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COVER STORY Robin Mills met Corrie Van Rijn in Askerswell ‘I was born in a small fishing town called of 28, having come for a long weekend, I Katwijk aan Zee in the Netherlands. My fammoved to the UK, and stayed. ily was very religious; there was church twice We lived in a small village in Oxfordshire, on Sundays and prayers before and after quite a big change for me after Leiden. Everyevery meal. The town itself was quite conserthing seemed so tiny and rural and with the vative, and my family fitted the community. I old pubs it seemed like the middle ages. So I was number 6 of 7 children, and despite the was in Oxford a lot, and got into Aikido, and emphasis on religion it was a lively housetrained in Shiatsu. I was still making clothes hold, full of music. My 5 brothers all played for people, and using textiles as a medium an instrument, and I loved to sing. I have for other creative projects. Then Alan and I very happy memories of that time, and I went to live on a country estate in Brightwell still do singing and voice workshops. In my Baldwin, in the servants’ quarters of a crumearly life my father captained a barge carrying bling mansion. Alan had a workshop there, freight along the many Dutch waterways, enabling him to develop his furniture making and if I was lucky I went along too for short skills. We lived there for 3 years, and then trips, which I loved. Later he started a busiwere offered this place in Askerswell, which ness supplying the large fishing fleet in our has been our home since 1986. My son went town with tackle such as nets, chains, etc., to school in Holland, came here for vacations, which was a great success. Things definitely and now lives in Amsterdam. He’s in the mulooked up from then, my eldest brother joinsic industry, has two lovely children, and we © Corrie Van Rijn Photograph by Robin Mills see a lot of each other, either in Amsterdam ing the business. For my parents it was a big improvement in their circumstances, having or here in England. come from very humble backgrounds. When I was only 2 my mother was Here in Dorset, I did a 2-year City and Guilds course in Fashion at diagnosed with cancer through which she lost her voice, which was devasExeter College, then a year’s teacher training, during which I was teaching tating, so that looking after all us children was extremely difficult. My eldest at the A Level Art and Fashion course. I also got involved with the drama sister played a major part in managing the family, and my mother lived until department of Exeter University, making costumes for shows including I was 13. As I grew up, for some reason I was attracted to the weird and a Japanese Noh production. After that I decided to do a degree in Textile wonderful, and couldn’t wait to leave the constraints of family life. and Fashion Design, in Bristol, as a mature student. While I was there We lived in a street which was owned by the air force, housing families I made friends with a film director, and worked on several productions from various different countries. There was a Spanish family next door, here in Dorset, some Thomas Hardy-related productions, and a series who had dug a hole in the floor to grow a palm tree in their living room, called Harbour Lights. I worked with a German film company FFP and had pictures of bull fights on the walls, all of which was completely Media on costumes, later sourcing extras and English actors for small outlandish to my innocent eyes. Also at secondary school I was mixing roles. That was an incredibly busy time for both Alan and I, because we with people from all kinds of backgrounds, discovering the diversity I had were producing work for Dorset Art Weeks right from the beginning. been craving. And of course it was the sixties, there were hippies, and I just One visitor to our DAW show, Deirdre McSharry, was curating a 50th loved all that stuff; but I was the only one of my family that embraced the Anniversary exhibition at the American Museum in Bath, to which I was counter-culture of the time, which made me the black sheep. invited to contribute with my textiles. It was a lovely exhibition lasting 6 When my father remarried I left home and got a job in the town, then months, and my part in it was a Shaker-inspired collection. Deidre was moved to Leiden, a larger university city, and ended up in a squat there, very well connected, which led to some really good publicity for me, in a street of condemned grand houses lining the canal, full of artists and and I enjoyed 5 to 10 years of success with my work. Alan and I did musicians. It was very bohemian and psychedelic, but I moved out of that many shows together, often opening our whole house to show our work to be with a boyfriend and get a bit more on the straight and narrow. I had together in joint exhibitions. an aunty who was a very good dressmaker, who had been teaching me to After 2007 the recession began to bite, making buyers more hesitant make dolls’ clothes from the age of about 4. My parents bought me my about parting with their money for what both Alan and I were offering. first sewing machine when I was 10, so I was making things for myself Dorset Art Weeks had become bigger and more expensive to participate in, from a very early age. I knew a lot of local musicians, and I began making and some of the local artists in our area moved on, making us feel a little clothes for them, revelling in the glam rock style of those days. I also bemore isolated, although I had one particularly loyal client who continued to came quite entrepreneurial, successfully selling a lot of clothes at that time. buy my work, and who must have bought nearly a hundred outfits over the Having turned out so different from my family, I had a strong sense years. Since I first was interested in it, I continued to practice the Meditaof needing to belong somewhere. At first I felt I belonged to the comtion and Yoga. In my late forties I decided to train as a Yoga teacher which munity in the squat, but when I began work in a nursing home I felt I I did over a period of 4 - 5 years. I started to teach from the beginning of fitted in there. They accepted me for who I was, and I felt valued. I did the course, which one is encouraged to do anyway to get teaching experisome training, and began to help with creative and fun activities with the ence. I now teach here in the village hall, as well as Bradpole and South patients. Once a year they would hire a big boat, park it close by on the Perrott, and there will be a Summer Yoga programme in the Bull Hotel in Rhine, and then with all the patients, including some of the quite infirm Bridport, in July and August, for beginners and experienced yogis, where elderly folk in their hospital beds, go on a 2-week cruise all the way down people can work with a different teacher each week. So the creative side the Rhine, having huge amounts of fun. They all loved it, and so did I. It of things has taken a bit of a back seat, but has never really disappeared. was my first foreign trip.

Throughout my life, from when my parents first encouraged it, my life’s I then worked at a number of creative jobs in Leiden, some with local main interests have been creativity, music, and physical activities such as kids from deprived areas, and later for the educational department of The gymnastics and athletics when I was younger, and now Yoga.

Museum of Anthropology, working to pay the bills as I always have done.

I love world cinema, I was on the committee of Bridport Film Society In my early twenties I met a guy, an artist, and we had a son. After a lot of for 5 years, and I love travelling, my particular favourites being India, training, I was teaching handicrafts to young children whilst bringing up my Morocco and the Middle East. Japan was a big trip for me too, and I love son. That was also a period when I started to take an interest in Satipatgoing to places where I can discover textile processes. I prefer independent thana Meditation, going to workshops with John Garrie Roshi. After I was travel, opening up to expansion, so that it becomes an adventure, you meet divorced, it was at one of these workshops that I met Alan, and at the age the local people, and possibilities open up, connections are made.’

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MV UP FRONT Although developed by the Japanese in the 1980s’ Forest Bathing’ has been in the news again recently. Known as ‘shinrin-yoku’ which means ‘taking in the forest atmosphere’ it is said that the practice of spending quiet time tramping through forest or woodland reduces stress and brings a sense of wellbeing. It is also said to help lower blood pressure and even help concentration and memory. I spent a lot of time with publisher and poet, the late Felix Dennis, while he was developing his plan to grow the largest broadleaf forest in England.

When the weather was good, we occasionally walked across his garden to one of his writing dens. We would stop at different trees, and he would gently check the state of branches, leaves or buds, and in his signature gruff and loud voice, he would ask the tree how it was doing. In the end, despite his obsession with writing as much poetry as he could before he died, he left his business and his money to a charity devoted to growing native broadleaf trees. He firmly believed in the social and health benefits of trees for both the planet and its inhabitants and hoped to eventually plant a contiguous forest on land near his home in Stratford-uponAvon. He dreamed of creating a place of tranquillity and natural beauty. I was with him when he planted his millionth tree, and to date, the organisation that inherited his money has created over 3,000 acres of new woodland. I have little doubt that a walk in the woods has health benefits, even the National Trust offers a ‘Beginner’s Guide to Forest Bathing’ on its website and promotes the belief that ‘improving a person’s connection with nature’ can lead to ‘significant increases in their wellbeing’. While trees have often been used to symbolise strength, wisdom and eternal life, the idea of a community of them offering peace and tranquillity is warming. So when much was made recently about the fact that the tree which President Emmanuel Macron gifted to the current US President died after a spell in a US quarantine facility, I was as amused as the many others who saw it as a sign of the deep chasm between symbols and reality. But it didn’t stop me from seeing the value of the mental health benefits of a walk in the woods. President Macron is reported to be sending a replacement for the dead oak. Perhaps instead of sending just a replacement, I wonder if the world could benefit if he sent over a small forest for the White House lawn so the current resident could take in the forest atmosphere and chill out now and then.

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Cover Story By Robin Mills Waffle - more than just talk By Margery Hookings Coast & Countryside Events Junglenomics By Fergus Byrne Courses and Workshops News & Views Laterally Speaking By Humphrey Walwyn

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House & Garden Language, Lingo and Dialect By Cecil Amor Vegetables in July with Ashley Wheeler July in the Garden By Russell Jordan Property Round Up By Helen Fisher Fish Fights By Nick Fisher

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Food & Dining Olive oil-poached pollack with buttery mashed potato

By Mark Hix Fried aubergine slices with honey and tahini By Joudie Kalla People in Food By Catherine Taylor The Ultimate Strawberry Tart By Lesley Waters

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Arts & Entertainment Brian Griffin By Fergus Byrne Museums and Galleries, Performance, Preview and Film Torture tips from Guantánamo By Clive Stafford Smith Health & Beauty Services & Classified People at Work By Catherine Taylor

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Waffle— more than just talk

Margery Hookings is intrigued after receiving a phone call about an innovative project aimed at combating loneliness. She goes to East Devon to find out more.

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he wonderful sweet smell of waffles is the first thing your senses pick up when you go through the door into one of Axminster’s newest cafes.

But this is more than just a café. It’s Waffle, a not-for-profit community enterprise that aims to get people talking. Together. Its existence was brought to my attention by a friend who used to live in my village before he and his wife moved to Axminster.

‘You must come down and take a look for yourself,’ he said on the phone. ‘I think you’ll like it. It’s quite remarkable.’ That was something of an understatement. The café itself is cool and inviting. And buzzing with people of all ages.

Incredibly, the idea for Waffle came to Matt Smith, 29, one of the café’s three directors, in a dream. But more of that later.

When I arrive, Tim Whiteway, 28, another director, is hard at work in the kitchen, creating the waffle dough. This is where the lovely smell is coming from. It’s intoxicating. The Liege waffles are made to a special recipe from the grandmother of fellow director, Sophie McLachlan, 31. She says: ‘My nan, who is from Belgium, was stopped by the Nazis when she was a little girl, but due to her having a certificate that she was christened, they let her go. They went into hiding and also hid Jews in their attic. My nan would always eat waffles with her family and when she moved to England it was a family tradition. I have always loved waffles, so my nan passed to me her secret recipe, which I’ve changed around to make even better.

It’s great to be able to look at the public loving our waffles and enjoy a taste of Belgium.’

In the main street where the RSPCA charity shop used to be, Waffle is in the heart of community. Its aim is to tackle loneliness, isolation and exclusion by encouraging interaction across the community. Between 30 and 40 people have been involved in getting the café to where it is now. There is a team of seven staff, including the directors, who are all paid the real living wage, and around 12 volunteers.

One hundred percent of Waffle’s profits are given away—this year to the Axminster Christmas illuminations fund (Light Up Axminster).Explains Matt: ‘Through the power of Waffle, we wanted to bring people closer together and to help the community. Our vision is to create and serve the highest quality, fresh Liege waffles, along with local and freshly-made coffee, cakes and juices. We also want to use Waffle as a community hub to forge unlikely friendships across the community of Axminster and help to combat loneliness and isolation through the intentional and creative use of waffle.’

All three directors are friends and grew up locally. Their connection is the Church. Says Matt: ‘Tim grew up here, he’s Axminster born and bred. He was always known at Axe Valley School as Tuck Shop Tim, exploiting the Jamie Oliver years. He did really well with it. He’s an entrepreneur, with a brilliant business mind. Sophie runs

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a charity in Kenya. She’s from Charmouth and went to Woodroffe.

She’s always wanted to run something in the evening—but not a pub—that sells desserts. She had a Belgian nan who had this fabulous waffle recipe.’

Matt, who went to Colyton School, moved to Seaton at the age of nine. For six years, he worked in marketing for Lyme Bay Winery.

‘My passion is community,’ he says. ‘I very much enjoy the relationship between community and communication. For a long time, I had been looking at ways of bringing the community together. Cafes are, often inadvertently, prime spaces for social action and interaction. I wanted to see that done intentionally.’

So what about that dream?

‘I literally had a dream about starting a café. In my dream it was Honiton, not Axminster. But I spoke to Tim and Sophie about it.

And now here we are.’

The five-year lease on the shop began in November last year, with Waffle opening its doors in mid-April. The directors had conversations with other cafes in the town beforehand because they did not want to undercut them or compete.

‘We put everything we could into it,’ says Matt, who now lives with his young family above the café. ‘We didn’t have any loans and started as a community project. We did crowdfunding as well as applying for grants. We spoke to Axe Valley School and the police to see what was needed, looking at ways we could serve the community by taking our lead from the community.

‘Loneliness and isolation is a big thing for us. It’s a massive subject and we realised it exists in various forms in Axminster, in people of all ages. It’s a hugely chimeric thing and it’s hard to put your finger on it. We didn’t know exactly what to do but we didn’t want to do nothing. There is someone here at Waffle who is always available to talk. We have done training sessions with a counsellor on listening, so we’re equipped to fill the gap between unskilled listener and counsellor.’

Matt is a member of ‘The Fold’ Church in Axminster, while Tim belongs to Seaton Baptist Church and Sophie to Crewkerne Community Church. Says Matt: ‘Our motivation for Waffle has come through our faith. We have a love of people which we really wanted to demonstrate but we wanted to be very deliberate about Waffle not being a Christian “thing”. The important thing about Waffle for us is that it is a place where people can come with all sorts of views and be listened to. There is a lot of healing just from being listened to. The demand is there. It’s a place to chill and be unhurried.’

Waffle is open from 2pm until 10pm, Tuesday to Saturday. For more information, visit waffle.org.uk

Below from left Tim Whiteway, Sophie McLachlan and Matt Smith

Deepest Dorset supports Lyme Regis lifeboat

National Trust launches Young Writer in Residence scheme

LYME Regis lifeboat station has been presented with photographic and printing equipment worth £1,000 by the authors of Deepest Dorset, bringing the total raised for local charities by the book to £40,000.

The authors, journalists Fanny Charles and Gay Pirrie-Weir originally gave the money as a cheque to the volCharles (left) and Gay Pirrie-Weir present unteers of Lyme Regis RNLI, Fanny crew member Dave Holland with photographic but the gift was converted into equipment. Photograph by Richard Horobin much-needed photographic equipment for use by the lifeboat crew.

Fanny said: “When we heard the lifeboat crew wanted some photographic equipment to help raise their profile even higher we were delighted to help.” Gay explained that the aim of Deepest Dorset was to benefit charities based in Dorset: “We wanted the donation to be spent locally,” she said. The principal beneficiaries of the book are Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance, Dorset Community Foundation and Weldmar Hospicecare Trust.

Deepest Dorset, published by Deepest Books, is a portrait of the county, covering a wide range of subjects including food, farming, archaeology, history, the landscape and the arts. It includes a feature on Lyme Regis Boat Building Academy.

It is available at local bookshops including Serendip in Lyme Regis and Winstone’s in Sherborne, and will be on sale at this year’s Dorset Food and Arts Festival at Poundbury on Saturday 3rd August. For more information visit www.deepestbooks.co.uk or telephone 01963 32525.

THE National Trust is inviting young writers aged 18-24 to apply for a week’s residency this summer based at Max Gate in Dorchester, the house and garden where Thomas Hardy lived and wrote some of his most famous novels and poetry.

The Young Writer in Residence Hardy’s desk image scheme provides a unique opporNational Trust Images/Chris Lacey tunity for young writers, published or unpublished, to apply for the week which is designed to nurture their own talent and share their creativity with others. The successful applicant will be mentored by a published writer and help write and create writing workshops for children.

Dr Faysal Mikdadi, the academic director of the Thomas Hardy Society, is supporting the scheme and will help to select this year’s first writer in residence. He said: ‘This is an excellent opportunity for an aspiring young writer to have the time and space to reflect on his/her own practice through mentoring others. Helping others to engage with their creative and artistic urge often prompts the mentor’s own thoughts. There will also be the added advantage of spending time soaking up Thomas Hardy’s associations with Max Gate with its evocative and atmospheric echoes of the past.”

Writers should send up to three samples of their work by 15 July to Rebecca.paveley@nationaltrust.org. Short interviews will be held on 22 July and the residency will take place in early August.

The residency is an innovative new scheme which builds on the success of the National Trust’s Thomas Hardy Young Poetry Prize, when earlier this year young poets from all over Dorset won awards for their poetry inspired by the landscape of Hardy.

More information can be found at www.nationaltrust.org.uk/max-gate

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Coast &Countryside Events 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.

