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COVER STORY Robin Mills met Andrew Dickson in Bridport ‘I grew up in Richmond, near London, in a would select one out of ten. I would then loving musical family. My parents and one do ten variations on that tune, and he would sister played fiddles, the others piano and select one of them. I then had to choose a flute, and there was always music, especially at small ensemble to record, often using harp, Christmas. I started ukulele at 11 and guitar at viola and double bass. Unlike the current 12, which became my main instrument. Aged trend in film to employ wall-of-sound/end13 I did a term at the Spanish Guitar Centre to-end noise, thus negating the audience’s in Leicester Square learning Classical; it took need or opportunity to use any imagination, them that long to realize I was doing it all by Mike and I both love, and use a lot of, silence. ear, so that was the end of my formal trainThe positioning of the music is painstaking. I think I’ve gained most of my musical ingly chosen and though I have worked with skills through friends and osmosis.

Directors who leave me completely alone, I When I started writing my own tunes, they much prefer collaboration. became more interesting to me than the pop In between Mike’s films, which were genermusic of the day, though I loved Joan Baez, ally about two years in preparation, I was able and Skiffle. I judged music by its drivability, to do community projects, like a play called © Andrew Dickson Photograph by Robin Mills The Symondsbury Marys, which was a secular meaning that if I enjoyed driving to it, loud, which I did a lot of, it was good. My Great nativity play in the Tithe Barn at SymondsAunt Marjorie had published several books “demythetising” music, making bury. I first came to Dorset to work with Anne Jellicoe in Community theit more accessible for children. She wrote songs and invented the Tonic atre, on Howard Barker’s play The Poor Man’s Friend, in 1981. It had political Solfa family with Father Doh and Mother Soh, predating my similar quest overtones and I always prefer working on theatre with a purpose, fun and to erode the inherent elitism in most music. I trained to teach at Coventry relevance being my main priorities. It was about a boy who was hung for College of Education in the 60s when Folk Clubs became very popular, setting fire to hemp in Bridport’s main industry of the time, ropemaking for and because I could play more than three chords people decided I was a the hangman’s noose—otherwise known as the “the Bridport Dagger”, or beatnik and a great guitarist. I found a teriffic singer, Jenny, and we spent “the poor man’s friend”. It was a huge, wonderful surprise for me working two happy college years playing the Midlands Clubs as ‘Andrew and Jenny’. with a cast of 120, writing harmonies for that number of people, and seeing I learnt how to show off and sang the rude and funny songs while she did the joy they discovered in performing. Only recently have people become the beautiful ones. aware of the fact, now that TV has discovered it, that singing in choirs is When I left college I found that everyone in the audience at my local good for the soul and can significantly help with loneliness, stress, self-confiTwickenham Folk Club could play at least as well as me. I learned to play dence and Dementia. The play came at the beginning of a whole movement the piano, and then worked in a Special School for Maladjusted Teenagof Community Theatre, in which I continued to be involved, with Entertainers (as they were then called) for two years, which was great—child led ing Strangers by David Edgar in Dorchester, and then five others, one in education as it should be—then I got into Theatre in Education. My friend Burton Bradstock. Then in 2016 I wrote the music for The Tempest of Lyme Sue Birtwistle and I started the first TIE Company in Scotland working in at the Marine Theatre, an adaptation linking Shakespeare’s Tempest to the Edinburgh schools through the Royal Lyceum Theatre, promoting the use history of Lyme Regis directed by Clemmie Reynolds. I’m working with her of Drama as a teaching method. As writer/actor/teachers we devised proagain in London on a project based on Theodora of Byzantium, an amazing grammes on a variety of subjects which we took into schools as Characters woman who lived in the year 500AD in Constantinople, who started life as a and then involved the children in the action. They weren’t consciously child prostitute, and ended up, by marrying the Emperor of Constantinople, performing, but becoming involved and thus learning about the topic by the most powerful woman in the Roman world, changing many laws which Doing rather than Reading about it. After two years of much pioneerdiscriminated against women at the time. ing fun I did another two at the Cockpit Theatre in London making TIE I’ve had amazing luck throughout my working life, often due to the programmes with many city schools. people and places I’ve encountered. I’ve been commissioned to write Having worked in Edinburgh, I got to work for many of the compaseveral pieces of musical theatre, one for the Somerset and Dorset nies I admired from the Festival, fringe companies such as the People Theatre Company run by Kate Geraghty called Feed the Birds, and more Show, Joint Stock and Theatre Machine. From the Three B’s in Bridlingrecently Flea, a Ukulele Opera based on a Flea Circus, with a 22 piece ton to the Peoples Palace in Borneo I worked as actor, musician, comukulele chorus, a band, and a cast of a hundred plus. It was all sung, and poser, director and writer for many including The Crucible Sheffield, The performed here in Bridport at the Palace. I strongly believe that simple Liverpool Everyman, Nottingham Playhouse, Oxford Playhouse, two instruments like the ukulele, harmonica and autoharp—all producyears touring with the Royal Shakespeare Company, two years as Artistic ing instant results—should be taught at an early age, instead of more Director of the Young National Trust Theatre and seven Edinburgh traditional and challenging ones like violin and clarinet, which can wait. I Festivals. I did seventeen shows with the great poet Adrian Mitchell, have a huge collection of instruments from around the world which I am including three of the Greek Myths (40 songs) in Japanese in a huge tent happy to share with anyone who is interested, and one day hope to initiin a Tokyo park for Japanese children. Adrian also wrote The Wild Animal ate a ‘Music Hub’ in which to house them where all can come and play.

Song Contest for Ken Livingstone’s Year of Peace when he was leader At the moment I’m lucky enough to be writing music for my daughter of the GLC, which we toured round London parks in a double-decker.

Kitti’s wedding. And, alongside various awards, my greatest achievements The whole side of the bus came down to form a stage, and we ended in life are my three wonderful children, Jim, Kit and Micky. up in the Children’s Field at Glastonbury competing with U2 in the next I began teaching guitar when I was 15, and have continued with many field—hard work but very exciting. other instruments ever since. I discovered early on that ‘Tone Deafness is Working in the world of theatre I bumped into film director Mike Leigh. as rare as Genius’ and that, if you’ve got a heartbeat and a vague sense of I had written music for the Crucible’s 10th anniversary, a production of Cau- pitch, then you are musical. Which means everybody. It’s a natural human casian Chalk Circle by Brecht, in which Mike’s best friend was playing the lead. condition, and not the preserve of a talented elite. Music, along with the He asked me to do the music for his film Meantime, and that was the start other crucial Arts subjects, has been far too marginalised by recent governof a relationship in which I did a further five of his films. It was the hardest ments and it is high time that music was a priority for all teachers in training. work I’ve ever done yet the most rewarding. Mike supervised virtually every I’d simply love others to share in the great discovery of enabling their fellow demi-semi quaver, but it was great having that much collaboration. I would human beings to access their innate musicality and their own singing voice, start by writing tunes to a rough first edit of the film, from which Mike which, in a merry way, has been one of my main motives in life.’

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MV UP FRONT Seven months into a bout of Plantar Fasciitis and I have to admit to the occasional sense of humour failure.

One foot screams at me to stop using it, and the other complains about having to do all the work. I’m used to aches and pains, but now the aches feel like a fading memory. It’s a little like a metaphor for the world around me. As the human race becomes more tribal and politics more polarised, it’s hard not to feel despair.

After thousands of years of developing incredible levels of sophistication: becoming the dominant animal on earth, learning to communicate despite speaking different languages and discovering that the general aches caused by living with empathy and compassion are better than the pain of constant conflict, we appear to be determined to go back into the caves to sharpen our spears. There was a time when great leaders brought people together. Today there seems to be a blind attraction to those who see a good argument, take a side and stir up conflicting viewpoints to make themselves feel important, when what we need are leaders who can find middle ground and communicate levels of common purpose. The latest BBC drama, Years and Years, takes a fanciful guess at some of the possible levels of madness that might develop from where we are now.

They include a US nuclear attack on China; the fall of the second largest investment bank in America, and an ‘oh so sincere’ UK celebrity turned politician who wows her audience with a magic pen that cuts out all internet signal in the room (yes every dinner table should have one). The show goes on for a few more episodes, so who knows what the outcome might be, but in one striking moment a political activist, returning to the UK after an extended stay overseas, is surprised at how interested people are in a local by-election. ‘Nobody used to care about by-elections’ she says. ‘Yea, we’re all bloody furious now’ replies her sister. When asked what about, she simply replies, ‘Everything!’ Realising that polarisation, tribalism or populism—call it what you want—has no long term benefit for this planet is not rocket science. Some might describe the current world upheaval in political manoeuvring as one of history’s ‘market adjustments’, but that’s no different to closing your eyes, putting your fingers in your ears and shouting ‘blah, blah, blah’ while the world falls apart around you.

Polar opposites will only win votes from polar opposites, and that’s a pointless exercise. There, that’s my sense of humour failure done for today—bloody foot...

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RESEARCHING

the Family Tree More and more family historians are turning to DNA testing to help in their research.

Margery Hookings joins members of the West Dorset group of the Somerset & Dorset Family History Society to find out more.

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large group of us is sitting around a big table at Marsh Barn, on the outskirts of West Bay towards Burton Bradstock.

I’ve been here before, to learn about family history with local expert Jane Ferentzi-Sheppard. I’ve done a couple of sessions but haven’t really had the time to get stuck into it yet. Never mind about procrastination, as anyone who has ever looked into their family’s history will tell you, it’s research that can be the thief of time.

But, oh the rewards. Not in monetary terms, of course, but in the satisfaction of fleshing out the family bones - although there is always the possibility of a skeleton or two in the cupboard.

I’m here today to find out more about DNA and how modern science can help in the quest to delve deeper into the shelves of family history.

A DNA test can show to whom you are related – providing they have also had a test done – and also give you a clue about your own ethnicity.

Author and lecturer Debbie Kennett, in an interview for the society’s magazine, The Greenwood Tree, firmly believes in the benefits of DNA testing to the family historian.

“I think you should make use of all available records. DNA is a resource in the same way as parish records, census returns, public archives etc.

“You would not ignore any single one of those when doing your research and DNA should be seen in exactly the same way.”

The biggest company by far offering DNA tests is Ancestry, with some 14 million kits sold.

“But you do need a subscription to access the full family trees of your matches, which is a drawback. They offer the best tools for the beginner and you’ll get more UK matches here than anywhere else,” Debbie says.

There are three different types of DNA test available: autosomal, which measures DNA from both paternal and maternal lines, yDNA which tests the paternal line only and mtDNA which shows only the maternal line.

Kate Boyle, who is giving today’s talk, took a DNA test with Ancestry, as it has the largest database. She thought that maybe DNA results would find a link to a distant brick wall or throw something up unexpected.

She found evidence pointing to South Africa and a possible family indiscretion, which she is looking at ways to find out more.

She is glad she has had her DNA tested as it has confirmed much of what she already knew of her family tree. But she urges caution to anyone considering taking a test: accept the possibility you could be in for a shock. Hidden issues such as adoption or illegitimacy, could be uncovered and could potentially cause family upset.

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Another issue to consider is privacy. Debbie Kennett, in her interview with The Greenwood Tree, believes such concerns are overrated. She says raw DNA data is not particularly revealing and is stored separately from contact details. Your DNA can be used only for the purposes you specify and you have to opt in to share your data with third parties.

My husband, mother and I have all recently had our DNA tested through Ancestry.

You have to dribble your saliva into a small tube, mix it with some magic solution, seal it and then send it off to a laboratory in Ireland where it is tested.

My husband’s results came back quite quickly to reveal he was a quarter Scottish or Irish, which was something of a surprise for him. Apparently, there is also a tiny bit of Norwegian in him (Viking perhaps?). When he has the time, he is going to investigate more to see if he can find where that ethnicity might have come from.

The DNA test showed my mother’s heritage to be predominantly English, with a small amount of unknown Swedish thrown in for good measure. Online, she’s now been able to see people to whom she knows she is related, along with at least one other she did not know existed.

And my results?

I have long suspected that my paternal Grigg grandmother had some kind of exotic blood. My brother-in-law insists that the surname Grigg is a corruption of ‘Greek’, which fills me with great excitement as I always feel very at home in Greece. I had a fanciful thought that the Griggs could be Romanies, with their brown eyes and sallow skin, but my mother’s research into that side of the family places them firmly in a small village in south Somerset in the late 1600s, either farming or running pubs.

But my results haven’t been returned, as I had to do the test again. I think there was probably too much bubble in my spit, which is a bit disappointing as I was hoping to sit down with my mother and compare results.

Still, when the DNA results finally come back, maybe I will know for sure. Or maybe not.

For more information about the Somerset & Dorset Family History Society, visit sdfhs.org

Why research your family history?

‘As you get older you suddenly want to find out more about your roots and now it’s so much easier,’ says Jane Ferentzi-Sheppard, who runs family history courses locally.

‘Attitudes to family history have changed so much over the years. When I started in the 1980s, family historians were seen very much as train spotters, just collecting names. But now they have been become accepted in the outside world, especially the academic world, as they are now looking at the bigger picture.

‘When you research your own history, you become the expert on your family. And it opens people’s horizons to look at the social history. Who were these people and what were they doing?’

A conversation with fellow students yielded the following comments: ‘It’s definitely a drug though. You get hooked. You can spend hours and hours on it.’

‘It’s about chasing family stories to identify those that are true.’

‘Look at the demographic here today, it’s slightly on the older side. We all wish we’d done it earlier and asked the older members of the family more.’

Says family historian Kate Boyle: ‘I remember my mum saying I had no sense of family, when I was younger and not interested in my older relatives. And now look at me!’

It’s all in the genes

Paul Radford, editor of The Greenwood Tree, explains the basic science behind DNA, in the latest issue of the quarterly magazine of the Somerset & Dorset Family History Society: “Your body is made up of cells, each containing 23 pairs of chromosomes for a total of 46. The chromosomes contain the specific information that makes your body unique, from the colour of your eyes to the shape of your nose and everything else.

“In 22 each of the 23 pairs there will be one chromosome inherited from your father and one from your mother. In 23 of those they will look the same but the 23rd pair determines your sex.

“You inherit a Y chromosome automatically from your mother but from your father it could be a Y or an X. If it’s a Y, you will be male, if X ,you will be female.”

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Coast &Countryside Events TUESDAY 28 MAY West Dorset Ramblers 8 miles/12.9 km.

Bride Valley, Swyre, Berwicks, Hive beach.

Starts at 10am. Bring picnic, no dogs. All welcome. Please call 01308 424714.

The Old Rectory, Netherbury (DT6 5NB) is opening its 5 acre garden in aid of the National Garden Scheme charities.

Enjoy formal areas, naturalistic planting, extensive bog garden, candelabra primulas and other moisture lovers. Spring bulbs, species tulips and erythroniums are a speciality. Hornbeam walk, wild flower areas, orchards, as well as a decorative kitchen/cutting garden. Open 11am-5pm.

Adm £6 chdn free. www.ngs.org.uk. Also 28 May. U3A Monthly Talk The U3A (University of the Third Age) offers a wide variety of general interest groups for retired, and semi retired people in Bridport and the surrounding areas. 2pm in Bridport United Church Hall in East Street. The cost to non members for each talk is £2. Further Information can be found at www.u3asites. org.uk/bridport. Former Senior Producer/ Director for BBC/ITV presents ‘50 years in Television’.

Sidmouth Charity Tea Dance Ballroom, Latin and Sequence dancing with a warm, friendly welcome. £4 each, including Tea, coffee and biscuits at 2.30pm at All Saints Hall, Sidmouth EX10 8ES. Further information from 01395 579856 or 577122.

Martock History Group 6pm A visit to the Hanging Chapel in Langport, inside and out, space inside restricted, so please be patient! And please don’t park selfishly, give time to share cars, for drop off and walking to the venue, which starts at 6.30pm. £3 visitors, free to members. All monies taken will go to charity. Ring Fergus 01935822202 to secure a place.

Merriott Gardening Club ‘Patio Gardening’ a presentation by a member of the Gardens Group, Sherborne. Please meet as usual at the Tithe Barn, Church Street, at 7.30pm - refreshments and raffle.

Non-members £2 at the door - everyone welcome. For more information please contact 01460 72298.

Bring & Share Supper at The Hub in Lyme Regis to highlight the services available provided by the Dorset Woman’s Refuge, The Friends of the Refuge and the Women’s Action Network DorsetWAND. If you would like to attend or could offer help on the night at the event or have any donations please contact Karen Forrester-Jones on 07572 543 781 or email on forresterjones.k@gmail.com with the subject title Bring & share Supper.

communities with Jim White, 10am – 12noon. Meet at the reserve, book with Jim White, 01929 481 535. www. dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk.

Lego morning 10.15am- 12.00 noon. All Lego Builders, (young and old) are welcome in Burton Bradstock Community Library.

Children should be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Artsreach Children’s Event. For further information info@ burtonbradstocklibrary.org.uk or go to www.burtonbradstocklibrary.org.uk.

Crafty Coffee Morning 10am-12noon involving craft activities for grown-ups and kids. Free Entry. The David Hall, Roundwell Street, South Petherton, Somerset TA13 5AA www.thedavidhall.org. uk 01460 240340.

Marvellous Moths Rowlands Orchard, Shute 10am – 12noon. Join moth expert Paul Butter, on a moth survey and count in this historic orchard. All ages welcome.

Free event, no booking required. Legacy to Landscape Community Heritage project event. Rowlands Orchard, Little Orchard Alpacas, Haddon Road, Shute, EX13 7NX, Grid Ref 256 974. Further information please contact, Ruth Worsley, Legacy to Landscape Project Co-ordinator: 01297 489741 or email: legacytolandscape@gmail. com; www.eastdevonaonb.org.uk/ourwork/wildlife/legacy-to-landscape.

Wildlife Gardening Talk, Demonstration & 3 Course Dinner with Author and Journalist Kate Bradbury Kate Bradbury will use her years of experience as a wildlife gardener, author and journalist to help you learn about and create that perfect wildlifefriendly garden. Includes superb 3 course evening dinner when Kate will read an extract from her latest book followed by the opportunity to ask questions. Arrive at 3pm for tea and cake. Finishing at approx.

8.30pm. £75 pp. The Kingcombe Centre, Lower Kingcombe, DT20EQ. T: 01300 320684. Visit www.kingcombe.org to book online.

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 the Jigs for Gigs with Mark Moran 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 Ros ie,secretarygittishamfolkdance@gmail. com. See https://gittishamfolkdanceclub. org.

Wyld Morris Three Horseshoes Burton Bradstock 7.30pm.

WEDNESDAY 29 MAY Powerstock Common Dorset Wildlife Trust A second look at grassland

THURSDAY 30 MAY West Dorset Ramblers 7.5 miles/12.1 km. Colmers hill and Thorncombe beacon.

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Starts at 10am. Bring picnic, no dogs. All welcome. Please call 01308 424512.

Wildlife Wellbeing Walk at the Chesil Beach Centre (Stepping into Nature) 11am. This event is Free as it is funded

by Stepping into Nature through the Big Lottery Fund. Meet at the Chesil Beach Centre, Portland (DT4 9XE). To book your place please call Chesil Team on 01305 206191.

West Bay Discovery Walks explore the nature found in West Bay. (Stepping into Nature) 10.30am to start at 11am.

Starting at the West Bay Discovery Centre (DT6 4EN). To book please call 01308 427288. This event is Free as it is funded

by Stepping into Nature through the Big Lottery Fund.

Universarama! Squashbox Theatre 2pm (doors 1.30pm) £8 / £6 / £25 family (max. 2 adults) For adults and children 8 years + Dorchester Arts, The Corn Exchange, High East Street, DT1 1HF 01305 266926 www.dorchesterarts.org.uk.

Family Explorer Afternoon 2pm – 4pm Colyton Community Woodland. Join Penny Evans for an afternoon of outdoor fun.

Explore the area, find out about the wildlife that lives there and get creative using natural materials. Parents too, please. Meet at Colyton Picnic Site (SY245934). Book with EDDC wildeastdevon.co.uk or 01395 517557. £5 per family.

Black Cat Jazz Martock Church. The Black Cats perform New Orleans “Dance Hall” inspired music created by musicians prominent during the 1940-1960 traditional jazz revival music with a mixture of trumpet; trombone; euphonium; clarinet; sax; strings & drums but they will also play spirituals and popular tunes from earlier periods. 7.30pm Admission: £9 or £ 8 at 01935 829576 www.martockonline.co.uk/ events, www.blackcatjazz.co.uk.

FRIDAY 31 MAY The Living Tree cancer self-help group.

2pm Tripudio. 2.15pm Art with Libby.

2.30pm - 4pm Therapy session Peter Cove offering Swedish Massage for hands & feet (please check beforehand if you have Lymphoedema or lymph nodes removed).

Drop in any time between 2pm and 4.30pm at the Friends’ Meeting House, 95 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NZ. Tel 07341 916 976. www.thelivingtree.org.uk.

A Way with Words Enjoy words spoken, sung and performed by local wordsmiths.

Short pieces of poetry, prose, song and flash fiction. 6.45pm for 7pm. £5. For more info, or to take part, please contact Ken Cooper admin@awaywithwords.xyz.

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

Quentin Crisp Naked Hope 7.30pm

Coast &Countryside Bridport Arts Centre www.bridport–arts. com.

Steve Turner at 8pm A pioneer of highly sophisticated English concertina song accompaniments - he is a multiinstrumentalist, playing mandolin and banjo and also accompanying himself on the cittern. Tickets: £14 Full. £13 Concessions.

The David Hall, Roundwell Street, South Petherton, Somerset TA13 5AA www. thedavidhall.org.uk 01460 240340.

FRIDAY 31 MAY - SAT 1 JUNE Magic of the Musicals Axminster Musical Theatre is taking you on a whistle stop tour from the heart of London’s theatre land to Broadway celebrating songs from the shows. Axminster Guildhall at 7 30 pm. Tickets available from The Archway Bookshop 01297 33595 or axmt.co.uk/ book-online £10 each.

SATURDAY 1 JUNE Wyld Morris Wessex Folk Festival Weymouth.

Axminster Wood Turners Joey Richardson whilst working in wood bridges so many disciplines and produces stunning work. Visit her website and be convinced.

You can spend a whole day with her and

watch the process of turning, piercing, colouring, carving and airbrushing to produce intricate shapes of great beauty.

There are limited spaces, please email Liz Kent (ekent10@gmail.com) to secure a place, or ring me Barrie Golding on 01884841162. On the day you will have tea and coffee at all breaks and a substantial two course lunch. The cost is £15. Visit axminsterwoodturners.com or face book page for directions, based at Woodbury Community Hall near Axminster. Come and have an inspirational day.

Chess Club Meet in our spacious indoor Courtyard. All ages. All abilities. Every Saturday. 10am – 12noon. Free/Donation LSi Bridport, 51 East Street, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3JX www.lsibridport.co.uk.

South Somerset Monochrome Group 10am – 12.30pm at The Monks Yard at Horton Manor, Horton Cross, Ilminster, TA19 9PY. “Monochrome Portraits” An illustrated talk and demonstration by Gemma Varney of Devon Photography Training. All levels of experience welcome. £5 including refreshments.

For more information please email southsomersetmonogroup@gmail.com.

Lyme History Walks 11am from the Marine Theatre, this and every Wed, Thurs

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and Sat in June. Discover the unique and colourful history of Lyme Regis. Hear stories of amazing people including Mary Anning, and adventures on land and sea.

Experienced Tour Guide: Chris Lovejoy.

Lasts 1+1/2 hours. Cost: £8, Children half www.lymehistorywalks.com 01297 443140, mob 07518 777 258 for further information. Booking not required.

Free live music by Arquebus: Folk Trio performing traditional and more contemporary folk songs and tunes 11am – 1pm. This event forms part of the Music in the Garden season organised and sponsored each year by Axminster Arts. It will take place in the Courtyard Garden at the Arts Café Bar, The Old Courthouse, Church Street, Axminster EX13 5AQ. 01297 631455.

The Louviers Society 2pm – 4pm performing on the bandstand in Greenhill Gardens, The Espanande, Weymouth. Free Entrance.

Broadwindsor Fun Day 2pm until late, Broadwindsor Square DT8 3QD. Free entry. Dancing in the Village Square to live music from HiDDen and Shadrack Street Band plus Disco. Children’s entertainment with Strawberry Jam, Organic Rhythm Drum Workshops, Stalls, Sideshows, Classic

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

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

Cars, Football Tournament, Scarecrow Competition, Hamper Draw, BBQ, Teas.

Meadow in Midsummer walk, Bolshayne 2pm – 3.30pm. Bolshayne Farm, Southleigh Road, near Colyton, EX24 6RX SY 221 937. Enjoy orchids and other early summer flowers on a wander through a glorious wet hay meadow with ecologists, Phil Wilson and Marian Reed. Sorry no dogs as ground nesting birds. No booking required. Free Legacy to Landscape Community Heritage project event. Further information: Ruth Worsley, Legacy to Landscape Project Co-ordinator , 01297 489741, legacytolandscape@gmail. com; www.eastdevonaonb.org.uk/ourwork/wildlife/legacy-to-landscape.

Shlomo’s Beatbox Adventure for Kids!

3pm Adult £8, U16 £6, Family of four £25. Do something awesome! Join SK Shlomo, a world record-breaking beatboxer who makes music using just his mouth and a mic. Become one of his sidekicks in a world of funny sounds, brilliant noises and cool music, whether you’re aged 1 or 101! The Beehive, Honiton. www. beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

The Exeter Philharmonic Choir directed by Howard Ionascu will perform

Rossini’s delightful Petite Messe Solonnell and Brahms’ Liebeslieder-Waltzer, op. 52 accompanied by David Davies and Andrew Millington on piano and Stephen Tanner on the harmonium. The perfect programme for a summer’s evening. 7.30pm at The Northcott Theatre Tickets: £24 and £16.50 from The Northcott Theatre 01392 726363 www. exeternorthcott.co.uk.

Bridport Ceilidhs at 7.30pm - 11pm in St Mary’s Church House Hall, South Street, Bridport. 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.

Jazz evening with Philip Clouts, Piano and Ron Phelan, Bass 8pm - 10pm, at Uplyme Church, Pound Lane Lyme Regis DT7 3TT. Tickets are £10 adult, £8 seniors and £5 for students. Available from the Tourist Information Centre in Lyme Regis on 01297 442138 Dancing to The Piccadilly Dance Orchestra Westlands Ballroom, Yeovil.

7.30pm for 8pm. The renowned Piccadilly Dance Orchestra is back with swinging 1920s and 1930s Jazz Age hits. Tickets £22. www.westlandsyeovil.co.uk Tel: 01935 422884.

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SUNDAY 2 JUNE East Devon Ramblers leisurely 8 mile circular walk from north of Dunkeswell.

10.30am start and bring picnic. Dogs on short leads. 01404 45944.

The Thomas Hardy Victorian Fair A Dorset Celebration 11am – 4pm in High West Street and High East Street Dorchester. The traditional birthday weekend activities put on by the Thomas Hardy Society, including the civic procession to lay wreaths at both TH’s statue and that of William Barnes, will be enhanced with a variety of street stalls, entertainers, drama groups, bands, dancers (including maypole), readings, bell ringing, dray horses, sheep, a traction engine and more. Visitors are welcome to join shopkeepers and others by dressing in Victorian costume and there will be prizes for the best of these.

Guided Walk: Expedition to the Plateau, Sheepwash and the Slabs 10am - 4pm. Join Jurassic Coast Trust Ambassadors on a walk to visit the Plateau, a spectacular open area of chalk grassland hidden within the Undercliffs overlooking Lyme Bay. Contact the Jurassic Coast Trust.

Email: info@jurassiccoast.org Tel: 01308 807 000.

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Coast &Countryside Hardy and Law Tours 11am and 2pm.

To celebrate Thomas Hardy’s birthday, Shire Hall are offering a tailored tour of Dorchester’s Crown Court and cells.

Discover the inspiration behind some of Hardy’s most poignant plots, as well as the real life story of Hardy’s time on the bench.

Tickets are £2 per person, in addition to a valid Museum Annual Pass. Places are limited, so booking is advised. Shire Hall, Dorchester Book in person, by telephone 01305 261849 or online shirehalldorset.org.

Sherborne Steam & Waterwheel Centre - Open Day11.30am - 3.30pm. Wheel and steam engines running. Audio Visual displays. Many items of local and historic interest. Tea Room. Picnic Area. Toilet.

Oborne Road DT9 3RX. Free parking on road. Entry by donation. SSWC.co.uk.

Greenhill Gardens The Esplanade, Weymouth DT4 7SW at 2pm. Local Weymouth group FARRAGO will be performing on the Bandstand in the Gardens at 2pm. No Entrance charge but a donation is appreciated. The Event is outside and therefore Weather Dependent.

Greenhill Gardens – In Hardy Country Nestling by The Jurassic Coast. A Friends of Greenhill Gardens Event. www. greenhill-gardens.co.uk 01305 775829 janechandler123@hotmail.com.

A Walk Through Time Join in for a stroll through the history, myths and legends of South Perrott finishing with tea and a display of local memorabilia. Meet at South Perrott Village Hall at 2pm for a gentle walk. £5 per head (with concessions). For more details ring Ann on 01935 891224.

Proceeds to St Mary’s Church.

Open Gardens in South Petherton from 2pm. Tickets: £5. Free for children accompanied by an adult and wheelchair users. The David Hall, South Petherton TA13 5AA www.thedavidhall.org.uk 01460 240 340.

The Sheldon Singers: “Birds Beasts and other things…”. A collection of music for summer. At 3.30pm, Sidholme Music Room, Elysian Fields, Sidmouth, EX18 8UJ 7. Retiring collection – in aid of the music room restoration fund.

At The Ebenezer Ruth Pavey : A Wood of One’s Own. Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start. The Ebenezer in The Seed Factory, Aller, Somerset TA10 0QN. To RSVP, please email ebenezer@ ebenezerpresents.com.

