role which gives me real insight into mental health care in Dorset. We need more people with a range of experience and perspectives to ensure the panels carry out their duties effectively.”

Mental Health Act managers need sound English skills and the ability to read complex reports as well as the robustness to deal with evidence that can sometimes be distressing.

Dorset HealthCare welcomes applications from people who can give three to five days a month, have a clean driving licence and access to a vehicle as county-wide travel is involved. They would like to hear from people of different ages, social and ethnic backgrounds to provide greater diversity on the panels.

There is full training and a payment of £70 per half day worked plus mileage payments.

For an informal chat about the role please call Karen Crellin, Mental Health Legislation Manager, on k.crellin@nhs.net, 01202 492035.

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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.

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WANTED Dave buys all types of tools 01935 428975 Apr 19 Secondhand tools wanted. All trades. Users & Antiques. G & E C Dawson. 01297 23826. www.secondhandtools. co.uk.

Feb 19

Postage stamps. Private collector requires 19th and early 20th century British. Payment to you or donation to your nominated charity. 01460 240630.

pictures 01460 241297 Yamaha flute 211S2.

Fully serviced and plays well but plating worn.

Handle on case broken but has zipped outer case. £185. Can send pictures.

01460 241297.

Navy long raincoat by Strellson 44” chest £60 ono 01297 631330 New/boxed Dartington

crystal plain glass decanter/carafe excellent present £15 ono 01297 631330 Black leather car coat 42” chest top quality £65 ono 01297 631330 Line6 Bass AMP Lowdown LD15 with phones socket and CD/ MP3 input. Hardly used, boxed £25 01308 459259.

PERSONAL

Vintage & antique textiles, linens, costume buttons etc. always sought

by Caroline Bushell. Tel. 01404 45901.

Jun 19

Charlotte Cattermole, photograph and words by Catherine Taylor

FOR SALE HP printer ink cartridges, new and unopened (my printer died) - 2 no. each of 364XL Magenta, Yellow, Black & Photo and 1 no. 364XL Cyan. £50 cash; 01308 458475 (Bridport).

Single bed, ‘bespoke’, pine-type, 2 drawers + 3ft ‘as new’ mattress. £130, will split. Bed comes apart. Electric towel-rail 240w, as new £20. Buyer collects. 01308 485669, near Bridport.

Impressive Large Douvre multifuel woodburner.

Complete with tall canopy and short length of flue.

Suit inglenook or can be inserted (without the canopy) into a standard fire place. Chimney vent needs repair (braising) and stove has surface rust so ideal renovation project at little cost compared to new. Installatiom instructions available. Can E mail pictures. £500 ONO. 01460 241297 Alto Saxophone. Conn Starburst American made.

Fully serviced and in very good condition. Can e mail pictures. £375 ONO 01460 241297 Yamaha flute 211S In good playing order but some cosmetic wear and tear hence £185 Can send

PEOPLE AT WORK

CHARLOTTE CATTERMOLE

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RECENTLY engaged to the man she moved to Dorset to be with, Charlotte Cattermole has a bigger than normal spring to her step. Establishing Charlotte Grace Pilates soon after she moved to Bridport 18 months ago, Charlotte set about teaching Body Control Pilates.

She started with taster classes, which were immediately fully booked, giving her the confidence to offer initially nine, now 15 classes, in venues such as The Tithe Barn in Symondsbury and The Health and Wellbeing Centre in Axminster. She aims to provide comprehensive Pilates classes with a difference. Charlotte’s goal is to help relieve people of pain and teach them to gain control of their bodies, freeing up movement and finding a sense of calm through exercise.

Charlotte has first-hand experience of how Pilates can relieve pain and heal the body. As a child growing up in Suffolk, she competed in gymnastics at national level and then moved into athletics, again competing at a high level. The regime and training took its toll and Charlotte was plagued with injuries. Physiotherapy and Pilates were prescribed to help her. During this time Charlotte learnt a lot about the body, biomechanics and our physical makeup. She furthered her knowledge by doing a sports massage course, duly setting up a massage business.

However, her fascination with the human body and its movements was not sated and so she took a leap of faith and enrolled in an intensive Pilates instructor course in London, recommended to her as the best qualification she could gain in the field.

After two years of long-distance dating, Charlotte moved in with Alasdair, who had just opened a new bar in town, the popular The Pursuit of Hoppiness.

Together they plan their future and businesses, both bustling with ideas and happiness. As their working lives are so busy, the couple don’t get to spend much time together and so save Sundays for each other and family.

But Charlotte also manages to slip into the bar after a day of teaching, to say hello to her fiancé and grab a cheeky glass of prosecco, on her way home.

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FOR SALE Four solid wood pine kitchen chairs. Ideal for up-cycling project as structurally very sound but some discolouration of varnish. £60. 01460 241297. Can send photos.

Double glazed diamond leaded French windows approx 77 “H x 54” W. In good condition £100.

Free Matching 3 section window also available 51” x 39 1/2” approx which has one broken pane.

Photos available. 01460 241297 S.Steel roll front sink in good condition. L Hand drainer CW waste and plug. £10. 01460 241297.

Two matching pairs of Next interlined Plaid terracotta/beige ring top curtains. Each curtain 66”x 90”. In excellent condition. £50 01460 241297 Integrated Cooker hood extractor fan. wall mounted 597mm. As new complete with fixing chart. £30 01460 241297 Yesterday’s farming (Dairy) equipment.

Antique Diabolo hand operated cream separator.