Non-members £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 celebrating more than 25 years of singing with choral music by composers who share their birthdays with members of the choir… The programme will include works by Alessandro Scarlatti, Thomas Arne, John Blow, John Tavener, Percy Whitlock, Hubert Parry, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Edvard Grieg, Georg

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Frideric Handel and King Henry VIII. Come and join the party at 7.30pm in St Andrew’s Church, Preston Grove, Yeovil BA20 2BQ. Tickets £10 to include refreshments will be available on the door or by email at yeovilchamberchoir@ hotmail.com.

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

Coast &Countryside 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 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 and invites members of her audience to model some of her creations. This should be an interesting and amusing evening and new members and visitors are very welcome to join in. 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 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 Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel Small Island comes to life in an epic new theatre adaptation broadcast to the Marine.

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£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. Also the following performances 28, 29 June Abbotsbury, Subtropical Gardens, Buller’s Way, Abbotsbury, Weymouth DT3 4LA. 7.30pm. 4 July - The Vicarage, Cerne Abbas, 4 Back Ln, Cerne Abbas, Dorchester DT2 7JW. 7.30pm. 5 July - Came House, Winterborne Came, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 8NU 7.30pm. 6 July - Came House, Winterborne Came, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 8NU 2.30pm.

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

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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.

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 The UK’s leading celebration of the Eagles play all the classics alongside songs from the band’s favourite artists such as John Legend and Lionel Richie. £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.

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dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk.

Family Storytime with the Flying Monkeys suitable for children 3-8yrs.

11am. Free/donation. LSi Bridport, 51 East Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3JX lsibridport.co.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 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. 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

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Coast &Countryside 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 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. The Bath Gilbert and Sullivan Society present a performance of one of the liveliest and timeless comic operettas of all time, The Pirates of Penzance. This two-act operetta is set in Cornwall and has some of the most recognisable of all Gilbert and Sullivan’s songs. The Bath G&S society can be relied upon to provide an inspiring and exciting evening. 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 This multi-talented headliner appears on the John Bishop Show, The Now Show, and won the Soho Theatre Stand-Up Award. She’s joined by Phil Lucas, Tom Glover, and Dan Thomas,

the presenter of S4C’s Gwerthu Allan. £8 advance / £10 on the door. Starts 8pm Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis www. marinetheatre.com.

Summer Fling Barn Dance at the Village Hall, Whitchurch Canonicorum.

Music kindly provided by the Wyld Band with caller Ruth Jenkins. Doors open 7pm, dancing from 7.30pm. Bar & Raffle. Tickets £8 includes Ploughmans & pudding. All diets catered for, just let us know. Pre-booking preferred - contact Nesta on 01297 489976 or nesta@ leafwork.co.uk.

SATURDAY 29 – SUNDAY 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.

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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.

Sophie Hope 1pm - 2pm Words and Deeds: Looking back at actions of the mouth in social practice Lunchtime talk and discussion. Sophie Hope is a lecturer at Birkbeck University and artist, exploring histories and experiences of cultural democracy, socially engaged art and community arts. Mothership Arts Programme, Copse Barn, Dorset DT6 3TQ. me@annabest.info, mothershipresidencies.tumblr.com.

Yews Farm Open Garden East Street, Martock, TA12 6NF. Garden open 2pm – 5pm. An exuberant and intensively planted garden, with plants chosen for shape, leaf, texture and curiosity of performance.

Topiary and cloud pruning gone mad.

Jungle garden, self seeded gravel garden rich in Ligusticum lucidum, topiary box and bay ball border, cloud pruning, concrete farmyard garden with hens and pigs. Working vegetable garden. 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 A 1930s tinged special jazz night, with the vocalist from Just Misbehavin’. £8 advance / £12 on door Starts 8pm. Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis www.marinetheatre.com.

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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.

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.

MONDAY 1 JULY Wyld Morris are dancing with Enigma Morris at the Royal Oak, Drimpton 7.45pm.

Axminster Carnival Bingo Eyes down 8pm Axminster Guildhall.

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

Birmingham Town Hall (the Pride of Birmingham and an Ornament to England) by Anthony Peers. Visitors £5.

Ilminster Open Prizegiving Event Enjoy the first day of the exhibition and see which artists have won the top prizes!

5pm - 6.30pm. Admission Free. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www.themeetinghouse.org.uk.

Wyld morris dancing 7.45pm at Royal Oak, Drimpton, with Enigma Border Morris.

MON 1 JULY – SAT 3 AUGUST A Small Step for Man Special exhibition to mark the 50th Anniversary of the f Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. Burton Bradstock Community Library Monday Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 3pm - 5pm, Tuesday & Saturday 10am – 12noon. For further information on all events please email: info@ burtonbradstocklibrary.org.uk or go to www.burtonbradstocklibrary.org.uk.

TUESDAY 2 JULY West Dorset Ramblers 8 miles/12.9 km. Jurassic Coast at its best, Bus to Charmouth from Bridport then coastal walk back to Bridport. Starts at 10.15am.

Bring picnic, no dogs. All welcome. Please call 01308 897702.

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

Learn how to manage your hearing loss by using lipreading and coping strategies, while building confidence in a supportive environment. First session free. Small, friendly group. Tea, coffee and biscuits provided. Contact Ruth for further details ruth@bizleyart.com 01297 442239 or just come along on the day.

The Mikado 7pm Electric Palace, Bridport. www.electricpalace.org.uk.

WEDNESDAY 3 JULY 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. Main Line Steam Day Yeovil Railway Centre, Yeovil Junction 01935 410420 www.yeovilrailway.freeservers.com.

Uplyme & Lyme Regis Horticultural Society Coach Trip Depart by coach UVH 9.15am Cothay Manor nr Wellington. A medieval manor house surrounded by 12 acres of magical gardens -different garden rooms are set off a 200yd yew walk. In addition there is a bog garden, cottage garden and a river walk – a plantsmans paradise. Tea room and small nursery. Cost £21 total includes house tour. Please ring Jane Hadley 01297 444147 to book.

AV&DCS Botanical Stroll at Beer Head with Mike Lock. 10am – 12.30pm Meet at cliff-top car park SY227888 (charge).

Popular local band HiDDeN returning to Bucky Doo Square in Bridport from 10am. Free. Performing popular covers to suit everyone and make market day very special.

Lyme History Walks 11am from the Marine Theatre, this and every Wed, Thurs and Sat in July. 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.

Summer concert 7.30pm by West Dorset Community Orchestra and Local Vocals Community Choir. St.John’s Church,West Bay. Admission free with a retiring collection. Refreshments and a raffle.

Steve Holbrook One of UK’s top mediums – is back in Honiton 7.30pm.

Tickets £10 Seats are limited so please pre-order to ensure your space. Available from: Honiton Spiritualists, every Monday evening, Masonic Hall, Northcote Lane, Honiton (Tel: 01404 548420), Or by post to: 8 Minifie Road, Honiton, EX14 1NF (please make cheques payable to Honiton Spiritualist Group and enclose a SAE), Or

by PayPal via: www.honitonspiritgroup. co.uk / Clairvoyance.

THURSDAY 4 JULY Axminster Country Market Thursdays

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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.

The Pymore Inn reopens at 5pm, Recently purchased by the owner of the Bridport Electric Palace the pub is re-opening at 5:00 pm after an extensive face-lift to bring this charming country pub back to life.

West Dorset Ramblers 8.5 miles/13.7 km. Round West Lulworth. Starts at 10am.

Bring picnic, no dogs. All welcome. Please call 01308 422514.

Lyme History Walks 11am from the Marine Theatre, this and every Wed, Thurs and Sat in July. 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.

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.

Beaminster Short Mat Bowls at 7pm in the Public Hall.

Salway Ash Village Fete Bingo Top Prize £50! Lots of other great prizes!

Doors Open 7pm Eyes Down 7.30pm.

Chard History Group 7.30pm at The Phoenix Hotel, Fore Street, Chard. Kay Wych has been a living History Presenter or many years and in her presentation, “Alyce Cleve - A Maid”, Kay explains how this came about. With each step of the presentation how the idea was developed and how each development came about.

Using Costume, there is small amount of audience participation, and a surprise twist at the end. This theatre-like story has unusual features and a well-liked character combined with history and humour.

Refreshments are available in the downstairs in the Bar. New members and Guests are welcome. Members £2 Guests £3 For information 01460 66165.

An evening at Larmer Tree Gardens Dorset Archives Trust’s Summer Event.

Enjoy an evening in the fantastic gardens, bring a picnic, enjoy strawberries and fizz, and hear about the fascinating history of the Rushmore Estate and Cranborne Chase, Larmer Tree Gardens, Tollard Royal, SP5 5PT. Tickets: £11 (members £9) (incl. canapés & a glass of wine).

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Talk at 7.15pm followed by a tour of the Gardens with Head Gardener Andy Rampton. To book contact Dorset Archives Trust on 01305 228922 or email enquiries@dorsetarchivestrust.org.

For further information visit or contact Sam Johnston, DAT Hon Secretary at Dorset History Centre on 01305 228929 (dedicated booking line).

FRIDAY 5 JULY Seaton Lions Club Book Stall 9.30am – 1.30pm The Square , Seaton.

Fish & Chip Friday Battered Cod with chips, mushy peas & tartar sauce followed by a fruity dessert - £8.75 (Members £6.50). Vegetarian alternative available.

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

The Living Tree cancer self-help group.

12.45pm Mindfulness and Compassion with Sue Howse. 2pm Tripudio. 2.15pm an afternoon of poems and poetry with Arra Lindemann plus getting to create your own to share with friends and loved ones.

3.15pm - 4.15pm Therapy session– 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.

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. 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.

Concert in St Mary Magdalene Church Loders in aid Of Arthritis Research 6.30pm for 7 pm piano and Organ and Mezzo Soprano, Refreshments, Raffle, Tickets £15 in advance from 01308 863690. Vivaldi, Russell, Bach, Schumann.

Caccini, Schubert, Bridge, ArmstrongGibbs, Head, Copland, Vaughan-Williams.

Jethro: The Count of Cornwall Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm start. £21 Min. age 16. Following 60 sold out shows last year, ‘The Count of Cornwall’ is back again with his unique style of comedy. Jethro beguiles and befuddles his audience with the endless stream of irreverent twaddle for which he is known and celebrated.

The Beehive, Honiton. www.

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beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Concerts in the West presents Clare Hammond. Award-winning piano soloist playing a programme of Myslivecek, Zev Gordon, Schumann, Debussy and Rachmaninov. www.concertsinthewest. org. 7.30pm. Tickets £15. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www. themeetinghouse.org.uk.

BAC Auction of Promises Bridport Arts Centre, 9A South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3NR. 7pm £5 01308424204 www. bridport-arts.com. Following the success of the first Auction of Promises, the arts centre is raising funds through unique lots.

If you have something unique to offer, please contact boxoffice@bridport-arts. com Tickets include glass of wine and canapés.

Jazz Café: Still Crazy After All These Years Bridport Arts Centre, 9A South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3NR 8pm £10 01308424204 www.bridport-arts.com.

Celebrate over six decades of Paul Simon’s fantastically eclectic song writing with Julie Dunn on vocals/percussion and Philip Clouts on piano in a dynamic programme featuring many well-loved favourites.

FRIDAY 5 – SUNDAY 7 JULY Open garden one and a third of an acre garden for the National Garden Scheme 1.30pm - 5.30pm. This is a plantaholic’s garden, designed for year round structure and colour. There are many specimen trees, shrubs and a large collection of herbaceous plants, over 200 roses, woodland shrubs, dahlias, a small orchard, vegetable patch, small pond, alpine house and alpine troughs. There are steep banks planted with trees and shrubs, and wild flowers, and with a seat and view point at the top. Chickens roam the bank. There will be an interesting and well stocked plant stall, a silversmith selling her jewellery, a local artist’s cards, and a demonstration of scroll saw art with goods to sell. Also home made cakes supplied by an expert baker. Dogs on leads are welcome and most of the garden is wheelchair accessible. Admission £4.50, children free. Photographs of the garden can be seen on the National Garden Scheme website (ngs.org.uk). Socks Orchard, Smallridge, Axminster EX13 7JN Tel: 01297 33693 or 07960191849. 2 miles from Axminster on A358 towards Chard, L at Weycroft Mill traffic lights, pass Ridgeway Hotel on left, continue on lane for half a mile, and park in field opposite.

SATURDAY 6 JULY Yeovil Railway Centre Yeovil Junction, Stoford BA22 9UU: First day of the 25th Anniversary Weekend. See www. yeovilrailway.freeservers.com for more information, or on 01935 410420 or Facebook’.

Big Breakfast at Clapton & Wayford Village Hall 9am – 11.30am full English breakfast (£6.50), including fruit juice + unlimited toast & coffee/tea, in a friendly atmosphere with a lovely view. Disabled facilities, ample parking; all welcome.

Further information/booking from Adrienne 01460 75313 or Julia 01460 72769.

Jurassic Coast Trust Walk 10.30am - 1pm Golden Cap Guided Walk. Join Jurassic Coast Trust Ambassador Geoff Rowland for invigorating walks to the top of the highest point on England’s south coast – Golden Cap in West Dorset. Visit jurassicoast.org/shop to book or call 01308 807000.

Jurassic Coast Trust Walk 11am - 1pm Otterton Mill to Budleigh Salterton Guided Walk. Join Jurassic Coast Trust Ambassador Anthony Cline for a leisurely stroll along the River Otter to the coast at Budleigh Salterton. Visit jurassicoast.org/shop to book or call 01308 807000.

Bridport & West Dorset Rambling Club 7.5 mile walk from Kilmington Higher Westwater, Beckford Bridge, Membury 10.30am start. Bring picnic.

No dogs. All welcome. Please call 01308 898002.

Lyme History Walks 11am from the Marine Theatre, this and every Wed, Thurs and Sat in July. 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.

Dalwood Music Day 11.30am – 7pm.

200 Musicians & Singers. All styles of Music. 4 venues in the centre of the village. Buskers. Free parking. Free programme. Entry by wristband purchased on arrival. £10, BBQ. Teas. Tuckers Arms open all day. Dalwood EX13 7EG, (just north of the A35 between Axminster & Honiton) Info at www.dalwoodvillage. co.uk 01404 831 280.

Free live Music in the Garden by Julie Dunn: Paul Simon tribute, jazz & blues accompanied by piano. This event forms part of the Music in the Garden season organised and sponsored each year by

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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.

St. John The Evangelist Church Tatworth Annual Summer Fete and Car Boot Sale 12noon - 3pm. At Tatworth Playing Fields TA20 2QU Grand Summer Draw - First Prize ~ £50 Plus many other lovely prizes Kerizma Dancers, Punch & Judy Plants. Homemade Cakes . Win a Bird Table. Children’s Games. Toys. Books.

Surprise Bags Plus many other stalls.

Refreshments include Teas. Ice Creams . Hot Dogs & Burgers. The Pavilion Bar will be open. Further Information for Car boot & Sales Tables Daphne Carslake 01460 67945.

Tipping Point an interactive sound installation and activities exploring ecoacoustics. A collaborative project with Bournemouth Uni and electricbackroom STUDIO. 1pm - 6pm. Free/Donation LSi Bridport, 51 East Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3JX lsibridport.co.uk.

In the steps of the unbuilt Colyton Canal 2pm – 5pm. A journey back in time, in the local landscape between Colyton and Shute to hear about the 19th century canal that was planned but never built. Free event. Meet by the main entrance to St Andrew’s Church, Market Place, Colyton EX24 6JS, Grid Reference 246 941. Legacy to Landscape Community Heritage project event. www. eastdevonaonb.org.uk/our-work/wildlife/ legacy-to-landscape.

Sweet Honi and Honiton Town Band 7.30pm Adult £10, U16 £6. Kathy Rufolo’s joyful community choir sings rock, soul and pop. They will be joined

by Honiton Band whose repertoire takes in brass band favourites, light classical, jazz, pop and show tunes. Proceeds to charities Hospiscare (for the Kings House Day Hospice in Honiton) and Mind.The Beehive, Honiton. www.beehivehoniton. co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Sisters of Swing Concert 7.30pm.

(Doors open at 6.30pm) The hugely popular all female swing band from Bristol return to Henhayes. Tickets £12 and are available in advance from the office.

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

The Leylines – A ‘Chance to Dance’ Event 8pm Tickets: £16 Full. £15 Concessions. The David Hall, South Petherton, TA13 5AA www.thedavidhall. org.uk 01460 240 340.

La Vie en Rose 8pm – 10pm Gipsy Jazz Band – Concert in Dalwood Village Hall (as part of Dalwood Music Day). Ticket £10 in advance from klaing07@hotmail. co.uk phone: 01404 881 601 Dalwood EX13 7EG (just north of the A35 between Axminster & Honiton).

Westlife 8pm Electric Palace, Bridport. www.electricpalace.org.uk.