MONDAY 3 JUNE Axminster and Lyme Cancer Support Affected by cancer? Looking for support?

Need help or advice? Drop in for a chat.

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Refreshments available free of charge.

Lyme Regis, LR Football Club, Charmouth Road, Lyme Regis DT7 3DT 2pm 4pm. For more details contact info@ axminsterandlymecancersupport.co.uk.

Axminster Carnival Bingo Eyes down 8pm Axminster Guildhall.

Scottish Country dancing every Monday 7.30pm - 9.30pm at Ashill village hall, nr Ilminster TA19 9LX. Learn steps, formations and dances – led by fully qualified teacher. Come along for fun, fitness and friendship. For more information contact Anita on 01460 929383, email anitaandjim22@gmail.com or just come along.

Bridport Folk Dance Club 7.30pm 9.30pm in the WI Hall, North Street, Bridport DT6 3JQ. 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.

The Arts Society Neroche South Somerset 7.15pm at Frogmary Green Conference Centre, South Petherton.

Painter and Northern Light – Kroyer and the Skagen Art Colony by Kathy McLaughlan. Lecture preceded by AGM at 6.45pm. Visitors £5.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Come and

find out more about Axminster Musical Theatre’s November production by coming along to The Churchill Rooms of Axminster Guildhall at 7.30 pm for the Intro Evening.

Everyone welcome even if you don’t want to be onstage as there are always plenty of other ways to get involved! More details from Jasmine Hussey, Secretary of AMT jasminehussey28@gmail.com OR 07896158928 TUESDAY 4 JUNE 75 Years on … Remembering the Normandy Landings and local connections.

A guided walk led by local historian and author Elizabeth Gale. Meet outside West Bay Discovery Centre 10.15am for 10.30 start. The walk will take approximately one hour level walking, not suitable for dogs or children. Part of West Bay Discovery’s commemoration events to mark the 75th Anniversary of D Day. Free donations welcome. Further details http://www. westbaydiscoverycentre.org.uk/.

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

Contact Ruth for further details ruth@ bizleyart.com 01297 442239 or just come along on the day. Also on 11, 18 and 25.

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer presented by Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

A colourful cast of characters set off for Canterbury, competing to tell their tales of love, lust, adventure and chivalry. Tickets: £15 Full. £14 Concessions. Due to the bawdy content of this show, it is suitable only for those age 14+. The David Hall, South Petherton TA13 5AA www.thedavidhall.org. uk 01460 240 340.

Psychic development group Black Dog tea room Uplyme 7.30pm - 9pm £5 per person committed people only more info sonia@ blackdogtearoom co.uk.

WEDNESDAY 5 JUNE Benefits Advice Session at Age UK Shop, Bridport… an initiative by Dorset Welfare Benefits Partnership. Age UK Dorchester and Dorset County Council’s Welfare Benefits Team are working together to help older Bridport residents to maximise their benefits entitlements. Advice sessions will be held on the first Wednesday in each month, between 9.30am and 12noon at Age UK Shop, Bridport, and will be strictly by appointment. To make an appointment, please contact our Bridport Shop on 01308 424859 or at 16 West Street, Bridport DT6 3QP. East Devon Ramblers moderate 8 mile circular walk from Wheathill Plantation, Burleigh. 10.30am start and bring picnic.

Dogs on short leads. 01395 277644.

Lyme History Walks 11am from the Marine Theatre, this and every Wed, Thurs and Sat in June. Lasts 1+1/2 hours. Cost: £8, Children half www.lymehistorywalks. com 01297 443140, mob 07518 777 258 for

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

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

further information. Booking not required.

75th Anniversary of D Day organised

by Friends of Crossways Library showing a presentation on the new F35 Lightning II in the “Spitfire Club”, Crossways, at 7.30pm. The date is significant because D Day began on the 5th June for our part of Dorset with the embarkation of the US Infantry for ‘bloody OMAHA’ from Weymouth, and the glider assault initiated from RAF Tarrant Rushton. The glider assault was led by the first 3 Horsa gliders bound for Pegasus Bridge, with a Company of the Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry. Among them was a subaltern, Lt Richard Todd, who went on to star in the film “Dambusters” as Guy Gibson VC, the first CO of 617 Squadron, which is the lead squadron for the introduction of F35 Lightning II into RAF/RN service.

Tickets are £5 or £3 for FCL members and may be obtained from Tricia and Ian Virgo 01305 854129 or during Crossways Library opening hours from 20 May to 4 June.

Early booking is advised.

Phoenix Dance Theatre: ReFined 7.30pm at Yeovil College Main Hall.

Petherton Arts Trust is delighted to bring Phoenix Dance Theatre to Somerset to offer a selection of short works from their acclaimed repertoire. Tickets: £10.

No concessions. The David Hall, South Petherton TA13 5AA www.thedavidhall. org.uk 01460 240 340.

Talk on the Folk Music Revival since 1963 by Harry Britton, who will bring along various musical instruments and lead a sing a long. Bridport Town Hall, 7.30pm. Entry £5 (members £4.50) to include tea and biscuits. Sue Wilkinson, 01308 425037.

Gittisham Folk Dance Club at 8pm - 10.15pm in Gittisham Village Hall, Gittisham EX14 3AF. 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.

Also on : 12th with Fresh Aire and Monty Crook; 19th with Meter Rite and Graham Knight; 26th with Gibby Swaine + Ian Anderson and Ray Goodswen.

Wyld Morris are dancing at The Manor House, West Bexington 7.30pm.

The Taming of the Shrew £5 under 18s advance or on the door / £11 advance adults / £14 on the door Starts 7pm Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis www. marinetheatre.com.

Oysters (Oyster Creative) 8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm) £14 / £12 members & concessions. Dorchester Arts, The Corn Exchange, High East Street, DT1 1HF 01305 266926 www.dorchesterarts.org.uk.

THURSDAY 6 JUNE Axminster Country Market Thursdays 8.30am – 12noon, Masonic Hall, South Street, Axminster. Come and meet the producers! Cakes, savouries, crafts, cut flowers, plants, free-range eggs, fruit & veg - all seasonal, produced in or near Axminster. Reduce your carbon footprint, with food you can trust. Tea & coffee available too, come and say hello.

Lyme History Walks 11am from the Marine Theatre, this and every Wed, Thurs and Sat in June. Lasts 1+1/2 hours. Cost: £8, Children half www.lymehistorywalks. com 01297 443140, mob 07518 777 258 for further information. Booking not required.

WDHS Retirement Fellowship 2pm in the Boys Brigade Hall, Sawmills Lane, Dorchester DT1 2RZ when Daniel Cadisch will give a talk about the Citizens Advice Bureau. New members welcome.

Historical Walking Tours of Colyton Every Thursday until 29 September at 2pm. Meet at the Dolphin Street Car park.

Booking not necessary. £3 for adults, under 16s Free. To arrange a walk for a larger group please phone 01297 552514.

Tatworth Flower Club Tatworth memorial Hall, TA20 2QW. Insprired by.....

by Margaret Heal Doors open 1.30pm all welcome. Visitors £6. Home made cakes.

Further details from Julie Kettle 01297 33924.

Tables - Trees - Titian: All in a Day’s Work for a National Trust Curator at 2.30pm a talk by Dr Kate Bethune.

Presented by the National Trust South Dorset Association. NTSDA members £3 Non-members £4 inc.tea/biscuits / no advance booking needed Contact: Geoffrey and Elizabeth Wrench 01300 321601 / www.southdorsetnt.org.uk.

Beaminster Short Mat Bowls Public Hall, 7pm. Also 13 June, not 20 and 27.

Lyme Voices Community Choir Join in to sing for fun. Learn tunes by ear.

Everyone welcome, first session free.

Thursdays from 7.30pm - 9.15pm at the Baptist Church (Pine Hall round the back), Silver St., Lyme Regis, DT7 3NY. Visit www-pete-linnett.co.uk, phone 01297 445078 or email petelinnett@naturalvoice. net June dates: 13, 20, 27.

NT Live: All My Sons (12A) 7pm Adult £15.30, Student £12.30. Recorded live screening from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field and Bill Pullman star in Arthur Miller’s blistering drama. The Beehive, Honiton. www. beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Forde Abbey Concert Series Gould Piano Trio with Louise Innes 7.30pm. Tickets £20, arrive early and picnic in the beautiful gardens www.fordeabbey.co.uk.

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Chard History Group 7.30pm in the Ballroom at The Phoenix Hotel, Fore Street, Chard. Speaker will be Tony Cooper BEM who will give a talk on Brinksmat robbery which took place on 23rd November 1983 just outside when gold bars to the value more £26 million were stolen. Tony will tell about the investigation of the crime; the recovery of some of the money through the Civil Courts and the murders committed by the people involved inthe money laundering. Promises to be a good evening. Refreshments are available downstairs in the Bar. New members and Guests are welcome. Member £2 Guests £3. For information 01460 66165.

Mike Denham and Sunset Café Stompers Band Melbury Osmond, Village Hall, DT2 0LU, 7pm for 7.30pm. Tickets £12. Tel: 01935 83745/83265.

Chard Camera Club The club will be meeting in the Baptist church hall Holyrood Street at 7.30pm for an in house Digitally projected images competition on the subjects of Long exposure, Street photography and an Open subject with the judge for the evening being Mr Max Bouchere. Further information can be obtained from the clubs website www. chardcameraclub.org.uk or by contacting the club’s membership secretary Mrs Joyce Partridge on 01460 66885.

THURSDAY 6 – SUNDAY 9 JUNE Ilminster Midsummer Experience 2019 There are many events covering the arts, music, exhibitions, markets and a family dog show and much much more. The Classic Vehicle Show on Sunday attracts over 200 vehicles. Many visitors come to see the famous Ilminster Flag Festival that runs for 4 weeks from the end of May with over 100 flags throughout the town celebrating many of the towns businesses and organisations, including stunning banners designed by our local Internationally renowned stained glass designers, Patrick and his son John Reytiens. Many free events. See www. ilminsterexperience.co.uk.

FRIDAY 7 JUNE Seaton Lions Club Book Stall 9.30am – 1.30pm The Square , Seaton.

East Devon Ramblers leisurely 5.5 mile circular walk from Kilmington. 10am start.

Dogs on short leads. 01404 881526.

The Living Tree, cancer self-help group.

2pm Tripudio. 2.15pm Peter Cove talking about old postcards. 3.15pm – 4.15pm Worry busting with Louise Wender. Drop in any time between 2pm and 4.30pm at the Friends’ Meeting House, 95 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NZ. Tel 07341 916 976. www.thelivingtree.org.uk.

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evening street food markets back to East Devon for summer 2019. Friday evenings in the summer have become a way to get together over food and connect with your community. You’ll find a great location with views out across the Jurassic coast, the reasonably priced pop up bar and cool music to accompany your culinary journey around the world. Jubilee Gardens, Seaton, EX12 2QU First Friday of the month – 5pm – 9pm. Contact: Eleanor Carr chat@UniqueBoutiqueEvents.co.uk www.UniqueBoutiqueEvents.co.uk 07970 857696.

Fish & Chip Friday Battered Cod with chips, mushy peas & tartar sauce followed by fruit & meringue salad - £8.75 (Members £6.50). Booking essential by 4pm on Thursday 6 June. Henhayes Centre - South Street Car Park, Crewkerne, TA18 8DA, Tel No: 01460 74340.

Meet the Artist – Jason Wilsher-Mills from 6pm. Tickets are £20 per person and include a drink and a smorgasbord supper of Dorset delights. For more information visit shirehalldorset.org or call 01305 261849.

Salud Bridport-based Spanish Flamenco dancer performs her new one-woman performance at Kilmington Village Hall.

8pm Bar 01308 485772.

Just Like That – The Tommy Cooper

Show 7.30pm Bridport Arts Centre www. bridport-arts.com.

Edgelarks 8pm £14 (seated). The Beehive, Honiton. www.beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Mike Denham’s Speakeasy Sparking vintage jazz and repartee with special guests John Maddocks (clarinet) and Graham Smith (drums). 8pm. Tickets £14 (£29 with pre-show supper at 7pm – must be pre-booked). Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www. themeetinghouse.org.uk.

FRIDAY 7 – SATURDAY 8 JUNE Summer Art & Craft Exhibition Maiden Newton Art Group are holding their annual Exhibition in the Village Hall (DT2 0AE near the Station). The event starts on Friday 7th from 6pm – 9pm with Wine and Nibbles & Sales, and Saturday 8th 10 am – 4pm with Items for Sale, Refreshments, Homemade cakes, Craft Stalls, Children’s Art Exhibition. All are welcome and entry is free. For more details contact Jane on 01300 321405.

SATURDAY 8 JUNE Sponsored Musicathon from 9am - 5pm in Bridport United Church,East Street in aid of the Richard Ely Trust for Young

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Musicians and Dorset County Hospital Charity Chemotherapy Appeal. Audience invited to drop in at any time. Free entry.

Refreshments throughout the day. Charity stall in Bucky Doo Square during the morning. Interested performers to contact 01308 427851 or 01308 456297.

Dorset Countryside Volunteers at 10am will be building a stock fence at Powerstock Common (West Dorset) in order to help manage grazing. We welcome new people interested in helping look after this Wildlife Trust site. For details see www.dcv.org.uk, email DCVpublicity@gmail.com, or text or message 07923 498760 for them to contact you.

Martock Farmers Market 10am – 1pm coincides with the Queens Official Birthday, so Union Jacks and good food all round. Duncan will have lots of strawberries, but will it be too hot for the chocolate truffles? Contact Fergus Dowding on 01935 822202 for a table.

Living Spirituality Event 10am - 4pm ‘Healing Dreams - A Pilgrimage’ led by Laurie Slade Quaker Meeting House 95 South Street Bridport iona.lake@aol.co.uk.

Long Bredy Village Coffee Break takes place on the second Saturday of each month in the village hall. Coffee, tea, cakes and some savouries are all available between 10.30am and 12noon. Long Bredy (DT2

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9HP) is in the beautiful Bride Valley; come and visit.

Free live music by Sue King: Folk, Country, oldies and sing-a-long music from 11am, then from 12.15 Oldsmobile: Multiinstrumental duo playing Americana and original songs. This event forms part of the Music in the Garden season organised and sponsored each year by Axminster Arts. It will take place in the Courtyard Garden at the Arts Café Bar, The Old Courthouse, Church Street, Axminster EX13 5AQ. 01297 631455.

Corscombe Fest Fun and Music all day long 12noon – 8pm. A superb family day out, the very best in the area. Corscombe is a beautiful unspoilt West Dorset village, just 4 miles from Beaminster, 9 Miles from Yeovil, and 7 miles from Crewkerne.

Tickets are available on the door at only £2 each so bring the family, there is amply free parking. Further info at www.corscombefest.org.

Open Gardens in Dalwood Village 1.30pm - 5pm. Parking in Village Hall Car Park. £5 entry to 8 gardens. Plant Stall and Cream Teas available.

Beer Wurlitzer Theatre Organ Show with Elizabeth Harrison at the Congregational Church, Fore Street, Beer, 2pm - 4.30pm, £7 at the door, children free, visit beerwurlitzer.org.uik or phone 01297 24892.

Chiselborough Village Street Fair 2pm lots of stalls. Grand draw, flower festival refreshments in Village hall.

The Widworthy Fete 2pm – 5pm A relaxing afternoon in thegrounds of the Elizabethan manor house. Devon cream teas and ice creams, tombola, raffle, duck racing, poultry display, toys and games, books, skittles, wellie throwing plate smashing, traditional children’s games and races, house tours. Widworthy Barton, Widworthy, Nr Honiton EX14 9JS. Stable Court (Chalmington DT2 0HB) This exuberant 1½ acre garden overflows with roses scrambling up trees, over hedges and walls. Shrubbery, gravel garden, wild garden, pond, many newly-planted trees and a more formal garden, lawns and borders closer to house. Support the National Garden Scheme charities and enjoy the lovely views. Open 2pm - 6pm.

Adm £4.50 chd free. www.ngs.org.uk.

Egyptian Society Taunton “The Royal Cache”. Speaker: Prof. Dylan Bickerstaffe. The event will take place at 2pm at the Friends Meeting House, Bath Place, Taunton, TA1 4ED http:// egyptiansoctaunton.wixsite.com/home.

Philippa Mo: Partita, Fantasia, Caprice VI Grand finale of six concerts playing all Bach’s works for solo violin. Sonata No.3 in C Major with carefully selected contemporary and baroque dances and fantasias. Café Sladers, Sladers Yard, West Bay, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4EL. 6.30pm,

dinner to follow from 8pm. Tickets: £15 or £33 with dinner 01308 459511 sladersyard. co.uk.

Seaton Choral Society will present its Final Concert at 7.30pm in the Gateway, Fore Street, Seaton. Two works will be performed: The Black Knight by Edward Elgar and Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Both pieces are based on poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Society is to wind-up its activities because of too few members and this last concert will be free entry as a token of gratitude for all the support received over the years. The concert will be directed by Leslie Baker and accompanied

by Michèle Banting.

Martin Kemp: Back to the 80s DJ set 8pm The Electric Palace, Bridport www. electricpalace.org.uk.

The Tuckers Jazz Club 8pm Dave Newton & Craig Milverton. 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.

Les Barker Les Barker writes strange poems and comes from Manchester, but he’s now Welsh. Once seen, never forgotten! Tickets: £14 Full. £13 Concessions. The David Hall, South Petherton TA13 5AA www.thedavidhall. org.uk 01460 240 340.

Jazz Meets Broadway (Frank Griffith & Tina May) 8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm) £15 / £13 members & concessions Dorchester Arts, The Corn Exchange, High East Street, DT1 1HF 01305 266926 www.dorchesterarts.org.uk.

SATURDAY 8 – SUNDAY 9 JUNE Netherbury Open Gardens 1pm - 5pm, DT6 5LS Lunches, tea and cake. Plant stalls, tombola, treasure hunt. £7.50 pp, u.13s free. Valid both days. All proceeds to charity.

Cattistock Open Gardens 1pm – 5pm (refreshments from 12noon). Cattistock village (DT2 0JG) Open Gardens, alongside Open Farm on Sunday. Gardens, Plant stall, teas etc. Free Parking £5 entry. Proceeds to Dorchester Hospital Charity Cancer Appeal and St Peter & St Paul Church Restoration Fund. More Information - 07471 193229 cathy.phil@hotmail.co.uk.

SUNDAY 9 JUNE Seaton Lions Party in Park 9am – 1pm Underfleet play area, Seaton.

Dorset Countryside Volunteers at 10am will be building a stock fence at Powerstock Common (West Dorset) in order to help manage grazing. We welcome new people interested in helping look after this Wildlife Trust site. For details see www.dcv.org.uk, email DCVpublicity@gmail.com, or text or message 07923 498760 for them to contact you.

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East Devon Ramblers leisurely 7.5 mile circular walk from Stockland. 10.30am start and bring picnic. Assistance dogs only.

01305 567450.

Steam Train Day 10.30am – 4pm. Yeovil Railway Centre, Yeovil Junction 01935 410420. www.yeovilrailway.freeservers.com.

Plant Fair 10am - 4pm at Hestercombe.

New for this year, this plant fair will be a brilliant opportunity to meet local growers and pick up some blooms for your garden at home. There will be 17 specialist nurseries selling herbs, perennials and roses, as well as metal and willow plant supports.

Cheddon Fitzpaine, Taunton, Somerset TA2 8LG 01823 413923 www.hestercombe. com.

Tamarisk Farm’s wild flower walk at Cogden Dorset Wildlife Trust. History and management of Cogden farm, 10.30am – 12.30pm. Meet at NT Cogden car park.

Book with Adam Simon, 01308 897 781. www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk.

Humble Glades walk for butterflies 10.30am – 4pm With Butterfly Conservation (Paul Butter). Booking Essential 01297 442290. Bring a picnic.

Open Farm Sunday A chance to come and see what they do on the farm and discover what it is like to be a farmer.

There is something for everyone on Open Farm Sunday with fun activities and the chance to explore many areas of our farm and learn more about the livestock and chicken hatchery and maybe watch some sheep shearing. There will be a Farmers Market and craft areas for children to enjoy and a quiz for everyone to take part in and for those of you who are fans of farm machinery and tractors, there will be plenty on show. Take time to stroll around the arboretum and ponds and see what wildlife you can spot. Make a day of it and bring a picnic to enjoy with family and friends or treat yourselves to the food and drink that will be available. From 11am Free Entry.

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

Otterton Secret Gardens Open 11am 6pm. 12 gardens open, plants galore, cream teas, tickets £6 including miniature train ride (children free) http://www.otterton. info/ottertongardens.htm.

Free Fun Family Friendly Scottish Ceilidh 2.30pm - 4.30pm at Woolavington Village Hall, Higher Rd, Woolavington, TA7 8DY. Hot and cold drinks will be provided foc. All dances will be called.

Dancing to CD’s. Wear some tartan if you wish. For more information contact Anita on 01460 929383, email anitaandjim22@ gmail.com or just come along.

Orchids abound Stroll, Widworthy 2pm – 3.30pm. Lucehayne Meadow, near Widworthy. Magical stroll through Lucehayne Meadow, a carpet of three different types of British orchids. Enjoy

a riot of colour from many early and now not so common summer meadow plants with ecologists Phil Wilson and Marian Reed. All ages welcome. Please wear appropriate footwear and sun hats as little shade! Sorry no dogs as ground nesting birds. Free Legacy to Landscape Community Heritage project event.

Limited parking in narrow lane, so booking essential: Ruth Worsley, Legacy to Landscape Project Co-ordinator , 01297 489741, email: legacytolandscape@gmail. com; www.eastdevonaonb.org.uk/ourwork/wildlife/legacy-to-landscape.

Chiselborough Flower Festival 2.30pm cream teas in Village Hall.

The Sunday Sessions Sunday papers, local drinks, and the best local musicians - that’s the free entry post-roast session in the lovely bar overlooking the Cobb. If you’d like to play please apply to declan@ howlrecords.com. Free entry, no tickets. Bar opens and starts at 3pm. Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis www.marinetheatre.com.

Albert Lee and His Band 8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm) £25 / £23 members & concessions. Dorchester Arts, The Corn Exchange, High East Street, DT1 1HF 01305 266926 www.dorchesterarts.org.uk.

SUNDAY 9 - SATURDAY 15 JUNE Bridport Food Festival a celebration of

local food and drink. Various venues in and around Bridport. A week of delicious foodie events in and around the town culminating with the Festival’s showcase event and Bridport Round Table’s Beer Festival at Asker Meadows Bridport DT6 4AP on Saturday 15th June. Join the carnival atmosphere for a whole host of food and fun for all ages. Entry £3.50 for adults (in advance from Bridport TIC £3) and Free to children 16 years and under. www.bridportfoodfestival.co.uk.

MONDAY 10 JUNE Severalls Jubilee Bowls Club Coaching for all ages 10am – 12noon at War Memorial Grounds, Severalls Park Avenue, Crewkerne, TA18 8HQ (entrance off Lang Road). Fancy trying outdoor bowls?

Come and have an enjoyable morning at a very friendly club with bowls provided and refreshments halfway through and please wear flat soled footwear. For more information please phone Geoff Kerr on 01308 867221.

Lym Valley Croquet Club sessions every Monday and Thursday afternoon, with Weekends as reserve days. This super game is open to all ages. It’s an easy game to play, but increasingly difficult to win as one progresses. If you like a challenge, call David to arrange a free taster session at

the Uplyme club. Friendly members and practical handicap system ensure level play from the start. Probably the least expensive sport in the South. Please call David Brooke-Smith on 07909 111512.

Yeovil Probus Club from 1.30pm. Trinity House. The Yeovil Court Hotel. New Members always most welcome, please contact the Hon. Secretary on 01935 414765 for further details.

Axminster and Lyme Cancer Support Affected by cancer? Looking for support?

Need help or advice? Drop in for a chat.

Refreshments available free of charge.

Axminster Scott Rowe Meeting Room, Axminster Hospital EX13 5DU 2pm - 4pm. For more details contact info@ axminsterandlymecancersupport.co.uk.

West Dorset Flower Club meet at the W. I. Hall in North Street, Bridport on the second Monday of the month. The meeting starts at 2.30pm when Julia Harrison will be presenting her demonstration “Melange”.

New members and visitors are very welcome. For further details please contact the secretary on 01308 456339.

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 Hope-Brightwell. 2nd + 4th Mondays. 7.15pm for 7.30pm. Cost

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Coast &Countryside £8-10. Othona Community, Coast Road, Burton Bradstock DT6 4RN. Contact Robin 01308 897 130 / biodanza-bridport. co.uk.

To Belong, Or Not To Belong? A Talk plus live performance and Q&A by Artist Ella Squirrell. 7.30pm. £5 LSi Bridport, 51 East Street, Bridport Dorset DT6 3JX www.lsibridport.co.uk.

Combe St Nicholas History Group talk

by Nigel Handbury who is vice chairman of the Taunton Flower Show.7.30pm.

Ticket prices are £3for non-members and £2 for members. The talk will be held at Combe St Nicholas Village Hall (postcode TA20 3NX), and there will be refreshments afterwards. There is sufficient on-road parking near to the hall. For further enquiries, please contact Anne Hunt on 01460 61296 or annehunt1909@btinternet. com.

Radipole & Southill Horticultural Society at the Southill Community Centre at 7.30pm. “Gertrude Jekyll: Her Plants and Designs” by David Usher, who was Head Gardener at the Hestercombe Estate in Somerset for 18 years. The meeting is open to members and non-members and refreshments will be available. Further information can be obtained on 01305 788939.

MONDAY 10 – SUNDAY 16 JUNE British Flowers Week join in by celebrating with cutflowersbykate.co.uk.

Pick Your Own Organic Artisan Dorset Flowers everyday. 07788 217521 to book a time, Dairy House Farm DT2 0PY. TUESDAY 11 JUNE Five mile stroll exploring Emsworthy Mire, Dartmoor 10am - all day For birds, insects and flora. Inform Fran Sinclair 07804835905 if attending. Bring a picnic.

Honiton Decorative & Fine Arts Society Looking for Georgia- my travels through New Mexico in the Footsteps of Georgia O’Keeffe – Lydia Bauman. All lectures held at 2pm, The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton, EX14 1LZ. www.honiton-dfas. org.uk.

Time for Tea and a Talk The Cherry Fayre. Over 800 years ago Axminster received a Royal Grant to hold an annual 8 day fayre. This celebration brought prestige and valuable trade with merchants and traders of all kinds prizing the cherries that formed a major part of the fare on offer. Cindy Furse will tell how The Cherry Fayre was resurrected in 2017 and how it will be bigger than ever this year. £3 Tea & cake served. Call 01404 831207 to book.

2pm - 3.30pm at Axminster Heritage, The Bradshaw Meeting Room, Thomas Whitty House, Silver Street, Axminster, Devon, EX13 5AH. Sidmouth Charity Tea Dances Ballroom, Latin and Sequence dancing

with a warm, friendly welcome. £4 each, including Tea, coffee and biscuits at 2. at St Francis Hall,Woolbrook, EX10 9XH Further information from (01395) 579856 or 577122.

Axe Vale Stamp Club Bradshaw Rooms, Silver Street, Axminster EX13 5AH, 7.30pm for 8pm. Annual General Meeting and Summer Social. 01297 552482.

Royal Ballet Live Screening: Romeo & Juliet (12A) 7.15pm. Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers encounter passion and tragedy in Kenneth MacMillan’s 20th-century ballet masterpiece. The Beehive, Honiton. www.beehivehoniton. co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

An Evening with Harpist Jemima Phillips 8pm – 9pm Sidholme Music Room. Further details on website.

WEDNESDAY 12 JUNE ULRHS Coach Trip Depart by coach UVH 9.15am Lytes Cary Manor and Midney Gardens and Nursery. Cost NT members £18 Non NT members £22.

Includes tea/cake at Midney. Please ring Annie Kobus 01297 443346 to book.

East Devon Ramblers strenuous 12.5 mile circular walk from Powerstock Common. 10am start and bring picnic.

Assistance dogs only. 01404 823781.

U3A Lyme Regis Growing up in a Polish resettlement camp. Bozena Brophy grew up in the Polish resettlement camp at Northwick Park in Gloucestershire, Northwick Park was owned by the Spencer Churchill family and had lakes, a walled garden and the barracks and Nissen huts that had previously housed troops. She will speak about her experiences of life in the camp. Coffee served from 10am - 10.40am, followed by the talk at 11am till 12noon.

Woodmead Halls, Hill Road, Lyme Regis DT7 3PG. Free to members, £2 donation suggested for non-members. To join U3A see website www.lymeregisu3a.org or telephone 01297-444566.

Stable Court (Chalmington DT2 0HB) This exuberant 1½ acre garden overflows with roses scrambling up trees, over hedges and walls. Shrubbery, gravel garden, wild garden, pond, many newly-planted trees and a more formal garden, lawns and borders closer to house. Support the National Garden Scheme charities and enjoy the lovely views. Open 2pm - 6pm.

Adm £4.50 chd free. www.ngs.org.uk.

Behind the Scenes Tour Shire Hall, Dorchester at 2pm. Tour is £2 per person, in addition to a valid Museum Annual Pass.

Limited availability. Booking advised, visit shirehalldorset.org or call 01305 261849.

The Beehive Acoustic Café 8pm Free entry. A supportive open mic session in the Beehive bar with host and guitarist Terry Stacey. Come along to listen or to play.

The Beehive, Honiton. ww.beehivehoniton. co.uk.

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THURSDAY 13 JUNE Seaton Garden Club 2.30pm in the Masonic Hall, Queen Street, Seaton - Bruce Reed from Aquaponics will give a talk entitled “The Newton Abbot Farmers using Fish to grow vegetables”.

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

Chard Royal Naval Association The association members will be meeting in the Chard Rugby Football club at 7.30pm for their bi monthly social meeting Further information can be obtained by contacting the groups secretary Mr Gary Pennells on 01460 77978.

An Evening of Eric & Ern 7.30pm The Electric Palace, Bridport www.electricpalace. org.uk.