Complete and in working order. Ideal for smallholding or working museum. Same model is displayed at Bicton museum. £100 01460 241297 Can send pictures.

32 inch Panasonic Television Set. Nearly

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new. Includes View Box and CD Player. Bargain at only £100. Tel: 01460 68179 Faith Hi-Gloss Venus Electro Acoustic guitar.

Hardcase. Near perfect condition. £400. 07745 023 841 Fiat Panda Towing Hitch, still in box. £15 01297 639283 Wrought-iron garden gate, w 108 x h 110 cms.

Can email photo. £25.

01297 639283 Vintage-style washbasin unit, cupboard under, gold-colour mixer tap, w 60 x d 50 x h 80 cms, plus 29 cm tiled upstand. Can email photo. £15 10297 639283 Suitcases, various sizes; flight bags; all with rigid sides and zipped fabric tops, plus two large zipped holdalls, all with wheels and all good condition inc. the zips. £3 to £5 each.

Ring for sizes. 01297 639283 12v/mains TV for camper/ caravan, M & S, 15.4”/39 cm flat screen, car and mains cables, aerial and handbook. £10 01297 639283 Bowls - Taylor Vector.

Size 1 and Size 4.

Excellent Condition. £50 per set. 01404 549503 Bowls Bags - Emsmorn Grey £15 Black £15.

Excellent Condition.

01404 549503

Bowling Shoes - Gents Tan 8.5 Ladies White 6.5. £12 pair. Excellent Condition 01404 549503 DYSON upright DC04 vacuum cleaner with tools.

In excellent condition.

Perfect for pet hairs. £45.

01460 242644 Football table. Jacques solid wood football table with chrome steel player bars, size 122 x 61 x 86cm high, comes apart for storage, excellent condition, £55, 07470 722525 Large military wooden chest, and 1930s, six drawer, painted, bun knob handles, chest of drawers, the two £50. 01458 223232 Two pairs skis with bindings plus one pair ski boots, all in carry bags. £50 the lot. Cheaper than renting. 01297 32237 for details.

Brass fire screen 1940s Galleon Image 18”W x25”H £10 phone 01297445724 Large contemporary natural oak framed mirror 1800mm x 600mm brand new must collect £60.

07954 038297 Multi cine and video film equipment including cine/ video cameras, projectors (Sankyo and super eight screen viewer), splicing tools, reels etc. £200 for lot or can be sold separately 07887352892.

FOR SALE Nu-tool bench drill press.

12 speed model DP16.

Capacity 16mm power 375 height 94cms, depth 65cms £80 01460 62926.

Canon Pixma MG5350 inkjet colour printer not working with new set of ink tanks £15 details 01308 488111.

Ducal pine corner unit display area with light bottom cupboard 6’2” x 2’7.5” excellent condition £150 01297 33082 evenings.

Polar Gear Childs booster seat £12. Tempo Silver-Red square design rug 160cm x 220cm Brand new £69 01297 552561.

Graco travel cot unused £20 01460 76187.

APT woodturning lathe, good order c/w tools chuck qty of wood £175 ono 01308 868379.

Double bed with padded headboard matching base and mattress very good condition £130 01963 23333 (Dorset).

Barbour waxed coat… lrg size Burghley style vg condition £50. Musto

jacket large size slight damage £25. Deerhunter jacket lrg size hardly worn £50. Waterproof overtrousers £10. Reasonable offers considered 01308 868184.

Industrial sewing machine. Singer 20u.

Table with heavy duty motor. Thread holder.

Bobbin winder. Various feet £260 01308 868949.

4.6ft adjustable bed with wired remote control for head and foot adjustment.

Massage and timer facility, excellent condition hardly used £220 (£5,000 new) 07887352892.

Large Victorian pine farmhouse dresser; detachable top; craftsman made; great condition.

H. 2.11m x w. 1.27m x d. 0.43m. Very attractive dresser. £200. Tel: 01935 872217.

Large modern rug; cream / beige / gold abstract pattern; dense luxury pile; 3.26m x 2.40m. Never laid. Cost over £400; bargain £95. Tel: 01935 872217.

Antique for sale. A superb example of an antique oak plank coffer/blanket chest, candle box present. Good solid construction and with all the signs of its great age, the photos do not do it justice so please feel free to inspect .42” long, 14.5 deep and 24 high Photos available £380. 01460 55105 Library steps. Victorian style mahogany library steps/ display shelves in very good condition.

Extremely useful piece, would look good in a conservatory showing plants. 18” wide, 20 deep 32”high. £170 Photos available 01460 55105 Hardback Books by John Fowles - Matissa, The Ebony Tower, The French Lieutenant’s Woman. 3 Books £15.00. Somerset and Dorset Essays Llewelyn Powys £5.00.

Dorset Feather Stitchery

By Olive Pass - £2.00.

Wessex Dialect by Norman Rogers, Legends of Dorset by Polly Lloyd, Old Dorset by M B Weinstock.

3 books £5.00. Tel:01297 32921 Combi Ladder (each step is articulated) length 13’3” also has telescopic safety legs, cost £237 selling £120 ono health forces sale 01297 631330 Rucksack: Karrimor Panther 65 SA Back

£65.00 In good condition.

Only used once. Includes if wanted Lifeventure Transporter Rucksack Cover Platypus waterbottle, good as new.

01297 560511 Dog Crate £15 75cmsL x 58cmsH x 52cmsW Good condition. 01297 560511

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