The Take That Experience Bridport Arts Centre, 9A South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3NR 7.30pm £23.50 01308424204 www.bridport-arts.com.

Up to 30 words about your event: The Take That Experience and their incredible stage show gives you the latest Take That favourites as well as the classic songs.

SATURDAY 6 – SUNDAY 7 JULY 25th Anniversary Special Event Yeovil Railway Centre, Yeovil Junction 01935 410420 www.yeovilrailway.freeservers.com.

SATURDAY 6 - FRIDAY 12 JULY Beer and Seaton Lifeboat Week Sat Street Collection at Beer 10am – 5pm Craft Fair at Marine hall. Sunday Duck Race Day 11am onwards Mariners Hall also events in Jubilee Gardens. Tuesday Quiz Night in Beer 7.30pm Dolphin Hotel. Friday Music Night in Beer 9pm – 11pm – Dolphin Hotel. Volunteers required call 01297 23040.

SUNDAY 7 JULY Frampton Fete on the green 2 pm to 5pm Robin Hood theme, try your hand at archery, Durnovarian Band, Bouncy Castle, Ferret Racing, Vintage cars, Tombola, Raffle, Duck race, New to You, plant stall, cakes and home produce, village crafts,Bar, BBQ, ices. In the village hall Bric a Brac, books and Cream Teas. For local charities.

North Church & Cricket Club Fete at the N.P. Cricket Ground from 12noon 4pm. Silent Auction of 50 Lots, Fun Dog Show, many Stalls, Ukulele Band, Grand Raffle (£100 prize), School Dancers, BBQ, Pancakes, Fruit Kebabs, Teas, Ices, Licenced Bar, Inflatables, Steam Train, Fancy Dress, Children’s Competition, Slippery Horse.

Chard Royal Naval Association The association will be holding their annual support to the Mission to Seaman by holding a service in St Thomas’s Church on the Cricket St Thomas estate at 10am. Further details can be obtained by contacting the association secretary Mr Gary Pennells on 01460 77978. Following this service the association will be holding their Sea Sunday Lunch in the Windwhistle Inn at 1pm for 1.30pm.

Alice Dilke Memorial Concert Simon Watterton (piano) and Anna Cashell (violin) play Brahms, Beethoven and more.

3pm, Church of St Candida and Holy Cross, Whitchurch Canonicorum. £10 on the door, includes Tea and Cake.

Bramdean School Chapel Choir and Young Musicians Concert 3.30pm 4.30pm. Sidholme Music Room.

Chard Camera Club The club will be meeting in Boden Street to be picked up by coach for their annual ‘Mystery

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Trip’ where they will be taking image in and around the place of mystery. www.chardcameraclub.org.uk Mrs Joyce Partridge on 01460 66885.

The Occasional Singers 7pm conducted

by Miriam Newton, perform a summer evening concert of part-songs at St Mary’s Chapel, Lulworth Castle BH20 5QS. A great selection of songs by composers including Elgar, Fauré, Britten, Holst and Tavener. The cellist, Sally Flann, will join the singers to perform three quartets

by Arensky op.57 for choir and cello.

Admission is free. All proceeds from a retiring collection will go to the Weldmar Hospicecare Trust. You might like to arrive early and bring a picnic to eat in the grounds of the castle before the concert commences. Everyone is most welcome.

MONDAY 8 JULY Yeovil Probus Club from 1.30pm.

Tolpuddle Martyrs at The Yeovil Court Hotel. New Members always most welcome, please contact the Hon. Secretary on 01935 414765 for further details.

West Dorset Flower Club meet at the W.I. Hall in North Street, Bridport.

2.30pm Amy Shakeshaft demonstration “The World Is Your Oyster”. 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 £8-10. Othona Community, Coast Road, Burton Bradstock DT6 4RN. Contact Robin 01308 897 130 / biodanzabridport.co.uk.

TUESDAY 9 JULY Benefit Advice Session Portland - Easton (an initiative with Island Community Action). Sessions will operate on the second Tuesday in each month, between 10am - 12.15pm at Island Community Action, and will be by appointment only. To make an appointment, please contact Island Community Action on 01305 823789 or at The Easton Centre, Portland DT5 1EB. office@islandcommunityaction.org.uk.

AV&DCS Bird Watch with Rob Johnson - stroll round Fernworthy Reservoir, Dartmoor. 10am – 4pm. Inform Fran Sinclair 07804 835905 if attending.

Time for Tea and a Talk A Day in the Life of a Town Crier. Nick Goodwin, Axminster’s very own Town Crier talks about his very varied and interesting life as Town Crier. £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 2.30pm 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. Display - James Hooper on “Pneumatic Post in Vienna and Prague”. 01297 552482.

The Ile Valley Flower Club Demonstrator Katie Baxter from Ringwood Titled ‘Bring me Sunshine’ Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm. Broadway Village Hall close to Ilminster TA19 9RE Visitors welcome £6 entrance.

Chard WI meeting at Chard Baptist Church Rooms, Holyrood Street TA20 2AH. Speaker from Guide Dogs for the Blind. Alistair Blackmore will bring his guide dog, Robyn. Meeting starts 7.30pm.

New members welcome. Call Madeleine on 01460 68495 or e-mail info.chardwi@ gmail.com for more information. Meetings second Tuesday of each month.

WEDNESDAY 10 JULY West Dorset Ramblers 10.5 miles/16.9 km. Broadmayne Circular. Osmington, Broadmayne, Bincombe, Winterbourne Came, West Knighton. Starts at 10am.

Bring picnic, no dogs. All welcome. Please call 01308 423346.

Friends of Sidmouth Town Band Coffee Concert Coffee 10.30am Concert 11a.m.-12noon. The Music Room, Sidholme Hotel, Elysian Fields, Temple Street, Sidmouth EX10 8. Free Admission, Refreshments ... Disabled Access Retiring Collection for Sidmouth Town Band.

U3A Lyme Regis Talk The History of Paper : A talk by Robin Clarke who spent his working life in the paper industry.

Coffee served from 10am - 10.40am, followed by the talk at 11am - 12noon.

Venue; please note change of venue toWoodbury Hall , Axminster EX13 5TL. Free to members, £2 donation suggested for nonmembers. To join U3A see website www.lymeregisu3a.org or telephone 01297 444566.

Behind the Scenes Tour 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. Shire Hall Museum Courthouse, Dorchester.

Wyld Morris dancing at 7.30pm at

Monkton Wyld Court, Monkton Wyld, Charmouth.

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. www. beehivehoniton.co.uk.

THURSDAY 11 JULY Benefit Advice Session Weymouth Sessions will operate on the second Thursday in each month, 9.30am 11.30am at Weymouth Community Safety Centre (new fire station), Radipole Lane, Weymouth, DT4 0QF, and will be by appointment only. To make an appointment, please contact Age UK Dorchester on 01305 269444. www.ageuk. org.uk/dorchester.

An Evening with TV Chef Tim Maddams Celebrated chef and writer, Tim Maddams is at Frogmary Farm for his next charismatic and inventive cookery demonstration on fresh fish. Exploring the seasonal seas and river riches of the UK as Tim reveals the joys of cooking fish and seafood, its sustainability in sourcing and the simplicity of its preparation. Get ready for exquisite nibbles, fascinating discussions and plenty of laughter as you uncover the very finest in fresh

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Coast &Countryside fish with Tim Maddams. 7pm - 9pm, Frogmary Green Farm Cookery School, South Petherton 01460 249758 www. frogmarygreenfarm.co.uk.

Beaminster Short Mat Bowls at 7pm in the Public Hall.

Crewkerne Gardening Club is pleased to welcome Christine Walker to talk about “Hedgehogs in the Garden”. Henhayes Centre at 7.30pm. Expect refreshments and a warm welcome. Visitors - £2.50.

Further details from Rosemary Prince – 01460 74290.

Chard Royal Naval Association The association will be meeting in the Chard Rugby Football Club Essex Close at 7.30pm for their bimonthly official meeting. Further information on the association can be found locally by contacting the associations secretary Mr Gary Pennells on 01460 77978. All enquiries made will be gladly received and to re mind people interested you do not have to be former members of any forces to be a member of the association.

FRIDAY 12 JULY West Dorset Ramblers 7.5 miles/12.1 km. Ashley Chase Country. Stone Circle, Parks Dairy, Abbotsbury Ridge. Starts at 10am. Bring picnic, no dogs. All welcome.

Please call 01305 854137.

Food on Friday at Clapton & Wayford Village Hall – 12noon two course lunch, roll & butter + unlimited tea/coffee, £4.50. Special diets can usually be catered for if requested in advance. Disabled facilities, ample parking, lovely view. 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.

Jurassic Coast boat trip from Lyme Regis. A choice of circular trips. Lyme Regis heading west to Beer Head and back leaving at 11am. Lyme Regis heading east to West Bay/ Burton Bradstock and back leaving at 2pm. Each trip lasts around 2 ½ hours. £17 per person. More information see nationaltrust.org.uk/golden-cap or contact 01297 489481. Online bookings only via Stuart Lines website Jurassic Coast Boat trip www.nationaltrust.org. uk/events/c06ca791-2005-468b-86a82d834a32abe6/pages/details.

The Living Tree cancer self-help group.

2pm Tripudio. 2.15pm Wendy LowisBates talking on gemstones and how she got into jewellery making, then we can all make a simple pair of earrings. Plus Karen Jones will be on hand to show you how to make a simple origami gift box to put them in. 2.30pm – 4pm Therapy session to be confirmed. 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.

Summer Cream Tea 2pm – 4pm.

Traditional cream tea with live entertainment from the fabulous Ian Uren.

Scones, cream, jam & strawberries with tea/coffee – £4.50 Henhayes Centre South Street Car Park, Crewkerne, TA18 8DA, Tel No: 01460 74340.

Kilmington Gardening Club 7.30pm Talk by Angela Brooks -Smith on Flowers for cutting. Angela is a garden designer, flower grower and florist. Angela will share her knowledge on the best plants to grow for stunning floral displays.

Kilmington garden club, Kilmington village hall, Whitford Road, Kilmington EX13 7RF. All welcome non members £3.

Down Gin Lane with the Grey Bear Bar Company. 7pm Tickets are £30 each. For more information visit shirehalldorset. org or call 01305 261849. Shire Hall, Dorchester.

The Merry Wives of Windsor (12A) 7.20pm Adult £12.80, Student £7.80. A stunning new production filmed live at Shakespeare’s Globe. Double-meanings, disguises and dirty laundry abound as Sir John Falstaff sets about improving his financial situation by wooing Mistress Page and Mistress Ford. But the ‘Merry Wives’ quickly cotton on to his tricks…The Beehive, Honiton. www.beehivehoniton. co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Mike Denham & the Sunset Cafe Stompers The South West’s favourite traditional jazz band, playing the whole jazz repertoire from Scott Joplin’s ragtime to Fats Domino’ Rock’n’Roll. 8pm. Tickets £16 (£31 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.

Comedy Club Pre Edinburgh Preview: Matthew Rees & Josh Berry Bridport Arts Centre, 9A South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3NR 8pm £13 01308424204 www. bridport-arts.com. These stand ups don’t have long to polish up their act before the Fringe Festival, so join Matt and John – two of the best new acts on the circuit!

Free pint with every ticket.

Music for a Summer Evening The Lyme Light Singers present an evening of light-hearted music from Orlando Gibbons and Dowland to Vaughan Williams and beyond at 7.30 p.m. in the Pine Hall, Baptist Church, Lyme Regis (by kind permission of the Baptist Church). The programme includes madrigals, folk songs, part songs, and solo items including a comic monologue, and refreshments will be available in the interval. Tickets are £8 (£5 for students) and are available from the Tourist Information Centre, Lyme Regis; proceeds in aid of the Uplyme Community

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Sponsorship Scheme, to support a Syrian refugee family.

SATURDAY 13 JULY Dennis Chinaworks Open Day 11 am - 5 pm. Shepton House, Shepton Beauchamp TA19 0JT. Tel. 01460 240622.

Farmer’s Market 9am - 1pm Kennaway House, Sidmouth 01395 515551.

Martock Farmers Market 10am – 1pm, CoOp shopping precinct, North Street.

16 stalls with thoughtfully made food, including White Lake Cheese, which has just won the Championship at the Bath & west for the third year running. Fergus Dowding 01935 822202 for a stall.

Satsang with Derek Thorne, The Yoga of the Upanishads 10am -1pm St Peter’s Church Hall, High West Street, Dorchester –Hear authentic and inspiring teaching on these timeless spiritual texts. Discourse, meditation, simple chanting and Q&A. “Early Bird” booking available. For more details and to book please contact Marj Snape marjsnape@gmail.com 07747429559 or see www.yogaliving.co.uk.

Long Bredy Village Coffee Break takes place on the second Saturday of each month in the Village Hall, Long Bredy DT2 9HP in the beautiful Bride Valley.

Coffee, tea, cakes and some savouries are all available between 10.30 am - 12noon.

Come and visit.

Chard Horticulture & Craft Show 10.30am - 1.30pm, classes for Vegetables, Flowers, Homecraft & Handicraft, photography Flower Arranging and many Childrens classes. Free admission Schedules available from The Guildhall, Chard.

Bridport & West Dorset Rambling Club 7 mile walk from Osmington White Horse Hill, Poxwell 10.30am start. Bring picnic. No dogs. All welcome. Please call 01308 898002.

Free live Music in the Garden 11am – 1pm by Tony Roberts and Richard Llewelyn: jazz duo playing standards and latin. 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 .

Summer Garden Party hosted by St. Swithun’s Church, Allington, Bridport 12noon - 2.30pm. Fun, games and entertainment for all the family, including the St. Swithun’s Band and dancing displays. On sale there will be cakes, craftwork, gifts, plus a raffle and tombola, Sandwiches, cakes, cream tea and ice creams. Entry and parking are free and on arrival you can be sure of a very warm welcome.

Healing Words author and poet Sue Simms presents an illustrated talk about

how writing helped her through her sons fight with cancer. 1pm. Free/Donation LSi Bridport, 51 East Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3JX lsibridport.co.uk.

Summer Show and Country Fayre Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural Society 1pm - 5pm. Potato themed classes in the Horticultural Show, games, live music and entertainment, steam train rides, family dog show, food and craft stalls, country skills demonstrations, sideshows, games, and refreshments. All afternoon on Uplyme playing field, in the big marquee and in the village hall. Details Robin Britton 01297 442794.

Art Study Day on artist ‘Eric Ravilious and his peer group, an English Romantic Modern’, 1.30pm - 4.30pm, tea/coffee and cake in the interval is included, to be held in Church House, South Street, Bridport, Fee £25. For information or to book: contact Pam Simpson on chris.pamsimpson@ btinternet.com or tel: 01300 321715.

An Evening Summer Concert 6pm At St Andrews Church Burstock. Please come and enjoy an evening of song directed by Hillary Kenway Followed by supper. Tickets £7.50 on the door or call 01308 868083 to book.

In aid of St Andrews Church, Burstock.

Mapperton Estate Summer Concert in All Saints Church, adjoining Mapperton House at 7pm. The highly acclaimed cellist Guy Johnston returns to play the last three Bach cello suites, numbers 4, 5 and 6 after playing the first three suites at Mapperton last year. Tickets are £25 per person and include entrance to the gardens. To book your tickets call Mapperton on 01308 862645 or email: laurab@mapperton.com.

BAC Quiz Night Bridport Arts Centre, 9A South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3NR 7pm £10 01308424204 www.bridport-arts. com. Up to 30 words about your event: A very special Quiz Night where the theme is all things covered by Bridport Arts Centre.

Ticket price includes a curry supper.

SATURDAY 13 – SUNDAY 14 JULY Upwey Open Gardens (DT 3 5QE) This weekend explore behind the fences and gates of this village cottages and larger period houses to seek out the fruits of a whole years gardening. There is ample free parking, programmes are £4 and proceeds are donated to preserving and improving the fabric of the village for the benefit of the community.

SUNDAY 14 JULY The Devonrotariun Charity Bike Ride 100km; 60km and a taster ride of 25km.

The courses will be clearly signposted and there will be pit stops. The first ride starting at 9am. The venue is the Honiton Rugby Club, Alhallows Playing Field, School Lane, Honiton EX14 1QW In aid of Devon air Ambulance Trust Entries to www. devonrotarium.org.

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Main Line Steam Day Yeovil Railway Centre, Yeovil Junction 01935 410420 www.yeovilrailway.freeservers.com.

Kimmeridge, a walk on the beach Dorset Wildlife Trust. Plus opportunity to visit Etches Fossil Museum. 10.30am – 12.30pm, meet at museum car park. Book with Myra Sealy, 01308 422 538. www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk.

Jurassic Coast Trust Walk 10.30am - 2pm Tyneham and Worbarrow Bay Guided Walk. Visit jurassicoast.org/shop to book or call 01308 807000.

Sherborne Steam & Waterwheel Centre - Open Day 11.30am - 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.