English Artisan Cheeses at Furleigh Estate presented by Juliet Harbutt 7pm.

Juliet, author, educator & judge is returning to present an introduction to English artisan cheeses with a selection of newly released 2018 wines. Tickets are £25 & available from at www.furleighestate. co.uk/events. Furleigh Estate, Salway Ash, Bridport DT6 5JF Tel: 01308 488991.

THURSDAY 13 – FRIDAY 14 JUNE DYT Junior & Intermediate 6.30pm (doors 6pm) £7.50 adults / £4 Under 18s Dorchester Arts, The Corn Exchange, High East Street, DT1 1HF 01305 266926 www. dorchesterarts.org.uk. Join DYT Junior and Intermediate groups as they present a double bill. Peggy The Pint Sized Pirate by D.M. Larson. Peggy is a small pirate with big dreams. Join her on a quest to save the pirates who have been captured by the sea monster. Performed with permission from Freedrama.net. Murder Mayhem at Mayview Manor! by Alison Chaplin. As a group of strangers gather for a murder mystery weekend, it becomes apparent that several of them harbour secrets. But only one secret leads to a real murder...

FRIDAY 14 JUNE Seaton Lions Club Book Stall 9.30am – 1.30pm The Square , Seaton.

East Devon Ramblers moderate 6 mile circular walk from Sidford. 10am start.

Dogs on short leads. 01395 514269.

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.

The Living Tree cancer self-help group.

2pm Tripudio. 2.15pm Chrissie from Beau Hairdressing Bridport talking about hair care. 2.30pm – 4pm Therapy session Peter Cove offering Swedish Massage for hands

& feet (please advise Peter beforehand if you have lymphoedema or lymph nodes removed). Drop in any time between 2pm and 4.30pm at the Friends’ Meeting House, 95 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NZ. Tel 07341 916 976. www.thelivingtree.org.uk.

Meet the Author and Poet Matt Harvey He will be reading his original poems, talking about his work and the accompanying illustrations, and answering your questions.

Tickets are £13 (to include a glass of wine).

Booking is strongly recommended. All proceeds go to Kennaway House Charitable Trust. Call 01395 515551 to book. Kennaway House, Sidmouth www.kennawayhouse.org. uk.

L’il Jimmy Reed with Bob Hall & Hilary Blythe Authentic blues from original Louisiana bluesman L’il Jimmy, back at IAC by popular demand. 8pm. Tickets £16 (£31 with pre-show supper at 7pm – must be prebooked). Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org.uk.

The Canterbury Tales 7.30pm Bridport Arts Centre www.bridport-arts.com.

A Perfect World Bring your own seating for this outdoor performance. £12 adults, £10 children, £40 family advance / £14 adults, £12 children, £45 family on the door. Starts 7.30pm. Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis www. marinetheatre.com.

FRIDAY 14 – SATURDAY 15 JUNE Altitude Village Festival Heaven for Foodies, Musos and family. Off the beaten track near Collompton EX15 2HJ nestled in the Blackdown Hills. www.altitudedevon.com.

SATURDAY 15 JUNE The Beehive Anniversary Open Day10am Free entry. The Beehive, Honiton. www. beehivehoniton.co.uk.

Petherton Folk Fest 2019 All day from 10am. The 8th Petherton Folk Fest since its revival in 2012. A day of free entertainment which celebrates music and dance from the Folk tradition. There will be a full programme of music in Market Square and The David Hall as well as sessions in the Brewer’s Arms and singing in the church, plus entertainment for children and stalls in the churchyard. The David Hall, South Petherton TA13 5AA www.thedavidhall.org. uk 01460 240 340.

Gordon Giltrap Internationally acclaimed guitarist and composer recently awarded an MBE for services to music and charity in concert at Chaffcombe Village Hall, near Chard on 7.30pm. Because Friday 14th June was sold out, Gordon agreed to also play a second night. Tickets in advance £10, which includes light refreshments. To book or enquire contact Dave on 01460-61116 or davidbracher@btopenworld.com. This will be a uniquely special concert as it will be in a small intimate setting. Gordon is supporting the fund raising for the hall.

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Chedington Open Gardens and Studios 10.30am – 5pm. In aid of Weldmar Hospice and Chedington Village Hall.

Morning coffee and lunch will be served in the Village Hall from 11am - 2pm.

Chedington Great Hall will be open for cream teas from 2pm - 5pm. Plants from the local gardens and nurseries will be for sale. There will also be an Activity Trail for children visiting the gardens Admission £5 (children under 16 free).

Somerset Guild of Weavers Spinners and Dyers Annual Fleece Fair 9.30am – 3pm. Calling all knitters, spinners, felters and crocheters! Hatch Beauchamp village Hall TA3 6SG. Visitors will be able to purchase a wide variety of newly-shorn sheep and alpaca fleeces produced from local herds as well as some wonderful, exclusive natural yarns. www. somersetguildwsd.org.uk.

Free live music by Indigo: Saxophone Jazz Quartet from 11am, then from 12.15pm Sharon Lazibyrd: Original folk.

The Courtyard Garden at the Arts Café Bar, The Old Courthouse, Church Street, Axminster EX13 5AQ. 01297 631455.

Dinosaur Footprints Walk to Keates Quarry 12noon - 2pm. Join the Jurassic Coast Trust’s expert Ambassadors for leisurely, family-friendly Dinosaur Footprints Walks to Keates Quarry in Purbeck. Walks throughout summer. info@ jurassiccoast.org Tel: 01308 807 000.

St. John The Evangelist Church Tatworth Live Music Concert. Mitchell C Scott a country Singer from Norwich will be singing and playin Country and 50s/60s music 7.30pm at Memorial Hall, Tatworth TA20 2QA.Tickets £8.50 (includes Light refreshemnts) Available form Helen Johnson 01460 220221.

Rob Beckett 8pm The Electric Palace, Bridport www.electricpalace.org.uk.

Acis and Galatea at the Minster, Axminster 7.30 pm presented by Axminster and District Choral Society. Handel’s most successful opera. Stirring choruses and dramatic solos. Tickets £15 & £12 from Archway Books, Church St, Axminster, Tel. 01297 33595 or members of the choir. For further information phone 01404 881 838 or see website: www.axminsterchoral.co.uk This concert is part of the South Wessex Organ Society Festival.

Chard Scottish dance Club dance 7.30pm – 10.30pm.Cost £3. Please bring a plate of food to share. Chardstock Village Hall.

SATURDAY 15 – SUNDAY 16 JUNE Cerne Abbas Open Gardens About 25 Private Gardens Open 2pm - 6pm. Day ticket to all gardens Adults £7 Ticket for 2 days £10 Accompanied children free. Teas in St Mary’s Church from 1.30pm. Plant Stall from 1pm. Free Car Park (DT2 7GD) open from 11am www. cerneabbasopengardens.org.uk.

SUNDAY 16 JUNE East Devon Ramblers moderate 10.5 mile circular walk from Beaminster.

10.30am start and bring picnic. Dogs on short leads. 01395 579607.

The Old Rectory (Litton Cheney DT2 9AH) Steep paths lead to 4 acres of natural woodland with springs, streams, 2 pools one a natural swimming pool planted with native plants. Walled garden, kitchen garden, orchard and 350 rose bushes for a cut flower business. Supporting the National Garden Scheme charities, the garden is open from 2pm - 5pm. Adm £6 chd free www.ngs.org.uk.

The WykeUkadelics 2pm – 4pm performing on the bandstand in Greenhill Gardens, The Espanande, Weymouth. Free Entrance. A Friends of Greenhill Gardens Event 01305 775829 www.greenhillgardens.co.uk.

Crystal and Tibetan Singing Bowl Soundbath 2pm – 4pm. £12, Booking in advance and further details www. centreforpuresound.org ahiahel@live. com 01935 389655. Bring something comfortable to lie on and wrap around you.

Bridport Unitarians, 49 East St, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3JX. Sidmouth Charity Tea Dances Ballroom, Latin and Sequence dancing with a warm, friendly welcome. £4 each, including Tea, coffee and biscuits at 2.30pmStowford Centre, EX10 9YL (opp Waitrose). Further information from (01395) 579856 or 577122.

Bridport Chamber Orchestra Sumer Concert 3pm, St Swithun’s Church, Bridport. Music to include the Schumann Cello Concerto, soloist Arturo Serna, Mozart - Symphony No 35 (The Haffner) and J C Bach - Sinfonia in D major. Tickets £10 (to include teas after the concert) from the Bridport Music Centre and on the door.

Free entry for children.

All over the Town As part of Marine Theatre The First 125 Years, this is a complimentary screening for the community of the 1949 classic film–which was all filmed in Lyme Regis. How many times can you spot the Marine? Free tickets.

Starts 7.30pm. Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis www.marinetheatre.com.

MONDAY 17 JUNE Axminster and Lyme Cancer Support Affected by cancer? Looking for support?

Need help or advice? Drop in for a chat.

Refreshments available free of charge.

Lyme Regis, LR Football Club, Charmouth Road, Lyme Regis DT7 3DT 2pm 4pm. For more details contact info@ axminsterandlymecancersupport.co.uk.

The Queen and I Daisy Goodwin, creator of the acclaimed ITV series ‘Victoria’ gives an illustrated talk on ‘what I have learnt about life, love and motherhood from Queen Victoria’. The Tithe Barn, Symondsbury Estate, DT6 6HG. Tickets

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£15 3.30pm tea and cake, 4pm talk.www. bridportandwestbay.co.uk.

Axminster Carnival Bingo Eyes down 8pm Axminster Guildhall.

TUESDAY 18 JUNE Café Scientifique Monthly talks on a huge range of subjects, from environmental energy solutions to the future of rocket ship engineering. Kennaway House Cellar Bar, 3pm. Free Entry, but please buy a drink. For more information visit www. sidmouthsciencefestival.org Or email info@ sidmouthsciencefestival.org. Kennaway House, Sidmouth.

WEDNESDAY 19 JUNE Guided Walk to Goat Island 10am -1pm.

Join Jurassic Coast Trust Ambassadors on a visit to Goat Island, perhaps the most famous part of the Undercliffs reserve.

Take is some spectacular views, learn about your local landscape. Email: info@ jurassiccoast.org 01308 807000.

Expedition to Goat Island (Undercliffs) 10am – 1pm With Natural England.

Numbers limited. Booking Essential with jurassiccoast.org/shop. £7 Charge. Further details given on booking.

East Devon Ramblers moderate 9.5 mile circular walk from near Princetown.

10.30am start and bring picnic. Dogs on short leads. 01404 831106.

Lyme History Walks 11am from the Marine Theatre, this and every Wed, Thurs and Sat in June. Lasts 1+1/2 hours. Cost: £8, Children half www.lymehistorywalks. com 01297 443140, mob 07518 777 258 for further information. Booking not required.

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.

Bridport Probus Club Madagascar – Rob Clark. Meet at the Eype’s Mouth Hotel at 12noon on the third Wednesday of each month for lunch, followed by a talk. For more information contact Graham Pitts on 01297 561569.

Honiton U3A Mr. John Smith talk ‘The Roman Army - Facts, Finds & Fiction.

John is a Military historian and a ‘Living History Archaeologist and he will describe the role and equipment of the Roman army that arrived in Honiton around AD46. The Beehive, Dowell St., Honiton Doors open 1.30pm for a 2pm start Members free and Visitors welcome (Suggested donation £2) Further information:01404 598008 or visit our Website: http://u3asites.org.uk/ honiton.

The Arts Society West Dorset A History of the Medici: Bankrolling the Renaissance.

Speaker: Douglas Skeggs. Highlands End

Leisure Centre at 2.30pm. For details contact 01308 485487.

Jeremy Gardiner Talk Sladers Yard Contemporary Art, Furniture & Craft Gallery, West Bay, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4EL 6.30pm talk with dinner to follow from 8pm. Tickets: £10 or £28 with dinner. 01308 459511 sladersyard.co.uk.

Thorncombe Rail Activities Club talk and slide presentation given by Paul Silvestri entitled “Going Underground – A Journey

By Design”. Thorncombe Village Hall, TA20 4NE 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.

Colyton & District Garden Society ‘Historic Gardens of the South West’, talk

by Jonathan Lovie, garden and landscape historian. Colyford Memorial Hall at 7.30pm.

Members free, guests £3. Information Sue Price 01297 552362.

THURSDAY 20 JUNE Lyme History Walks 11am from the Marine Theatre, this and every Wed, Thurs and Sat in June. Discover the unique and colourful history of Lyme Regis. Hear stories of amazing people including Mary Anning, and adventures on land and sea.

Experienced Tour Guide: Chris Lovejoy.

Lasts 1+1/2 hours. Cost: £8, Children half www.lymehistorywalks.com 01297 443140, mob 07518 777 258 for further information.

Booking not required.

Your Community Space DCA would like to invite you to attend a conference to improve the support and resources available to people and organisations who run the buildings that matter to our communities.

This conference will be particularly useful to village hall trustees, community building staff, trustees and volunteers. Come and discuss what you need and how these needs can be met. Attendees will receive a conference report and an electronic copy of our ‘resources to support community building management’ as an essential guide for all volunteers and staff that support Dorset’s thriving community buildings. Tony Gibbons from the Friendly Food Club will very kindly be providing a light lunch. 9.45am registration for 10am start through to 3pm finish. Community Learning and Resource Centre, Wimborne BH21 1EA. Free, Refreshments will be provided. Please book early to avoid disappointment. For further information:- please contact 01202 847605 or email annie.hobell@dorsetcommunityaction. org.uk.

The Tatworth W.I. Lyme Regis (meeting first at the Hall at 5.30pm) unless the day is wet when it will be held in Tatworth Memorial Hall.at 7.30pm.

Chard Camera Club The club will meet at 7.30pm in the Baptist church hall where they will be holding a Critique evening where members will be displaying their own images

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Community evening Street Food Market. Jubilee Gardens, Seaton, EX12 2QU Get together over food with your community – 5pm – 9pm Details 07970 857696

and giving feed back as to why they took the image, what they may have done in post process and what they may consider doing to improve any further like images. It should be a quiet relaxed and informative evening of self entertainment. Further information cab be obtained from their website www.chardcameraclub.org.uk or by contacting membership secretary Mrs Joyce Partridge on 01460 66885.

The Merry Wives of Windsor 7.20pm The Electric Palace, Bridport www. electricpalace.org.uk.

Metamorphosis; A Screening of a Butterfly film by Clive Farrell plus Q&A with naturalists and experts. 7.30pm. £10 LSi Bridport, 51 East Street, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3JX www.lsibridport.co.uk.

Bridport & District Gardening Club Trekking the Himalayas, Through a Nurseryman’s Eyes, speaker Clive Groves.

7.30pm in the Women’s Institute Hall, North Street, Bridport. The meetings are also open to non-members (£2 entrance fee).

Wyld Morris join with Frome Valley and friends to celebrate midsummer at the Cove Inn, Portland 8pm.

THURSDAY 20 – SAT 22 JUNE Are You Going to the Marine? Join the theatre as they celebrate one hundred and twenty five years of the Marine, in this special play by the screenwriter Andrew Rattenbury. With the help of the thriving local theatre, music, and drama groups, who have all performed here over the past century or so, we’ll be looking back at our rich history. £6 children, £12 adults advance / £8 children, £14.50 adults on the door Starts 7pm. daily with an additional matinee on 22 June at 2.30pm. Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis www.marinetheatre. com.

FRIDAY 21 JUNE Seaton Lions Club Book Stall 9.30am – 1.30pm The Square , Seaton.

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

Dogs on short leads. 01404 44367.

Chef ’s Special Lunch 12noon for 12.30pm. £9.50 (Members £8). Fruit juice starter, Roast gammon and veg, Trifle for pudding with coffee/tea and a chocolate to finish. Vegetarian alternative available.

Booking essential. Henhayes Centre South Street Car Park, Crewkerne, TA18 8DA, Tel No: 01460 74340.

Saturday 6 July

Sweet Honi and Honiton Town Band 7.30pm Kathy Rufolo’s joyful community choir sings rock, soul and pop. They will be joined by Honiton Band at The Beehive, Honiton.

The Living Tree cancer self-help group.

2pm Tripudio. 2.15pm speaker to be confirmed. 3.15pm Rising Voices with Jane.

2.30pm – 4pm Therapy session Peter Cove offering Swedish Massage for hands & feet (please advise Peter beforehand if you have lymphoedema or lymph nodes removed).

Drop in any time between 2pm and 4.30pm at the Friends’ Meeting House, 95 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NZ. Tel 07341 916 976. www.thelivingtree.org.uk.

Midsummer Evening Tour & Tasting 6pm Join Furleigh Estate on Midsummer’s day for an evening tour. A glass of Classic Cuvee on arrival will be followed by a visit to the vineyard and winery. The tour finishes with a further glass of fizz on the terrace. Tickets are £17.50 & available from www.furleighestate.co.uk/events. Furleigh Estate, Salway Ash, Bridport DT6 5JF Tel: 01308 488991.

Parade – Marine Theatre The First 125 Years Line the streets! The parade to celebrate the Marine’s birthday will include many Lyme organisations, some with goodies to hand out, and will proceed from Holmbush down Broad Street to Theatre Square. Free Starts 6.30pm from Holmbush Car Park. Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis www.marinetheatre.com.

Unique Boutique Event community evening street food markets back to East Devon for summer 2019. Friday evenings in the summer have become a way to get together over food and connect with your community. You’ll find a great location with views out across the Jurassic coast, the reasonably priced pop up bar and cool music to accompany your culinary journey around the world. The Ham, Sidmouth EX10 8BU 3rd Friday of the month – 5pm – 9pm. Contact: Eleanor Carr chat@UniqueBoutiqueEvents.co.uk www.UniqueBoutiqueEvents.co.uk 07970 857696.

Claire Martin ‘Believin’ It’ Tour 7.30pm Bridport Arts Centre www.bridport-arts. com.

John Law Re-Creations Quartet Unique new arrangements of jazz, indie pop and rock, and classical compositions led by John Law, ‘one of the UK’s most imaginative and versatile jazz pianists’.

With saxophonist Sam Crockatt. 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.

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Saturday 13 July

Mapperton Estate Summer Concert in All Saints Church, adjoining Mapperton House at 7pm with highly acclaimed cellist Guy Johnston To book tickets call Mapperton on 01308 862645

Caraismatico Tango Band 8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm) £14 / £12 members & concessions. Dorchester Arts, The Corn Exchange, High East Street, DT1 1HF 01305 266926 www.dorchesterarts.org.uk.

FRIDAY 21 – SUNDAY 23 JUNE Colyford Blossoms a festival of flowers, verse and displays supported by organisations in Colyford. In St Michael’s Chapel of Ease from 10.30am - 4.30pm each day. Refreshments throughout (special Beautiful Bakes by Friends of St Michael’s on Saturday). Car park opp church On A3052, Post code EX24 6TW. Also Sidmouth Gospel Choir on Sat 22nd starting with cheese & wine at 7pm: performance at 7.30pm: Songs of Praise on Sun 23rd at 6.30pm. Those with walking challenges very welcome – follow signs round to garden door.

SATURDAY 22 JUNE Big Breakfast / Brunch 10am – 12noon Last orders 11.30am. £4.50 for egg, sausage, bacon, tomato or beans, toast & tea or coffee. Extra portions 50p each.

Henhayes Centre - South Street Car Park, Crewkerne, TA18 8DA, Tel No: 01460 74340.

Weaving & Calligraphy - Axminster Heritage Alive - Free Event. Have a go and try some craft & calligraphy in the Floral Tent at The Axe Vale Show.

Exmouth Choral Society Come and Sing of Mozart’s Requiem All Welcome 10am Tower st Methodist Church, Exmouth.. EX8 1NT Further details www. exmouthchoral.org.

Guided Walk: Eype and West Bay Join Jurassic Coast expert Ambassadors on a guided walk from Highlands End Holiday Park to Eype and West Bay. Email: info@ jurassiccoast.org Te: 01308 807000.

Lyme History Walks 11am from the Marine Theatre, this and every Wed, Thurs and Sat in June. Lasts 1+1/2 hours. Cost: £8, Children half www.lymehistorywalks. com 01297 443140, mob 07518 777 258 for further information. Booking not required.

Misterton Village Fete 12noon – 6pm.

At The Recreation Ground Postcode TA188NY. A traditional summer country fete for adults and children. Free entry. Car Parking £1 (donation to our Green theme charities).

Eugene Hideaway Bridges - Talk and Workshop at 3pm – 4.30pm. Tickets: £10.

No concessions. The David Hall, South Petherton TA13 5AA www.thedavidhall.org. uk 01460 240 340.

The Zoots 7.30pm Bridport Arts Centre www.bridport-arts.com.

Music for a Midsummer Evening 7.30pm at St. Bartholomew’s Church, Crewkerne.

Renowned Mezzo Soprano Louise Innes along with the Milbrook Ensemble perform a programme of popular songs and violin pieces by Haydn, Elgar, Faure, Frank Bridge and Vaughan Williams. Interval bar available.

Tickets £14, under 18s free, from Crewkerne Town Hall or Ian Tribe 01460 217440.

Salud Bridport-based Spanish Flamenco dancer performs her new one-woman performance at Loders Village Hall 7.30pm Bar 01308 485772.

The Canterbury Tales Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. 7.30pm Adult £15, Student £12. A colourful cast of characters set off for Canterbury, competing to tell their tales of love, lust, adventure and chivalry. The Beehive, Honiton. www.beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Stars on the Lake 7.30pm – midnight Welcome cocktail and canapes, three course picnic with a difference, auction and raffle, cash bar. Hooke Court in Malawi £30 per person or 4 for £100 Sarah McConnell 07765 241929 sarah@hookecourt.co.uk.

The Eugene Hideaway Bridges Band Tickets: £17 Full. £16 Concessions. The David Hall, South Petherton TA13 5AA www.thedavidhall.org.uk 01460 240 340.

Cara Dillon: Wanderer Tour 8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm) £22 / £20 members & concessions. Dorchester Arts, The Corn Exchange, High East Street, DT1 1HF 01305 266926 www.dorchesterarts.org.uk.

SATURDAY 22 – SUNDAY 23 JUNE Open Weekend at Higher Ground Meadow 10am - 5pm to celebrate their 10th anniversary. Voted best natural burial ground in the UK for the last three years. Take a stroll around the burial ground and ask how a beautiful funeral can be arranged. Higher Ground Meadow, Corscombe, Dorset DT2 0QN 01935 891245.

Open gardens in West Milton 2pm - 6pm. £5 to cover both days in aid of Powerstock church. Delicious teas, ice creams, cider, a plant and produce stall all on offer as you tour a variety of woodland and riverside gardens with wonderful views.Enquiries to aajanewhite@gmail.com.

Midsummer Flower and Art Festival St. Mary’s Church, Mosterton 10am - 6pm Free Entry. Refreshments available Church Raffle to be drawn at 6pm during Songs of Praise Sunday 23rd June.

Open Gardens – Martinstown 2pm – 6 pm. A range of interesting gardens will be open in Martinstown near Dorchester. There will be W.I. Teas and an art exhibition in the Village Hall, plants for sale and various attractions on and around the Village Green.

On Sunday on the Green there will be a Fun

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Dog Show at 2pm (entries taken from 12noon. Proceeds from the weekend will be used to maintain our Village Hall – a vital community hub. For further details, including dog show enquiries, contact Jan Griffiths on 01305 889738.

Axe Vale Festival 10am – 5.30pm.

Come and enjoy the Show and visit Axe Vale & District Conservation Society stand for quizzes and hedgehog mapping!

SATURDAY 22 – SUN 30 JUNE Beaminster Festival A feast of music and arts around Beaminster.

See page 69 or visit www. beaminsterfestival.com SUNDAY 23 JUNE Dorset Countryside Volunteers at 10am will be removing thistles and ragwort at Loscombe (West Dorset) in order to maintain wildflower rich meadows for Dorset Wildlife Trust.

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.

East Devon Ramblers leisurely 8 mile circular walk from Holne Brake.

10.30am start and bring picnic. Dogs on short leads. 01395 513974.

Dog Law what every responsible dog owner needs to know. £20 per person. The seminar is a wideranging mix of legal issues that are important to dog owners. www.

DoglawSOS.co.uk Firemoon2015@ hotmail.com or tel: 07552818389.

Steam Train Day + Turntable Day 10.30am – 4pm. Yeovil Railway Centre, Yeovil Junction 01935 410420. www.yeovilrailway. freeservers.com.

See the World Heritage Coast two hour Jurassic Coast cruises from Seaton seafront, 2pm and 4.15pm.

Tickets, £12 adults, £6 children, available from 10am on the seafront on the day, or in advance from www. stuartlinecruises.co.uk.

Local Group Grand Re-Union performing 2pm – 4pm on the bandstand in Greenhill Gardens, The Espanande, Weymouth. Free Entrance. A Friends of Greenhill Gardens Event 01305 775829 www. greenhill-gardens.co.uk.

Cliff Cottage & Cliff Lodge (West Bay DT6 4HS) A combined ticket gives entry to both these gardens opening, for the first time, in aid of the National Garden Scheme charities. Set on top of West Cliff, one with views towards East Cliff and Portland, the other with good

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rural views. Open 2pm - 5pm. Adm £5 chd free. www.ngs.org.uk.

Norwood House Gardens & Walks (Corscombe DT2 0PD) Hidden away in a stunning West Dorset Valley, this garden was started from scratch in 2011. Today glorious purple, pink and white borders surround the house and lawn. Lake, woodland & wild flower walks thoroughly recommended weather permitting. Open 12.30pm - 4.30pm.

Adm £6 chd £2 in aid of the National Garden Scheme charities www.ngs.org.uk.

Crystal and Tibetan Singing Bowl Soundbath 2pm – 4pm. £12, Booking in advance and further details www.centreforpuresound. org ahiahel@live.com 01935 389655.

Bring something comfortable to lie on and wrap around you. The Scout Hall, Redcotts Lane, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 1JX. Traditional Choral Evensong with the Whitchurch Occasional Choir.

6pm, Whitchurch Canonicorum Church.

Morgan & West’s Utterly Spiffing Magic Show for Kids and Childish Grown-ups Starts 2pm.

Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis www. marinetheatre.com.

Cake Off ! 3pm - 5.30pm Tickets £1 (on the door), free to competitors - please see website for details Dorchester Arts, The Corn Exchange, High East Street, DT1 1HF 01305 266926 www. dorchesterarts.org.uk.

The Tempest (The HandleBards) 7pm (refreshments from 6pm) £13 / £11 / £40 family ticket (max. 2 adults) Bring a chair and a picnic.

Dorchester Arts, Maumbury Rings, 17 Maumbury Rd, Dorchester DT1 1QN 01305 266926 www. dorchesterarts.org.uk.

MONDAY 24 JUNE Severalls Jubilee Bowls Club Coaching for all ages 10am – 12noon at War Memorial Grounds, Severalls Park Avenue, Crewkerne, TA18 8HQ (entrance off Lang Road). Fancy trying outdoor bowls? Come and have an enjoyable morning at a very friendly club with bowls provided and refreshments halfway through and please wear flat soled footwear.

For more information please phone Geoff Kerr on 01308 867221.

Axminster and Lyme Cancer Support Affected by cancer?

Looking for support? Need help or advice? Drop in for a chat. Refreshments available free of charge. Axminster Scott Rowe Meeting Room,

Axminster Hospital EX13 5DU 2pm - 4pm. For more details contact info@ axminsterandlymecancersupport.co.uk.

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 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 / biodanza-bridport.co.uk.

Axminster Carnival Bingo Eyes down 8pm Axminster Guildhall.

TUESDAY 25 JUNE U3A Monthly Talk The U3A (University of the Third Age) offers a wide variety of general interest groups for retired, and semi retired people in Bridport and the surrounding areas. 2pm in Bridport United Church Hall in East Street. The cost to non members for each talk is £2. Further Information can be found at www.u3asites. org.uk/bridport. Miranda Pender presents: ‘How I overcame a life threatening illness to reinvent myself as a singer/songwriter’.

Sidmouth Charity Tea Dances Ballroom, Latin and Sequence dancing with a warm, friendly welcome. £4 each, including Tea, coffee and biscuits at 230pm at All Saints Hall, Sidmouth EX10 8ES Further information from (01395) 579856 or 577122.

Martock History Group walk and talk around Coat, looking at the buildings and their history. Meet 6 pm at Coat crossroads. £3 non-members, contact Fergus 01935 822202 for more info.

Merriott Gardening Presentation by Adrian Hutchinson on Wild Flowers in the Dolomites. Tithe Barn, Church Street at 7.30pm - refreshments and raffle. Nonmembers £2 at the door. Everyone welcome.

For more information please contact 01460 72298.

Northern Ballet: Victoria 7pm The Electric Palace, Bridport www.electricpalace. org.uk.

WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE Coffee Morning 10am - 12noon Free Entry. The David Hall, South Petherton TA13 5AA www.thedavidhall.org.uk 01460 240 340.

East Devon Ramblers moderate 10 mile circular walk on Exmoor. 10.30am start and bring picnic. Dogs on sort leads. 01297 23424.

Main Line Steam Train Day 10.30am – 4pm. Yeovil Railway Centre, Yeovil Junction 01935 410420. www.yeovilrailway.freeservers. com. Please book to check details with railway centre before attending.

Yeovil Chamber Choir Birthday Concert Come and join the party at 7.30pm in St Andrew’s Church, Preston Grove, Yeovil BA20 2BQ. Tickets £10 to include refreshments - available on the door or by email at yeovilchamberchoir@hotmail.com.

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Wyld Morris dance 7.30pm, on Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, between the Harbour Inn and Royal Standard pubs.

Uplyme & Lyme Regis Horticultural Society 7.30pm Uplyme Village Hall Talk ‘The Dutch Flower Painters and Landscape Painting – how it evolves’ by Pam Simpson. ulrhs.wordpress.com.

THURSDAY 27 JUNE Stepping into Nature A short guided walk around West Bay exploring a topical theme. Open to all ages, suitable for the over 55’s and dementia friendly, this is a free event.