Garden Party 12noon – 3pm Middle Woodbeer Farm, Plymtree, EX15 2LN. Tea, coffee, cake and even hotdogs (or cats?!) New & vintage jewellery, books, bric-a-brac & plants. Games for the young and young at heart, lucky dip, treasure hunt…Raffle, tombola. Cats & kittens looking for homes…01404 45241 www. honiton.cats.org.uk.

A Friends of Greenhill Gardens Event 2pm – 4pm. Entertainer Tony Lowe performing on the bandstand in Greenhill Gardens, The Espanande, Weymouth. Free Entrance. 01305 775829, janechandler123@hotmail.com, www. greenhill-gardens.co.uk.

Classical Favourites played by Pianis Joyce Clarke 3.30pm - 4.30pm Sidholme Music Room.

Gloria St Andrew’s Church, Colyton, 3.30pm. Cantamus presents ‘Gloria’, a concert of songs for summer. Tickets are £10 on the door and include interval refreshments.

Free, Fun, Family Friendly Scottish Ceilidh organised by the Somerset branch of the RSCDS 2.30pm - 4.30pm at Staplegrove Village Hall, Taunton TA2 6AL. Hot and cold drinks will be provided foc. All dances will be called. Dancing to CD’s. Wear something tartan if you wish.

All welcome and bring your friends. For more information contact Anita on 01460 929383 or anitaandjim22@gmail.com.

Crystal and Tibetan Bowl Soundbath 7pm - 8.30pm. Dorchester YMCA, Sawmills Lane, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 2RZ. £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.

MONDAY 15 JULY Axminster Carnival Bingo Eyes down 8pm Axminster Guildhall.

TUESDAY 16 JULY Café Scientifique Interested in science?

Then come and discuss. No experience necessary! Free of charge, but please do buy a drink. @sidmouthscience 3pm-4pm Kennaway House, Sidmouth 01395 515551.

Meet the Author: Paul Atterbury Paul Atterbury is a writer, lecturer, curator and broadcaster who specialises in the art, architecture and design of the 19th and 20th centuries. Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Tickets £13 (to include a glass of wine). Available to purchase from Kennaway House office. Call 01395 515551 or pop in to the House. Kennaway House, Sidmouth.

Harcombe: A Pig in a Day butchery masterclass, run by Steven Lamb, River Cottage’s curing and smoking expert.

Bargain price of £125 including lunch and your take away porkie. There are only 10 places so to reserve a place email steve. sway@virginnet.net, all in aid of the Uplyme Community Sponsorship Scheme.

TUES 16 – WEDNESDAY 17 JULY Rhinoceros Live Art at the Jam Factory, Uplyme. 6.30pm for 7pm Contact Jo Smith-Oliver 07525005430 for details and tickets.

Secondhand Book Sale from 11am Jubilee Pavilion, Lyme Regis.

WEDNESDAY 17 JULY West Dorset Ramblers 8 miles/12.9 km. Burton Circular, West Bay, Bothenhampton, Shipton. Starts at 10am.

Bring picnic, no dogs. All welcome. Please call 01308 424512.

Bridport Probus Club Siege of Lyme Regis – Chris Andrew. 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 meeting at The Beehive with speaker Philip Browne to give his talk entitled ‘The Unfortunate Captain Pearce’.

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.

Summertime with The Tale Valley Choir 7.45pm - 8.45pm M.D. Emma Palmer, Sidhome Music Room.

Casterbridge Male Voice Choir and Portland Singers concert in aid of the appeal for MV Freedom, which is a charity and a volunteer run vessel purposely adapted for the disabled based in Weymouth the charity is raising funds for a more moderate vessel. The Weymouth Bay Methodist Church, Melcombe Avenue, Weymouth, starting at 7.30pm. Tickets will available at the door or in advance from The Tourist Information Office at The Library and Learning Centre, South Walks House, Charles Street Dorchester,

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and Harmony Music, The Forum Centre, Trinity Street, Dorchester.

THURS 18 - SATURDAY 20 JULY Patronal Flower Festival. St Margaret’s Church, Topsham Many people have come up with some amazing ideas and titles for this year’s Flower Festival e.g.

Whirling Dervishes, The Frog Prince. The Festival will take place on Thursday 18th July and Friday 19th July from 10.00-6.00 and on Saturday 20th July from 10.00-5.00 Bring your friends and enjoy the delicious refreshments and lunches. The funds raised this year will be shared between St. Margaret’s Church and MAF - Mission Aviation Fellowship THURSDAY 18 JULY Bridport & District Gardening Club British Bees, speaker Brigit Strawbridge.

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

Beaminster Short Mat Bowls at 7pm in the Public Hall.

Romantic Travellers ;Touring Britain 1780-1830 An illustrated talk by Dr. Emma McEvoy. 7.30pm. Free/Donation LSi Bridport, 51 East Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3JX lsibridport.co.uk.

The Exeter Chorale Chamber Choir 7.45pm - 8.45pm. Old English Madrigals M.D. Simon Dunbavand. Sidholme Music Room.

FRIDAY 19 JULY West Dorset Ramblers 7 miles/11.3 km.

Ringstead Bay, Ringstead to Holworth, Moigns Down and Upton.

Starts at 10am. Bring picnic, no dogs. All welcome. Please call 01305 459315.

Chef ’s Special Lunch 12noon for 12.30pm. £9.50 (Members £8). Fruit juice on arrival, roast pork followed by Eton mess 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.

The Living Tree cancer self-help group.

12.45pm Mindfulness and Compassion with Sue Howse. 2pm Tripudio. 2.15pm Social afternoon. 3.15pm Rising Voices with Jane. 2.30pm Jenny Malone available to do 1-to-1 short Homeopathy assessments. 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.

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 ThirdFriday of the month – 5pm – 9pm. Contact: Eleanor Carr chat@UniqueBoutiqueEvents.co.uk www.

UniqueBoutiqueEvents.co.uk 07970 857696.

Richard Lennox presented by The Friends of Crewkerne Church at 7.30pm A virtuoso on both the piano and the organ, playing ‘Films and Musicals meet the Classics’. A tour de force from Jurassic Park to the Four Seasons. St. Bartholomew’s Church, Crewkerne. Tickets £14 (under 18s free) from Crewkerne Town Hall or Ian Tribe 01460 271440.

The Life and Times of Doctor Roberts Bridport Arts Centre, 9A South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3NR 11am and 7.30pm £10 (11am) and £14 (7.30pm) 01308424204 www.bridport-arts.com. An entertaining theatrical inquiry into the medical practices of Georgian Bridport.

Free tea or coffee with every ticket.

Laura Collins with the Craig Milverton Trio and Nigel Price A Tribute to the Great American Songbook with acclaimed vocalist Laura supported by a team of award-winning jazz musicians. 8pm. Tickets £18 (£33 with pre-show supper at 7pm – must be pre-booked). Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. 01460 54973. www. themeetinghouse.org.uk.

SATURDAY 20 JULY Natural Seaton Festival 10am – 4pm visit the AV&DCS stand for quizzes and hedgehog mapping.

Bridport & West Dorset Rambling Club 8 mile coastal walk from Worth Matravers 10.30am start. Bring picnic. No dogs. All welcome. Please call 01308 898002.

Help King John’s Oak and Deer Park Walk Shute, 10am – 12noon. A great chance to meet and also lend a hand freeing this magnificent 800 year old ancient tree from surrounding competing growth, helping it to continue to thrive in the medieval Woodend Deer Park at Shute.

Walk around park in the afternoon. Come to one or both. Gloves, tools and hot drink provided. Booking essential. 01404 310012, pete.youngman@eastdevonaonb.org.uk.

Location map sent on booking. Free event.

Legacy to Landscape Community Heritage project event. www.eastdevonaonb.org.uk/ our-work/wildlife/legacy-to-landscape.

Natural Seaton Festival 10am - 4pm Thury Harcourt Place and Tesco Square EX12 2WD. Celebrate the natural wealth of the Seaton area. Enjoy a festival atmosphere with many wildlife and conservation organisations together with local arts and crafts. Activities for all ages. Free entry

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Scottish Dancing Party at Chardstock Village Hall, 7.30pm – 10 pm. No partner required. Tel. David 01460 65981; Ann on 01308 422927; or Andrew on 01297 33461.

www.seatonvisitorcentretrust.org.

Leigh Food Fair & Vintage / Classic Car / Bike Display Leigh Village Hall, DT9 6HL 10am – 4pm. Taste and buy some of the best food and drink on offer from local producers. The Stallholders will include:- Adam’s Tasty Chilli Sauces, Bakeout Café, Choc Ami, Chetnole Honey, Cornish Pasties, Devon Fishcakes, Dorset Blue Viney, Fussels Fine Foods, James’s Cheeses, Lavender Blue Food Company, Ma Bolton Gluton Free, Meat Free Martha, Oxfords’ Bakery, Reads Coffee Roasters, Percy’s Bakery, Purbeck Icecream, Simply Sprinkle, Somerset Cider Brandy Co., Somerset Charcuterie, Sopley Salads, Unusual Pork Pie Co., Wraxall Wines, Wyld Meadow Farm, and Yarty Cordials. A variety of interesting Vintage/Classic cars & motorbikes will be on display. Barbecued Hamburgers & Sausages, Refreshments, Ice cream, Beer and Cider! Entertainment includes children’s activities. Adults £2, children under 15 Free It will be opened by Richard Bromell, Director of Charterhouse Auctioneers. www.leighfoodfair.co.uk.

Jurassic Coast Trust Walk 10.30am 1pm. Fleet Lagoon Guided Walk. Visit jurassicoast.org/shop to book or call 01308 807000.

Lyme History Walks 11am from the Marine Theatre, this and every Wed, Thurs and Sat in July. 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 in the Garden by HiDDeN: 11am – 1pm Easy-listening music – various instruments and vocal harmony. 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.

Summer Fete at Holy Trinity, Bothenhampton starting at 1 p.m. with a barbeque. You may like to enter the best dressed shoes competition either arriving in your decorated footwear or picking items from a box of craft items to decorate your shoes on the day. Stalls,

Saturday 3 August

Whitford & District Produce Association Annual Summer Show & Dog Show, Whitford Sports Field, Whitford. 14.00 - 17.30. More info Hon. Secretary Christine 07872621094

teas, raffle, music by Mood Indigo and our handbells. Display of dog agility by the Dog Training Society. Free entry.

Chard Museum’s Summer Celebration open afternoon. Free Entry 12noon - 4pm. Come and see the museum’s amazing collection and enjoy children’s activities, including Punch and Judy show, entertainment, stalls, raffle and refreshments. Try our delicious cakes and enjoy tea on our sunny patio.

Screening Sheldrake a premiere of the film of Rupert Sheldrake’s sell out talk at the LSi for anyone who couldn’t get a ticket first time round. 1pm. Free/ Donation. LSi Bridport, 51 East Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3JX lsibridport. co.uk.

Stoke Abbott Street Fair 2pm - 5pm Fun for all the family with exciting stalls, entertainment, craft displays, ferret-racing, a novelty dog show for all ages, cream teas and more. Children are welcome play in the games garden and to come in fancy dress (no theme) with a parade in the dog show ring at 3.30pm. This year, proceeds will go to Bridport’s The Living Tree & Stepping Out, supporting those affected by cancer, as well as St Mary’s church and the village hall. Wyld Morris is dancing at Stoke Abbott Street fair.

Cotleigh Village Fete 2pm Cotleigh Village Hall EX14 9HJ. Free entry for traditional fun including stalls, vintage cars and tractors, Shetland ponies, skittles, bar, ice creams, raffle and our famous cream teas and refreshments. Arena featuring Littletown Primary Academy Choir and children’s fun sports. Scarecrow competition around the village.

Piddlehinton Village Fete 2pm - 5pm.

This year’s fete will be held in the lovely English garden at East Farmhouse, Piddlehinton by the River Piddle and celebrations will include the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing. Bigger and better than ever before this year’s fete will include the now famous dog show judged by the renowned expert Olivia Archer. Keeping children entertained and happy will be the children’s races, pony rides, coconut shy, welly wanging, gymnastics display, toy stall and of course the ice cream tent and the Duck Grand National – always a firm favourite.

From 7pm there will be a delicious BBQ complete with DJ and live music, including the village’s very own John Hudson, one of Britains most powerful and dramatic

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Sunday 4 August

Cattistock Countryside Show Chillfrome Dorset. Horse, Flower and Dog show and countryside show.

Also meet RNLI and the Somerset and Dorset Air Ambulance.

tenors and of course a telescope for lessons on the moon and stars …Disabled parking is available please call 01300 348465 in advance for advice. Parking for the fete is at DT2 7TF. Beer Wurlitzer Theatre Organ Show with Andrew Nix at the Congregational Church, Fore Street, Beer, 2pm - 4.30pm, £7 at the door, children free, visit beerwurlitzer.org.uk or phone 01297 24892.

Art Lecture 2pm - 3.30pm, ‘The influence of Art upon Thomas Hardy the writer’, Uplyme Village Hall, Uplyme, free parking, fee £10.Thomas Hardy was interested in art from early age, he was an amateur artist and architect himself; the lecture explores the way in which art influenced his writing, he was friends with artists in London and in Dorset and was inspired by the subject matter of painting when he wrote. For information or to book: contact Pam Simpson on: chris.pamsimpson@ btinternet.com or tel: 01300 321715.

Fea Jeanes Ballet: Cinderella 2.30pm Electric Palace, Bridport www. electricpalace.org.uk.

Piano and Viola Recital by Natasha O’Flynn 3pm - 4.15pm Sidholme Music Room.

Friends of St Andrews Church, Colyton Jazz Summer Concert to include Pimms on the Green. Arrive at 7pm to enjoy drinks beforehand for 7.30pm start of the concert. Le Jazz Quartet are playing in St Andrews Church, Colyton. Tickets from The Little Shop, Market Square, Colyton £12, £10 for members, £5 for under 18’s or on the door. Tel: 01297 552057.

The 19 Sixties, Live Classic 60s Band 7pm to midnight St Georges Hall, Hinton St George. Enjoy a candlelit 3-course dinner and dance to this exciting band plus Baz’s Disco. Make up a group or come by yourself. Tickets £30 available from Our Shop, Hinton St George, or phone 07500 532543 Any profit to local community projects.

SAT 20 – SUNDAY 21 JULY Powerstock Open Gardens and Teas 2pm - 6 pm, admission by ticket £5 (two days), accompanied children free. Free Parking.

SUNDAY 21 JULY Dorset Area Group Walk 11 miles/17.7 km. Sydling St Nicholas, Cerne Abbas, picnic at Giant Hill. Starts at 10am. Bring

picnic, no dogs. All welcome. Please call 01300 320346.

Dorset Countryside Volunteers at 10am will be removing thistles and ragwort at South Poorton (West Dorset) in order to maintain wildflower rich grassland 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.

Chard Bowling Club Open Day at Bonds Close, Chard, TA20 1ED, between 10am 3pm. Come and try outdoor and/or indoor bowls and have a look around our friendly and well equipped club. During the Summer months members can play outdoors whilst still enjoying short mat indoor play throughout the whole year. Nothing needed as bowls will be provided, but, please do wear flat soled shoes. Any queries or for further information, please call Clive on 01460 63858.

Jurassic Coast Cruises Leaving Fisherman’s Gap, Seaton Sea Front at 1.30pm and 3.45pm. Two-hour cruises along the World Heritage Site. Bar, refreshments and toilets on board. Dogs permitted.

Tickets, £12 adults, £6 children, available from 10am on the day from the sea front or in advance from Stuart Lines 01395 222144 /www.stuartlinecruises.co.uk.

A Friends of Greenhill Gardens Event 2pm – 4pm. The Omega Project performing on the bandstand in Greenhill Gardens, The Espanande, Weymouth. Free Entrance.

Crystal and Tibetan Bowl Soundbath 2pm - 4pm Stour Row Village Hall, Stour Row, nr. Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 0QG. £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.

Teas and Tunes from 2.30pm - 5pm at St Peter’s Church, Long Bredy DT2 9HU. Come and enjoy a cream tea or a slice of home-made cake while you listen to folk musicians David Squirrel and Emma McCovey from the band “Yellow Room”. To be held outside in the beautiful churchyard if fine, but in the church if wet. Free parking and free admission but donations are requested to help with the upkeep of the church. Grand Christmas Draw tickets will also be on sale in aid of church and the Chemotherapy Unit at Dorchester County Hospital.

MONDAY 22 JULY Severalls Jubilee Bowls Club Coaching for All ages 10am – 12noon at War Memorial Grounds, Severalls Park Avenue, Crewkerne, TA18 8HQ (entrance off Lang Road).

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footwear. For more information please phone Geoff Kerr on 01308 867221.

Martock History Group 2.30pm.

A private visit to Forde Abbey: John Allen will lead the group on a private guided tour around the abbey, which is closed to the public on Mondays.

The quality of the 1530s buildings and 1650s plasterwork is some of the best in the country, said Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, and the whole package is like a jewel tucked away in remote countryside, yet near Chard.

It is a Monday as the house is closed to the public that day, which gives us more time and space. You can also wander around the gardens at your leisure, and buy lunch or tea in the café - open from 10.30am - 3.30pm, the gardens are open to the public from 10.30am – 5pm. The cost is £11, please pay Fergus Dowding beforehand to secure a place, 01935 822202, fergus.dowding@btinternet. com.

Hidden Depths: Women of the RNLI talk by Sue Hennessy at 3pm in Bridport Town Hall. £5 for visitors, £4 for Friends of Bridport Museum, paid on the door. Tea and cakes will be available after the talk for a small additional donation. All proceeds support Bridport Museum.

All welcome.

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.

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TUESDAY 23 JULY 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. Dr Tony Davis presents a talk ‘Why Diets Don’t Work’ a talk into recent research into bacterial genetics.

Sidmouth Charity Tea Dances 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.

Lyme Regis Parish Church Organ recital 7.30pm with Andrew Millington, formerly director of music at Exeter Cathedral.

Programme includes Jongen’s Sonata Eroica and works by Bach, Handel, Vierne and Guilmant. This is a South Wessex Organ Society event.

Tickets £10 on the door.

Dalloway Bridport Arts Centre, 9A South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3NR. 7.30pm £16 01308424204 www.bridport-arts.com. 1923: The war is over. This adaptation of Virginia Woolf ’s celebrated map of hearts, minds and memories offers a compellingly feminine response to the aftermath of the First World War. WEDNESDAY 24 JULY Coach outing to Dunster - probably the largest and most intact medieval village in England. £15 Coach only (£13.50 for AH members) Most well-known

for its Castle and iconic octagonal Yarn Market, there is masses to see and do.

Optional activities include Castle (NT), Museum and Country Fair (£12) admission fees may be payable. Picking up at Dalwood (9am), Axminster, Tatworth, Chard. Call 01404 831207 for info or to book. An Axminster Heritage Alive Event.

West Dorset Ramblers 8 miles/12.9 km.

Around Sydling St Nicholas. Sydling St Nicholas, Grimstone Down and Ridge Hill.

6 mile option. Starts at 10am: Bring picnic, dogs on short leads. All welcome. Please call 01300 341664.

Lyme History Walks 11am from the Marine Theatre, this and every Wed, Thurs and Sat in July. 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.

Uplyme & Lyme Regis Horticultural Society Outing 6.15pm Evening visit to Little Ash Bungalow Fenny Bridges. Cost £5 to include refreshments. (Non members £8).

Depart in shared cars from Uplyme Village Hall at 6.15pm. Please ring Jenny Harding 07773 604137 or email jennyhlyme@ hotmail.co.uk by July 18th to confirm.

THURSDAY 25 JULY Benefit Advice Session an initiative

by Dorset Welfare Benefits Partnership.

Dorchester 9am – 12.30pm at Age UK Dorchester. To make an appointment, please contact Age UK Dorchester on 01305 269444 or at Rowan Cottage, 4 Prince of Wales Road, Dorchester DT1 1PW www. ageuk.org.uk/dorchester.

Johnnie Boden of Bodens Mail order and online clothing business, is giving a special fundraising talk at the Bridport LSi. It is called ‘10 things I have learnt in business and in life!’. The talk starts at 7.30 pm.

Refreshments available from 6.45pm.

Tickets are £12 each. Available from Bridport TIC, Eventbrite and the LSi. West Dorset Ramblers 8.5 miles/13.7 km. The Brit Valley, Bradpole, Netherbury, Waytown, Pymore. Starts at 10am. Bring picnic, no dogs. All welcome. Please call 01308 459282.

Stepping into Nature Exploring the old railway line a leisurely themed walk around West Bay. Open to all ages, suitable for the over 55’s and dementia friendly, this is a free event. Donations welcome. Meet at the Discovery Centre at 10.40am.Advance booking and further details 01308 427288 manager@westbaydiscovercentre.org.uk.

Lyme History Walks 11am from the Marine Theatre, this and every Wed, Thurs and Sat in July. Discover the unique and colourful history of Lyme Regis. Hear stories of amazing people including Mary

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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.

West Bay RNLI raft race Pre raft cream teas 2pm - 5pm. Rafts start to arrive from 5.30 for a 7.30 start, fun for all the family.

Beaminster Short Mat Bowls at 7pm in the Public Hall.

Chard Ladies’ Evening Guild welcome Philip Hoyland to its meeting at the Crowshute Centre.

Entitled A Village Friendly Society it promises to throw some light on village life. Also, on July 30, a garden party will be held in the garden of one of the guild’s most loyal and long serving members, Pat Ives, who died recently. With the encouragement of her family the event will be held to help raise funds for the Beacon Centre at Musgrove Park Hospital. New members and visitors will be very welcome at both events, and any further information can be found by ringing 01460 65402.

NT Live: The Lehman Trilogy (12A) 7pm Adult £15.30, Student £12.30. The Beehive, Honiton. www. beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050. Also Electric Palace, Bridport www.electricpalace.org.uk.

Sotavento Big Band On their 4th European tour, a big band from Argentina playing a varied mix of jazzy Latin American rhythms and Argentine tango. 8pm. Tickets £18 (£33 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 26 JULY The Living Tree cancer self-help group. 2pm Tripudio. 2.15pm Art with Libby. 2.30pm - 4pm TherapyAnne Escott offering Foot Massage.

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.

FRIDAY 26 – SUNDAY 28 JULY Bridport Folk Festival With Wyld Morris dancing – see a list of all events taking place at www. bridportfolkfestival.com.

SATURDAY 27 JULY Talent for Textiles Makers and Rummage Market St Mary’s

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Church Hall, South Street, Bridport DT6 3NW 9.30am – 3pm. Free entry. Textiles ancient and modern for homes and handcrafts. Contact Caroline Bushell 01040 45901.

AV&DCS & Natural England expedition to the Crimean Seat and Humble Glades in the Undercliff. Numbers limited.

Booking essential with Jurassiccoast. org/shop. £7.

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

Bridport & West Dorset Rambling Club 6 mile walk from Cotleigh Hornhayes Bridge, Millhayes 10.30am start. Bring picnic.

No dogs. All welcome. Please call 01308 898002.

Jurassic Coast Trust Walk 10am - 3pm Undercliffs Guided Walk: The Crimean Seat. Enjoy a walk that takes the humid woodland of the Undercliffs, a cliff top section including flower rich chalk grassland and the Crimean Seat which boasts one of the best views across Lyme Bay and the Undercliffs. Visit jurassicoast.org/shop to book or call 01308 807000.

Yandles Summer Handmade Market 10 am - 4 pm. Free family friendly day out. 70 of the most talented artists and crafters. Hurst Works, Martock TA12 6JU. Dinosaur Footprints Walk to Keates Quarry 12noon - 2pm Join the Jurassic Coast Trust expert Ambassadors for leisurely, familyfriendly Dinosaur Footprints Walks to Keates Quarry in Purbeck.

Starting at the famous Square & Compass pub in Worth Matravers.

Visit jurassicoast.org/shop to book or call 01308 807000.

Free live Music in the Garden

by Last Gasp: 11am – 3pm four multi instrumentalists performing British, Irish and American folk songs from 11am, then from 1.30pm d0ug1e: Covers and original solos accompanied by guitar. 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.

Kilmington Flower Show and Fayre 1pm - 4.30pm. Fun for all the family, kids entertainer, bouncy

castle, floral marquee, fun dog show, stalls, games, live music, beer tent, food, vintage vehicles and so much more. £3 entry under 16 free. Kilmington village hall and field, Whitford Road, EX137RF. Axmouth Village Show Coombe Field, Axmouth 1.30pm - 5pm Various events.

Dog Show. Local Displays and Stall. Bouncy castle. Devon Flyball, Skittles and more... www.Axmouthshow.co.uk.

Wambrook Flower Show at 2.30pm, The Tithe Barn, Cotley, TA20 3EP, near Chard. Doors open at 2.30pm. Entry by donation to our chosen charities. Pianist in the courtyard, grand raffle, tombola, stalls, teas and cakes and one of the best flower shows in the local area. Fun and games for the children in the orchard and in addition this year a Fun Dog Show.

Flower Show schedules are available from: The Cotley Inn, Combe Dingle Nursery, Barleymow’s shop and Floweringi flower shop or download a copy at www. wambrookparishchurch.com.

Puncknowle Fete 2.30pm - 4.30pm In aid of St Mary’s Church In the grounds of Puncknowle Manor DT2 9BX Grand Draw 1st Prize £100 Free Parking Entry £1 Under 12’s free.

St. John’s, Tatworth Quiz Night at 6.45pm for 7pm. at St. John’s Church Hall, Waterlake road, Tatworth, Chard TA20 2NZ £4 per head Teams of 4. Tickets available from Helen Johnson 01460 220221 Raffle Soft drinks & nibbles available. Please bring own wine/beer.

Bridport Folk Festival – Karsilama & Fine 8pm Electric Palace www. electricpalace.org.uk.

SAT 27 – TUESDAY 2 AUGUST Lyme Regis and Charmouth Lifeboat Week Many of the old favourites are in

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the programme…tug ‘o war across the harbour mouth, the bath tub race, sand sports and treasure hunts. And the Army’s spectacular Red Devils parachute team are coming back. There’s also a grand fireworks display. This year the week will be officially opened on Saturday by actor John Challis, who played Boycie in the hugely popular series Only Fools and Horses. Full details of all the events will appear in the official souvenir programme available in July at £2 from the lifeboat shop on the Cobb and other outlets throughout Lyme Regis and Charmouth.

Programmes will also be available on-line www.rnli.org.

SATURDAY 27 – SUNDAY 28 JULY Lucie Milner Original Art & Decorative Work Exhibition/Sale of Work. The Reading Room, Burton Bradstock 10am - 4pm www.luciemilnerdecorativeartist. co.uk/.

SUNDAY 28 JULY Steam Train Day Yeovil Railway Centre, Yeovil Junction 01935 410420 www. yeovilrailway.freeservers.com.

Angels of Sound Voice Playshop 10am - 12.30pm. Toning the chakras, Overtoning,and breathwork-plus Find your Soul Note (Personal Sonic) and Key Tone to work with the notes of your key.

(Chakra Tones CDs available in every key.)

followed by Crystal and Tibetan Bowl Soundbath 2pm - 4pm Oborne Village Hall, Oborne, nr. Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4LA. 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 each session Booking in advance and further details www.centreforpuresound.org ahiahel@ live.com 01935 389655. Bring something comfortable to lie on and wrap around you.

Charmouth Vintage Fair Community Hall 10am - 4pm. Next Date: Monday 26 August. Tel: 01297 560634.

A Friends of Greenhill Gardens Event 2pm - 4pm. Entertainer Tony Lowe performing on the bandstand in Greenhill Gardens, The Espanande, Weymouth. Free Entrance.

Collect: Contemporary Dance 6pm Electric Palace, Bridport. www. bridportpalace.org.uk.

Acoustic Night 7.30pm – 10.30pm 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.

MONDAY 29 JULY National Trust South Dorset Association 7.30 pm “A History of Indian Gardens - a Two-way Trade” a talk

by Christine Stones. Brownsword Hall, Pummery Square, Poundbury, DT1 3GW. Presented by the National Trust South Dorset Association. Members £3 Nonmembers £4 inc. tea/biscuits No need to book. Please note this is an evening talk.

Contact: Geoffrey and Elizabeth Wrench 01300 321601.

Axminster Carnival Bingo Eyes down 8pm Axminster Guildhall.

MON 29 JULY – FRIDAY 2 AUGUST Actiontrack Show Build Week A fiveday summer school for young people between the ages of 8 and 18. The David Hall, South Petherton, TA13 5AA www. thedavidhall.org.uk 01460 240 340.

Monday 10am - Friday 4pm.

TUESDAY 30 JULY Diesel Day Yeovil Railway Centre, Yeovil Junction 01935 410420 www.yeovilrailway. freeservers.com.

Merriott Gardening Club A presentation

by Paul Cumberton on ‘Alluring Alpines’.

This should be very interesting as Paul has been clambering over the hills and mountains of Austria to add to his knowledge of these small but lovely plants.

Please meet at the Tithe Barn, Church Street at 7.30pm - refreshments and raffle and don’t forget to bring a flower for the Flower of the Month competition.

Non-members £2 at the door - all very welcome.

WEDNESDAY 31 JULY Coffee Morning 10am – 12noon Free Entry. The David Hall, South Petherton, TA13 5AA www.thedavidhall.org.uk 01460 240 340.

Wyld Morris are dancing at Lyme Regis Lifeboat week 7.30pm between the Harbour Inn and the Royal Standard pub on Marine parade, Lyme Regis.

Talk & Display of Birds of Prey 7.30pm Uplyme Village Hall by Xtreme Falconry. Uplyme & Lyme Regis Horticultural Society. Real live owls, falcons, hawks and a magnificent eagle.

All tickets £3 from Uplyme Post Office and RNLI Gift shop or ring Brian Cursley 07831 533580. Profits to Lifeboat Week.

WED 31 JULY – SAT 3 AUGUST The Sound of Music 7pm and Sat 2pm Adult £12, Child £8. Honiton Community Theatre Company return to The Beehive with one of the best known musicals of all time. The Beehive, Honiton. www. beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050

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Junglenomics Author of a new book on our environment, Simon Lamb talks to Fergus Byrne about an alternative way to deal with the economy and our fragile planet.

BEFORE presenting his seven stages of man, Shakespeare wrote: ‘All the world’s a stage and all men and women merely players’. It’s an observation that might describe how we live within the world around us today. But there’s a problem with some of the players. We may well be actors on a grand stage, cogs in the wheel of our planet’s journey or bit players in the game of life on earth, but – in the ecosystem that is our world – we’ve been playing dirty. So dirty, in fact, that we’re ruining the game.

But that doesn’t mean the game’s over. After decades of highlighting the damage our species has been doing to our environment the debate is no longer about whether we are having a detrimental effect on our planet – at last the debate is about how to deal with it.

Nonetheless, like all debate, there are different points of view, and whilst some believe we need a harsh form of environmental austerity, others think that technology will come to our aid. In a new book just published, West Dorset’s Simon Lamb sets out the fundamentals of his vision of how we might develop solutions to some of the major problems facing our planet’s future.

Junglenomics. Nature’s solutions to the world environment crisis: a new paradigm for the 21st century and beyond, takes a holistic approach to our world, placing us as key players in a huge ecosystem. Using this fundamental premise, along with the observation that market economies are no different to natural ecosystems, Simon has focused on looking deep into Nature for guidance on dealing with the pollution, degradation and destruction of our natural environment.

With great patience and obviously exhaustive research, he has traced the origins and growth of our environmental problems from the birth of farming to the development of modern money-based

economies. He argues firstly that, just like species in ecosystems, we humans are genetically programmed to seek out new resources, what he calls ‘resource hunger’. And secondly, that we inhabit a worldwide ‘economic ecosystem’ in which people act out roles that are the exact equivalent to species in natural ecosystems. The only real difference is that ours is a ‘virtual’ ecosystem, where rather than needing to evolve physically to occupy a new role, we are ‘avatars’ who can step in and out of roles as the opportunity arises. In the economic world, technology is the equivalent to evolution, and the roles of money, innovation and markets have combined to evolve a vast array of niches where none previously existed; for example in electronics, energy and financial services.

The great difficulty is that, whereas nature moves slowly and normally finds ways to deal with the mess that different organisms leave behind, we currently don’t. Think dung beetles cleaning up waste to their own advantage, or the respiratory coalition between plants and animals that ensures each provides the other with oxygen on the one hand and nitrogen on the other. Put us into the picture – with our ability to speed up the process of utilising resources using technology – and the resultant waste grows so fast that we haven’t found a way to clean up before finding new resources to exploit. Like children rushing to open the next Christmas present before appreciating the one they have in their hand, the march of technology allows us to exploit the world around us faster and faster, with little notice of what we have just done.

It was after reading about Thor Heyerdahl crossing the Atlantic in RA ll in 1969 and the floating mass of waste that he came across, that Simon began worrying about what was happening to our planet.

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He began to read various stories of environmental issues and was especially struck by the damage done to rainforests. ‘I came to realise that behind it all is a drive to colonise new resources’ he explained.

‘Not just your everyday resources but new resources.’ He began to get more and more agitated by what was going on in the world. ‘Why are we, the most intelligent species in the world, steadily, inexorably destroying the thing that we depend on?’ he asks. ‘There is something deeper going on besides economics, there is something much deeper behind it all. Because it is suicidal. Does it happen in nature? Yes it does happen in nature. You do get bursts of invasion by species.