Meeting at the Discovery Centre at 10.40am Donations welcome.

Further details and places can be booked by contacting manager@ westbaydiscovercentre.org.uk.

Norwood House Gardens & Walks (Corscombe DT2 0PD) Hidden away in a stunning West Dorset Valley, this garden was started from scratch in 2011. Today glorious purple, pink and white borders surround the house and lawn. Lake, woodland & wild flower walks thoroughly recommended weather permitting. Open 12.30pm - 4.30pm.

Adm £6 chd £2 in aid of the National Garden Scheme charities www.ngs.org.uk.

Wicked Wessex Pop Up Talk: The Scold’s Bridle at 1pm Shire Hall Dorchester. Learn about the dark history of scold’s bridles, in a 15-minute whirlwind exploration of these gruesome objects. This event is free and is bookable on Eventbrite and through shirehalldorset.org.

Chard Ladies’ Evening Guild talk and exhibition about hats. Speaker, Jill Venn, entitles her presentation Tip Top Hats. The meeting starts at 6.45pm at the Crowshute Centre and there is ample parking in the adjoining public car park. Any other information can be found by ringing 01460 64502.

Classical Guitar Recital Tony Dodds and Colin Thompson perform classical repertoire plus talk with Q&A. £10 LSi Bridport, 51 East Street, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3JX www.lsibridport.co.uk.

NT Live: Small Island (15) 7pm Adult £15.30 / Student £12.30.

Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel Small Island comes to life in an epic new theatre adaptation.

A company of 40 actors take to the stage of the National Theatre in this timely and moving story.

The Beehive, Honiton. www. beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050. Also at The Electric

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Palace, Bridport www.electricpalace. org.uk.

Sidmouth Society of Artists Demonstration Sonia Bacchus- Still life in the style of old Dutch Masters.

Oils.7pm. Kennaway House Cellar Bar Admission is free for members. £3 for non-members. Kennaway House, Sidmouth 01395 515551 www.kennawayhouse.org.uk.

Forde Abbey Concert Series Castalian Quartet 7.30pm. Tickets £20, arrive early and picnic in the beautiful gardens www.fordeabbey. co.uk.

The Cantilena Choir 7.45pm – 8.45pm M.D. Hannah Stephenson.

Sidholme Music Room. Further details on website.

National Theatre Live: Small Island £5 under 18s advance or on the door / £11 advance adults / £14 on the door Starts 7pm.

Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis www. marinetheatre.com.

Far From the Madding Crowd (The New Hardy Players) Max Gate, Alington Ave, Dorchester DT1 2FN. 7.15pm. Outdoor Theatre. £15 / £7.50 U18s. Performances open at 6.30pm for picnics, except Came House matinée which opens for picnics at 1.30pm. Bring a chair/blanket 01305 266926 www. dorchesterarts.org.uk.

FRIDAY 28 JUNE Do you need to make or change a Will or Power of Attorney? Every few months Age UK Dorchester has a by appointment surgery where individuals can come and ask an expert questions about wills, powers of attorney and other legal aspects of your home and finances. This is a free one-to-one surgery given by Orla Laurenson, associate solicitor at Humphries Kirk, solicitors. 9.30am - 3.30pm at Age UK Dorchester, Rowan Cottage, 4 Prince of Wales Road, Dorchester, DT1 1PW. 01305 269444 www.ageukdorchester.org.uk.

East Devon Ramblers leisurely 4 mile circular walk from Knapp Copse. Dogs on short leads. 01404 549390.

The Living Tree cancer self-help group. 2pm Tripudio. 2.15pm Art with Libby. 2.30pm – 4pm Therapy Session: Anne Escott offering foot massage. Plus Peter Cove offering Swedish Massage for hands & feet (please advise Peter beforehand if you have lymphoedema or lymph nodes removed). Drop in any time between 2pm and 4.30pm at the Friends’ Meeting House, 95 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NZ. Tel 07341 916 976. www.thelivingtree.org.uk.

Casterbridge Male Voice Choir and Buccas Four a small choral group from Cornwall, concert at the Dorchester Community Church in Pounbury, Dorchester in support of the British Heart Foundation.

7.30pm, tickets will be available at the door or in advance from The Tourist Information Office at The Library and Learning Centre, South Walks House, Charles Street, Dorchester and Harmony Music, The Forum Centre, Trinity Street, Dorchester.

Angela Barnes 7.30pm Bridport Arts Centre www.bridport-arts.com.

Acoustic Night 7.30pm – 11pm. All styles and forms of performance welcome – not just music. If you wish to perform please drop us an email at folk@chriswatts.org to secure a slot. The David Hall, South Petherton TA13 5AA www.thedavidhall.org. uk 01460 240 340.

Talon £17 Early Bird / £20 standard / £24 on the door Starts 8pm. Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis www.marinetheatre.com.

SATURDAY 29 JUNE Down Farm at Sixpenny Handley Dorset Wildlife Trust. Field walk and visit to archaeological museum, 10.30am – 12.30pm. Meet at the farm, grid ref ST 999 149, post code SP5 5RY. Book with Myra Sealy, 01308 422 538 www. dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk.

Free live music by East Street Band: Five-piece band playing Irish, folk, blues & rock from 11am, then from 1.30pm Jessica Clare: Covers and originals accompanied by piano. This BBQ event forms part of the Music in the Garden season organised and sponsored each year by Axminster Arts. It will take place in the Courtyard Garden at the Arts Café Bar, The Old Courthouse, Church Street, Axminster EX13 5AQ. 01297 631455.

Portesham Fete 2pm - 5pm Portesham School. St. Swithun’s Band, teas, donkey rides, grand raffle, stalls, tests of skill and much more. Great fun for all the family.

Artstory Lecture : Paula Rego and Jenny Saville Two very distinctive figurative painters. If you would like to book for the lecture contact Pam Simpson, email: chris. pamsimpson@btinternet.com or tel: 01300 321715, 2pm - 3.30pm, Fee £10, Uplyme Village Hall which has free parking.

Music in the Garden at The Speedwell, Abbey St. Crewkerne, TA18 7HY. Spend the afternoon at this event in the lovely walled garden 6 great acts, pop, country and classics. You are welcome to bring your own picnic but teas and refreshments will be available. Tickets In advance from Town

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Hall, Market Square, Crewkerne, £5, children under 14, £2.50. On the day buy at the gate, £6, children under 14, £3.

Jane Eyre 7.30pm Bridport Arts Centre www.bridport-arts.com.

The Pirates of Penzance at Martock Church 7.30pm. Admission: £12 or £10 at 01935 829576 www. martockonline.co.uk/events.

Jazz with the Alyn Shipton Trio 7.30pm Powerstock Church.

Lyme Regis Comedy Club with Vikki Stone Starts 8pm Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis www. marinetheatre.com.

SATURDAY 29 – SUN 30 JUNE Big Jurassic Summer Sleepout Join the Jurassic Coast Trust for 24 hours of Jurassic-sized fun, games and entertainment at Graston Copse Holiday Park. Email: info@ jurassiccoast.org 01308 807000.

SUNDAY 30 JUNE Charmouth Vintage Fair Community Hall 10am - 4pm 01297 560634.

East Devon Ramblers strenuous 12 mile circular walk from Oake. 10am start and bring picnic. Dogs on short leads. 01823 617732.

Guided Walk: Branscombe to Beer 10.30am - 4.30pm. Join Jurassic Coast Ambassador Tony Lambert and a local National Trust Ranger for a relaxing summer walk via Hooken beach. Email: info@jurassiccoast.org Tel: 01308 807000.

Wildlife Day – Seaton Wetlands 11am – 4pm Joint AVDCS/EDDC event. Stands, guided walks, bird watching, pond dipping and much more. All welcome.

Yews Farm Open Garden East Street, Martock, TA12 6NF. Garden open 2pm – 5pm. Admission £7, children free, in aid of the NGS. Home made teas & top plant stall.

Strawberry Cream Tea at 3pm at Burstock Farmhouse, Burstock.

Adults £6 each Children £3 each.

Please come and join us in a pretty garden for a delicious selection of afternoon tea delights. In Aid of St Andrews Church Burstock.

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. You will also learn your Personal Sonic (Soul Note) and Key Tone to then work meaningfully with the notes/chakras in your key alongside our Chakra Tones CDs. £12, Booking in advance and further details www.centreforpuresound.org ahiahel@live.com 01935 389655.

Crystal and Tibetan Singing Bowl Soundbath 2pm - 4pm. Experience a magical performance of therapeutic 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 comfortable to lie on and wrap around you. Oborne Village Hall, Oborne, nr. Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4LA. The Silhouettes 2pm – 4pm performing on the bandstand in Greenhill Gardens, The Espanande, Weymouth. Free Entrance. A Weldmar Hospice Event.

Madrigals to Mozart a concert by The Phoenix Singers of Taunton directed by Martin Schellenberg at the Hamdon Community Arts Project, North Street, Stoke Sub Hamdon at 3pm. The performance will feature a wide variety of music with a predominately “ Bird “ related theme. A clarinet solo will also be performed by Rose Donaldson, a young musician who was outstanding at the 2019 HCAP Young Peoples Music Festival.

Tickets £8 (including a cream tea ) from the Box Office on 01935 824064 ( if on answerphone leave a message with your tel. number and they will get back to you ).

Jazz in the Bar with Lynn Thornton This is a 1930s tinged special of our jazz night, starring the vocalist from Just Misbehavin’. £8 advance / £12 on the door Starts 8pm. Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis www.marinetheatre.com.

Picasso’s Women by Brian McAvera (Flying Elephant Productions) 7pm (doors & bar 6.30pm) £14 / £12 members & concessions. Dorchester Arts, The Corn Exchange, High East Street, DT1 1HF 01305 266926 www.dorchesterarts. org.uk.

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PUBLISHING across the

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long with many business models, the book publishing industry has seen a dramatic overhaul in recent years. With the introduction of laptops, tablets and mobile devices, the way we read and the methods in which we access our reading material has changed. And where once there were dozens of publishers and agents working to help new writers reach a traditional hardback and paperback audience, today there are a handful of major publishers whose businesses appear to be driven more by marketing than literary aspiration. So what is a new writer to do when their work doesn’t fit into the business model that requires a ready-made Instagram or YouTube following to get them a book deal?

Self-publishing is one option. It has become very sophisticated over recent years and there are many companies offering routes to becoming a published author.

But it can be a lonely and often depressing experience for those that have spent years working alone with a keyboard. And that can be daunting.

Bridport based Siobhan Harrison is one of many local writers who have experienced the knockbacks from publishers who ‘don’t want to take a chance’ on a new author. So, with encouragement from those who had read it, she decided to self-publish her first novel Carnaval under the pen name S A Finlay and followed that by producing an audiobook for the title.

It was a huge learning curve. However, having learnt the basics of the publishing industry from first principles, type-setting, design, ISBNS, formatting print and ebooks, commissioning and producing an audiobook and making all her errors publishing her own novel, she decided she didn’t want the whole process to be just a vanity project.

So she then put all that experience into publishing a second novel by another local writer Bardy Thomas. She followed that by commissioning and publishing her first Anthology If This Then That and followed it up with her first non-fiction book by locally based photographer and writer Robert Golden. At which point she decided to join the Independent Publishers Guild.

Siobhan brings more than a writer’s creativity to her business. She named her company WriteSideLeft because she is irritated by the ‘compartmentalisation’ of thinking and lifestyle associated with whether someone is ‘in the “creative world” or not’. Her day job uses a financial qualification whilst her publishing and writing are creative. ‘In real life you need to use all of them to operate’ she says.

WriteSideLeft explores a theme of intergenerational issues, and she is determined to mix the age range, especially in her antholo-

gies. ‘I really love the idea of introducing new young writers’ she says. ‘Their writing is raw.

I don’t interfere with that. You get the odd young writer hitting the big time, but I think it’s tougher for them to know which—always online alleyway—to turn down. Their experiences, thoughts and interactions are Instafragmented—disorientated.’

Siobhan’s authors range from a remarkably talented seventeen-year-old student from The Sir John Colfox School to seasoned writers with a wealth of life experience. ‘I like the idea of a conversation between the older generation and the younger generation’ she says, ‘#baby boomers versus (and with) #snowflakes—in fact, that’s what literature is—a conversation down the ages.’

This year Siobhan is working on two anthologies: one on the theme of Asylum and the other on the theme of Christmas. ‘I am looking for stories and poetry on the theme of “asylum”’ in terms of human connectedness’ she says ‘whether that’s on the private stage— tucked up with your smartphone or a cup of coffee—or at large, publicly or politically. Asylum actually means “inviolable”. I’d like a mad bad and dangerous to read Brexit one—we must all have stories to spin about that. I like irony and dark humour and satire. That’s my thing.’ Her interest in satire and comedy she says is because ‘it’s the only response when you have a bunch of cartoon characters running America, the UK, Russia etc. So what is the response to that for our time?’

Although writing a cyberpunk novel herself at the moment, she thinks there is a lot of ‘better talent than me’ out there. ‘I don’t have any vanity or ego when it comes to me and writing. Which makes me a solid editor or gatepost—I’m just a gatepost. My original aim was two books a year, and if I consider anything I write to be good enough I’ll do that as well.’

For more information about current and future books visit www.writesideleft.com.

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D-Day Remembered

By Derek Stevens

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t was seventy-five years ago when I, as a ten-year old child, woke up one morning to the persistent drone of an armada of aircraft flying overhead. I got out of bed and went to the kitchen to hear BBC announcer John Snagge telling the world that “under the command of General Eisenhower allied naval forces supported by strong air forces began to land armies this morning on the Northern coast of France”. Outside in the morning air the sky seemed black, horizon to horizon, with literally hundreds of gliders being towed to war by Douglas skywagon aircraft. The roads, which had recently been crowded with miles of parked up convoys of U.S. Army vehicles, had emptied under the direction of white helmeted military police as they made their way for embarkation at the port of Weymouth. After the busy activity of recent weeks and the passing of the last aircraft of the aerial invasion a noticeable silence fell over the land, interrupted only by the occasional jeep speeding important messages from one point to another.

For the previous nine months we had been under the friendly occupation of the U.S First Infantry, “The Big Red One”. They had arrived already battle-hardened from combat in North Africa and Italy. Being shipped back to England they were anticipating return to the United States only to find it had been decided that with their already notable battle experience they had been selected for the vanguard of the intended invasion of Europe. Even commander General Bradley admitted that the decision to involve the 1st Division in a third amphibious landing caused him concern. Their arrival in Liverpool had been shown on the newsreels at the Regent cinema in Lyme but our first sighting of them was outside our granny’s bungalow outside Rousdon where both my brother and I had been evacuated. Playing in the road, where traffic was very sparse due to the war, we heard the sound of a convoy of heavy trucks labouring up Bosshill from the Axe Valley we saw them appear over the crest and down towards us. As they drew close a head thrust out of the window and, giving a ‘wild rebel yell—ephwaah!’ threw a hand full of stuff at us. The next truck did the same, and the next, suddenly we realised that the ground around us was being covered with packs of chewing gun and chocolate bars.

We were being liberated!

A new commandment was issued by our headmaster, Mr Freeman at our school in Uplyme, “Thou shalt not ask Got Any Gum Chum!” The infestation of US Army encampments by children pestering for goodies became something of a concern to both British

Sergeant Streczyk

and US Army authorities, but their generosity otherwise seemed boundless. “Two Hundred Gate Crashers at Yeovil Party”, reported one headline in the Pulmans Weekly News. Strangely, wartime regulations stated that the US Army had to obtain permission from the British Ministry of Food to use American ingredients in any food used for party fare for British children.

Headquartered at Parnham House near Beaminster the 16th Infantry Regiment of “The Big Red One” were accommodated in tented and Quonset hut encampments, and civilian billets in Bridport, Lyme Regis, Abbotsbury, Litten Cheney and marshalling areas in Long Bredy. During those nine months of build-up we had soldiers tramping along our roads, playing war games in our fields, rumbling around with their halftrack vehicles and strange amphibious vehicles, leaving a litter of unwanted food from their small boxes of personal ‘K’ field rations for us kids to scavenge,packs of shortcake biscuits, small bars of chocolate, tinned spam, small tin of Nescafe, and a pack of five Lucky Strike cigarettes cast away by non-smokers.

As D-day approached restrictions on civilian movement were applied. Magistrate’s courts became busy with prosecuting people for not carrying their identity cards and young women from upcountry were gathered up in surprising numbers. If you were under sixteen years of age you were free of restrictions so free to roam. We would cycle down the backway from

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Uplyme to Lyme Regis where an American Cannon Company had secretly parked ranks of jeeps already with small howitzers attached read for the ‘Off ’. Suddenly convoys started gathering along roadsides parking bumper to bumper. The DUKW’s of the Amphibious Truck Company departed their base in Beaminster, passing the neighbouring hostel of Woman’s Land Army girls and a few breaking hearts, no doubt.

I was a member of Uplyme church choir and remember sunrays glinting on the brass buttons and badges worn by the many GI’s who attended in the congregation at that time.

Another chorister of that time, from Symonsbury church, a soldier from New York State, Pfc. Andrew Mapes of the First Infantry was shipped across to Omaha beach on D Day. Today there is a brass plaque in the choir stalls to commemorate his name. He fell among the dead and wounded on D-day.

It is not too hard to imagine the dangers the man wearing the red cross on his helmet had to face when he heard the frantic cry “Medic…. hey medic, up here!” As one said “There are few things worse than being a rifleman in the infantry, but being a medic is one of them.

When the shooting is heavy the GI can press himself deeper into the ground and doesn’t need to go out into the open on a mission of mercy”. It was one of those medics, an army surgeon of the 16th Infantry Regiment who was to leave his new bride in Lyme Regis. They had married just prior to the invasion. Captain Apanasewicz had been badly hit and wounded himself but insisted on crawling to other soldiers around him on Omaha Beach, injecting them with morphine. He was evacuated back to England but died shortly after. He was posthumously awarded the Silver Star and is buried in the American cemetery in Cambridge.

Mrs Apansewicz lived a widow until her death in 2005.

Another remarkable hero was Sergeant Philip Streczyk who fought in five major battles with the Big Red One in WW2. He was awarded the Silver Star four times, one during the landings in Tunisia and another in the invasion of Sicily. During the invasion of D-day he was in command of a 31-man assault team. Upon landing on Omaha Beach they were greeted with a scene of carnage as bodies were lying everywhere having been cut down by heavy machine gun fire from a pill box atop of the cliff. At the rear of the beach a gulley through the foot of the cliff giving a route off the beach was blocked off by a barrier of barbed wire. Sergeant Streczyk

lost seven men crossing the sands only to find his remaining team trapped along with other teams of the Regiment who had landed alongside. The only way to break out of the trap was for one man, or several, to risk their lives by crawling forward with little more than wire cutters or Bangalore torpedos - 20-pound tubes packed with explosives-and exposing themselves to enemy fire while they attempted to cut their way through the tangle of wire, and they knew that German tanks could be on their way. Two men tried it but were cut down. Sergeant Streczyk picked up the cutters and took over. With practically every German weapon within range zeroing upon him he dashed to the wire, snipped a way through and waved his troops through. For clearing that route as a way off that deadly beach he was personally awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by General Eisenhower and the British Military Cross by General Montgomery.

Regimental Commander General Ed Wozenski said of Streczyk “He was one of my platoon sergeants. I think he is the greatest unsung hero of World War 2. To the best of my knowledge he was the first on the beach and it was the path that he took which I picked up. The rest of our battalion followed, and then later on I think almost the whole of the remaining corps went up that same path.”

His team, now able to climb through the gap and up to the top of the cliffs then positioned themselves behind the pillbox for an attack. They overcame the Germans inside with the help of Sergeant Streczk’s knowledge of Polish. For like many of the defenders of those Normandy beaches they had been dragooned into service with the Wehrmacht during the invasion of their countries earlier in the war. The sergeant managed to talk them into a bloodless surrender.

As a bridgehead was gradually secured over the following days ships to-and fro’d across to the invasion beaches, some carrying army nurses, some probably from the 400 bed US Army hospital in Axminster, others returning to the UK with German prisoners of war. One Canadian reporter enquired of an incoming POW, what he thought of England, the German shouted back “Three years ago Adolph Hitler told us we would be coming to England. Well,” holding his crossed wrists in the air in a mock gesture of captivity, “here we are!”

So, at this time of commemoration of D-Day, a very respectful salute to all those young GI’s who came to help us ‘Limeys’ out during those uncertain times, and which, at great cost to them, led us to Victory.

Photographs: Above: Sergeant Strecyk being awarded the British Military Cross by General Bernard Montgomery.

Below: Sergeant Streczyk shaking hands with the landlord of The London Inn Sid Travers. Nine of the soldiers of his Assault platoon pictured here were to fall on Omaha Beach.

Left: Division shoulder flash of ‘The Big Red One’.

Courses&Workshops TUESDAY 28 MAY Half Term Family Workshop – Storytelling Step inside the magical storytelling boat to listen to stories with Gail McGarva and create a wooden artwork to take away. Part of ‘InHoniton’ (25 - 31 May) - a Honiton Events Week. Drop in anytime between 11am - 3pm. Free, suggested donation £2/child. Thelma Hulbert Gallery (THG), Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LX. www.thelmahulbert.com 01404 45006.

Half Term Family Workshop – Paper sculpture Join us for a playful drawing and writing workshop creating paper sculpture with artist Sophia Clist. Part of ‘InHoniton’ (25-31 May): a Honiton Events Week.

Drop in anytime between 11am - 3pm.

Free, suggested donation £2/child. Thelma Hulbert Gallery (THG), Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LX www.thelmahulbert.com 01404 45006.

Fused Glass Make a curved candle cover using a variety of glass materials and techniques. Suitable for beginners or experienced makers. With Jo Eddleston. 10am - 12noon & 1pm - 3pm (if morning session full). £28 (plus £8 for materials and firing, payable to tutor). Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East St, Ilminster TA19 0AN. 01460 54973.

WEDNESDAY 29 MAY House History - how to go about it?

Hosted at Marsh Barn, Burton Rd. Bridport.

10am – 4pm bring lunch. Cost £30 includes handouts and real coffee. For people who are interested in researching a house and have done some basic family history research.

Plenty of parking, all on the flat. For more info contact Jane on 01308 425710 or email: jferentzi@aol.com.

Upholstery Class with tutor John Cooper.

9.30am - 3.30pm in Dalwood Village Hall, £15 per day. As places are limited, please book in advance by phone on 01404 831207.

Fruit Poly Prints Children’s Art Workshop, led by tutor Lise McDermott. Make colourful prints using polystryrene sheets. Suitable for ages 8-14. 10am – 12noon. £12 per child.

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

THURSDAY 30 MAY Design + Create in Nuno Felt Working with accomplished textile artist Gill Burbidge, design and create your own nuno felted scarf, tie belt or headband. Nuno felt is a very light and versatile form of contemporary felt-making. Come away with a beautiful and unique piece of wearable art! 10.30am -12.30pm / 1pm - 3pm £20 / £18 THG Friends. All materials provided. Booking essential, limited places: please call 01404 45006 to book your place. Thelma Hulbert

Gallery (THG), Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LX www.thelmahulbert.com 01404 45006.

Kingfishers & Riverbeds using Acrylic Paints. With Martin Rummery. Bring your own paints, or use the paints provided. 10am - 4pm £35 (plus £6 for materials payable to the tutor). Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East St, Ilminster TA19 0AN. 01460 54973.

FRIDAY 31 MAY

By The Loom - Axminster Heritage Spinning and weaving group £3 Everyone welcome: beginners and the more experienced. 10.30am – 3pm More info or to book: 01404 831207 The Bradshaw Meeting Room, Thomas Whitty House, Silver Street, Axminster, Devon, EX13 5AH. SATURDAY 1 JUNE Thai Cookery Course with Pheeraya (Nid) Hill. 10am - 2pm, Frogmary Green Farm Cookery School, South Petherton 01460 249758 www.frogmarygreenfarm.co.uk.

TUESDAY 4 JUNE Adult Art Class every Tuesday 10am – 1pm, term time only at Whoopsadaisy, Silver St, Lyme Regis. Beginners and improvers welcome: Watercolour, acrylic, mixed media and drawing skills with Trudi Ochiltree BA Hons Fine Art, Art & Design PGCE. Taster Class £7.50. Half termly fee, equivalent of £15 per class depending on length of term.

Contact: 07812 856823 trudiochiltree@gmail. com. www.trudiochiltree.co.uk.

WEDNESDAY 5 JUNE Art Class 9.30am – 12.30pm. This class of drawing and painting is held each week. £16 most materials supplied. Mangerton Mill, Tara 07505 268 797.

Acrylics Develop your own personal painting style in this versatile medium. Suitable for all abilities. Wednesdays 10.30am - 12.30pm. £66 for 6 classes. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East St, Ilminster TA19 0AN. 01460 54973.Until 10 July.

Drawing Drawing exercises to help you see more readily, draw more easily. Suitable for all abilities. Bring A3 sketchpad and B2 &B4 pencils. Wednesdays 10.30am - 12.30pm. £66 for 6 classes. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East St, Ilminster TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. Until 10 July.

THURSDAY 6 JUNE Art Class 9.30am – 12.30pm. This class of drawing and painting is held each week. £16 most materials supplied. Mangerton Mill, Tara 07505 268 797.

From Wolf Hall to Poldark: Historical Dance Class meets 7.30pm – 9.30pm at

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St George’s Church Dorchester DT1 1LB. Taught by friendly specialist. No experience or partner needed. Wear light loose clothes & flexible footwear. £6 per stand-alone session, just turn up, every first Thursday (check before first time). Info Ann Hinchliffe 01935 472771 thedancingmaster@outlook.com.

Around the world in Pastel Pencils Learn how to draw a colourful array of North American fauna in pastel pencils. A wonderfully versatile and rewarding medium!

10am - 1pm. £ 72 for 6 workshops. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East St, Ilminster TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. Until 11 July.

SATURDAY 8 JUNE Just Foliage 10am - 1pm £22. Love foliage?

Then come and enjoy a relaxing morning flower arranging. Learn how to make a natural countryside design using freshly cut foliage from your garden. Together with foraged materials, this arrangement is just perfect for the heart of your home.

Workshops taught by award-winning Somerset tutor Jackie Nicholls from Ashville Design. Venue Combe St Nicholas Village Hall near Chard, TA20 3NY. For details of this and upcoming workshops visit www. ashvilledesign.co.uk or call Jackie on 01460 67795 or 07906 259 683.

Paint Pouring 1.30pm – 3.30pm £28.50 Leader: Gillian Beckman-Findlay. There are endless creative possibilities thanks to a number of techniques which aid the process which we will explore throughout the workshop. Coastal Craft Collective, 10 Marine Place, Seaton, Devon EX12 2QL 01297 691362 www.coastalcraftcollective.co.

SUNDAY 9 JUNE From Wolf Hall to Poldark: Historical Dance Class meets 1.30pm – 4pm at Royal British Legion Hall, Victoria Grove, Bridport DT6 3AD.Taught by friendly specialist. No experience or partner needed.

Wear light loose clothes & flexible footwear. £6 per stand-alone session, just turn up, every second Sunday (check before first time) Info Ann Hinchliffe 01935 472771 thedancingmaster@outlook.com.

MONDAY 10 JUNE Art Journaling 10am – 1pm £30 Leader: Monica Weber-Butler. Coastal Craft Collective, 10 Marine Place, Seaton, Devon EX12 2QL 01297 691362 www. coastalcraftcollective.co.

Scam Awareness ; Online Safety for your business & your customers A workshop with Rachel Brown. 10am - 11.30am. £15 LSi Bridport, 51 East Street, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3JX www.lsibridport.co.uk.

TUESDAY 11 JUNE Watercolours All abilities welcome. Tuesdays 10am – 12noon or 1pm - 3pm. £180 for 12 weeks. 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. Until 23 July.

WEDNESDAY 12 JUNE Upholstery Class in Dalwood Village Hall with tutor John Cooper. 9.30am - 3.30pm, £15 per day. As places are limited, please book in advance by phone on 01404 831207.

Also 26 June.

FRIDAY 14 JUNE By the Loom - Axminster Heritage Spinning and Weaving group £3 Everyone welcome; beginners and the more experienced. 01404 831207 for more info or to book. 10.30am – 3pm at Dalwood Pavilion EX13 7EU. FRIDAY 14 - SUNDAY 16 JUNE Shibori with indigo and madder weekend workshop Learn the traditional Japanese art of stitch resist dyeing Taught by Annabel Wilson. Please arrive on Friday for 4.30pm.

The course proper will start at 6pm with an introduction, dinner and evening session. The course will finish at approximately 4pm on Sunday with afternoon tea. R £303 NR £219.

The Kingcombe Centre, Lower Kingcombe, DT20EQ. T: 01300 320684. Visit www. kingcombe.org to book online.

SATURDAY 15 JUNE Pies, Pastries and Tarts Course with Helen Smith. 10am - 2pm Frogmary Green Farm Cookery School, South Petherton 01460 249758 www.frogmarygreenfarm.co.uk.

Introduction to Screen Printing 2pm – 4pm £20 Gillian Beckman-Findlay. Coastal Craft Collective, 10 Marine Place, Seaton, Devon EX12 2QL 01297 691362 www. coastalcraftcollective.co.

SUNDAY 16 JUNE Printmaking with ink & page at Squirrell Press, Studio 13,Bridport’s Art and Vintage Quarter, St Michael’s Trading Estate, Bridport DT6 3RR. Block printing: relief printing using lino. 11am - 4.30pm £65 contact kim@ inkandpage.co.uk Tel: 07425163459.

FRIDAY 21 JUNE Bridport Embroiderers workshop with Louise Nichols, Bridport Embroiderers meet monthly, at St Swithuns Church, Bridport, from 10.15am – 3.30pm. For further details, or to join/book, phone 01308 456168 or email cherry.bonhamlovett@btinternet.com.

FRIDAY 21 – SUNDAY 23 JUNE Illustrated traveller’s sketchbook weekend workshop Learn how to master the art of keeping a sketchbook when you are out and about or away from home, finding inspiration

in the stunning summer landscape of Kingcombe. Taught by Hue Dunford -Wood.

The course will start at 4.30pm on Friday with a welcome and tea/coffee. Dinner will be served at 6pm followed by an introductory session. R £314 NR £230. The Kingcombe Centre, Lower Kingcombe, DT20EQ. T: 01300 320684. Visit www.kingcombe.org to book online.

SATURDAY 22 JUNE Book binding workshop Make your own notebook with David Squirrell, artisan bookbinder of 30 years’ experience. 10am - 3pm £45 per participant / £43 THG Friends. Thelma Hulbert Gallery (THG), Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LX www. thelmahulbert.com 01404 45006.

The Wisdom of the Upanishads with Marj Snape 10am -1pm, at Dorchester Yoga and Therapy Centre. A morning workshop looking at these beautiful texts and the spiritual wisdom they contain. Includes chanting, discussion and meditation. Cost £25. “Early Bird” £20. For more information and to book please contact Marj on 07769949947 or email marjsnape@gmail. com.

Gardening Workshop with Josh Sparkes, (Forde Abby’s Head Gardiner). Organised

by Winsham Horticultural Society (9.30am 12.30pm approx) and at £8 for members and £10 for non- members, it’s very good value for money. Spaces will be filled on a ticket only basis. For more details & tickets contact Debbie on 01460 432815 or you can get your tickets from Winsham Shop. Please contact Debbie 01460 432815.

TUESDAY 25 JUNE Calligraphy Workshop Cost £16 At Axminster Heritage Centre, Silver St, Axminster EX13 5NX 2pm – 4pm. Tea and coffee provided. To book a place contact Gina on : 07703246481Or email : gina.youens@btinternet.com.

FRIDAY 28 JUNE

By The Loom - Axminster Heritage Spinning and Weaving group Come along and learn new skills or use old ones with a friendly and supportive group. £3 Everyone welcome; beginners and the more experienced. 10.30am – 3pm More info or to book: 01404 831207 The Bradshaw Meeting Room, Thomas Whitty House, Silver Street, Axminster, Devon, EX13 5AH. SATURDAY 29 JUNE Create a Hand Tied Posy and a Mini Arrangement Gina Youens, £12 Some foliage will be supplied but you’ll need some small head flowers and foliage, call for details and to book 01404 831207 An Axminster Heritage Alive Event 10.30am – 12.30pm at The Bradshaw Meeting Room, Thomas Whitty House, Silver Street, Axminster, Devon, EX13 5AH. Floral Craft Workshop 10.30am – 12.30pm £12 ( to include tea and cake) At Axminster Heritage Centre Silver St, Axminster EX13.

To book a place contact 01404 831207 Or email : gina.youens@btinternet.com.

Jewellery workshop10am – 4pm Caroline Parrott Tickets are £65 (includes all materials and lunch.) Shire Hall, Dorchester www. shirehalldorset.org or call 01305 261849.

SUNDAY 30 JUNE Artisan Bread Making Course with well know tutor Alison Haigh. Join us for a Masterclass and learn the skil 10.30am approximately 3.30pm. Frogmary Green Farm, South Petherton, 01460 249758 www. frogmarygreenfarm.co.uk.

Gospel Singing Workshop with Tony Backhouse in St Marys Church Hall Bridport.

10.30am - 4pm to book call Fran on 01297 445078 or email franrois@hotmail.com.

TUESDAY 25 – THUR 27 JUNE Wild flowers, orchids and grasses identification workshop Learn to identify the diverse flowers and grasses of Kingcombe Meadows Nature Reserve. This workshop aims to introduce and inspire you to quickly and confidently identify a range of wild flowers, orchids, and grasses. Led by Leif Bersweden.

Suitable for any level of experience from beginner upwards. The course will start at 1pm on Tuesday with lunch and an introduction session.

The course will finish at 2pm on Thursday with lunch. R £303 NR £219. The Kingcombe Centre, Lower Kingcombe, DT20EQ. T: 01300 320684. Visit www.kingcombe.org to book online.

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News &Views

EAST DEVON

CHARD

JURASSIC COAST

Figures show that one in ten cash machines have disappeared from East Devon’s high streets in the last two years. According to data for the cash machine network, Link, there were around 230 ATMs in East Devon at the end of 2017. This has now fallen to 208 as of February this year.

The number of free-to-use cash points has also gone down from 179 in 2017 to 171 in 2019. An independent review published in March found that around eight million adults—17% of the population—still rely on cash and would struggle to cope in an entirely digital economy. These included people in rural communities, those on a low income who may struggle to budget without cash, and older people or people with disabilities.

Cllr Jason Baker is this year’s mayor. He succeeds Cllr Garry Shortland, who had stood down after two years in the role. Cllr Baker is Chard Carnival Committee chairman and a member of Chard Town Team.

He was unopposed and elected unanimously by the town council. Working with the council to serve the people of Chard, he is keen to use the mayoral role ‘to forge links with local businesses to help them grow and flourish.’

His first chosen charity for the year is Cancer Research UK as he has lost several members of his family to cancer in recent times.

He will also support Little Daffodils, a Chardbased baby loss charity, The Project, which fights social isolation, and Chard Memory Cafe, which supports people with dementia and their carers.

A new fossil code has been launched covering the Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliffs National Nature Reserve. It advocates responsible and safe fossil collecting and seeks to strengthen collaboration between those with an interest in fossils from this part of the Jurassic Coast. The new code is based on the existing and successful West Dorset Fossil Code, differing in certain respects to take account of the specific characteristics and scientific value of the nature reserve. It encourages responsible fossil collecting along the six-mile stretch of landslipped undercliffs, the reporting and recording of important fossil finds and the acquisition of scientifically valuable fossils by recognised museums. It supports the management of the Undercliffs National Nature Reserve and the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.

ATMs leaving the high street

New mayor to work with businesses

LYME REGIS

Guitarists battle climate change Organisers of Guitars on the Beach (GOTB), which is held annually in the resort to encourage guitarists of all ages and abilities, is this year supporting the Turn Lyme Green movement, which provides a platform for plastic-free Lyme Regis and other local eco initiatives. A spokesman for GOTB said: “We’re adding our voice and guitars to the calls on the climate change emergency, because if we don’t stop global warming, it will soon become too hot to even go on a beach.” Advice will be given on how everyone can do their bit to make a difference. Participants are being asked to bring their own reusable containers for water rather than buying plastic bottles. The event takes place on June 15 from 10am to 10pm.

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New fossil code launched

WEYMOUTH

Fairy tale characters involved in brawl

Between 20 and 30 men in fancy dress were involved in a fight at the town’s railway station.

They included Shrek and Snow White, according to onlookers. The men were believed to have been part of a stag party. Police arrested two men on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly. British Transport Police are leading the investigation into what happened. Earlier last month, three people were arrested at the railway station. Officers detained two people in relation to drug-related offences and, in an unrelated incident, a third was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon. A local said it had become quite a ‘hot spot’ for trouble and there was always something happening there.

Feathered Friends Laterally Speaking by Humphrey Walwyn

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think it happens when we all get a bit older, but I find I’ve now become much more of a wildlife fan. Being officially ‘retired’, it’s probably got more to do with me having spare time on my hands and watching too much David Attenborough on TV. Not that you can ever have ‘too much’ of Saint David, as he seems to be one of the few sane people left on our polystyrene polluted planet.

When it comes to elections of various kinds, I’d much rather put an ‘X’ against Sir David’s name on my ballot paper. If he’d care to stand somewhere, I’d go and vote for him so he could then sort out Westminster by covering Big Ben with a gigantic pile of discarded plastic bags topped with albatross poo. He’d also save the country by feeding the soggy mess called Brexit to a troop of hungry polar bears, although they might end up with chronic indigestion.

I don’t know about you, but I find that—as I get older—everything around me is rushing past at ever increasing speed.

This is why I now like gardening. Way back when, I didn’t have the patience to wait six weeks for my runner beans or sweet-peas to grow. A month was eternity, let alone six weeks! But now that I’m slowing down a bit, all my plants seem to be springing out of the ground like Jacks-in-the-box and it’s increasingly difficult to catch them before they bolt away. It’s a sort of race between me, the plants and the slugs, which is in itself an exciting and fun activity.

Along with gardening has come a sudden interest in birds—the feathered variety. I’m not yet a proper ‘Bird Watcher’ (I’m only a Bird Gazer Third Class), but I now almost know the difference between a siskin and a serin (not as easy as you think) and I can even recognise individual wood pigeons and blackbirds from their calls. I still get a bit bemused by buntings (so many of them) and I’m befuddled by the myriad tribes of finches, but I know enough to get through the majority of bird questions at our local village quiz night.

With the onrush of beginners’ enthusiasm, my wife and I have now joined the RSPB and we’ve erected a forest of bird feeders near to the kitchen window.

Instead of my usual semi-dormant morning inertia at the breakfast table, I can now be spotted next to the coffee machine, squinting at the sky as I eagerly scan the fat balls for a chaffinch. Or is that

a red start? Quick—get the bird book! One of my first purchases was a nice pair of binoculars—an essential piece of kit even for amateur bird gazers like me...

I thought this new hobby would be easy and relatively cheap, but that’s not quite true. Although the birds themselves don’t cost anything, their food does and I must have spent the equivalent of several Spanish family beach holidays on everything from sunflower seeds and hearts to pink and grey suet pellets, mealworms and suet blocks (with added insect extract for extra protein). And there’s no such thing as simple bird seed. Bird seed comes prepacked as ‘Feeder mix’, ‘Table mix extra’, ‘Blue Tit mix’ (which seems to attract every bird EXCEPT blue-tits) and my least favourite—‘No Mess mix’. This latter is misnamed as it produces much more mess than the others, but at least your garden gets cultivated with hundreds of beautiful wild flowers from the seeds that fall to the ground. And then there’s the tiny black nyjer seeds which get everywhere—on the floor, I don’t know why, but birds sometimes avoid our feeders under the coffee machine, in your hair and in your breakfast cereal bowl etc. Nyjer little birdies away. Two days later, the reseed is supposed to attract goldfinches ally big bullies arrive: the crows, rooks and and the like, but a huge magpie removed magpies. They proceed to trash the entire the container from its hook the other place and break or steal the feeders and day and dropped the whole thing on the scare everything away. Your only solution ground where it promptly broke. The bird is to remove all the food and put the feedthen proceeded to gobble it all up beakfull ers into the garage for safe keeping till the by greedy beakfull. Of course, this was following winter. This rather removes the on purpose. Magpies are very clever but object of bird watching. they’re also selfish and brutish and mean.

Living on the Jurassic Coast, I suppose I call this the Bird Feeder Paradox…

I could always hang out a dead sheep or the greater the joy, the greater the probsomething similar and wait for a passing lem. You start by putting out all your Pterodactyl to swoop down on my garden bird food and for about five days it’s a like a huge dark Jabberwocky. That would wonderful success. You get every sort clear out the magpies. And all the seagulls. of small bird such as robins and tits and And probably the horribly noisy children finches all feeding near your window. And from number 14. And their cats... defithen the starlings arrive like badly behaved nitely their cats. noisy teenagers to drive all your pretty

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House&Garden

Rayner in Bridport JAY Rayner, Masterchef judge, Observer restaurant critic and chairman of BBC Radio 4’s Kitchen Cabinet is coming to Bridport Arts Centre on Saturday 15th June, with his show The Ten (Food) Commandments, as part of Bridport Food Festival.

The original Ten Commandments have very little to offer when it comes to the complex business of how and what we eat. Now Jay has decided it’s time to act—his Ten (Food) Commandments deal with those difficult questions like whether it is ever okay to covet thy neighbour’s oxen (it is), eating with your hands (very important indeed) and if you should cut off the fat (no).

Jay leads his audience through an audio-visual romp to the edible Promised Land.

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Monumenta Britannica

By Cecil Amor JOHN Aubrey, the 17th century Wiltshire antiquarian wrote about the monuments of Britain, under this title. However this article is about monumental inscriptions in the churchyards of parts of West Dorset. The Somerset and Dorset Family History Society decided in about 1996 that it should record the inscriptions of gravestones, possibly inspired by our President Sir Mervyn Medlycott who single handed recorded several churchyards in his area.

I was a member of the West Dorset Group and we were led by our Chairman, Harold Faulkner, who with his wife Pat requested permission from various parish ministers and churchwardens to carry out the work and then drew up plans of the particular churchyard. Finally Pat typed up the results. Not all parishes agreed as they did not want the lichen disturbed, or other wildlife.

We agreed to carry out the work with the minimum disturbance and not of course on Sundays or other church occasions. Naturally we required good weather.

My initiation was at St Swithuns, Allington, Bridport and had not realised how much time was required. So my only memory from that occasion was of several graves of Doctors, explained by the earlier local hospital in Allington.

Broadwindsor is memorable for our work being delayed by a visit from a group of Morris Dancers nearby, which we all enjoyed.

As we commenced our task we noticed a small cremation tablet inscribed “In loving memory of R.C. (Dick) Day died 14 Feb 1989 aged 82” and then a local man passing through the churchyard asked what we were doing. One of our members asked if he knew Dick Day and he replied “his finger is buried there, look in the book My Story by Leonard Studley. Leonard, a retired farmer, attended our monthly meetings in Beaminster, always wearing an immaculate bow tie. He told us that Day had been baptised Reginald, but known to his friends as “Dodger”. He had been working on a farm machine pulping mangolds for cattle feed when it jammed and Dodger attempted to clear the jam with his fingers, just as another lad turned the handle, chopping off a finger near the middle joint.

A local doctor soon attended to Dodgers hand. However a local elderly lady said that unless the finger was buried in consecrated ground the stump would never heal. The lady was respected in the village, always wearing black and performed the “last rites on people—to lie ‘um out”. So they returned to the farmyard and found the grisly finger among the mangold pulp and buried it with a matchbox for a coffin, under a yew tree in the

churchyard. The “cure” was effective and the stump healed. Dodger frequently said “I want to be buried under the yew, with my finger” and when he eventually died his ashes were scattered under the tree. But Leonard said that no one asked him and the tablet is on the opposite side of the tree, from the finger.

However we found it a peaceful spot.

Some headstones were already illegible and eroded, so the work entailed washing the inscription with clean water and then reading it as accurately as possible. It was best to work in pairs, one reading and the other recording and checking. Good sunlight, from the side, provided the best contrast, but alternatively a mirror could be used to reflect the light.

If this was not possible a torch was used from the side, with stone and reader covered in a ground sheet to shade other light. So should you be walking past a church and see a huddled form against a headstone, do not be alarmed, it may be someone discovering their family history. Frequently another eye at a different angle could see what the close observer missed. When our leader, Harold, walked round to check progress if we said we could not read a word he would say “It’s as plain as the nose on your face” and he was always able to read that particular word.

We were generally a happy bunch and often found inscriptions amusing. In Beaminster churchyard we found an inscription referring to an actor who died after a fall.

Someone suggested “from the stage” and I think this proved to be so. It was a hot day and our erstwhile Chairman, Ray Paul, was noted wearing a hat with a bright white handkerchief on the back of his neck, “Foreign Legion” style, which caused a giggle.

Occasionally we had to restrain some of our members from extreme actions, such as using bleach or “Brillo” on the stones. Our friend and recent Chairman, Brian, was prevented from bringing his wire brush, or chisel. He was once found standing on top of a table tomb, brushing ferociously with a yard brush.

In the summer of 1997 we embarked on the parish church of St Mary, Bridport, in South Street, assisted by some members of Bridport History Society.

I purchased a copy of the records subsequently so that I can quote in detail, where there are items of special interest. For example, a medium size table tomb records members of the Downe family, possibly the originators of Downe Street. Another records two William Balston’s. There are two large table tombs to members of the Gundry family and some smaller graves, names needing no explanation in Bridport. Some of the tombs and head stones bear engravings and

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embellishments of flowers, ivy leaves, angels, scrolls, trumpets, willows, hourglasses, shells and a skull.

Other recorded names also relate to the towns staple industry of rope, nets and twine, including Whetham, Tucker, Hounsell, Seymour and Ewens.

Another large decorated table tomb records the death of Nicholas Bools and family, including two daughters, one the wife of John Thoyts, Lieutenant Colonel of the Royal Horse Guard Blues. Bools had been one of the early shipbuilders at Bridport Harbour.

Inside the church there are many monuments. A large brass plate records two Professors of Music named Hayes, related to two Rev Broadley’s, one Rector of Bridport, the other Vicar of Bradpole and Rural Dean.

There was a photograph of Albert Stone, who was organist from 1888 and a plaque records that the first organ was built in 1815, rebuilt in 1884 and restored in 1984/1988.

An illuminated script with the church history listed the Rectors of the Parish from Peter de Colyngton 1317 to John West Gann 1987.

A brass plaque refers to an historic time in the national history, “in memory of Edward Coker, Gent, Second son of Capt. Robert Coker of Mapowder, slayne at the Bull Inn, Bridport An Do 1685 by one Venner who was a officer under the late Duke of Monmouth in that rebellion”. Another brass plaque shows the coat of arms of the ship H.M.S. Bridport together with its White Ensign.

A marble monument relates to Charlotte Carpenter, died 1816, only child of the late Rev Edward Roberts. Also of Henry Roberts, eldest son of Thomas and Charlotte Carpenter aged about 14 years, a midshipman on board H.M.S Scout, sloop of war which foundered at sea in November 1801 on the banks of Newfoundland on her voyage to Halifax in Nova Scotia when all hands perished.

The Ringing Chamber and Bell Tower has a photograph of the Ringing Guild Members in 1897 and details of the bells being recast variously in 1843, 1887, 1897, 1924.

Two particular monuments in Bridport require special mention and are well known.

The Town War Memorial faces South Street and is the object of annual commemoration and needs no further detailing as it may be clearly examined. The other is the monument to Giles Lawrence Roberts, M.D.F.R.C.A. who died Sept.16th 1834 aged 69 years, just inside the wall behind the war memorial. It is a tall obelisk topped by a large sphere and standing on five steps. Also recorded is Joseph son of Rich & Mary Roberts, died Dec. 29 1769 and John their son who died in infancy and finally Phoebe wife of Giles died Jan 5th 1810

aged 56 and also their daughter Phoebe who died in infancy. The obelisk carries crests and globes and references to “The Good Samariton”. He was well known in Bridport and further afield for producing an ointment termed “The Poor Man’s Friend” and for pills for various conditions. It has been said that he often did not charge poor people for medication and he is now remembered by a small close off South Street bearing his name.

His shop is now the Heart Foundation charity shop almost opposite the Town Hall.

Unfortunately due to family illness I was unable to continue with the project and it was finalised by Marilyn Sealy who brought it to a successful conclusion.

Finally the completed typed scripts were printed and bound by the Somerset and Dorset Family History Society and copies distributed to the relevant church, museum, etc., and may be sold to any interested individuals.

John Betjeman penned a poem about Dorset Churchyards (which I have savagely abreviated) : “Rime Intrinsica, Fontmell Magna, Sturminster Newton and Melbury Bubb, ---While Tranter Reuben, T.S. Eliot, H.G. Wells and Edith Sitwell lie in Melstock Churchyard now. ---While Tranter Reuben, Mary Borden, Brian Howard and Harold Acton lie in Melstock Churchyard now. ---While Tranter Reuben, Gordon Selfridge, Edna Best and Thomas Hardy lie in Melstock Churchyard now”. Read it in full if you can!

The next meeting of Bridport History Society is not in a churchyard, but in the United Church Main Hall at 2.30 pm on Tuesday June 11th for a Summer Special from Bruce Upton and Jane Ferentzi-Sheppard, “Pubs, Drinking, Poverty” : surviving life in Bridport in the 1800s’. All welcome, visitor entrance £3.

Cecil Amor, Hon President, Bridport History Society.

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Vegetables in June

By Ashley Wheeler

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t last the threat of frost has passed and the longest day of the year comes at the end of the month. With this brings the prospect of summer vegetables like cucumbers, tomatoes, courgettes and peppers. All of which were planted from the beginning of May At Trill. We had a cold start to May, and it is always best to not rush into planting these tender crops too early, otherwise you end up worrying about frosts and having to fleece crops that are already stringed up which can be a bit of a nightmare.

The market garden at Trill is mostly planted up by June, and usually looks its best—before earlier crops start to fade a little, and there is still the vibrancy of late Spring lingering on. It is a time when we start to see some of early crops being replaced by successions of salads, and the salad mix can have a huge variety of leaves, with various lettuce varieties as the summer stalwarts. We especially like Cerbiatta, and you can’t beat Maureen a lovely little gem. One of our favourite leaves at this time of year is agretti which we grow in tunnels for the more tender salad leaves, and outside as a vegetable to blanch. It is an Italian vegetable likened to samphire—with a slightly salty crunchiness. It is notoriously difficult to germinate, and we find it best to save our own seed—leaving a few plants to mature without harvesting them, and simply hanging them up in the polytunnel from October time, where the seed ripens further. We then sow it from January successionally through to April or May. Other leaves that we are harvesting at the moment include summer purslane and goosefoot (Magentaspreen from Real Seed Catalogue)—we grow these in polytunnels, but they will do fine in a fairly warm dryish summer outside too.

Also salad burnet, chervil, amaranth, fenugreek, nasturtiums, peashoots and endive to name a few.

For us June is definitely a time to reflect on all of the planning and work that has gone into the market garden over winter and spring, when we can look at the garden and be proud of how productive and beautiful it is. However, the work certainly doesn’t stop there, and there is plenty to do to keep the weeds down, and ensure beds are constantly being utilised. We aim to have plants in trays ready to be planted when another crop is slowing down and not producing much anymore, this means that there is little bare soil in the summer months. As the early spring crops such as radish, peas and broad beans begin to fade we usually mow them down and cover the beds with black silage plastic to help kill off any weeds and speed up the breaking down process. It usually takes around 3 weeks for the crop residues to break down enough to take off the plastic, rake and plant something new—so its always good to have something ready for planting in place of old crops.

WHAT TO SOW THIS MONTH: purple sprouting broccoli & January King type winter cabbage (early this month), french beans, beetroot, chard, carrots, basil, late cucumbers, kale, fennel, salad leaves—summer purslane, buckshorn plantain, salad burnet, lettuce, chicory (Treviso and Palla Rossa varieties early in the month, other varieties later), endive, mustards and rocket (mesh to keep flea beetle off), goosefoot, anise hyssop, amaranth, orache, nasturtiums.

WHAT TO PLANT THIS MONTH: OUTSIDE: Dwarf french beans, beetroot, squash and corn (if not already done), lettuce and salads, squash, corn, runner beans, kale, chard, INSIDE: climbing french beans, cucumbers, basil, salads—goosefoot, summer purslane OTHER IMPORTANT TASKS THIS MONTH: Still keeping on top of weeds—especially important early on after planting out crops or direct sowing, to minimise competition from weeds, and minimise slug habitat. Undersow squash with a mix of red and white clovers, yellow trefoil, and other cornfield wildflowers—this will help to fix nitrogen, but more importantly cover the soil and provide organic matter and living roots for soil organisms to benefit from.

We are running Salad Growing courses on July 13th and October 19th - see trillfarmgarden. co.uk/courses for further details.

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Free Screening to Celebrate Marine’s 125th Anniversary

All over the Town was filmed in Lyme Regis in 1949

LYME Regis is best known to film buffs as the location for The French Lieutenant’s Woman, and specifically for a haunted Meryl Streep, wrapped in a dark cloak, gazing out to the raging seas from a wind-swept Cobb.

But the picturesque town which is also famous as the birthplace of Mary Anning, the mother of paleontology, has had starring roles in two other films, 70 years apart—most recently Ammonite, a new film about Mary Anning, starring Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan and Fiona Shaw.

Situated a couple of hundred metres from two of the film’s locations on Broad Street and Combe Street, Lyme’s Marine Theatre, where Hollywood star James Cagney performed during the war, was hired by the Fossil Films company for three weeks, for wardrobe and other support services.

The wardrobe and costumes were housed in the auditorium, alongside a number of temporary dressing rooms in which some of the cast were fitted with authentic 19th century costumes. The theatre’s permanent dressing rooms were used to prepare wigs and makeup.

It was also used as a makeshift canteen, where members of the cast and crew ate at lunchtimes, and as a place for some of the cast to shelter from the weather and paparazzi in between scenes.

Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons filmed at Lyme Regis for the 1981 Karel Reisz-directed adaptation of John Fowles’ 1969 post-modern novel, The French Lieutenant’s Woman.

Further back, in 1949 the town provided several locations for the black and white comedy drama All Over the Town in which two crusading reporters revive a failing newspaper and expose local corruption.

The film is being screened free of charge at the Marine Theatre in the town as part of the arts venue’s 125th anniversary celebrations. Written by the Devon-based novelist and dramatist RF Delderfield from Sidmouth, it starred Norman Wooland and Sarah Churchill.

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June in the Garden

By Russell Jordan

JUNE is often the first month of the year when the abundance of plant growth, conspiring with higher temperatures, results in the need for wholesale irrigation, rather than the selective watering of newly planted areas, pots, containers etc., which has been the priority up to now.

Thinking about watering has reminded me that the sales of metaldehyde based slug pellets will be banned, from around now, to allow time to use up old stock before their total ban, on outside applications, in 2020. The reason why this is linked to watering is because the way you water the garden has an effect on controlling the damage done by slugs and snails.

In dry weather slugs and snails are less able to move around, and therefore less able to nibble your precious plants, due to their mobility being based on slime production which relies on moisture being readily available. In hot, dry, spells they are more likely to stay below ground, or in cool hiding places, where they are safe from dehydration.

If you water your garden by spaying a fine spray of water, willynilly, over all the plants then you are creating the perfect conditions for these molluscally rascals to emerge and bite chunks out of your tastiest plants. The devastation is compounded if you water in the evening, so that the ground and foliage remains wet all night, just when slugs and snails are most active. Watering very early in the morning is a bit better but only if the water has time to evaporate from the foliage before the sun gets too hot. Wet leaves can become scorched if exposed to strong sunlight.

I don’t think I’ve mentioned it for a while, so this is the perfect opportunity, but incorporating seep hoses (a.k.a. ‘leaky hose’) into beds and borders may be the ideal way to irrigate in the most efficient manner. Seep hoses are easiest to install when creating a new planting scheme, from scratch, because the hose needs to be buried a few centimetres below the soil surface which is easiest before any planting takes place.

It is important to read the specifications, for whichever product you buy, because its porosity will determine the length you will require to ensure even watering over the whole area. If you need to install it in existing borders then it is possible, but more fiddly, as it will need to be buried, at the correct depth, while also weaving it around existing plants without damaging their roots. I pin it down with wire hoops, formed from stiff gardening wire, so that it stays in place even before it is covered over by the soil.

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to watering the plant roots and not the foliage, the fact that they are buried means that water loss by evaporation from the soil surface is minimised because the water is applied directly to the root zone, below ground, and not all over the plants and border.

They work at low water pressure, seeping over a long period of time, and are therefore well suited to being hooked up to a water computer. If programmed to supply water only during the hours of darkness then water loss by evaporation is reduced even further.

When set up properly the soil surface should remain dry, except directly above the buried hose, which inhibits the activity of slugs and snails compared to a soil that is watered from above. Applying an organic mulch over the entire soil surface, including the buried seep hose, reduces water loss, by surface evaporation, even further.

Having had a relatively dry winter, following a hot and dry summer, there is a chance that watering restrictions may be necessary if this summer is also relatively arid. It goes without saying, even in the generally wetter south-west, that installing water butts and other water storage devices is pretty much de rigueur these days. Moving away from some of the most water-dependent plants, those that tend to wilt if not kept damp at the root, is another option. The trend towards ‘Prairie Planting’ consisting of more drought tolerant plant species, originating from grassland areas rather than ‘edge of woodland’ habitats, is a boon to creating planting schemes which are less dependant on good rainfall. They are also, by fortuitous happenstance, more mollusc resistant due to the fact that many ‘Prairie’ mainstays are less palatable to slugs and snails; ornamental grasses being a case in point.

I think of the large ornamental grasses as upright shrubs, in the mixed border situation, as they are similarly solid and act as a foliage foil to the more ephemeral flowering perennials. Miscanthus varieties have not yet reached their full height, they come into their own towards the end of summer, but the ‘Spanish Oat Grass’, Stipa gigantea, is in full bloom around now—although ‘bloom’ is a tricky term when applied to grasses which have more architectural flower spikes rather than ‘blousy’, petal based, inflorescences. I find that S. gigantea is less reliable than the bombproof, larger, Miscanthus sinensis and may be weakened, even killed outright, in severe winters. Having said that, its fountain of ethereal oat-heads, punching through a mixed planting, is so dramatic that it’s worth the risk To inject extra colour into borders, especially now that the risk of frost is gone, it’s not too late to buy summer bedding and tender perennials as garden-ready plants. If you sowed your own ‘filler’ annuals, in early spring, then these are invaluable for plugging the odd gap, especially where spring bulbs have gone over. Alliums are

the main bulbous plant making an impact now, taking over where tulips finished off, but they are notoriously unattractive as potted plants, their leaves tend to shrivel as the flowers come out, so are seldom sold as potted plants for instant effect.

Lilies are much more likely to be offered in garden centres and are a good ‘go to’ for plunging into border gaps. It’s always worth ordering some summer flowering bulbs, at the same time that you order your spring bulbs, to plant in pots and keep in reserve for this very reason. The choice of varieties is far greater, as bulbs, than that offered as ‘instant’ plants in garden centres.

Growing your own is less expensive too.

Returning to the subject of watering, I’ll finish off with a reminder to add a feed to the watering can when watering plant displays in pots and containers. Plants which are expected to produce showy blooms, at least if regularly dead-headed, need to be fed artificially in order that they do not become exhausted before the summer is over. Follow the instructions on the packet for whichever fertiliser you prefer, I tend to use a balanced feed that is added to the can at a specified rate, as there is no point in overfeeding them.