They always die back because other characteristics in the ecosystems tend to damp them down. We have a balanced ecosystem with checks and balances in it. Once you see that – working out the chain that actually developed from when we started as hunter gatherers – you can see that we’re living in an economic ecosystem exactly like natural ecosystems. The thing that’s different about it is the speed that it moves at and the fact that we’ve unified resources which might otherwise be nutrients; magnesium, carbon, whatever it is that the said species need to live off. We’ve unified all those into one resource called money. And that translates into anything – it could be a tree, a flower pot or it could be a house or whatever, it is the universal resource.’

Junglenomics uses the principal of ‘symbiosis’ or ‘beneficial mutual dependence’ to suggest a more focused approach to how we deal with our ever growing pile of detritus. This includes nurturing and fast-tracking “good” technology and environmentally benign markets to control or eliminate “bad” ones; by establishing economic symbiosis to clear up behind polluters; by enlisting powerful economic actors in pursuit of “green” profit to conserve and restore vulnerable wilderness; and by re-valuing environments.

‘In nature’ says Simon ‘species co-evolve, so when a creature starts producing waste – and it’s all a very slow process – other creatures come to feed off that. They’re not doing anyone a favour, they’re not doing a service. They actually find that waste profitable. So everything is profitable in nature – that’s why there’s nothing wasted.’ Organisms in nature have evolved in order to colonise the ‘golden opportunities provided by the detritus of others.’

Junglenomics provides shocking statistics and forecasts relating to the chief areas of environmental concern, including pollution in land, sea and air, energy reform, loss of primal wilderness, overdevelopment, biomass decline, and extinctions. But Simon points out that with the necessary incentives and conditions, innovators and entrepreneurs will emerge to seize opportunities. They will be drawn to what he describes as ‘the honeypot of profit’ that could come from performing clean-up services that the present economic ecosystem so badly needs. We, as the species that has tipped the balance, have the ability to create systems to deal with our problems, but waiting for technology to catch up may take too long.

Simon highlights the old adage “Where there’s muck, there’s brass” but cautions that although it’s up to us to copy nature we need to interfere and create an ‘ecosystemic, market-based solution’ to environmental problems. Markets require ‘economic stimulation’ and we need to be far more proactive in promoting ‘viable symbiotic economic partnerships.’ A tree in a rainforest needs to become

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Make that tree worth more standing, make that tiger worth more alive.

Not just to people – but to powerful people.

more valuable alive than dead. ‘While economics makes that tree worth more as a piece of lumber than as a rainforest tree, that is what’s going to happen –because of the resource colonising need that is in our genes.’

Amongst the many options highlighted in Junglenomics is the Polluter Pays Principle (PPP) where polluting businesses pay for their cleanup costs. There has been some effort to implement this initiative.

However, Simon points out that the receipts from these levies need to be ring-fenced for use in developing technologies and systems to offset environment problems. Contributions being ‘quietly diverted to non-environmental matters’ by cash-strapped governments make a farce of the value of initiatives like PPP. Pollution penalties become ‘cash cows’ for governments short of revenues. These receipts must be used to address the problems they are contributing to.

Junglenomics also highlights other areas where we can become more efficient such as Carbon Capture Storage (CCS), which Simon believes is an important element in rescuing our planet from climate change. ‘Is the world quite mad?’ he asks in relation to the fact that a helpful system such as this is right under our noses and not being properly utilised. CCS takes carbon at source, pressurises it into a liquid and sends it back deep underground to be locked away under impermeable layers of rock. He quotes Tim Bertels, Shell’s Global CCS portfolio manager as saying: “You don’t need to divest in fossil fuels, you need to decarbonise them.” And Matthew Billson, programme director of Energy 2050 at the University of Sheffield, who calls CCS “the Cinderella of low carbon energy technology”.

One very clear point in Junglenomics is the realistic support of businesses to carry on developing and maintaining economies. It’s abundantly clear that energy austerity simply won’t happen. The book points out that legislation against powerful industries and ‘punitive taxation’, without encouragement and incentive to evolve improved sustainability, will only encourage them to invest in public relations spiel. This is one of the many elephants in the room. The use of PR firms and political influence, rather than finding remedies, will always be more palatable than admitting wrongdoing – so the carrot needs to be much bigger than the stick.

Junglenomics doesn’t attempt to offer an exhaustive or ‘sniffy’ tome of academic detail on environmental issues, nor does it pretend to deal only with new ideas. Simon Lamb has taken what nature does best and used it to identify a way ahead for our planet. He has created a focus or ‘blueprint’ to use as a model to work with. ‘We need to carry people forward with a message at this point’ says Simon. He believes we need to settle what, in comparison, are ‘petty’ problems elsewhere, in another arena. ‘This is too big and important’ he says, ‘I cannot see how people can create policies, create a plan that David Attenborough called for at Davos, if you don’t understand the fundamentals. Until you understand the anthropological reasons, I don’t think you can address it.’ From an economic point of view he says, ‘It isn’t not having growth that’s the problem, because you can have green growth. Make that tree worth more standing, make that tiger worth more alive. Not just to people – but to powerful people.’

Simon believes that the ebbs and flows of products and services through markets and the fine balances struck between competing,

parasitic and cooperative elements in business, along with the identical nature of underlying motivations, shows that economies are subject to entirely natural laws and protocols. Junglenomics not only puts forward a blueprint for governments around the world to follow, it also investigates real solutions to individual issues.

However, Simon is not so naive as to be unaware of how ambitious his suggestions are. The changes he outlines would require ‘understanding, acceptance, consent and action at the highest levels’ if they were to move leaders of the world communities toward a ‘broad unity of purpose’.

So the question is why should they listen now? Because Junglenomics not only eschews a political agenda, it also doesn’t advocate unattainable economic restraints. It is neither anti-capital nor anti-growth, and though not afraid to implement levies where necessary and change habits that are unhealthy, it is utilising a tried and tested model supplied by nature to deal with a real problem.

As we go to press the Government has announced its commitment to net zero greenhouse gases by 2050. Although that’s a step in the right direction, it is no reason to relax. ‘Setting a legal deadline for net zero emissions by 2050 is a legacy Mrs May can be proud of ’ says Simon. ‘But important though this is, carbon emissions are but one part of the catastrophe we are inflicting on the environment. We need equally bold moves on conservation, recycling and pollution control to complete the picture. Britain needs to become the world leader in all these things and to devote maximum energy to their adoption worldwide. Only then can we look forward to the future with renewed confidence.”

Shakespeare finishes his poem in, As you Like It, by describing the final stage of man’s “strange eventful history” as “second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.” If we are just players on this grand stage and “mere oblivion” awaits us all as individuals, that’s fine. But we don’t have to subject the planet and our grandchildren to the same fate.

For more information or to order a copy of Junglenomics visit www.junglenomics.com

Courses&Workshops TUESDAY 25 – THURSDAY 27 JUNE

Wild flowers, orchids and grasses identification workshop The Kingcombe Centre, Lower Kingcombe, DT20EQ. T: 01300 320684. Visit www. kingcombe.org to book online.

THURSDAY 27 JUNE

From Wolf Hall to Poldark: Historical Dance Class meets 7.30pm – 9pm at Castle Cary Market House BA7 7AH Taught by friendly specialist. No experience or partner needed. Wear light loose clothes & flexible footwear. £6 per stand-alone session, just turn up, every fourth Thursday (check before first time). Info Ann Hinchliffe 01935 472771 thedancingmaster@outlook.com.

FRIDAY 28 JUNE

By The Loom - Axminster Heritage Spinning and Weaving group 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 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 creates beautiful, colourful jewellery using hand printed and coloured aluminium. 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. A fun and friendly day for any budding Baker 10.30am - approx 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.

MONDAY 1 – TUESDAY 2 JULY

Reflex Drawing Technique for Beginners with Marie Blake £8 each day 1pm – 3pm. Call to book 01404 831207 An Axminster Heritage Alive Event at The Bradshaw Meeting Room, Thomas Whitty House, Silver Street, Axminster, Devon, EX13 5AH. TUESDAY 2 JULY

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. Half termly fee, equivalent of £15 per class depending on length of term. Taster class £7.50.

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

THURSDAY 4 JULY

From Wolf Hall to Poldark: Historical Dance Class meets 7.30pm – 9.30pm, St George’s Church Dorchester DT1 1LB. Info Ann Hinchliffe 01935 472771 thedancingmaster@outlook.com.

THURSDAY 4 – FRIDAY 5 JULY

Reflex Drawing Technique for Improvers with Marie Blake £8 each day 1pm – 3pm Call to book 01404 831207 An Axminster Heritage Alive Event at The Bradshaw Meeting Room, Thomas Whitty House, Silver Street, Axminster, Devon, EX13 5AH. FRIDAY 5 JULY

Creative Watercolours With tutor Nicky Clarke. 10am-3pm. £30. Book with Nicky on: 01460 281773. Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East Street, Ilminster. TA19 0AN. www. themeetinghouse.org.uk.

FRIDAY 5 - SUNDAY 7 JULY

Macro Photography Workshop With John Bebbington FRPS. The course will start at 4pm on Friday with tea/coffee and will finish at 4pm on Sunday with afternoon tea. R £303 NR £219. The Kingcombe Centre, Lower Kingcombe, DT20EQ. T: 01300 320684. www. kingcombe.org to book online.

SATURDAY 6 JULY

Inchies Have fun making miniature works of art - using paper, collage, painting, embroidery, copper or aluminium. 10am - 1pm. £16 (plus £2

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for materials payable to tutor). Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, East St, Ilminster TA19 0AN. 01460 54973.

SUNDAY 7 JULY

Willow Pig workshop £70pp 10am - 4pm at Broadwindsor Craft Centre.

Book now jojo.sadler@hotmail.co.uk or 07531417209.

MONDAY 8 – FRIDAY 12 JULY

Dorset’s Butterflies and Moths Led by David Brown. The Kingcombe Centre, Lower Kingcombe, DT20EQ. T: 01300 320684. Visit www.kingcombe.org to book online.

THURSDAY 11 JULY

An Evening with TV Chef Tim Maddams Celebrated chef and writer, Tim Maddams is at Frogmary Farm for his next charismatic and inventive cookery demonstration on fresh fish.

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

FRIDAY 12 JULY

Morning with Moths Led by expert David Brown. The Kingcombe Centre, Lower Kingcombe, DT20EQ. T: 01300 320684. Visit www.kingcombe.org to book online.

Felt Floral Wreaths 10.30am – 3.30pm £35 Coastal Craft Collective, 10 Marine Place, Seaton, Devon EX12 2QL 01297 691362 www.coastalcraftcollective.co.uk.

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. 01404 831207 for more info or to book.

10.30am – 3pm at Dalwood Pavilion EX13 7EU. SATURDAY 13 JULY

Art Chest Children’s art workshop for the over 8’s. This week: It’s a Bug’s Life in 3 & 2D. With tutor Margaret Micklewright.

10.30am - 12.30pm. £6 per child.

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

Create a Painted Family Tree with Calligraphy Gina Youens will demonstrate the art of Flourished Italic Calligraphy and help you create your own

beautiful painted family tree. Suitable for beginners.£16 Paper and paint provided but please bring a couple of medium size pointed paint brushes, a pencil, saucer and a jam jar. These pictures make lovely gifts. 10am – 12.30pm More info or to book: 01404 831207 The Bradshaw Meeting Room, Axminster Heritage Centre, Silver Street, Axminster, Devon, EX13 5AH.

By The Loom Hands-On Workshop More info or to book: 01404 831207 Dye Garden/Dye House Axminster Heritage Centre, Silver Street, Axminster, Devon, EX13 5AH.

SUNDAY 21 JULY

SUNDAY 14 JULY

MONDAY 22 - TUESDAY 23 JULY

From Wolf Hall to Poldark: Historical Dance Class Info Ann Hinchliffe 01935 472771 thedancingmaster@outlook.com.

Willow chicken workshop £55pp 10am - 4pm at Broadwindsor Craft Centre . Book now jojo.sadler@hotmail. co.uk or 07531417209.

SUNDAY 14 – FRIDAY 19 JULY

Wildlife Conservation and Research Holiday The Kingcombe Centre, Lower Kingcombe, DT20EQ. T: 01300 320684. Visit www.kingcombe.org to book online.

MONDAY 15 JULY

Heavenly Hydrangeas 10am - 1pm £22. Workshops taught by awardwinning 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.

Art Journaling 10am – 1pm £30 Leader: Monica Weber-Butler.

Imaginative and simple techniques that make drawing new subjects less intimidating and more fun. Coastal Craft Collective, 10 Marine Place, Seaton, Devon EX12 2QL 01297 691362 www.coastalcraftcollective.co.uk.

FRIDAY 19 JULY

Bridport Embroiderers Faux Felt workshop with Betty Ruffles. For further details, or to join/book, phone 01308 456168 or email cherry. bonhamlovett@btinternet.com.

SATURDAY 20 JULY

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

Dances With Shakespeare: Historical Dance Class meets 1.30pm – 4pm, Barrington Village Hall TA19 0JE. Taught by friendly specialist. No experience or partner needed. Wear light loose clothes & flexible footwear. £6 per stand-alone session, just turn up (every third Sunday, check before first time). Info Ann Hinchliffe 01935 472771 thedancingmaster@outlook. com.

Willow Running Duck workshop £55pp 10am - 4pm at Broadwindsor Craft Centre. Book now jojo.sadler@ hotmail.co.uk or 07531417209.

Wildflower Grasslands of West Dorset Join Amanda Marler and Nick Gray on a 2-day tour of Kingcombe and The Ridgeway’s beautifully embroidered species-rich grasslands The Kingcombe Centre, Lower Kingcombe, DT20EQ. T: 01300 320684. Visit www.kingcombe.org to book online.

TUESDAY 23 JULY

Bridport Summer Yoga A different Yoga Teacher each week. Tuesday mornings 10am - 11.30am The Ballroom of The Bull Hotel, 34 East St, Bridport DT6 3LF (Public Car Parking is very near in East St car park). For information contact Corrie van Rijn on 01308 485544, corrievanrijn@aol.com.

Sea Glass & Pottery Creations 2pm – 4pm £15 Leader: Gillian Beckman-Findlay. Make items out of sea glass, sea pottery and other beach finds and bits & pieces. There will be a selection of materials available - please bring your own finds if you want to use them. Coastal Craft Collective, 10 Marine Place, Seaton, Devon EX12 2QL 01297 691362 www. coastalcraftcollective.co.uk.

Cary Market House BA7 7AH Info Ann Hinchliffe 01935 472771 thedancingmaster@outlook.com.

FRIDAY 26 JULY

By The Loom - Axminster Heritage Spinning and Weaving group More info or to book: 01404 831207 The Bradshaw Meeting Room, Thomas Whitty House, Silver Street, Axminster, Devon, EX13 5AH. FRIDAY 26 – SUNDAY 28 JULY

Macro Photography Workshop With John Bebbington FRPS. The Kingcombe Centre, Lower Kingcombe, DT20EQ. T: 01300 320684. Visit www. kingcombe.org to book online.

SUNDAY 28 JULY

Introduction to Pyrography 2pm – 4.30pm £17 Leader: Gillian BeckmanFindlay. The art of “designing with fire”. You do not need to be skilled at art or design to do this craft. There will a number of designs available for you to use or you can create your own.

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

TUESDAY 30 JULY

Bridport Summer Yoga A different Yoga Teacher each week. Tuesday mornings 10am - 11.30am The Ballroom of The Bull Hotel, 34 East St, Bridport DT6 3LF (Public Car Parking is very near in East St car park). For information contact Corrie van Rijn on 01308 485544, corrievanrijn@aol.com.

WEDNESDAY 24 JULY

Wildflower Walk, Myths and Magic The Kingcombe Centre, Lower Kingcombe, DT20EQ. T: 01300 320684. Visit www. kingcombe.org to book online.

Thread Painting Tutor: Jean Chisholm. 10am - 4pm. £25.

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

THURSDAY 25 JULY

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News &Views

CHARMOUTH

CHARD

ILMINSTER

Local couple Judy and Michael Haines were just 10 metres away from danger when part of a cliff collapsed onto a beach in front of them. The couple were walking their dog at Stonebarrow and on the lookout for fossils. Judy said there was no warning at all and it sounded ‘just like a lorry load of stones being dumped’.

Some hours later, they saw from their home a white puff of smoke drifting on the beach, which turned out to be a second cliff fall. The couple will avoid walking in the same spot in the future.

They say that although they know the cliffs are dangerous, they were surprised at how quickly the fall happened.

A combination of dry weather, which causes the rock to shrink and crack, and heavy downpours caused the falls.

When Diane Dening arrived at her Just Purdy pottery shop in Holyrood Street on the morning of 4 June, she found the door to the premises was open and her laptop had been stolen. She is appealing for its return because it contains many family photos and things she needs to run her business. She described the theft as heart breaking. She said the white HP laptop cost her about £500, but the real value to her was the photos stored on it, including pictures of her granddaughter when the child was born.

Police are appealing for information about the burglary. They say no damage was caused but that a purse and laptop were taken. Anyone with information should contact police through avonandsomerset.police.uk/contact, or by calling 101, quoting reference 5219123850.