At the end of the day, the most likely cause of container plants failing prematurely is a lack of water. Regular watering is vital because it’s very difficult to re-wet compost, once it has completely dried out, and the stress of becoming desiccated will weaken the plants. A weakened plant is more prone to succumbing to pests and diseases so diligent watering, with feeding every week or two, not only fulfils their maximum flowering potential but also saves you time and money in helping them survive with the least need for emergency intervention. Prevention is always better than cure!

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PROPERTY ROUND-UP

Barnstorming

By Helen Fisher

CREWKERNE £425,000

Converted from an original Tithe Barn is this attached, beautifully presented 4 bedroom home. Sitting room with hamstone feature fireplace. Easily maintained front garden and pretty, well designed, enclosed rear garden with far-reaching views. Double garage and allocated parking.

Mayfair Town and Country Tel: 0146074200

CHARD JUNCTION £350,000

Beautifully presented throughout, this lovely conversion has 3 bedrooms.

Spacious sitting room with wood-burning stove and family sized kitchen, stylish bathroom with contemporary roll top bath. Attached garage/ workshop plus additional parking for 4 cars. Small fenced courtyard with seating area and paddock Gordon and Rumbsby Tel: 01297 553768

HIGHER EYPE £1.5M

A fabulous detached 4 bedroom former barn, featuring exceptional space, position and sea views. Plus detached self-contained annex. In a peaceful setting yet a short drive into town and half a mile from the beach. Mature gardens with trees and ponds plus paddock and outbuildings. All set in 7.4 acres Symonds and Sampson Tel: 01308 422092 48 The Marshwood Vale Magazine June 2019 Tel. 01308 423031

BRIDPORT £835,000

A former pub with detached 3 bedroom cottage and barns plus a terrace of 3 cottages providing letting potential. Static caravan pitch, field with electric hook-up for 8 mobile homes and camping facilities, all together with pasture land and ample parking. A versatile, lifestyle opportunity.

Kennedys Tel: 01308 427329

LITTON CHENEY Offers in excess of £1M A substantial, 5 bedroom Grade II listed village home. With many period features from it’s former life as a 1700s shop and forge. Master bedroom with vaulted ceiling plus en suite with roll top bath. Outbuildings, garage, workshop and studio. South facing lawned garden and kitchen garden.

Jackson-Stops Tel: 01308 423133

LANGTON HERRING £325,000

With scope to create a substantial family home within a courtyard of completed barn conversions. Planning permission already granted.

Enclosed, private garden and potential for private driveway. Adjoining completed barn is also available by separate negational. Set in popular village, close to Chesil Beach.

Stags Tel: 01308 428000

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Disney Shark Fin

By Nick Fisher

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ost parents succumb to the pressure of the mouse. The big-eared, bright-smiled, multi-billion-dollarearning mouse that has conquered civilisations across the world. Mickey Mouse and his omnipotent umbrella company, Disney, have a hold on practically every parent who has ever pushed a buggy or read a bedtime story.

At Waterloo Station, I use to see crowds of knackered families, pouring off the Eurostar train, clutching soft-stuffed Eeyores, while Mickey-shaped hydrogen-filled balloons bump gaily against station signs, their strings looped tightly around buggy handles and goggle-eyed kids’ wrists.

It’s not just parents who choose to spend their leisure time and hard earned bucks in the Magic Kingdom. Perfectly normal adultsized adults go to Disneyland, for days, for weekends, for whole weeks even, to get in touch with their inner child. Or just to scare themselves witless on some white-knuckle Thunder Mountain ride that stimulates their adrenal gland, faster than a bout of electroshock therapy.

In the late 1980s, I developed a bit of an obsession with fishing in Florida, and mercilessly dragged my then girlfriend, now wife Helen, to the Sunshine State in search of tarpon as big as a scrum-half. On one visit, in the spirit of entertainment diversity, and as a sop to her severe fishing widowhood, I suggested we visit Orlando and Disneyworld.

A friend (who is no longer a friend) told me, ‘we’d love it’.

We had no children. We had no real excuse to go and ended up visiting Disney Epcot Centre. Which is the sort of brainiac, look-

and-learn, swotty kid-end of Disney entertainment; low on white-knuckle adrenaline, high on worthy, booky, educational stuff about space, the human body, blah, blah, blah.

We hated it. I’ve had more fun at the dentists. I stood in more queues in one day than I have in the rest of my life put together. My feet swelled up like hedgehogs in a microwave. And my rental car’s battery went flat, leaving us stranded in a car park the size of Middlesbrough. But lunch was good. Very good.

In the middle of Epcot is the World Showcase: a world in miniature. Cities from around the globe compressed into a tiny faux version of the real thing. A phoney London pub selling ‘authentic’ low alcohol beer. A Swiss Alpine town complete with lederhosen and wig-wearing Heidi-lookalikes.

Helen and I ate in ‘Japan’. The sushi, sashimi and kobe beef were excellent. To die for. Real write-home-to-mum-about stuff.

I have been to Disneyworld once since.

But, apart from a hilarious experience where I accidentally came upon two of the fattest people in the world bonking in a hammock at one in the morning at the Seven Seas Lagoon on the Polynesian Resort, odd though it would seem, my lasting memory of Mickey’s gaff is the grub. The fabulous foreign grub.

One year though, the mouse got his wrist well and truly slapped, over the food he was going to serve in his new theme park opening in Hong Kong.

You see, apart from just being a place for kids to regurgitate their lunch on top of Thunder Mountain, the magic Wonderland in Hong Kong also provides a magical

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location for wedding banquets. And the traditional feast, or rather the nouveau riche-adopted tradition, is to serve shark’s fin soup at weddings.

Shark fin soup probably tastes great. I’ve never actually eaten any. But, as fancy foodstuffs go, it’s a marine disaster in the making.

Long lining fishing boats all around the world have been collecting sharks’ fins to be sold into the lucrative Hong Kong market.

Often the sharks are not dead when they are de-finned. They could be returned alive, intact. Instead they are hacked and butchered, thrown finless into the sea, where they spiral helplessly to the sea bed, to die and rot. All for the sake of four tiny fins, used to add a little gelatin to a bowl of chicken soup.

Shark fin soup used to be food of emperors and the aristocratic elite. A rare dish, eaten by a rare few. Now, with China’s booming economy, millions can afford to eat shark fin soup, and want to, because they see it as a symbol of their own personal success.

Thankfully, marine conservationist Brian Darvell, WWF, Greenpeace and WildAid acted quickly in response to the big mouse’s decision to serve shark fin soup in Disneyworld. Disney shareholders, scuba-diving groups and angling bodies also joined the throng of people threatening to boycott Disney if they didn’t rethink their menu.

The mouse tried to argue that he’d only use sharks from sustainable sources, but the pressure of the conservation groups finally made an impact and Disney eventually announced shark fin soup would not be served in Hong Kong Disneyworld, not even for wedding banquets.

Food&Dining

Plenty to satisfy at the Bridport Food Festival

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Discover Farming is a popular feature at the Bridport Food Festival

t the Bridport Food Festival showcase event on Saturday 15th June visitors will be able to tuck into food and drink from over sixty independent local food and drink producers, caterers and suppliers, all from within a 20-mile radius of Bridport, including from three new start-up businesses based in Bridport who have been awarded the Bridport Local Food Group Bursary—Yumptious, Curious Kombucha and Dorset Donut Co. On offer will be homemade cakes, bread, pies, preserves, oils, wine, gin, meat, sausages, seafood and much more, as well as a great selection of street food—burgers, wraps, pizzas, Asian cuisines, locally produced ice cream, high tea, scones and cream, cakes and/ or sandwiches, all sourced from local suppliers in the Festival Tea Tent. And at the Bridport Round Table’s Beer Festival there will be plenty of different ales and ciders to sample.

Local chefs including Christine McFadden, local cookbook author and cookery teacher; Simon Mazzei, proprietor and chef from the Olive Tree, Bridport, Mark Pile from The Coach House, Mapperton and Shirley Booth, a local authority on Japanese Food will be demonstrating their skills in the cookery theatre.

Baking has become a popular pastime, and this year the Festival has put in place a number of different baking competitions to find the best local amateur bakers. There will be categories and classes for all ages and cash prizes to be won. Entry will be free. Details of the different classes available will be published on the festival website www. bridportfoodfestival.co.uk as well as

available to pick up from the TIC and other venues around the town.

The Beer Festival run by the Bridport Round Table will have over eighty beers and ciders to try and live music playing.

Running from 11am to 11pm. All money raised will be donated to local charities.

The Festival is fun for everyone. Not only is it a Festival for the food and drink lover but it is a Festival for the whole family to enjoy, particularly the younger generation. One of the main ambitions of the Festival is to get young people thinking and learning about food, where it comes from and how to prepare and enjoy eating it.

There will be free hands-on activities throughout the day in the Children’s marquee (this year it has an Italian theme), at the Discover Farming tent and in the Teen Zone. Booking is not necessary.

Dorset Forest School will be running one hour supervised sessions to teach youngsters over 10 years old, the forest skill of lighting and cooking on an open fire. Places will be limited so it is advisable to book in advance at the Bridport Tourist Information Centre. They will also be entertained by stand-up poet Rob Casey who will be performing around the Festival.

Entrance to the Festival is £3.50 for adults (advance tickets £3 from the Bridport Tourist Information Centre) and free for youngsters 17 years and under.

For the full programme of special events being held during the week by local food and drink producers, retailers and hospitality outlets, as well as more details on the Showcase event on Saturday 15th June at Asker Meadows keep checking the Festival website www. bridportfoodfestival.com.

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Hooked on Hix

still fish for mackerel, as I did when I was a kid, but these days it’s normally from my boat in the summer. When the fishing is a bit grim, you are more or less guaranteed to catch mackerel. When they are so plentiful, I just catch enough for supper, or I may take a bucketful or more to the restaurant, where they will go to really good use. It’s always great to catch just what you need for supper and not to go too mad because, although mackerel are plentiful, it’s sensible to be aware of sustainability. Fishing isn’t about keeping everything you catch.

A few years back, when I started doing my Food Rocks festival in Lyme Regis, I would organize an interesting panel discussion based around topical fish chat, the ocean and sustainability. I’d invite a few like-minded people to discuss fishing and fish stocks, and basically thrash out current fishy subjects.

Ironically, before the festival, the news was out in the press that mackerel were endangered, which I couldn’t quite believe or understand, as I’d been out the day before and caught 100 fish in 20 minutes. Those panel conversations are usually a little heated at times, especially when I mix up the panel a bit controversially and you have people like Charles Clover, an environmental journalist and keen fly-fisherman, who made the documentary film The End of the Line, and representatives from the Blue Marine Foundation and the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). Also, there was my good friend Mitch Tonks, who has different views on fishing, living as he does in the fishing port of Brixham and owning fish restaurants, Nigel Bloxham of the Crab House Café in Weymouth, Dorset, and Billy Winters from Portland.

When the mackerel subject kicked off, I obviously threw in the fact that I’d caught a bucketful in no time the day before and had to stop fishing, as it was getting boring. It’s interesting how heated these talks can get, especially when you have well-heeled, stubborn, old fishermen in the audience throwing swerve-ball questions at the panel. Everyone tends to walk away from those things none the wiser. Ironically, the following day we all found out that the mackerel news had been no more than a scam that had leaked out of Parliament, so that talk most certainly got ‘soused’.

Until 2017, I would often go out alone, or with Nigel Hill, in search of inshore bass. When the fish are inshore, you can catch them really close in with light rods and lures like plugs. One summer, Nigel came out on my boat and we covered three wrecks about 13km (8 miles) out and caught nothing, so we went really close in to the beach in Charmouth, Dorset, where we both live. Nigel hooked into a cracking fish, and then I lost it in the landing net. He smiled, swore and said I had better get a bigger landing net, which I did immediately.

There is now a ban on fishing for bass for anglers, which has upset a few of my friends locally. We now have to target species like cod, pollack and sea bream, which are good fun, although the bass give a bit of a harder fight.

But, of course, Nigel can catch his quota as long as he’s fishing from his boat. I suppose the bass ban makes a bit of sense, but there are lots of arguments for and against it because commercial net fishermen can take a whole shoal in one hit, whereas anglers will pluck the bass out one at a time, which has very little impact on fish stocks.

A lovely—and I suppose slightly luxurious—thing I started doing with mackerel a few years back, on one of those occasions I’d pulled out a few easy mackerel when the bass failed me for supper, was to preserve them in olive oil and herbs in preserving jars. I had already got the woodfired oven sparked up and invited friends round for a simple mackerel supper.

When mackerel is straight out of the water, it’s one of the finest fish you can eat, with its slightly unusual and oily flesh, and lends itself to all sorts of different cooking techniques. I once mistakenly bought a jar of mackerel preserved in olive oil thinking it was tuna. When I eventually got round to opening the jar, I was pleasantly surprised. It undoubtedly tasted better than most canned tuna you can buy, and had that old-fashioned sardines-on-toast taste.

I’ve since preserved my own mackerel on several occasions. It’s so simple to do and makes a really handy snack to tuck into on some hot toast with maybe a dash of horseradish sauce or some horseradish root freshly grated on top.

I’ve often taken a jar to the riverbank and toasted some bread on the barbecue as a nice breakfast or early evening snack.

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With a new book coming out at the end of May and a busy Summer planning his Food Rocks Festival in Lyme Regis, Mark Hix gives us a sneak peek at Hooked: Adventures in Angling & Eating

Preserved Mackerel Fillets Makes enough to fill about 7–8 small preserving jars (125ml/4fl oz each) or 3–4 large preserving jars (250– 350ml/9–12 fl oz each) This is a great way to preserve your catch and give the humble mackerel a touch of luxury. You can also use rapeseed oil in this dish and vary the flavourings. In the past, I’ve added chilli, cumin and fennel seeds. The jars of preserved mackerel make great little foodie gifts when given with some other homemade goodies. Bear in mind that once you’ve opened the jar, the fish won’t keep for more than a few days.

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6 large mackerel, filleted, boned and skinned 1½ tablespoons sea salt ½ tablespoon freshly ground white peppercorns 500ml (18fl oz) extra virgin olive oil Toast or salad, to serve

1. Sterilize the preserving jars by removing the rubber rings and putting them through the dishwasher, or by boiling them in a large saucepan of water for 10 minutes or so.

2. Cut each mackerel fillet into 3 or 4 pieces, season with the salt and leave to stand on a tray for 45 minutes–1 hour.

3. Scatter the fillets with the peppercorns and mix with about half the oil.

4. Pack the mackerel pieces loosely in the jars, about 2cm (¾ inch) from the top, then pour in the oil so that they are covered by about 1cm (½ inch) and seal the jars.

5. Stand the jars in a deep, wide-based saucepan (or cook them in a smaller pan in 2 or 3 batches) and cover them completely with water.

6. Bring the water to the boil and simmer for 20 minutes for small jars and 30 minutes for large jars.

7. Carefully remove the jars from the water and leave to cool.

Store in the refrigerator for up to 3 months (unopened).

8. Serve on toast or flaked into a salad.

‘Hooked: Adventures in Angling & Eating’ by Mark Hix is published by Mitchell Beazley on 30th May 2019 at £20.00.

Food Rocks takes place in Lyme Regis 7-8th September 2019. Tickets for the Glenarm Estate Meat Feast on Friday 6th September and Crab and mackerel supper club on Saturday 7th are available to buy online at www.hixrestaurants.co.uk Tel. 01308 423031 The Marshwood Vale Magazine June 2019 53

Guest Recipe

JO PRATT A TV cook, food stylist and author of seven books including The Flexible Vegetarian, Jo Pratt is a regular contributor to various magazines and publications. She’s former food editor for both Elle and Glamour magazines and was named one of Waterstones ‘Writers of the Future’.

When she’s not writing, you’ll find Jo presenting recipes online, on TV, on stage performing live cookery demonstrations or hosting cookery classes and workshops.

Jo has worked with Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, Marcus Waring and many high-profile chefs and global food brands. She is executive chef of award winning-restaurant The Gorgeous Kitchen and her most recent project is The Cookbook Festival, which she founded and co-chairs.

SEASONAL VEGETABLE TARTS This is such a handy recipe for any time of the year. You start with the same creamy ricotta cheese base spread on to puff pastry, then mix and match your toppings depending on what’s in season or whatever you fancy using. You can make one large tart, but I quite like to make these as individual tarts as you have the option of customising them by adding meat or fish.

INGREDIENTS

DIRECTIONS

• 1 sheet ready rolled puff pastry, approx.

350g/12 oz • 250g/9 oz ricotta cheese • 2 eggs, lightly beaten • 50g/1¾ oz grated parmesan cheese or vegetarian equivalent • 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed • olive oil, for drizzling • flaked sea salt and freshly ground black pepper • •

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The Flexible Vegetarian by Jo Pratt, £20 White Lion Publishing and The Flexible Pescatarian, £20 Frances Lincoln.

Photography for both by Susan Bell

1. Heat the oven to 200ºC/400ºF/gas 6.

2. Unroll the pastry and sit on a non-stick baking sheet. If you are making this as individual tarts, cut into 4 rectangles and sit slightly spaced apart. Prick the surface of the pastry several times with a fork.

3. Mix together the ricotta, eggs, parmesan, garlic, seasoning and chopped herb of your choice from the seasonal selection. Spread over the pastry base/bases leaving a border Seasonal suggestions around 1cm/½ inch thick.

Summer - 450g/1 lb quartered tomatoes, 4. Arrange your chosen toppings on top of 1 sliced courgette (zucchini), and 1 the ricotta mixture, pressing down lightly. handful torn basil Drizzle over some olive oil and season Autumn - 1 medium butternut squash, with salt and pepper. Bake in the oven cut into wedges, tossed in oil and for about 30 minutes for a large tart, or roasted until tender, 1 tbsp chopped 20 minutes for individual tarts, until the sage and 1 handful toasted pinenuts ricotta mixture is just set and becoming Winter - 350g/12 oz cooked beetroot golden. wedges, 1 tsp chopped thyme and 1 5. Remove from the oven and serve hot or large handful chopped walnuts cool.

Spring - 250g/9 oz asparagus tips, 1 handful chopped mint and 150g/5½ oz defrosted peas Serves 4

Flexible Alternative Add 250g/9 oz warm flaked smoked salmon, smoked trout or smoked mackerel to the top of the tarts before baking. Or try adding around 100g/3½ oz cured meats just before serving, such as Parma ham, Serrano ham, chorizo or salami (these are particularly good with the summer, autumn and spring toppings). Or 100g/3½ oz sliced smoked duck or chicken would work well with the winter topping suggestion.

Round ‘em up for this year’s Axe Vale Show

PEOPLE IN FOOD & DRINK

Lots to see, do and taste at the Axe Vale Show

THE 25th Anniversary of the Axe Vale Show opens its gates from 10am to 5.30pm on June 22nd and 23rd. This incredible family-friendly event, organised and run entirely by volunteers to raise money for local causes, is hugely popular and much anticipated by locals and visitors alike. The show is held on the outskirts of the market town of Axminster and it promises a plethora of things to do, see, taste and smell. As well as exciting entertainment in the ring and around the Showground, there will be music, dancing, bouncing and shopping galore. Bring your comfortable footwear to enjoy perusing a whole range of marquees, malls and demonstrations, and great food aplenty. For more information visit www.axevaleshow.com.

A ‘Little Italy’ for all ages at Bridport Food Festival THERE’S a deliciously Italian ‘when it comes to Italian reciflavour to the popular Children’s pes the only way to cook them Marquee at Bridport Food Festiis the way nonna did....’ val on Saturday June 15.

There are other creative Free hands-on cooking (and activities throughout the day eating!) sessions will include with local artist Michelle fresh gelato, pasta and pesto.

Hazell, including decorating But the day will start with a cotton food shopping bags to slow-cooking ‘ragu’ sauce based take home, drawing and painton a treasured family recipe ing a classic Italian-style still from Mercato Italiano’s Ilaria life as well as making collages Padovani. for a Sladers Yard Gallery art ‘It’s the version perfected by competition. my grandmother Amelia’ says Debbie Smith, retired Ilaria - cooking like nonna did Ilaria, who’s been supplying principal of Watercleaves PreBridport with Italian delicaschool, is designing an undercies since 2013. ‘Every region has it’s own fives play zone with a fruit and vegetables interpretation of the classic pasta sauce that’s ‘mini mercato’ plus toy kitchen featuring a known outside of Italy as “bolognese” bebig washing-up area for lots of water fun. cause international students at the university In the nearby Teen Zone there will be culicity of Bologna took this beloved staple nary inspiration from chocolate-making with home from there. My nonna is now in her Aleksandra’s Chocolate Cafe to fire-building nineties but could cook anything when she and cooking with The Dorset Forest School. and we were younger—we always wanted her Ilaria says ‘I’m a huge fan of how familydeeply-flavoured slow cooked ragu. She still friendly the Bridport Food Festival is—there’s lives in our hometown of Verona and I’m so no entry charge for children and so many glad my partner recently recorded the recipe brilliant activities to get them interested in she has used these past seven decades.’ cooking, lovely for them and then parents get The Children’s Marquee will be collecting to enjoy the day too’. favourite family recipes from Bridport and is Bridport Food Festival events run inviting its young foodies to illustrate these in throughout the town during the week from their creative area.

Monday June 9th till the Saturday 15th showSimon Mazzei from the Olive Tree Restau- case at Askers Meadows. rant is returning to the Food Festival to pass Look out too for the free “Little Italy” on his own love of Italian cooking in both school fete at Saint Mary’s Primary School usthe Cookery Theatre and with the younger ing produce from their own “edible garden” budding chefs and agrees with Ilaria that 3.15 - 5.15pm Saturday June 7.

Marie Childs - photograph and words by Catherine Taylor

MARIE CHILDS Fancy a pint by a tuneful stream on a stretch of grass opposite a thatched pub, oozing rural charm? This might be just the spot for you. Landlady Marie Childs runs The Fox Inn in Corscombe with her husband Shane. This is their seventh year running and living at the pub, in the village where Shane grew up. Marie works in the kitchen alongside Aleisa the head chef. Shane mans Front of House with bar manager Sophie. A local’s drinking haven, the pub also is renowned for its food and finds itself of many people’s dining destination wish lists.

With an inglenook fire to snuggle up next to or a light conservatory to dine in, this is a traditional Dorset pub, with wafts of ingrained wood smoke and something delicious from the kitchen, drawing in those who step through the door.

Marie’s childhood was spent growing up in a pub.

She has worked in all manners of hospitality and even car sales, but the lure of the pub drew her back to run her own. Her passion for food nudged her towards the kitchen, while she was looking for a sous chef decided she would fill the role herself. A few NVQs in catering later and she was qualified to help Aleisa on a day to day basis. They have a weekly changing specials menu and a seasonal dining menu that changes quarterly, as well as the staples like fish and chips, burgers and steaks. Marie’s favourite day is when they plan the menu talking recipes and food. She has an extensive cookery book collection which she often refers to and peruses for pleasure in the little spare time she has.

Also taking up some of Marie’s attention are her two dogs and horses. She rides each morning, something she’s done since she was 9 years old. It sets her up for her day of split shifts in the kitchen. As well as cooking for the pub Marie also prepares meals for Shane and her two sons. One is grown up and “part-moved out” and the other is thirteen and still at home. But each Monday there is always an extended family meal where everyone gathers at the table, usually with hot buffet style food that Marie has made. She prefers food which can be grazed on, amongst chatter and catching up, just the way it should be.

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HOT CHICKEN TIKKA This month’s recipe is inspired by the fresh young vegetables that are now coming into season.

Peas, beans and new potatoes combine to create a hot potato and vegetable salad with a zingy mint dressing that’s just bursting with sunny flavours. All this is topped with gently spiced chicken that’s ‘pan-fried’ in a hot oven, great for informal entertaining or a stress-free supper.

The chicken also makes a lovely lunch served on crisp, dressed, mixed salad leaves.

LESLEY WATERS

INGREDIENTS

DIRECTIONS

• 5 tablespoons olive oil • 4 medium chicken breasts, each breasts cut lengthways into 3 (or in 2 if the breasts are very small) • Juice 1 lemon • 500g baby new potatoes, parboiled for 12 minutes • 110g sugar snap peas, blanched for 4-5 minutes, refreshed, and cut vertically in half • 250g fine green beans, trimmed, blanched for 4-5 minutes and refreshed • 250g baby plum tomatoes • 3 tblsps fresh mint, chopped • Natural yoghurt to serve

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• 4 tablespoons sunflower oil • 1 large shallot, roughly chopped • 5cm piece of ginger, peeled and roughly chopped • 3 large cloves of garlic, peeled & roughly chopped 8.

• 4 tablespoons sun-dried tomato paste • 1 large red chilli, de-seeded & 9. roughly chopped • 2 teaspoons sugar • 2 teaspoon ground coriander • 2 teaspoon turmeric • 1 tablespoon desiccated coconut Serves 4

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For the tikka paste, place 3 tablespoons sunflower oil and the remaining paste ingredients in a small food processor and whizz together to form a thick paste.

Place the chicken pieces in a bowl and squeeze over the juice of ½ lemon. Add the tikka paste, stir to coat the chicken and set to one side.

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

Meanwhile, place a large, heavy based pan in the oven to get very hot. (this will take at least 10 minutes) Remove the roasting tin from the oven and using a large metal spoon, push the browned potatoes to one end of the tin. Add the tomatoes to the empty half, drizzle with 1 tablespoon olive oil and season.

Return the tin to the oven for 15 minutes until the tomatoes are just soft.

Place the chicken pieces in the hot, heavy based pan and return to the oven for 5 minutes. Remove from the oven, toss the chicken around the pan, drizzle with a little sunflower oil and return to the oven for a further 3-5 minutes, or until the chicken is charred and cooked.

Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine the remaining 3 tablespoons olive oil, squeeze lemon and the chopped mint.

To serve, add the potatoes, sugar snaps and beans to the mint dressing and toss together well. Add the tomatoes and very gently combine. Pile some salad into the centre of each serving plate and top each pile with 3 pieces of chicken tikka. Serve at once and hand the yoghurt separately

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

Sat 1st Sat 8th

Thu 13th Fri 14th Sat 15th Thur 20th Fri 21st Sat 22nd Thur 27th

Poundbury, Queen Mother Square - 9am - 1pm Shaftesbury, Town Hall - 9am - 1pm Bridport, Arts Centre, South St - 9am - 1pm Martock, Moorlands Shopping - 10am - 1pm Yarcombe, Village Hall - 10am - 12noon Purbeck, Commercial Road, Swanage - 9am - 1pm Wareham, Town Hall, East Street - 9am - 1pm Blandford, Blandford Forum - 9am - 1pm Wimborne, Market Square - 9am - 1pm Crewkerne, The Henhayes Centre - 9am - 1pm Honiton, St Paul’s Church, High St - 8.30am - 1pm Sherborne, Cheap St - 9am - 1pm Dorchester South, High Street - 9am - 4pm Barrington, Village Hall, 10am - 12noon Yeovil, Middle Street - 9am - 2pm Wareham, Town Hall, East Street - 9am - 1pm Tel. 01308 423031 The Marshwood Vale Magazine June 2019 57

Arts &Entertainment

Layers of Life Painter Dave White is to select the artists for the Painting & Drawing category of the 2019 Marshwood Arts Awards. He talked to Fergus Byrne about some of the opportunities that helped him to become a successful artist.

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t was only on the last day of his degree course at the Liverpool John Moores University that Dave White discovered whose workspace he had inhabited for the previous three years. As he packed up his paints and brushes, a cleaner explained that, thirty-odd years before, the space had been occupied by a mouthy young teddy boy called John Lennon.

Big boots to fill—in some ways—but then Lennon had famously quit what was then Liverpool College of Art to go on to a different career.

Dave White, on the other hand, never really lifted his head from the canvas. He won an arts competition; was chosen to join the prestigious Northern Graduates exhibition at the Royal College of Art, and, following that, found himself exhibiting alongside David Hockney and Picasso at Sotheby’s. His rise was meteoric and mind-spinning. He worked hard and went on to be feted as “the new Andy Warhol”—a badge that at times has been as much a burden as an honour.

But these early breaks are part of the reason that Dave is so enthusiastic about Arts Awards. ‘It’s amazing how a little thing can spur you on’ he says. He remembers the evening he sat in a room with others who had been nominated as the best new talent in visual arts when the painter Adrian Henri announced his name as winner. ‘I nearly spilt my drink’ he laughs. ‘I was sitting next to Norman Wisdom. It was bizarre.’ But it gave him an early break. ‘And for some people, that’s exactly what you need. It gives people confidence and a wonderful opportunity for people to see what you do.’ He echoes the sentiment offered by many of those who have selected work for the biannual Marshwood Arts Awards in the past. ‘At the end of the day every artist is on a journey, and it’s nice to be acknowledged.’

For Dave White, that journey began as a child.

‘Ever since I was a little boy, I’ve always made images of things I was into’ he says. ‘Things I was obsessively into. It’s almost as if anything that captured my imagination, that floated my boat, I would go away and make an image of it.’ Even in school, all other

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classes were just treading water until it was time to paint and draw. Sitting in school, he just knew that ‘all the other lessons were not where you want to be’.

Although accepted for a place in Glasgow School of Art he had already come under the influence of well-known local painters such as Rodney Dickson, Dick Young and of course Adrian Henri. ‘These guys were much older than me, but they took me under their wing’ he recalls. Consequently, he couldn’t see a reason to go and study anywhere outside of Liverpool. His father was a butcher who had hoped his son might take over the family business, but not only had art derailed that ambition, Dave had also decided to become vegetarian. However, he credits his Dad with passing on his talent and imagination.

‘His window was his outlet and his creativity’ he says of his late father. Designing the layout of his shop window was something he took time and effort to get right. ‘He was also a jazz drummer, but he would go in at five in the morning to do his window. It was immaculate. He was the best in his trade.’