This year’s literary festival was the most successful yet, according to the organisers. With 23 events in nine days, many sold out in advance including talks by politician Alan Johnson and BBC news correspondent Kate Adie. One of the organisers, Linda Vijeh, said speakers were selected to interest as broad a cross-section of people as possible. The highlight of the festival, which was held in May, was the ‘runaway success’ of the children’s poetry competition. Many local schools took part and there were 523 entries.

The children’s writing competition was also well supported. Linda Vijeh said: ‘If through such events as the literary festival we are able to engage with, and encourage, youngsters to discover the joys of our rich language then its future will be secure.’.

Lucky escape for walkers

Lost memories after burglary

AXE VALLEY

Joining forces to improve healthcare Axminster, Seaton and Lyme Regis have joined forces to improve local healthcare provision for some 40,000 residents. The Axe Valley Health Forum has been set up by representatives from Axminster Health Needs, LymeForward and Seaton Area Health Matters, believing they have a stronger voice as one group. The aim is to improve health and wellbeing for everyone living within the Axe Valley - the surrounding communities as well as the three towns. The forum will comprise elected representatives from the community, health and social care providers and volunteers. Its main objective is to identify improvements needed in service delivery and then prioritise them from a community perspective. It will also identify existing good practice and encourage its spread across the whole of the Axe Valley.

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Best ever Lit Fest

BRIDPORT

Trading Estates sold

Two industrial estates with links to the town’s ropemaking past have been sold. North Mills and Dreadnought Trading Estates have been owned by the Fowler family for decades. North Mills has been sold to real estate management company Busby & Busby and Dreadnought to Crowndale Estates (Tavistock).

All 55 tenants will remain on the estates.

North Mills has 25 units and includes a listed building which is the longest remaining rope walk in Bridport. Dreadnought has 30 units.

Between them, the estates generate a rental income of £480,000 from their tenants. With businesses stockpiling in advance of Brexit, the family sold the prime warehousing space ‘just at the right time’ according to the sites’ marketing adviser.

On the Box Laterally Speaking by Humphrey Walwyn

I

remember our first telly with a rosy warm nostalgic glow.

Warm because the thing glowed so hot after half an hour, we could have toasted our tea cakes on it. It was a majestic big brown box with a shuttered wood door standing in the corner of the sitting room. The box might have been large but the picture was small, fuzzy, grey and intermittent – mostly when my father moved the indoor aerial two inches to the right to avoid snagging his pipe. My sister and I used to stare at this box in eager anticipation and, if we had been particularly good, my mother might actually turn it on! Yes, it was tea and Bovril sandwiches with either ‘Andy Pandy’ or ‘The Woodentops’.

Some of you may know (older ones might even remember) that these were the olden golden days of black and white telly when we were entertained

by Michael Miles with ‘Take Your Pick’. Sunday nights were incomplete without the ‘London Paladium’ and the world stopped (or at least it did in our house) when BBC presenters introduced the evening’s nine o’clock news in their dinner jackets. It was only later that we all grew up and Bill and Ben got done for possession of Weed and ‘Muffin the Mule’ got you ten years in solitary...

A major difference between now and then was having to be ‘in’ at a particular time of the day so you could watch your favourite bit of telly. I’ve already mentioned the 9 o’clock news when my father would clear his throat, turn down the lights and mentally prepare himself for half an hour of serious telly delivered in a semi-religious monotone, but the important thing was we had to be home and dinner finished and cleared away in order to watch it. It was a form of time control, of ritual restraint, of old-fashioned order... A genuine Saturday could never fully exist without ‘Doctor Who’ (5.15pm) or ‘Dixon of Dock Green’ (6.30pm). When ‘The Forsyte Saga’ (every Sunday at 7.25pm) was in full bloom, pubs closed early, streets were deserted and the church had to change the time of Evensong when Eric Porter clashed with Nyree Dawn Porter.

But this was all before TV became a waterfall of streamed services. Nowa-

Andy Pandy and Looby Loo – when TV was safe to watch!

days, you don’t need to be home at exactly one minute to nine to watch the news, because you can watch it at 9.04, 9.09 or catch it up at 9.28. It’ll be mostly the same but it might be a little later, that’s all. And you really don’t have to cancel dinner and put off your holiday plans for ‘Game Of Thrones’.

You can catch up all of the episodes and binge-watch the whole lot by yourself on a succession of 36 days and nights with only a chest freezer full of frozen pizzas and several gallons of homemade cider for company. You will then emerge heavily constipated with a severe indigestive hangover, but at least you’ll have had the pleasure of being fully entertained! Not only entertained, but swamped, waterlogged and sodden with dragon vomit…

Surely the ITV’s and BBC’s days are out-numbered as we are all willingly submerged in a torrent of digital goo.

I think there are now possibly more channels than there are viewers to watch them on some evenings. In addition to Amazon Prime, Sky, BT TV, Virgin Media and Netflix, we’ve got another hundred and seventy-five channels including History, Yesterday, Now and Today. I expect it won’t be too long until we can watch the Future Channel

which will preview exactly what to see in Spring 2020. Oh, there already is one?

There you go… that’s progress for you.

I shall now make plans to avoid certain days in next year’s viewing diary.

Our lives are measured not only by when to watch essential stuff (‘Strictly’ or ‘Killing Eve’) but also by when to avoid some of the other stuff. Here I’m talking particularly about the tackily sleazy ‘Love Island’ which is broadcast nearly every evening so is quite difficult to avoid unless you take up pot holing (no TV underground) or take up evening classes in something artistic like Russian literature or 18th century furniture restoration. And whatever you do, don’t go on holiday to Majorca to escape it because that’s where the wretched series is filmed. Obviously, there are a lot of people in this country who like a bit of jovial gossip plus some occasional leering and inuendo – a bit like the Archers only with less clothes.

However, I will admit it’s much more entertaining than watching endless reruns of leadership elections or whatifs over Brexit negotiations. Perhaps it would be more acceptable if they all wore evening dresses and dinner jackets just like my childhood BBC TV newsreaders. Must keep the standards up…

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House&Garden

Lively night in South Petherton

THE Leylines come to the David Hall, South Petherton, on Saturday 6th July for a Chance to Dance event that should get the venue shaking!

This West Country collective have a reputation for wild, energetic performances—expect a lively night. Visit www.thedavidhall.com.

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Language or Lingo and Dialect

By Cecil Amor PERHAPS I should not have included ‘Lingo’ in the title as I have since seen a repeat of Dad’s Army in which Captain Mannering rebuked one of his subordinates for using it. I think he thought it to be un-English.

Some years ago, when my wife and I listened frequently to the radio, one of our favourite programmes was presented by Hubert Gregg, previously an actor I believe.

When he signed off he usually said ‘We will be together again in a Sennight’, that is in seven nights or a week. William Barnes wrote it as ‘Zennit’. Susie Dent writing in the Radio Times a few weeks ago said that around the 14th century ‘fourteen nights’ was shortened to a ‘Fortnight’. Also ‘Yestreen’ and ‘Yestermorn’ for yesterday evening and morning respectively and ‘Overmorrow’ meaning the day after tomorrow.

Time Team on TV once held a representation of an Anglo Saxon cremation with a eulogy read by archeologist Phil Harding, as his Wiltshire/Wessex accent was considered to be the nearest to the Anglo Saxon language. Time Team programmes are repeated on ‘Yesterday’ channel 19 around midday.

Phil takes me back to my childhood with his ‘Ah’ or Aah’ and ‘Oh Ah’, the meaning changing with emphasis and number of ‘a’s’. Then there is ‘Ennit’ for ‘Is it not’ and the common ‘Yer’ for ‘Hear’. This is just what our local poet, teacher and minister William Barnes taught around a century ago.

Listening carefully to Phil you can detect the words he has encountered more recently which are pronounced like ‘Oxford English’ among those of his childhood which are ‘Old English’. Some years ago I listened to Sir Bernard Lovell of Jodrell Bank fame on the radio and detected something similar between his technical words and his ordinary speech, which had a slight rural burr. He was born in Gloucestershire. This in no way detracts from their fame and achievements.

Back to my childhood I recall walking along the village street and encountering ‘Auntie’ Burh, who stopped us so that she could scrutinise my face and exclaim ‘Be y’en e a Amerr’ which being interpreted becomes ‘Isn’t he an Amor’, for our family likeness. ‘Amer’ being a common Wiltshire pronunciation of ‘Amor’.

An American family historian told me of two Amor males who migrated to the USA, one was registered as ‘Amer’, the other correctly as ‘Amor’ and their lines have continued with the two separate names. ‘Auntie’ I may have mentioned previously as walking up and down the street saying ‘Anybuddyseed arr Annie annyof ee?’ as she had lost her wayward niece.

‘Auntie’ would also stop us in the street, saying ‘Don’ er Graaw’, that is ‘Doesn’t he grow’.

I recall when I was about five years old that my paternal Grandmother and associates would sometimes say ‘tis behopes’ it will not rain on washing day. I also remember ‘shrieved’ meaning shivering from the cold, when wet and not dried and ‘Shrammed’ meaning cold. This latter may be found in one of Thomas Hardy’s poems. Grandmother would also say ‘Lets have a Deck’ if she wanted a closer look at an object, or sometimes ‘Have a Deckoe’. My maternal Grandfather, a Dorset born gardener, would ask ‘Do you want a Hankercher?’ and showing plants would say ‘These’um’, but he would also say to his wife ‘Yes’um’! Flowers or nosegays were often ‘Tutties’.

“Anybuddyseed arr Annie annyof ee?”

Much of dialect is just abbreviation as ‘et’ in ‘I et it all up’ that is have eaten it all. Then ‘us’ instead of ‘or’, possibly a corruption of ‘else’ , e.g. ‘us it will die’. Other early interpolations came into the language, corrupted, from the army in India as in ‘Char’ for ‘tea’ and ‘charping’ for ‘sleeping’, from the Hindustani for bed.

Reverting certainly to earlier days people would say ‘Wur be gwain ?’, or ‘Wurst ‘gwain’ or even ‘Wurst be thee gwain’ meaning ‘Where are you going’. Also ‘N’arn o’ ye’ for ‘Not one of you’. ‘Ee’ can also be substituted for ‘Ye’. Occasionally I have heard ‘ookum’ for job, or place as in ‘I don’t like this ook-um’. Also ‘caddle’ as in ‘I am in a bit of a caddle’ which William Barnes translated as ‘muddle’ but I wonder if it is a corruption of the phrase ‘A fine kettle of fish’ (kettle = caddle). The Wiltshire Regiment, now joined with another, previously had as its marching song ‘The vly be on the turmit’ that is ‘The fly is on the turnip’ which of course led to ‘Turmit o’in’ (hoeing).

As boys, if something was not working they would say ‘It won’t Ackle’ and my Mother would refer to a young girl as ‘laughing and Whickering’, a ‘Whicker’ being loud laughter, neighing. Ants were called ‘Emmits’ which is also William Barnes word for them.

Our local author, Sylvia Creed, in her book Dorset’s Western Vale also provides an extensive list of local words and phrases, some of which brought back memories, for

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example ‘Backalong’ for a while ago, ‘Bide quiet’ or ‘Bide quielt’ for be quiet, ‘Bide still’ for be still, ‘Bide yer’ for stay here.

Also ‘Can’t be doin wie that’ for I can’t be bothered with that and ‘Crooped down’ or ‘Coopy down’ for crouched down. ‘Cuh’ for fancy that! Then, ‘Done up’ for ill, overtired and also ‘Don’t feel too special’ for I don’t feel well. ‘Well I’m blowed’ for well fancy that and ‘You’d better look sharp’ for hurry up. ‘Hapse up the gate or door’ for close or fasten. ‘Hummed and hawed’ for he couldn’t make up his mind. ‘Plimmed up’ when wood is swollen by water. ‘Skew whiff ’ crooked or out of line. ‘Trig it up’ for prop up, e.g. a gate or door. ‘A month of Sundays’, meaning a long time. ‘A young heller’ for a mischevious child and ‘Weskit’ for waistcoat.

Under ‘Farming words and dialects’ Sylvia also reminded me of ‘Clinting’ for hammering over a long nail and ‘Faggot’ for a bundle of sticks for firewood. Also ‘Plush a hedge’ (or plesh) for cutting a hedge growth half way through, then laying the top growth lengthways parallel to the hedgerow. ‘Shooting’ for guttering on a building and ‘Trow’ for an animal feeding trough.

Also familiar were some ‘Weather Sayings’, such as ‘Mackerel sky—never long wet, never long dry’ as a white streaked sky with clouds means very changeable weather. Another saying may be useful ‘If it is fine on 21 June it will be set fair until 21 September’ and of course ‘When cows lie down it will rain’.

I recall from my early days reference to someone being ‘Sawney’ meaning having slow, drawling speech and possibly slow of thought. Also ‘Leery’ as being hungry, empty and ‘Na’r a’ for never a. Then ‘Sprack’ or ‘Spreck’ for well, active and ‘Withwind’ for bindweed, also ‘Stout’ or ‘Stoat’ for a cowfly.

These last five are recorded by William Barnes, too. He has also recorded ‘Hangen’ for sloping ground, ‘Hazzle’ for hazel, ‘Heal’ for hide or cover, ‘Het’ for heat or hit, ‘Kecks’ for cowparsley stem, ‘Knap’ for hillock or knob, ‘Leaene’ for lane, ‘Mammet’ for scarecrow, ‘Nesh’ for soft, ‘Nitch’ for large faggot of wood, ‘Par’ for shut up or close, ‘Ratch’ for stretch, ‘Scram’ for distorted, ‘Send’ for shower, ‘Wont’ is a mole, and ‘Wops’ for wasp.

Sylvia Creed also quoted from a charter granted to Whitchurch in 1240 which includes an early name for Marshwood as ‘Capella de Mersewode’.

Bridport History Society does not meet in July and August, but we hope to see you all in September.

Cecil Amor, Hon President, Bridport History Society.

Fundraising for Dorchester’s seventh Community Play

NEXT year Dorchester Community Play Association will stage its seventh play, the latest in a 30 year history which has seen Dorchester achieve the unique distinction of producing more community plays than any other town in the country.

The success of the plays owes much to the passion, talent and time given by hundreds of local people, on stage, behind the scenes, making costumes, playing music, building sets, helping with the marketing and many more essential roles.

Each play has involved more than 100 performers, plus musicians, performing to an audience of 200 a night for 11 performances. Many of the casts had never performed before but once involved, most have become hooked and come back for the next show and the next and ...

Based on real events and brought to life by playwright Stephanie Dale, Spinning the Moon is set in early 16th century Dorchester.

Like Shakespeare’s series of history plays, it provides a snapshot of what was happening nationwide shortly after the bloody Wars of the Roses, weaving it into a local story of rural disturbance, social change and witchcraft.

The association, which is a registered charity, has now launched the first phase of the ÂŁ25,000 fundraising campaign to make Spinning the Moon happen.

For more information visit www. dorchestercommunityplay.org.uk

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Vegetables in July

By Ashley Wheeler

JULY is a time of abundance. We are harvesting cucumbers, tomatoes, French beans, padron peppers and courgettes along with all of the hardier spring sown crops like beetroot, chard, spring onions, kale and the like, as well as lots of salad and herbs. If you want to continue this abundance through the autumn it is an important time to get sowing to replace some of the spring crops.

One of the crops that we sow a lot of at the very beginning of July is chicory.

We grow a huge variety, some of our favourites including Treviso “Sel Svelta”, Palla Rossa “Giusto” and “Marzatica”, Castelfranco and Leonardo. The palla rossa and treviso types can be sown a bit earlier (in May and June), whilst most varieties do well from sowing at the very We sow a lot of chicory in July end of June or first week in July. If they are sown too early they tend to bolt, and if sown too late they do not have time to form a proper solid head. Chicory is a great autumn leaf, as it doesn’t suffer from mildew like lettuce does with the cooler nights and damper air of autumn. When the chicory forms dense heads, the inner leaves have a bitter sweetness, which can be balanced with a good dressing—more lemon juice than normal and maybe a little more honey. They are also great when braised or roasted.

We plant chicory in beds that have either had peas, peashoots and broad beans in them, or in beds that have had shallots—these are harvested just before the chicory is ready to plant. We sow chicory seed into module trays, aiming for one seed per cell and plant them out about a month after sowing. Chicory seems to grow pretty easily, providing it has enough water—mulching heavily with compost will help to retain moisture in the soil. We then start harvesting the heads from October (from the July sowings).

We also start sowing a few more of the other autumn leaves for salad through July, such as some of the mustards—Purple Frills, Red Mizuna, Golden Frills along with Rocket, Winter Purslane and Leaf Radish. Flea beetle are still about so it is important to keep the brassica salads covered with a fine mesh (0.6mm holes).