Taking that creativity to another level, Dave’s connection was with paint. As he puts it, ‘there were no ifs or buts’. When he discovered oil, he says, ‘It communicated viscerally my ideas. Oil paint can be a tricky beast for some people, but I never found that. I connected with it immediately.’ His feting as the new Andy Warhol came after a collaboration with Nike and Brand Jordan where he pioneered ‘sneaker art’. Always a huge fan of sneakers he understood what he called ‘trainer culture’ and produced a series of paintings inspired by pop art.

Those paintings, and the sneaker line were a huge success. After his collaboration with Nike and Jordan, he was commissioned by Coca Cola to produce a painting for Jay-Z’s new design for Cherry Coke.

Consequently the ‘Andy Warhol’ and ‘pop art’ labels were applied perhaps too liberally, and though he found that period of his career ‘an incredible journey’ he says it doesn’t define him.

About twelve years ago he began working on animal portraits again. Variously described as “vibrant

and rich, engaging and bold” as well as “filled with expression, emotion and dynamism” this work captures a depth not seen in most animal imagery. It was born of a love of animals and a reaction to his shock at the many endangered species around us. He points out how we take for granted the fact that tigers, rhinos, elephants etc. are endangered. ‘But what people don’t think about are animals like chimpanzees, parrots or sea-lions.’

Some of his fondest childhood memories are visits to Chester Zoo, where the introduction to a threedimensional perspective of animals still influences how he paints. ‘When you look at a rhinoceros, or you look at a giraffe’ he says, ‘your brain has got it imprinted that that’s what it looks like. But when you see them move...’ That movement and the layers of life within his subject are what he strives to get into his paintings. His focus is on getting a connection with his subject. He has what he admits is ‘an obsession’ with great apes and talks about the need to make eye contact. ‘Once you’ve got that eye-contact there’s something much more going on there.’

In 2014, following on from exhibitions depicting tigers, sea turtles, orangutans and various other animals, a show of work in London and Los Angeles focused on Great White sharks. His explosive use

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of paint highlighted their movement and dynamism, making the vast creatures as intimidating on canvas as they might be in the ocean. However, his goal was to show their fragility and beauty as well as their power.

Last year he created a hand-painted Rhino for the conservation charity Tusk. It was installed for a month outside Ralph Lauren in Bond Street and later auctioned to raise money for the charity. It was yet another turn on his journey, which to him felt somewhat surreal. He got to meet the charity’s royal patron HRH The Duke of Cambridge and hang out with Ronnie Wood, Gavin Turk and Harland Miller. ‘I felt a bit out of my weight grade, but it made a ton of money for the charity’ he says with an endearing humility.

He is looking forward to seeing the wide range of work that is submitted to the Marshwood Arts Awards this year. ‘The things I respond to most are instantaneous’ he says. ‘To be a good judge, you have to be quite eclectic. I would be looking for quality, individualism, a uniqueness and a spark—something that shows passion, integrity and honesty—people who enjoy what they do and love what they do. That’s what I respond to.’ Understanding the solitary nature of painting and the angst that many artists suffer he cites the later work of Picasso as an inspiration.

Photograph by Dan Pearce

‘That freedom, that not caring and just making an image from your soul’ he says, is something he aspires to and profoundly affects his response to art.

There are many striking things about Dave White. His office is a shrine to Star Wars characters, video games, technology and sneakers. His look is a myriad of tattoos, chunky rings, deep brown eyes and infectious energy.

And his canvases carry broad, confident, animated brush strokes illustrating his need to give life to what are instinctive reactions to the world around him. But the most striking thing is his enthusiasm for his craft and his wonder at what can be achieved. ‘My work’ he says, ‘if I really had to define it, is about that wonder of being a little boy and seeing something for the first time.’ He believes in his need to keep developing, keep refining and ‘never losing the love’ for his craft, but most of all ‘never not learning and never not pushing forward.’

Dave White will be selecting work for the Painting and Drawing category of the 2019 Marshwood Arts Awards.

For more information about Dave White, visit www.davewhiteart.com.

For information or to enter work for consideration for the 2019 Marshwood Arts Awards visit www.marshwoodawards.com

Museums&Galleries 1 – 19 JUNE Emma Brownjohn / Dee Nickerson / Richard Sorrell Free Entry. The Jerram Gallery, Half Moon Street, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3LN 01935 815261 www. jerramgallery.com 1 – 29 JUNE Ella Squirrell – To Belong or Not to Belong? Free Entry. LSi Bridport, 51 East Street, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3JX www. lsibridport.co.uk.

2 – 8 JUNE Observation In their new exhibition entitled Observation, artist Hazel Strange and scientist Philip Strange collaborate to present the results of a year spent walking in south Devon, observing and recording what they saw in four separate locations.

Hazel’s observations appear in paintings and drawings whereas Philip records his in photographs and words. Birdwood House Gallery, 44 High Street Totnes TQ9 5SG www.birdwoodhouse.org.uk/.

8 – 22 JUNE David Brayne : Levels River Sea White Space Art, 72 Fore Street, Totnes, Devon TQ9 5RU www.whitespaceart.com.

10 – 17 JUNE Jaqueline Steele Solo exhibition of new paintings at Kennaway House Gallery.

Free admission. 10am - 4pm. Kennaway House, Sidmouth 01395 515551 www. kennawayhouse.org.uk.

10 – 28 JUNE The Kingcombe Group Work by 11 textile artists whose work is inspired by the natural beauty and unspoilt landscapes of West Dorset. Free. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www. themeetinghouse.org.uk.

UNTIL 14 JUNE Experience the Tolpuddle Martyrs story like never before – via augmented reality! Acclaimed artist Jason WilsherMills’ exhibition will feature the six Dorset farm labourers brought to life through augmented reality. Everything within the specially created artwork will have a meaning and visitors will see the story come to life and float in front of their eyes. Shire Hall, Dorchester www. shirehalldorset.org or call 01305 261849.

15 JUNE Ikebana Exhibition Devon Ikebana.

Discover the beautiful art of Ikenobo Japanese Floral Art. On display will be arrangements by local Ikenobo Ikebana professor Kazumi, and her students.

Admission is free and all are welcome.

10am - 4pm. Kennaway House, Sidmouth 01395 515551 www.kennawayhouse.org.uk.

15 – 30 JUNE Philip Gumuchdjian A series of architectural models of designs both realised and fantastical by Philip Gumuchdjian who founded Gumuchdjian Architects after 18 years with the Richard Rogers Partnership. Since founding his practice in 1998 he has won multiple construction industry and RIBA Awards.

Messums Wiltshire, Place Farm, Court St, Tisbury, Salisbury SP3 6LW www. messumswiltshire.com.

Daniel Agdag Daniel is an Australian artist and filmmaker. If asked he will tell you he ‘makes things out of cardboard’, which is incredibly modest and in no way illuminates the delicate and highly detailed nature of his work. His models have been described as architectectural in form, whimsical in nature and inconceivably intricate. Messums Wiltshire, Place Farm, Court St, Tisbury, Salisbury SP3 6LW www.messumswiltshire.com.

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17 JUNE – 1 JULY Walking the Land Caz Scott from Dorchester alongside fellow Dorset artists Rita Brown from Frampton and Pearl Gatehouse from Yetminster at Fine Foundation Gallery, Durlston Castle, Durlston Country Park and National Nature Reserve in Swanage. For more information contact: Caz Scott Tel. 01305 757096, 07951 611964 www.caz-scott. co.uk, Pearl Gatehouse 01935 873888, www.pearlgatehouse.co.uk, Rita Brown Tel. 01300 321353, 07974216417, www. ritabrown.co.uk.

22 JUNE – 5 JULY Artistic Perspectives: A show by Hannah Ludnow and Nigel Sharman Two prominent London artists will be showcasing their work at Marine House at Beer this summer. The joint show by Hannah Ludnow and Nigel Sharman will present new artworks by these highly respected semi-abstract painters, whose work is simultaneously inspired by colour and composition, as well as the vibrant coastlines of Cornwall. Though both artists work and live in London, their roots are firmly in the South West. Marine House at Beer, Fore Street, Beer, Devon, EX12 3EF Telephone: 01297 625257. www.marinehouseatbeer.co.uk.

UNTIL 23 JUNE Exhibition -Warm Beer and Cabbages at West Bay Discovery Centre. The men from the US 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One), 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, F Company, were stationed in West Bay from November 1943 – June 1944 prior to D Day. Landing on Omaha beach, many never made it home. We will retell their stories on this 75th Anniversary year. Open daily 11am – 4pm excluding Mondays. Admission free, donations welcome. Further details www. westbaydiscoverycentre.org.uk/.

PREVIEW 29 JUNE – 1 JULY Pollution Pods An amazing opportunity to see Michael Pinsky’s acclaimed artwork ‘Pollution Pods’ coming to Portland as part of it’s international tour. The exhibit recreates the smell, heat, and haze of four notoriously polluted cities: London, New Delhi, Beijing, and Sao Paulo. 10am - 7pm Portland Stadium Bowl, Incline Road, Portland DT5 1DL b-side.org.uk.

UNTIL 30 JUNE Jeremy Gardiner, Works on paper, Lyme Rocks to Old Harry Rocks Akiko Hirai, Ceramics and Petter Southall, Furniture All three artists are concerned with time and the history of art in their work.

Each of them has shown and sold their work internationally and in this country over a number of years. Sladers Yard, contemporary Art Gallery and Cafe, West Bay, Dorset DT6 4EL. Tel: (0)1308 459511 Open Monday to Saturday 10 am – 4.30 pm, Sundays and Bank Holidays 12 noon – 4.30 pm.

Alfresco Plays and Summer Picnics IT’S time to start thinking about open air shows, and this year there are many professional companies coming to West Dorset and East Devon, performing plays in the south and west this year.

The Handlebards men perform Much Ado About Nothing and the women’s play is The Tempest. Much Ado is at Nothe Fort in Weymouth on 28th May, the Marine Theatre in Lyme Regis on 29th, Exeter Cathedral on 31st May and Montacute House on 9th June. The all-female Tempest is at Maumbury Rings in Dorchester on 23rd and Montacute House on 25th June.

Illyria has three shows for 2019, two of which come to the Marshwood Vale region at Sherborne Castle Gardens. See The Tempest on 12th July, and Frankenstein on 2nd August.

The all-male Lord Chamberlain’s Men have chosen A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the closest performance is at Killterton House near Broadclyst on 30th July.

Rain or Shine, who really do perform whatever the weather gods have in store, have chosen As You Like It this year, coming to Beaminster Manor on 23rd June and the amphitheatre at Prince Edward Gardens overlooking the sea at Swanage on 12th August.

There’s another Much Ado About Nothing from

The Festival Players, coming to Abbotsbury Sub-Tropical Gardens on 7th August and Powderham Castle near Exeter on 14th.

Cornwall-based Miracle Theatre has a new play, A Perfect World. It is coming to Lyme Regis Marine Theatre on 14th June, Maumbury Rings in Dorchester on 12th July and Kimmeridge Bay (with Artsreach) on 3rd August.

Only one of Chapterhouse’s six 2019 touring productions. The Secret Garden comes to Athelhampton House on 30th August.

The Pantaloons have chosen Sense and Sensibility, and it will be performed at Manor Gardens in Exmouth on 8th August.

The Rude Mechanicals play, Ikarus Inc will be performed at Abbey House in Abbotsbury on 21st June.

Folksy Theatre has The Comedy of Errors at Burrow Farm Gardens, Axminster on 30th July, Hyde Garden in Bridport on 1st and Forde Abbey on 2nd August. Mister Magnolia is at Hyde Gardens on 23rd July, Hestercombe Gardens on 28th and Forde Abbey on 30th July and Burrow Farm at Axminster on 1st August.

Heartbreak Productions will be performing Private Lives at Coleton Fishacre at Kingsweare near Dartmouth on 10th August.

Three ring bench by Petter Southall

UNTIL 31 OCTOBER Beaminster Museum concerned with the history of the town of Beaminster and its surrounding rural villages, with a special exhibition on Crime & Punishment, and a second on the role of Dorset in the D-Day invasion. Plenty to interest children. Open Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Bank Holidays :10.30am - 4pm; Sundays 2pm 4.30pm. Tel: 01308 863 623. website:www. beaminstermuseum.co.uk.

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PREVIEW On Stage - In and Around the Vale Baroque to swing and more BEAMINSTER

Victoria Hislop joins the lineup at Beaminster Festival

THE 2019 Beaminster Festival, which runs from 22nd to 30th June, is packed with interesting, exciting and unusual events, with international musicians and best-selling writers, spanning six centuries from the Black Death to boogie woogie.

The opening Party in the Park at the Memorial Field, from 5pm, features Scoot, the Phoenix Band from the youth club, food from local suppliers, a bar, and Strawberry Jam on hand to entertain the children with tricks and balloons.

Highlights include one of the world’s greatest tenors, Mark Padmore, who with his friend and collaborator, guitarist Morgan Szymanski, will sing songs of love and loss at St Mary’s Church, on Thursday 27th at 7.30pm.

On Friday 28th, two quartets—the Ferio Saxophone Quartet and the Marmen String Quartet—take centre stage. The Ferio give a coffee concert at Beaminster School at

11.30am, the Marmen are at St Mary’s at 7pm, and the two quartets combine at 9.30pm for No Strings Assaxed, a “classical mixtape from Bach to Bernstein.”

The finale President’s Concert, on Sunday 30th June at 7.30pm in St Mary’s, features the 12 Ensemble, a young unconducted string orchestra who will play Grieg’s Holberg Suite; Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Schubert’s Death and the Maiden.

Opera lovers have a treat on Tuesday 25th when Rose Opera performs Mozart’s sophisticated and witty Cosi Fan Tutte, at St Mary’s at 7.30pm.

The chamber music programme includes a violin recital with Emmanuel Bach and accompanist Jennifer Hughes at St Mary’s on Monday 24th at 11.30am, pianist Lauren Zhang at St Mary’s Academy on Wednesday 26th at 10.45am, clarinettist Emma Johnson with John Lenehan, piano and Paul Clarvis, percussion, exploring some of the elements that fused to create jazz—ragtime, cakewalks, popular song, habanera, swing—at St Mary’s on Wednesday 26th at 7.30pm; and Duo Dorado playing baroque delights at St Mary’s at 11.30am on Thursday 27th.

AN Wilson will be talking with Daisy Goodwin about the far-reaching influence of Prince Albert, at St Mary’s on Monday 24th, and Daisy will also be in conversation with Victoria Hislop about Those Who Are Loved, her new novel set in Greece during and after the German occupation in the Second World War, on Wednesday 26th.

Dorset-based best-selling novelist Minette Walters will be at St Mary’s on Tuesday 25th, talking about her two historical novels about the Black Death in Dorset.

Another local star, boogie woogie master Ben Waters and his band will be playing rock’n’roll, blues and boogie at Beaminster School on Saturday 29th from 8pm.

The Dodge Brothers BRIDPORT

FANS of silent movies and lovers of the music of the great westerns are in for a treat when The Dodge Brothers come to Bridport’s Electric Palace on Sunday 16th June at 7pm to play a new live score for the 1916 classic Hell’s Hinges.

Directed by and starring William S Hart, the film is set in Hell’s Hinges, a rough town in the American West. The heroine is the saintly sister of a minister. The antihero is a gunslinger determined to run the church right out of town.

The screening follows last September’s first silent black and white film, Beggars Of Life, enjoyed by a sell out Electric Palace audience.

After the film, there will be a Q&A with Mark Kermode (The Observer chief film critic and BBC radio and television presenter), Neil Brand (composer, silent film pianist, writer and presenter of various BBC radio and television film music series), Dr Mike Hammond (associate professor, film department, University of Southampton), Aly Hirji (rhythm guitar, mandolin, vocals and all round nice guy) and Alex Hammond (washboard, snare drum, percussion).

Silent cinema was never silent, says Dr Mike Hammond. “Before sound arrived in Hollywood in 1928 the movies always had some noise associated with them and the Dodge Brothers are steeped in that tradition; making rackets to stories to raise an eyebrow, infect your feet with rhythm, and prompt maybe a laugh or a tear.”

Living Quiz with Living Spit VILLAGES

DORSET favourites Living Spit follow their previous sell-out tours of The Six Wives of Henry V111, One Man and His Cow

ANNIVERSARY OPEN DAY IN HONITON THE fifth anniversary of Honiton’s Beehive community and arts centre will be celebrated with a free open day on Saturday 15th June, from 10am.

The day will be an opportunity to meet and learn more about the rich network of community organisations and special interest groups, who regularly use the centre’s facilities.

June events at the Beehive include satellite screenings of All My Sons, with David Suchet, from the West End, on Thursday 6th, Romeo and Juliet from the Royal Ballet on Tuesday 11th and Small Island from the National Theatre on Thursday 27th.

Live performance highlights of the month are Shlomo with his Beatbox Adventure for Children on Saturday 1st, the wonderful folk duo Edgelarks (pictured) on Friday 7th and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School students on their summer tour with The Canterbury Tales on Saturday 22nd.

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PREVIEW and Giants of Science to name but a few, the inimitable duo Living Spit have three dates in June with Artsreach, the county’s touring arts charity.

The Living Quiz is a quiz night with a twist! Every question is performed live: acted, sung, mimed or danced by Howard and Stu. Armed with just a guitar, a double bass and a ukulele, they mix improvisation techniques with their own inimitable performance style and apply them to the familiar pub quiz format, resulting in a live quiz experience that’s never the same twice.

Living Quiz is at Charmouth village hall, on Tuesday 11th June, Broadmayne hall on Wednesday 12th and Winterborne Stickland on Thursday 13th June. For more information visit www.artsreach.co.uk

Fun, Folk and Folklore SOUTH PETHERTON

THE eighth annual Petherton Folk Fest, on Saturday 15th June, will have “the best music programme ever,” says new chairman Cilla Caswell.

A 10am festivities start with a parade into Market Square by Morris sides and other performers, followed by the ancient Ceremony of the Glove, part of Petherton folklore. Pete Wheeler, who chaired the festival committee from its beginning in 2012 until the end of last year, will open the festival and then throw the ceremonial glove into the crowd. It must not reach the ground and when caught, will be kept on a pole attached to the Market Square stage until the end of the festival. According to tradition, no-one can be arrested for drunkenness while the glove is in the air—though this is best not tested in these modern times!

Throughout the day, there will be music, dance and a wide range of entertainment and attractions in five locations around the town: Market Square, the David Hall, the Church of St Peter and St Paul and its grounds, the Blake Hall and the Brewer’s Arms pub.

At noon, visitors will be invited to take part in another South Petherton tradition, known as Clipping the Church. People form a chain by holding hands and surround the church until it is completely encircled. This ceremony began in 1231 and, thanks to Petherton Folk Fest, is now an annual event. Once the circle is completed, everyone shouts “Hooray” and a fanfare is sounded to mark its conclusion.

The reason for hugging the Church is not clear but may be related to people wanting to keep the ‘good spirits’ inside the church and the ‘evil spirits’ outside.

There will be folk music and dance in Market Square, live music all day in the David Hall, children’s entertainment in the churchyard and Blake Hall and choirs and

other singers in the churchyard.

Stalls around Market Square will be selling food and drink as well as local crafts, and refreshments will also be served in the church. The day will end with a gig by Celtic folk-rockers The Dambuskers. For more information visit www.pethertonfolkfest.org.uk

Concerts in the West TOURING

CONCERTS in the West has two new venues, for the June series with the Moriarty Winds quintet, at Uplyme Church near Lyme Regis, on Thursday 13th June, and St Roch Church at Pendomer near Yeovil on Saturday 15th, both at 7.30pm.

In between, on Friday 14th, the accomplished young ensemble will be at Bridport Arts Centre for the usual coffee concert and at the Creative Innovation Centre (CICCIC) at Taunton at 7.30pm.

Named after Sherlock Holmes’ infamous adversary Professor Moriarty, the Moriarty Winds is a group of energetic young musicians who have performed together since September 2015 with the common aim of playing a variety of classical and contemporary repertoire in characterful and accessible ways.

The ensemble, Anna Kondrashina, flute, Amy Roberts, oboe, Matthew Wilsher, clarinet, and Angharad Thomas, bassoon, and Joel Roberts, French horn, will be playing works by Reicha, Orlando Gibbons, Debussy, Hindemith and Samuel Barber.

The group met as postgraduate students at the Royal Academy of Music, where they were Chamber Fellows, but individually they have won many awards and perform with the major UK orchestras at concerts and festivals in the London area and beyond.

Recent highlights include performances in the Investec International Festival, Royal Academy of Music Chamber Music Series, and Norfolk and Norwich Chamber Music Series. They are also a resident ensemble in the Wigmore Hall Chamber Tots Series.

All members of the ensemble are currently pursuing careers in solo and ensemble performance and they have a wide combined orchestral experience including the European Youth Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Opera North, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Northern Ballet, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra.

Facing the Beast YEOVIL

challenging and difficult topics of the age.

This year he celebrates his 20th anniversary living and working in the UK with a tour that brings him to Yeovil’s Octagon Theatre on Thursday 13th June.

Reginald is renowned for his searingly honest material and for many appearances on television including Have I Got News For You, 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown and his BBC2 series Reginald D Hunter’s Songs Of The South and Reginald D Hunter’s Songs Of The Border, documenting the growth of American popular song.

He shares his distinctive take on subjects including race and sexuality, often with brutal honesty. He is not afraid to be controversial, but his material is always meticulously thought out.

Twelve weeks of summer rep SIDMOUTH

ONE of Devon’s most attractive and historic seaside towns, Sidmouth has a unique claim to theatrical fame as the home of what is believed to be the country’s last traditional summer repertory season.

The 12-week Manor Pavilion summer programme, produced by Paul TaylorMills, begins on Thursday 20th June with Francis Durbridge’s thriller, Suddenly at Home. It runs to Wednesday 26th and the pattern of Thursday-Wednesday rep continues into September, with a break for the Sidmouth Folk Week from 3rd to 9th August.

The King’s Speech, the moving drama about the present Queen’s father, George VI, and the Australian speech therapist who helped him to overcome his severe stammer, is on from 27th June to 3rd July.

In line with the summer rep tradition, there is plenty of comedy, with Wife Begins At Forty from 4th to 10th July, Noel Coward’s Present Laughter from 18th to 24th July, Alan Ayckbourn’s Table Manners on 1st-2nd and 10th-14th August, Robin Hawdon’s Perfect Wedding from 15th to 21st August, and Tom, Dick and Harry by Michael and Ray Cooney, from 12th to 20th September.

The other plays are JB Priestley’s Dangerous Corner, from 11th to 17th July, Simon Williams’ Double Death from 25th to 31st July, NJ Crisp’s Dangerous Obsession from 22nd to 28th August, Butterflies are Free, by Leonard Gershe, from 29th August to 4th September, and William Douglas Home’s The Kingfisher, from 5th to 11th September.

The programme genuinely offers something for all tastes, from broad farce to nail-biting drama—for more information visit www.manorpavilion.com.

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PERFORMANCE TUESDAY 28 MAY SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Wassail Theatre and Mooney Stories in Commotion in the Ocean, 11am.

WEDNESDAY 29 MAY LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, The Handlebards (men) in Much Ado About Nothing, 6.30.

THURSDAY 30 MAY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Mary Queen of Scots, film, 11am and 7.30pm.

BUDLEIGH SALTERTON, Botanical Gardens, The Handlebards (men), Much Ado About Nothing, open air.

DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Squashbox in Universerama, children’s show, 2pm.

FRIDAY 31 MAY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Mark Farrelly in Quentin Crisp Naked Pope, solo show, 7.30.

EXETER, Northcott Theatre, Morgan and West’s Magic Show for Kids, 2.30: Morgan and West’s Parlour Tricks, 8.

Cathedral Close, The Handlebards (men), Much Ado About Nothing, open air.

Corn Exchange, Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt, Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, 7.30.

St Nicholas Priory, Baroque to Modern, Russian Music Academy graduates, 6pm.

EXMOUTH, Pavilion, Alan Johnson.

ILMINSTER, Warehouse, comedy night with Nick Page, David Ward, John Wagstaffe and Cerys Nelmes, 7.30.

POOLE, Lighthouse, English Touring Opera in Macbeth.

SIDMOUTH, Manor Pavilion, Quantums Ukulele Band, Let’s Dance, 7.45.

SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Steve Turner, concertina and multi instrumentalist, 8.

SATURDAY 1 JUNE AXMINSTER, Arts Cafe Bar, Arquebus, folk trio, 11am.

BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Ballet Central, mixed programme, 7.30, and Sun 2pm.

MONDAY 3 JUNE EXETER, Northcott Theatre, Amelie, the Musical, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30.

TUESDAY 4 JUNE LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, The Grapes of Wrath, 1940 John Ford film, 7.30.

SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, BOVTS summer tour, The Canterbury Tales, 7.30.

WEDNESDAY 5 JUNE BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, The Taming of the Shrew from the RSC, 11am.

DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Oysters Creatives in Oysters, a dark comedy about Brahms, with music, 8.

EXMOUTH, Pavilion, Exmouth Musical Theatre Co in Sister Act, to Sat. LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, The Taming of the Shrew by satellite from the RSC, 7.

SEATON, Gateway, The Taming of the Shrew from the RSC, 7.

THURSDAY 6 JUNE BATH, Theatre Royal, Ustinov Studio, Janie Dee in Vanya and Sonia, Masha and Spike, to 6 July.

HONITON, Beehive, All My Sons, recorded from the Old Vic, 7pm.

WEYMOUTH, Bay Theatre, performing arts and music students in The Tales of Canterbury, 1.30 and 7.30.

FRIDAY 7 JUNE BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Just Like That the Tommy Cooper Show 7 30: Jazz Cafe, Beje, 8pm.

HONITON, Beehive, Edgelarks, folk, 8.

ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Mike Denham’s Speakeasy with John Maddocks and Graham Smith, 8.

LYMPSTONE, Parish Church, Dante Quartet, Haydn, Debussy, etc, 7pm.

SIDMOUTH, Manor Pavilion, Jethro, comedy, 7.30.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, One Night in Dublin, Irish songs.

YEOVIL, Octagon, Sir Geoff Hurst.

SATURDAY 8 JUNE AXMINSTER, Arts Cafe Bar, Sue King, folk and country, Oldsmobile, Americana, from 11am.

BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Martin Kemp, Back to the 80s DJ set, 8pj.

DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Frank Griffith, saxophone, and Tina May, jazz meets Broadway, 8.

EXETER, Barnfield Theatre, Pete McCall in The Rod Stewart Songbook, 7.30.

SIDMOUTH, Parish Church, The Isca Ensemble, Luka Okros, piano, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, 7.30.

SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Les Barker, 8.

WEST BAY, Sladers Yard, Philippa Mo, violin, Bach, Telemann (last in series of Bach Partitas), 6.30.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Milkshake Live, Milkshake Monkey’s Musical, noon and 3.30: Dirty DC, AC/DC tribute, 8pm.

YEOVIL, Octagon, Shine 2019 Octagon Academy showcase, 7.30.

SUNDAY 9 JUNE DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Albert Lee and his band, 8.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Sunday Sessions, Declan Duffy and local musicians, 3pm. FREE MONTACUTE, House, The Handlebards (men), Much Ado About Nothing, open air.

SHUTE, St Michael’s Church, FreePlay,

Canadia Duo, Bach, Byrd, Beatles and India, 7.30. ViA SIDMOUTH, Manor Pavilion, Ballet Theatre UK in Margot Fonteyn centenary celebration, 3pm.

TUESDAY 11 JUNE BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Romeo and Juliet, Royal Ballet by satellite from Royal Opera House, 7.15.

CHARMOUTH, Village Hall, Living Spit in Living Quiz, 7.45. AR EXMOUTH, 10 Bicton Street, Blackmore Youth Theatre in Annie Junior, to Sun, 7.30.

HONITON, Beehive, Romeo and Juliet, Royal Ballet by satellite from Royal Opera House, 7.15.

WEDNESDAY 12 JUNE BROADMAYNE, Village Hall, Living Spit in Living Quiz, 7.30. AR THURSDAY 13 JUNE BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, An Evening of Eric and Ern with Jonty Stephens and Ian Ashpitel, 7.30.

UPLYME, Church, Concerts in the West, Moriarty Winds, Orlando Gibbons, Debussy, Barber, Hindemith, Reicha, 7.30.

YEOVIL, Octagon, Reginald D Hunter, Facing the Beast, comedy.

FRIDAY 14 JUNE BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Moriarty Winds, Orlando Gibbons, Debussy, Barber, Hindemith, Reicha, 11am: BOVTS summer tour, The Canterbury Tales, 7.30.

BRISTOL, Old Vic, BOVTS in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Parts 1 and 2, to 22 June, 7, Thurs/Sat mats 1.30.

EXMOUTH, Pavilion, Tina - Simply the Best.

EXETER, Cygnet Theatre, Cygnet in Mike Bartlett’s An Intervention, and 20/22 June, 7.30.

ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Li’l Jimmy Reed, with Bob Hall and Hilary Blythe, blues, 8.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Miracle Theatre in A Perfect World, 7.30. Open air.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Let’s Hang On. YEOVIL, Octagon, The Story of Guitar Heroes.

SATURDAY 15 JUNE AWLISCOMBE, Village Hall, FreePlay, Canadia duo, Bach, Byrd, Beatles and India, 7.30. ViA BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Jay Rayner, The Ten (food) Commandments, 7.30.

Electric Palace, Rob Beckett, comedy, 8.

DULVERTON, Town Hall, BOVTS summer tour, The Canterbury Tales, 7.30.

EXETER, Cygnet Theatre, Cygnet in

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PERFORMANCE David Mamet’s Boston Marriage, and 19/21 June, 7.30.

HONITON, Beehive, Open Day - 10am.

PENDOMER, nr Yeovil, St Roch Church, Concerts in the West, Moriarty Winds, Orlando Gibbons, Debussy, Barber, Hindemith, Reicha, 7.30.

SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Petherton Folk Fest, all day.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Genisis Connected.

YEOVIL, Octagon, Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.

SUNDAY 16 JUNE BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Hell’s Hinges, silent film with live accompaniment by the Dodge Brothers, and Q and A with Mark Kermode and Neil Brand, 7.

EXETER, Corn Exchange, George Hinchliffe’s Ukulele Orchestra, 7.30.

LYME REGIS, Marine, All Over the Town, 1949 film made in Lyme Regis, 7.30.

MONDAY 17 JUNE BRISTOL, Hippodrome, The Rocky Horror Show, to Sat, various times.

TUESDAY 18 JUNE BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Pirates of Penzance, by satellite from ENO, 7pm.

WEDNESDAY 19 JUNE PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Drum Studio, Beyond Face in 2000 Stories, to Sat.

Museums

YEOVIL, Octagon, Jazz Dance Co in Iconic.

THURSDAY 20 JUNE BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, The Merry Wives of Windsor live by satellite from Shakespeare’s Globe, 7.20.

SIDMOUTH, Manor Pavilion, Francis Durbridge’s Suddenly At Home, to Wed, 8pm.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, The Ladyboys of Bankok.

FRIDAY 21 JUNE ABBOTSBURY, Abbey House, Rude Mechanicals in Ikarus Inc, open air.

BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Claire Martin, Believin’ It, jazz, 7.30.

DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Carismatico Tango Band, 8.

EXETER, Corn Exchange, Whole Lotta Led, 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin, 8.

EXMOUTH, Pavilion, Roman Romp - an adult comedy.

ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, John Law’s Re-Creations Quartet, 8.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Go Now, the music of the Moody Blues.

SATURDAY 22 JUNE BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, The Zoots, Sounds of the 80s, 7.30.

Electric Palace, Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, film, 11am: Amazing Grace, film about Aretha Franklin, 7.30.

Church of Our Lady, North Road, Chideock. 01308 488348.

www.honitonmuseum.co.uk

www.chideockmartyrschurch.org.uk

AXMINSTER HERITAGE

COLYTON HERITAGE CENTRE

Barrack Road, Weymouth.

01305 766626.

Silver Street, Axminster.

01297 639884.

Market Place, Colyton

www.fortressweymouth.co.uk

www.colytonheritagecentre.org

PORTLAND MUSEUM

www.axminsterheritage.org

CREWKERNE & DISTRICT

BEAMINSTER MUSEUM

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

217 Wakeham Portland.

01305 821804.

www.crewkernemuseum.co.uk

www.beaminstermuseum.wordpress.com

DORSET COUNTY

BLANDFORD MUSEUM

High West Street, Dorchester.

01305 262735. (Closed)

www.blandfordtownmuseum.org

BRIDPORT MUSEUM

South Street, Bridport.

01308 422116. www.bridportmuseum.co.uk

CASTLETON WATERWHEEL

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

CHARD MUSEUM

Godworthy House, High Street, Chard. 01460 65091. www.chardmuseum.co.uk.

MONDAY 24 JUNE EXETER, Northcott Theatre, Stephen Tompkinson and Jessica Johnson in Educating Rita, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30.

TAUNTON, Tacchi-Morris, Sheba Soul Ensemble in Cry of My Roots and Sold, storytelling, song and dance, 7.30.

Bridge Street, Lyme Regis.

01297 443370.

CHIDEOCK MUSEUM

High Street, Honiton.

01404 44966.

Bere’s Yard, Blandford Forum.

01258 450388.

SUNDAY 23 JUNE BEAMINSTER, Manor, Rain or Shine in As You Like It, open air.

DORCHESTER, Maumbury Rings, The Handlebards (women), The Tempest, open air, 7.

EXETER, Corn Exchange, Mark Watson, comedy, 8.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Morgan and West’s Magic Show for Kids, 2.

Please telephone or check website for directions and opening hours

ALLHALLOWS MUSEUM

Whitcombe Road, Beaminster.

01308 863623.

DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Cara Dillon, folk, 8.

HONITON, Beehive, BOVTS summer tour, The Canterbury Tales, 7.30.

SEATON, Gateway, Take That!, recorded concert, 7.30.

SHERBORNE, Abbey, A Midsummer Marriage, Sherborne Chamber Choir cond Paul Ellis, Simon Clarkston, organ, inc The Song of Solomon, 7.30.

SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Eugene Hideaway Bridges, talk and workshop 3pm, concert 8pm.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Sun Records.

www.dorsetcountymuseum.org

EXMOUTH MUSEUM

Sheppards Row, Exmouth.

07768 184127.

FAIRLYNCH MUSEUM

27 Fore Street, Budleigh Salterton.

01395 442666.

GROVE PRISON MUSEUM

Governors Gardens, The Grove, Portland. 01305 715726.

ILCHESTER COMMUNITY

High Street, Ilchester.

01935 841247.

LYME REGIS MUSEUM

NOTHE FORT

SIDMOUTH MUSEUM

Hope Cottage, Church Street, Sidmouth. 01395 516139.

THELMA HULBERT GALLERY, ELMFIELD HOUSE

Dowell Street, Honiton.

01404 45006.

THE MILITARY MUSEUM OF DEVON AND DORSET

ROYAL ALBERT MEMORIAL MUSEUM Bridport Road, Dorchester.

01305 264066. & ART GALLERY

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

SEATON JURASSIC

The Underfleet, Seaton 01297 300390 https://seatonjurassic.org/

SEATON MUSEUM

Town Hall, Fore Street, Seaton.

01297 21660.

SHERBORNE MUSEUM

Church Lane, Sherborne.

01935 812252. www.sherbornemuseum.co.uk

SHIRE HALL MUSEUM

High West Street, Dorchester.

01305 261849 www.shirehalldorset.org

www.keepmilitarymuseum.org

TOLPUDDLE MARTYRS MUSEUM

Tolpuddle, nr Dorchester.

01305 848237.

TUDOR HOUSE

3 Trinity Street, Weymouth.

01305 779711 or 812341. www.weymouthcivicsociety.org

WATER SUPPLY MUSEUM

Sutton Poyntz Pumping Station, Sutton Poyntz, Weymouth.

01305 832634 www.wessexwessex.co.uk

WEYMOUTH MUSEUM

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

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On Screen - In and Around the Vale TUESDAY 28 MAY How to train your Dragon: The Hidden World £4.50 advance and on the door Starts 2pm Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis www.marinetheatre.com.

THURSDAY 30 MAY Ralph Breaks The Internet £4.50 advance and on the door. Starts 2pm Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis www.marinetheatre.com.

If Beale Street Could Talk (15) £6 advance / £7.50 on the door Starts 7.30pm. Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis www. marinetheatre.com.

FRIDAY 31 MAY Nostalgic Cinema: Born Free (PG) (dementia-friendly screening) 2pm £3.80 - includes tea and biscuits. The Beehive, Honiton. www.beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

The White Crow (12A) 7.30pm £6.80/£5.80 Family of four £22. The Beehive, Honiton. www.beehivehoniton. co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

TUESDAY 4 JUNE The Grapes of Wrath £6 advance / £7.50 on the door Starts 7.30pm. Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis www.marinetheatre.com.

WEDNESDAY 5 JUNE Mary Poppins Returns (PG) Moviola screening at Kilmington Village Hall, doors and bar open 6.45pm with the show starting at 7.15pm. Tickets £5 in advance: 01297 639758 leave contact info to receive acknowledgement. £5.50 at the door. See village web for email contact & film review www.kilmingtonvillage.com/other-organisations.html.

FRIDAY 7 JUNE Vice (15) presented by Petherton Picture Show at 8pm. Starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Steve Carrell. Tickets: £5.

No concessions. The David Hall, South Petherton TA13 5AA www.thedavidhall. org.uk 01460 240 340.

Marshall shown by Milborne Movies in Milborne St Andrew Tickets £3.50 Doors and Bar open 7pm; film starts 7.30pm.

SATURDAY 8 JUNE Red Joan (12A) 7.30pm Adult £6.80, U16 £5.80, Family of four £22. The Beehive, Honiton. www.beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Stan & Ollie (PG) presented by Hinton St. George ‘Flix in the Stix’ in the Hinton Village Hall at 7.30pm. Tickets £5 in advance from the Village Shop and Dorothy’s Tea Room, or £5.50p on the

door. Doors open 7pm. To reserve Tickets please contact Bob Kefford on 01460 72563.

MONDAY 10 JUNE Can you ever forgive me? Beer Film Society AGM followed by film. Doors open at 6.45pm. AGM 7.15pm shortly followed by the film. Bar, raffle, coffee and Ice cream. Members £4, guests £5. All welcome. http://www.beerfilmsociety.org.uk/.

WEDNESDAY 12 JUNE First Man Tickets include welcome cocktail, two course dinner and film in the chapel, £30. Alexandra Hotel and Restaurant, Lyme Regis, Dorset DT7 3HZ England 01297 442010 www.hotelalexandra.co.uk/ the-hotel/special-offers.

THURSDAY 13 JUNE The Seagull Based on Chekhov’s play with Saoirse Ronan and Annette Bening in the lead roles. Cert. 15. Duration 119 minutes £6 advance / £7.50 on the door Starts 7.30pm. Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis www. marinetheatre.com.

FRIDAY 14 JUNE The Favourite (15) CineChard at Chard Guildhall Oscar-winning film starring Olivia Coleman doors at 7pm for 7.30pm start. Tickets £5 in advance from Eleos, PO and Barron’s, or £6 on the door.

SUNDAY 16 JUNE All over the Town As part of Marine Theatre The First 125 Years, this is a complimentary screening for the community of the 1949 classic film–which was all filmed in Lyme Regis. How many times can you spot the Marine? Free tickets. Starts 7.30pm. Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis www. marinetheatre.com.

TUESDAY 18 JUNE The Piano Ada, a Scottish woman mute since childhood, gives lessons to an uneducated Englishman–and the scene is set for a passionate and sensual relationship. Cert.

15. Duration 120 minutes £6 advance / £7.50 on the door. Starts 7.30pm. Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis www.marinetheatre. com.

FRIDAY 21 JUNE Tolkien (12A) 7.30pm Adult £6.80, U16 £5.80, Family of four £22. Tolkien explores the formative years of the orphaned author J. R. R. Tolkien (Nicholas Hoult) as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. The Beehive, Honiton. www.beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

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Free Solo (12A) at 8pm presented by Petherton Picture Show. Alex Hannoid attempts to become the first person ever to free solo climb El Capitan. Tickets: £5.

No concessions. The David Hall, South Petherton TA13 5AA www.thedavidhall. org.uk 01460 240 340.

SATURDAY 22 JUNE The Keeper (15) Halstock Village Cinema on the big screen in Halstock Village Hall.

The true story of a German PoW, who overcame prejudice and public hostility to become one of England’s greatest goalkeepers. A story of forgiveness and reconciliation. Tickets £6 from Halstock Shop or on the door. Licensed Bar opens at 7pm for 7.30pm start.

MONDAY 24 JUNE Stan & Ollie Tickets £5 More info or to book: 01404 831207 Doors open 1.30pm for 2pm The Bradshaw Meeting Room, Axminster Heritage Centre, Thomas Whitty House, Silver Street, Axminster, Devon, EX13 5AH FRIDAY 28 JUNE Nostalgic Cinema: The King and I (U) 2pm £3.80 - includes tea and biscuits. The Beehive, Honiton. www.beehivehoniton. co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Amazing Grace (U) 7.30pm Adult £6.80, U16 £5.80, Family of four £22. Film Documentary featuring the previously lost Aretha Franklin 1972 concert at the New Bethel Baptist Church. The Beehive, Honiton. www.beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Sometimes Always Never (comedy/ drama) will be shown by T & F Movies at 8pm in Tatworth Memorial Hall. Bill Nighy plays Alan a stylish tailor who has spent years searching for his missing son Michael who stormed out of their home over a game of scrabble. He and his neglected younger son Peter (Sam Riley) travel to identify a body and Alan tries to identify a mysterious online scrabble player who might be Michael. The doors open at 7.15pm and the entry charge is £4.50.

SATURDAY 29 JUNE Destination Wedding (15) 7.30pm Adult £6.80, U16 £5.80. Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder star as the socially awkward Frank and Lindsay. When they meet on their way to a destination wedding, they soon discover they have a lot in common: they both hate the bride, the groom, the wedding, themselves, and most especially each other. The Beehive, Honiton. www. beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

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Health&Beauty

Green Scythe Fair goes even more green

The Green Scythe Fair aims for minimal environmental impact

THE Green Scythe Fair returns this year on Sunday 9th June, when the grass is at its lushest and the scythes will be peened to perfection for the 2019 Southwest Scything Championships.

This year there will be some new and exciting changes including the introduction of pre-purchased tickets available on-line and from local outlets to help reduce the pressure on the entrance at peak times. To get your tickets now before they sell out, go to www.greenfair.org.uk Also this year the stalls will be even more focussed on green and environmental persuasion, education and inspiration to help us all get to zero carbon before 2030, to prevent run away climate change. There will also be the popular stalls of hand tools and green crafts, and food and refreshments will be provided by ethical, local producers and traders; As the Green Scythe Fair continues to aim for minimal environmental impact, organisers are asking visitors to bring their own reusable plates, cups and cutlery to help achieve zero waste created at the event. There will of course be plenty of eco entertainment in the Green Kidz area, two music stages powered by the sun and wind, green workshops, demonstrations and more—all to entertain, sustain and inform.

It’s volunteers who make the Fair and there is always need for more. Would you like to join the team? Please sign up as a volunteer and help put on this fabulous event—just email volunteer@greenfair.org.uk. Volunteers have free entry and a free drink for two hours volunteering, plus a free meal for four hours volunteering.

The Green Scythe Fair is held at Thorney Lakes, Muchelney, TA10 0DW on Sunday 9th June and is open from 11am. Start planning how you will get there now. Will it be by foot, cycle, canoe, electric vehicle or last resort by fossil fuel.

Described as “probably the most enjoyable and authentic country fair in all England” the Green Scythe Fair is not to be missed. For more information, visit greenfair.org.uk or for camping, visit thorneylakes.co.uk.

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Services&Classified SURFACE PREPARATION

Alberny Restoration In-house blast cleaning for home and garden furniture, doors and gates.

Agricultural/construction machinery and tooling.

Vehicles, parts and trailers etc. 01460 73038, email allan@alberny.co.uk, FB Alberny Sandblasting

RESTORATION Furniture restoration.

Antiques large and small carefully restored. City and Guilds qualified, ten years experience in local family firm. Phil Meadley 01297 560335

jul 19

To advertise on these pages telephone 01308 423031

CURTAINS

DECORATING

Little Curtains.

Handmade Curtains, Blinds and Cushions.

Contact 07443 516141 or 01308485325

Mar 20

MUSIC Piano, violin, theory tuition at your home.

Highly qualified teacher.

20 years experience.

Adults and children welcome. Beginners to advanced. Dr Thomas Gold 07917 835781 Aug 19 GARDEN MAINTENANCE

Garden maintenance.

Local man available for all types of gardening work.

Grass cutting, pruning, landscaping etc Also wood/metal repairs on benches and gates etc.

Tel.07835450606. Email white.feathers11@yahoo. com

Monthly Quiz –

SITUATIONS VACANT

Painting & Decorating (Interior & Exterior) also general garden/odd jobs - highly experienced and efficient with references, Post University Students, reasonable rates: Pedro Warner 07557 965887 Jun 19

TO RENT Studio to rent 45sq mtr main road, shop window frontage. Abbotsbury.

Ideal gallery, workshop, studio or shop. 3-year lease £5,700pa plus utilities Phone 01305 250402

WANTED TO RENT Static caravan site needed from Nov 19 in South.

3 bedrooms, water and electric needed. Please contact 02380 840290

FOR SALE Smallholding 5.57 acres Churchstanton. Modern Mole Valley Barn 30x40’ steel frame block & timber clad hardcore parking & caravan. £200k.

07811415259

Llamas For Sale Rare SURI male Breeding females & his offspring TB ELIXIR tested & Chipped 07811415259 Dolls House Emporium ‘Wentworth’ unfinished project offers 01308 422745

Win a book from Little Toller Books

Send in your answer on a postcard, along with your name and address to: Hargreaves Quiz, Marshwood Vale Magazine, Lower Atrim, Bridport, Dorset DT6 5PX. Study the clues contained in the rhyme and look carefully at the signposts to work out which town or village in South Somerset, West Dorset or East Devon is indicated. The first correct answer drawn out of a hat will win a book from local publisher Little Toller Books.

There is no cash equivalent and no correspondence will be entered into.

Last month’s answer was Ashill. The winner was Mr Pile from Cerne Abbas.

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FOR SALE

WANTED Dave buys all types of tools 01935 428975 Jul 19 Secondhand tools wanted. All trades. Users & Antiques. G & E C Dawson. 01297 23826. www.secondhandtools. co.uk.

Feb 20

Postage stamps. Private collector requires 19th and early 20th century British. Payment to you or donation to your nominated charity. 01460 240630.

Vintage & antique textiles, linens, costume buttons etc. always sought

by Caroline Bushell. Tel. 01404 45901.

Jun 19

Wanted. Blacksmith, Silversmith, Bookbinding, Engineering, Glassblowing, Foundry tools & equipment. 07875 Jul 19 677897

FOR SALE

221769 or 07471191074. £10 Flymow Rollermower in ex-condition, genuine reason for sale. £35.00 Black and decker electric strimmer, in good- condition. £10.00. Tel: 01308 868389 Leather arm chair and 2 seater sofa, cream with dark wood base and surround.

Reasonable condition. Photo available £20. 01308 868452 Filing cabinet, black 2 tier, no key. £5. 01308 868452 Egg incubator, Brinsea mini eco with egg candling lamp (both new), heat lamp and chicken feeders. £10. 01308 868452 African figures X 4 approx 30cm tall and one female carved head. Photo available £5. 01308 868452 Wine making equipment, corks, hydrometer, airlocks, wooden corking machine etc, photo available. Free. 01308 868452 Nearly New French Aigle Wellington Boots size 10 only worn once but too tight. Less than 1/2 price £40. Anglers’ Tilly Lamp in good condition

with carrying box. £15. V W Golf Estate roof bars very good con. £15. Tel 01305 267452 Electronic fitness massage toner. Upright stand on. 3 programmes. For all ages. Hardly used as new. Full instructions. £30. 01297 444104 Barbecue and firepit. Portable with carrybag. Ideal patio, beach, picnic. Unused, still boxed. £20. 01297 444104 Ercol Buffet Sideboard 331.

Solid dark wood, 4 cupboards, 2 drawers. Width 48in Height 49in Depth 18in. A useful and durable piece of furniture .Excellent condition. £120.

Sidmouth 01395 516435 Ladies Quality Court Shoes, Black, size 7 with 2 inch heels, Unworn Photo available £25. 01297 551105 Ladies Dressing Gown 100% Pure Silk, Ivory, Unworn Photo available £50. 01297 551105 Vintage Original Arabia of Finland Ruska Coffee Set Mid Century Modern Created by the iconic Finnish designer Ulle Procope 6 Cups &

ELECTRICAL

Cabbage, sprouts, leek plants £ per 20. Spray chrysanth plants £6 per doz. Tel. 01460 74572 Leather topped oak stool (heavy) D48cm x W68cm x H41cm Fire retardant label attached. Purchased Goulds Dorchester. Could email photo £35 tel: 07763420365/01305 853730 4 off bags of 25kg Hydrosoft salt tablets,+ system spares if required ? £ 4.00 per bag.

Tel :-01297599567. Mobile :-077967125801.

Traditional Edwardian style piano stool with gold colour upholstered seat & music storage compartment. £25. 4 solid pine kitchen/dining chairs.

Would make good up-cycling project. £50. Antique Diabolo milk/cream separator in working order. Hand operated. 1 gallon capacity £50. Can e mail photos. 01460 241297.

100+ Railway Books All in good condition £40. Tel 01460 221769 or 07471 191074 Conservatory Furniture 2 Seater sofa plus two chairs.

Collection only Tel 01460

BUILD

PEOPLE AT WORK

Joel Seward, photograph and words by Catherine Taylor

JOEL SEWARD Joel Seward’s Dad saw an advert in the paper for an office and yard assistant at Westcrete, the local firm in Axminster where he used to pick up all the landscaping materials to transform his garden in Smallridge. Knowing the family firm to be friendly and informative, he urged Joel to apply for the job. Successful in his application, he started at Westcrete in 2010. And for the last 5 years Joel has been the General Assistant Manager; a job he loves.

Waking at 6.30am every morning to take his beloved rescue dog Rex out for a long walk in an effort to tire him out, Joel is at his desk by 8am, coffee in hand ready for whatever the day ahead brings. The firm supplies landscaping and building materials, as well as a range of aggregates and also deliver ready-mix concrete. Joel serves the customers that start to come through the door as soon as it opens, the trade customers tend to come in early so it’s full on from the start.

With a background studying business studies and marketing Joel also looks after the website, marketing and any promotions the company is running. He performs stock checks, is the customer service department and updates social media. Learning from the owner Mike Thoennissen, Joel has a good grip on the products offered and how the business works, but says there is always more to learn. One new introduction to the business Joel is particularly proud of is their photo competition. The best photograph of a garden completed by one of their landscape gardener customers, is voted on, with the winner gracing the cover of Westcrete’s price list for the year, often resulting in new business enquiries.

Lunch sees Joel out walking Rex, along the river next to the office. And as soon as work is over Joel is off home to change into his running gear. A member of Axe Valley Runners, Joel’s health has been transformed since he joined a year ago, alongside taking on Rex at the same time. Now he takes Rex on a run with him most nights covering up to 50 miles a week. So, with the running combined with playing for Seaton Cricket Club, that’s summer sorted for Joel this year.

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FOR SALE Saucers with matching Coffee Pot & Lid Coffee Pot: H27cm, D11cm. Cup: H4.5cm, D11cm. Saucer: D12.5cm Rarely used since being given as a present in 1965 In excellent condition Photos available £68. 01297 551105 Coil of single strand fence wire approx 50ft in length ideal in garden £10.00 0129722603.

2 inch land drain pipe approx 50ft.in length ideal for tree planting.£15.00.

0129722603.

275 plus- London Brick Company red bricks - never used surplus to requirements. £50. 01404 850157 Log Burner Villager 10kw -12kw multifuel cast iron in good working order but needs some attention £225. 01308 488050 Log Splitter. Wolf Creek Cherokee 8. Dual action. Splitting force 9 ton.

Maximum log size 52cm (20.5 inch). 2400w 50Hz. £350. 07469 814279 or email cjwykes49@gmail.com IKEA Leksvik shelving, 6 shelves Height 79” 36” Wide 12” Deep. Pine finish, good condition £25 . Phone 01308 423680. Bridport “VAX” Carpet Washer Rapide V-026 Series/ Manual Used twice £50 01297/33436 1930s Art Deco Clam Shell ceiling shade. Opaque glass edged with yellow tint. Solid brass fittings, no chains. very heavy. £60 Can email pictures on request. Telephone 01297

STORAGE

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Cotton Traders, black walking boots, as new, size 8, £30. Hi-Tec Ridge, walking boots, very little use size 41, £25. Forest Green suede-look ‘Crocs’ lace ups. Size 7. £20.

Brown fur lined boots, 7 hole. £10. All all new. Roman black box jacket, unworn. Size 18 £20. 01308 488700 Child’s car seat. Sturdy, very high quality Cybex Gold Solution S-Fix, Urban Black. Fits cars with /without Isofix. For ages 3-12 years. Built-in side impact protection with deep seat cushion. As new, hardly used by grandchild. £99. Tel: 01404 831836 evenings.

2-wheel 2 stroke Oil – 1 litre x 3 bottles (Comma) £4 each/£10 for 3 2-stroke Motorcycle Oil – 1 litre (Tesco) £3. 01297 631283 Garden Shredder Ryobi RSH2455 2400w. With collection bag £50. 01297 631283 Tile Cutter ‘Contractor’ from Screwfix. Never used, still in box £10. 01297 631283 Aluminium folding camping table 70cm sq /rolls to 70 x14 I bag £5. 01297 631283 Bike (folds to 850mm x 340mm x 700mm, weight 14.75k) Explorer Aluminium frame/20” wheels/6 speed Shimano gears. Two available - 1 silver, 1 royal blue Brand new tyres & tubes. £60 each/£100 for both. 01297 631283 Light Fitting, pendant Berlin Opaque glass & brushed chrome from B&Q. Still in unopened box (plus spare

parts if required) £15. 01297 631283 Shiatsu Back Massage Cushion - turns an ordinary chair into a massage chair. Brand New and in box. £15. 01297 631283 VW T5 Protec Campervan cover. With straps and wheel covers. 2 years old. £150 01297 631283 Ladders, wooden, extendable, two sections, 12 feet each section, vgc, £30 01404 823266 Measuring Wheel, metric, Trumeter, vgc, £45 01404 823266 Guitar amplifier Line 6 Spider 50 watt 12” speaker £50.

Line 6 Pod and floorboard £90. VGC. Axminster 01297 631130.

Garden Metal Table & 4 chairs, Filigree Victorian Style. Table Diameter 32” Height 28” Bridport. £75 01308 423680 Mahogany Demi Lune Table With Green Leather inlay and front draw. £75. Antique Gramophone cabinet. Can also be used as a drinks cabinet Superb piece of Furniture. £145. Bosch Microwave White As New £70. Franke Fragranite Polar White Sink Basis BFG 651 50 x97 cm.

Still boxed never opened. Cost £420 will Accept £250. Tel: 07484689302 Ladies Cotton Trader long dress - impulse buy absolutely new - Jersey Shirt Maxi dress - size 16- misty rose colour - was £38 will accept £10.

01404 850157

FOR SALE France - the quarterly magazine for francophiles’, 1990s editions (in colour). 37 copies in all @ 50p each. tel 01308897121.

Lobster pot used, circular, very decorative, 70cm diameter x 40cm high. £25 Tel: 01297 32237 1930s mirror 36inch x 30inch ideal for garden use £25.00. 0129722603 Vintage M&S country manor bedspread and pillow shams.

Vgc buyer collects 01297 678503. £20.

Vintage scarce French Posographe Pathe-Baby mechanical exposure calculator for cine camera. Case damaged but believe in perfect working order. £75 ono Tel: 01460 72996.

“The Oxford Trollope Crown Edition”. 11 Anthony Trollope books 1950/53? very clean condition but page edges when closed overstamped University of London. £90 or offers. Tel: 01460 72996 Shower Cabinet High quality, with pivot door and glass side panels. Unused, still in original packaging. £100.

01297-32212.

Pair of round painted drum

tables with 2 drawers with glass tops H75cm, Diam 24cm £50 01395 575635.

Study hiking backpack child carrier £35, Demijohns for winemaking gallon glass £10 for four. More details phone 01297 443930.

Old Sewing Machine table with machine under that rotates up £40. Hardshell Wheeled suitcase £10 01297 443930.

Set of Kingsize Bed-linen patterned x 2, 6 x pillow cases £25 (2 x square). 2 x double white duvet covers £20. 1 x Kingsize duvet cover tulips pattern £10. 3 x bath towels large pink £15 01297 678692.

Ercol dresser dark wood 4ft width, 5ft 8ins height £45.

Matching unit 1ft 8ins width, 6ft height, £25 or £60 the pair.

Sidmouth 07983164325.

Caravan awning inner tent, 2 man £35 (new). New breadmaker £25. Cut glass wine decanter £15. BT answer phone/fax/copier £20. Ikea Billy bookcase 1800 x 1200 £35. Railway World Mags 1959 – 1968 End of Steam £2 each 01305 834554.

Kango baby sleeping bag 0-12months £10 new. Childs

buster seat £10. Rise and fall brushed ac light fitting £15.

1950 vintage train set Hornby ‘0’ Clockwork £90. Model 00 Railway Locos coaches trucks rails from £50 each. Scale L Ectric set, slot car racing set cars track controls £85 01305 834554.

Ladies cycle for sale (Gazelle) Dawes £60 ono 01305 833397.

Caravan water barrels and waste container assorted caravan accessories £50 ono the lot or can separate Colyford 01297 551295.

Venetian blinds 25mm slats – white, 0.95m wide, 2.1m drop x 3 £10 each, 1.2m wide 1.2 drop £10 01308 868501.

Several hundred assorted red clay roman roofing tiles also ridged roofing tiles left over from renovation project 01935 891210.

Pine unit for TV/hi fi vgc 4 shelves, glass door, 17”h x 36”w x 15”d £25. Pine bookcase vgc 3 shelves 36”h x 31”w x 8”d £25 01297 34459.

Upright Frigidaire freezer 6 drawers 54”h x 23”w x 22”d £50 01297 34459. McKellar Jigsaw hardly used £40 01297 34459.

Telescope, Dolland, Brass 1800s. Suitable as object of interest and decoration £100 01305 772491.

Six old senior service cigarette card albums, offers around £30 01308 868671.

Parker Knoll Winged chair gold good condition £50 0146061118 / 07808402847.

Stone fireplace and hearth complete with living LPG fire insert 49”wide x 44”high £275 01308 281442.

Zziplex beachcaster M4 Hiflex M built by Chris Dance 13’4” casts 4-7oz as new condition little used £275 or v near offer 01305 750370.

Garden green plastic table four legs plus two chairs with cushions vgc £30 01297 552557.

Two small Buttonback reclining armchairs light beige excellent condition on castors the pair £200 ono. Will split, buyer collects 07594687485.

Tom Avon Bristol fine example of an early eighties gents customs built touring

bicycle, frame Reynolds 531 DB, size 25 ½ ins, inside leg 33ins wheels 700c £420 01305 265021.

Jersey c.i. definitive stamps (1969 – 2007) postage dues (1969 – 1982) all in mint condition in album real price approximately £450, sell for £370 ono 01305 820878.

Accordion piano 96bass weltmeister, seperato standard excellent condition £350.

Printer Epson Stvlus D78 perfect £20. Combe St Nicholas 01460 68483.

Large Streliza seeks new home. Free to collector 01308 425992 Bridport.

Professional metal detector wireless headphones instructions super working condition order, in original box £380 ono 07594687485.

Roof rack Citroen Berlingo Peugeot Galvanised full size all fixings £40 07800558428 / 01297 647356.

Shower screen to fit over bath vgc £20 07857922038 or 01460 68493.

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