July is a great time to sow fennel—it is less likely to bolt from July sowings, compared to earlier sowings. You can either sow direct or sow into modules. It doesn’t like to be transplanted too much, so try to minimise the shock by getting them into the ground as soon as possible from the modules, and do not let the roots start to fill up the modules too much. Let’s hope for a sunny, warm July!

WHAT TO SOW THIS MONTH: Chicory (see varieties above), endive, summer purslane, winter purslane, mustards, rocket, land cress, chard, beetroot, lettuce, kohl rabi, fennel, broad beans (for tips in salads) & peashoots (at the end of the month), carrots, dill, coriander WHAT TO PLANT THIS MONTH: OUTSIDE: fennel, beetroot, lettuce, chard, kale, salad leaves - amaranth, orache, anise hyssop, buckshorn plantain, salad burnet, chervil, endive INSIDE: summer purslane, late french beans, late cucumbers, basil, OTHER IMPORTANT TASKS THIS MONTH: Try to clear beds where crop harvests are coming to the end such as broad beans, peas, spring onions, lettuce and shallots, so that you can put in newly sown crops straight away. We either flail mow old crops and cover with thick silage plastic for 2-3 weeks or remove the crops by cutting them off at ground level and then hoeing the bed before planting.

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We are running Salad Growing courses on July 13th and October 19th.

See trillfarmgarden.co.uk/courses for further details.

Hilarious garden antics in Dorchester

Lolo Byam Shaw, Harry Fredrickson and Merle Wheldon-Posner

A rip-roaring fresh-out-the-stables comedy set to deliver a croquet-mallet-sized whack to your funny bone.

Enjoying the leafy green sunshine in the autumn of their years should be a joy for Sam and Philippa, as they ready themselves for a spot of afternoon croquet. But, greed, envy, sexual frustration and toxic masculine competition turns a sunny garden game into a Pimm’s-fuelled bloodthirsty battle of the sexes. It’s warfare, in the Homes & Gardens, Agaowning, foot spa frequenting, manicured trenches of Middle England.

Dreamt up whilst working on a Lyme Bay trawler, 21-year-old, Rex Fisher’s debut play, will be performed at the Dorchester Corn Exchange before heading up to 2019’s Edinburgh Fringe. Fast-paced and funny, Mallets is packed with hand-over-mouth gallows humour that takes searing sniper pot shots at all things prim and proper.

On the surface, Mallets looks like a gaggle of Millennials taking the piss out of the spoilt tantrums of the comfortably-off, retired, English country Baby Boomers. But the plot twists and secateursharp dialogue stirs a hornets’ nest of gender war, fought guerrilla style.

This rude, crass, comical three-hander features two refreshingly meaty female roles. It stars University of Manchester students Harry Fredrickson, Lola Byam Shaw, Merle Wheldon-Posner and is directed by Rex’s childhood friend and neighbour, Felix Firth. Felix first previewed Mallets in Manchester to sell-out crowds whilst juggling studies for his final year doing Theatre at the University.

Mallets is showing at The Corn Exchange in Dorchester on July 11th at 8pm (doors 7.30pm) Tickets are £10.00 / concessions £8.00 Available from the box office: 01305 266926 Suitable for ages: 16+ Contains Distressing Themes, Scenes of a Sexual Nature, Scenes of Violence, Strong Language/Swearing

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July in the Garden

By Russell Jordan

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know it can’t be true, it’s merely a coincidence, but having promoted water saving last month it seems to have done nothing but rain ever since. Having had a relatively dry summer, last year, it is easy to forget that, in reality, wet weather in June is pretty standard for the UK. With any luck July will be sunnier, warmer and drier to make up for it.

At least the plentiful rainfall will have saved you a lot of time that might otherwise have been spent watering. The heavy downpours, together with periods of more steady rain, resulted in even my containers remaining reassuringly moist. I normally advocate watering containers, even when other areas of the garden survive with natural rainfall, because light rain and the odd shower are not enough to keep the compost in pots and containers sufficiently wet in the summer.

Having said that, rain does not contain any of the nutrients which plants, growing in finite volumes of compost, require. Therefore maintaining your usual regime of liquid feeding is important.

In fact, it may be more vital because heavy rain leaches out many nutrients present in fresh potting compost so replacing the lost nutrients, with supplementary feeding, is a good idea.

Now that we have passed the longest day of the year the rapid early plant growth slows down and early summer flowerers will switch to setting seed instead. Plants that flower in late summer will, thanks to shortening days affecting the ratios of the various growth hormones, change from vegetative growth to the development of mature flowers. These changes are gradual so, as a gardener, you don’t have to plunge into sudden action, intervening in a mad panic, but it does signal a slight shift in the tasks required.

The classic example is shortening the long, whippy, growths on wisteria. Climbing and rambling roses should also be tackled.

Proper ‘climbers’ are pruned in the winter months but the nice extension growths, which seem to have shot up out of nowhere, need to be loosely tied in before they lose their flexibility. On the other hand, ‘ramblers’, which have had their single flush of flowers, can be tackled now. You need to prune out the shoots which have

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finished flowering while keeping the strong, new, shoots which have arisen from near to the base. These shoots will still be soft and flexible, but easily damaged, so tie them in to replace the old shoots that have been removed.

The same change in hormone levels and proportions, responding to day length amongst other things, makes ‘high summer’ the most propitious time to take cuttings of many shrubs and tender perennials. I use the same technique for practically everything in the garden. Generally I take non-flowering shoots, thick enough to withstand pushing into loose compost, and trim them up so that they are roughly finger length. Remove all foliage save a couple of leaves at the shoot tip. If the specimen has relatively large, soft, leaves then, using a sharp knife, reduce the size of the leaves at the tip. Trim up the cutting so that the base is cleanly cut, under the lowest leaf joint, with no ‘spare’ stem, or damaged material, below this last joint. It’s important to use a very sharp knife so that it cleanly slices, rather than crushes, the plant material. Clean cuts and undamaged cells are key to maximising the likelihood of the cutting rooting rather than rotting.

Insert the cuttings into moist, ‘open’, compost. ‘Open’ refers to a compost which has a high proportion of drainage material incorporated to increase the size of the air pockets within its structure. Air is just as important as water for healthy root growth so, when the name of the game is to get the cutting to produce roots, it is vital for a cuttings compost. I get the best results from using a multipurpose compost with the addition of at least 50% grit / perlite.

Once mixed this compost would have been lightly firmed into the pot, not rammed hard, which again helps to ensure that there is still plenty of air left in it.

The cuttings are inserted around the outside of the pot, where gas exchange with the atmosphere is at its greatest, and water in well with a fine rose. To maintain a humid atmosphere place a polythene bag over the whole ensemble and tie at the top. A length of cane pushed into the centre of the pot keeps the bag off the cuttings and gives you something to tie against. Tender perennials

should root readily, under their own steam, but hormone rooting powder may assist in slower rooting specimens and can guard against rotting off as it also contains a fungicide. Place somewhere protected, such as a light windowsill, but not somewhere where they will roast in the noonday sun.

General maintenance carries on with, perhaps, even more to keep on top of. Lots of deadheading, watering and feeding of plants in containers. Regular grass mowing (I’m very lax at this!) plus weed and pest removal. Keeping on top of the ‘refereeing’ side of horticulture is the main aim at this point. Any plant which is being too boisterous, threatening to swamp its border mates, either needs to be cut back, early flowering herbaceous perennials generally bounce back from this, or propped up, deploying hazel hurdles / emergency pea-sticking, to keep them within bounds.

Gardening is, after all, the gentle art of manipulating nature. These days it is possible to be a lot more relaxed about the degree of wildness permitted within even a relatively formal garden.

According to the ‘ancient rules of garden making’; any area of garden immediately next to the house should be regimented, controlled, and largely artificial—epitomised by the ‘rose garden with clipped box edging’—a style which has largely disappeared these days.

The further from the house you ventured, the more ‘wild’ the garden was allowed to become. Domestic gardens are, by their very nature, smaller, less grand, and the trend towards wildlife gardening means that the entire garden can have the same planting style. If anything this blurred line demands your skilful intervention more than ever. Your input is all that is preventing ‘nature perfected’ from descending into ‘nature untamed’. Untamed wilderness is not a garden!

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PROPERTY ROUND-UP

Living the Good Life

By Helen Fisher

WHITCHURCH CANONICORUM £1.5M

An outstanding contemporary farmhouse with impressive eco credentials.

With 4 bedrooms and spacious, light and airy principle rooms. Farmyard with barns, large workshop, polytunnel, terraced formal gardens plus kitchen garden. Chicken run and woodland, all set in approx 28 acres.

Jackson-Stops Tel: 01308 423133

HARCOMBE £650,000

A detached period cottage dating back over 300 years. Lovely character features inc: window seats, inglenook and stone fireplaces and exposed beams. With 4 bedrooms and fully self-contained studio annexe. Veg garden, greenhouse, 2 sheds and log store. Plus small orchard and paddock.

Stags Tel: 01308 428000

SALWAY ASH £1.950M

An immaculately presented Grade II* listed 6 bedroom country house with additional detached 3 bedroom cottage all set in enchanting gardens with lake.

A pretty courtyard of traditional outbuildings inc: stabling and kitchen garden.

Pasture land with river frontage. All set in 44 acres.

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TATWORTH £600,000

An unusual part period property on the edge of the village with far reaching views. Spacious farmhouse style kitchen with Rayburn. Garaging, workshop and storage barn, timber stables/store. Wooded area with small stream, gardens and paddock. All set in over 2 acres.

Gordon and Rumsby Tel: 01297 553768

MOSTERTON £490,000

A 4/5 bedroom detached home in a peaceful location, adjoining open countryside yet close to the village centre. South-facing formal gardens, bordered by a stream plus orchard area and former veg and fruit garden with irrigation system. A 3 bay stable/workshop plus garage and ample parking.

Kennedys Tel: 01308 427329

CHILSON £895,000

A versatile family house enjoying far reaching views over its own land and beyond. Currently arranged as a 3 bedroom farmhouse with 2 bedroom annex. Character features inc: flagstone flooring and inglenook fireplaces.

Barns, workshops, garaging and a well stocked veg garden plus paddock.

All set in 4.6 acres.

Fox Grant Tel: 01722 782727

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Fish Fights

By Nick Fisher

EVERY fisherman likes a fight. The dirtier the better. And the best fights I’ve had, are the ones I’ve lost. Fights with fish have made me cry in shameful defeat. But the more they beat me, the dirtier they fight, the more I love them.

Don’t get me wrong. I have great respect for elegant angling too. Laying a size 16 dry olive, two foot upstream from a rising fish, with a four-weight wand then watching a graceful grayling climb through the crystal clear chalk stream, to pucker his downslung mouth around my fly, and skitter off to the streamer weed, makes my heart flutter.

Yet, the day I die, as my angling life flashes before my eyes, I know it’ll be big, badmannered foreign fish that haunt me. Fish of other waters. Other worlds. Sure, I’ve had British barbel, carp and salmon leave me bloody and beaten. But overseas is where I’ve reached the dizzy heights of true bitter-sweet piscatorial humiliation.

The first day I arrived in North Island, New Zealand, I drove to the Coromandel Peninsular to a quiet resort called Pauanui Beach.

After a day and a half in the air and six hours driving I should have wanted to sleep. I didn’t.

I wanted to wet my tackle.

The local garage sold me a frozen block of unidentifiable fish bits and pointed me towards a ferry dock, where scabby-knee boys used unfeasibly big hooks to catch nothing.

I cast out a lump of frozen fish on a size 6 Aberdeen longshank attached to ten pound line, my telescopic pike rod and Shimano Baitrunner. The lads laughed at my gear as I sat down on the boards of the dock, leaned against a weather-beaten pillar and accepted I didn’t have the faintest idea what I was doing.

The ferry approached from across the estuary steaming towards us, when the Baitrunner clicked. Line started to pour off my reel. Yard and yards in long slow steady runs. Then it stopped. I looked at the boys. One, with a chewed fingernail just prising up a new scab, looked at my reel. It turned again as line churned off seawards. I looked at him, at the reel, at the ferry. My head was jet-lagged fuzz.

Had I hooked the ferry? What else could take line in this slow unstoppable way? But the ferry was coming in, my line was going out.

The ferry docked. People poured off and line still poured off my reel. By now I was bending the rod double, using my thumb to slow the revolving and fast emptying spool.

Carbon creaked. The line sang in the wind.

And in fear of breaking I eased off the pressure.

People gathered round and speculated: “Shark” said a man with flip-flops. “Eel” said Mr Bib-Overalls-And-Tattoos. I fought. I sweated. I angled the rod every which way to apply different pressure to turn the fish. No way. Panic took over when I looked at the reel and saw a badly tied yellowing knot glared up from the dusty black spool centre. There was simply no more line left. The rod bent far beyond the manufacturer’s wildest dreams, as I looked out across the estuary. Deep in prayer.

One hundred and seventy yards away, a great shiny khaki flying saucer engaged thrusters and launched out of the sea only to change course and plunge once more beneath the wave.

In the instant this unidentified flying object left the water, a blue steel Aberdeen longshank was ejected from its frontal docking port.

“Eagle ray” said the Ferryman decisively, sucking his teeth. “Never stop ‘em with that” he sneered at my rod, and pointed his boat back across the water.

I might not have stopped it. Might not even have slowed it. But I had touched it.

For those few minutes we were connected.

It showed me in no uncertain terms it was big, bad and beautiful. I was insignificant. My hands and my knees shook as I wound my well stretched nylon back on my reel and gave all my bait to the scab boys.

The Pacific proved perfect for paying my piscatorial penance; a Kingfish, hooked on a silver perk-like jig dragged my knuckles bleeding along the gunwale of a boat before making me accidentally spear my wrist on a bait knife and busting my line; a Kahawai tore the tip section off my much-prized four piece Orvis spinning rod; and a five foot baby Hammerhead shark sunk it’s teeth into the chum sack slung off our six foot tin dinghy, before my Kiwi boat partner managed to whack him with an oar, leaving me white with fear, bloodless and baitless for the rest of the day.

Inland, I turned my attentions to trout.

And found myself peering into the fast, foamy water of the Tongariro River just east of Lake Taupo, where my guide Peter Church peered myopically through Polaroid glasses and told me “There’s a big one, at home, he goes eight maybe ten pounds. He’s a yard behind the jagged rock”. All I could see was white angry water.

But I did as I was told. Cast my heavily weighted stone nymph warily upstream with my delicate Hardy Smuggler. Six foot from my fly was a few strands of red wool, tied to the

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five pound leader to act as a bite indicator.

When the wool worried for a nano-second on its rapid descent downstream, Peter screamed “Strike!”. Which I did. I sometimes wish I hadn’t.

A bright silver, muscle-powered Exocet missile, disguised as a wild rainbow trout was launched from behind the rock. It would have been a beautiful sight, a rare glimpse of raw nature, had I not been precariously attached to it by microscopic monofilament.

From Round One, this Mike Tyson of the salmonid species took charge. He passed me at 80 miles an hour, ahead of the racing current, heading for the sanctuary of Lake Taupo.

Wading in shorts and felt soled boots is a wonderful way to fish. The lack of cumbersome waders feels liberating and wickedly exciting, except when your head is six inches underwater and your arse is bouncing from rock to rock as your swimmers fill up with gravel, as you desperately try to keep the most expensive piece of graphite you possess above water, as you tear down New Zealand’s finest trout river, feet first on a Scale Five white water rafting experience without a raft.

Falling in once while fighting a psycho trout with sociopathic tendencies is bad. Falling in three times before he finally winds you round a boulder snaps your leader and then triumphantly leaps out to raise two fingers, feels like a rare form of self-flagellation. I can only hope that it’s somehow healing for the inner soul.

Over the years, fish have regularly taken my ego and ritually sacrificed it to the great God of Humiliation. They’ve shown me up in public. Ridiculed me in private. Made me look inept in front of friends, family and complete strangers.

Occasionally they’ve rewarded me with rare days when I’ve felt in control. Days when I’ve netted fish, mastered them, taken prisoners.

They’ve deviously allowed me these isolated moments of self-delusion, only to once again take control and beat me into my more customary position of submission.

Fishing is about Man against Nature. Pitting your wits against the forces of fundamental elements and emotions: sea, weather, hunger, fear. Man is without doubt a fantastically powerful predator. We are top of the food chain. Capable of killing every living soul on this planet. Given our weapons of mass destruction we are an unassailable foe. But with rod and line the odds are heavily stacked against us.

SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN Marshwood Arts Awards 2019 First launched over ten year’s ago, The Marshwood Arts Awards has become one of the most anticipated exhibitions in the South West. This year’s show will take place at Bridport Arts Centre from November 9th to December 7th and a total of seventeen artists/makers will be chosen to exhibit with the selectors below for what promises to be a unique and exciting exhibition.

CATEGORY: PAINTING & DRAWING Selector: Dave White A Fine Arts graduate of the Liverpool John Moores University, Dave White is a contemporary British Artist who’s exhibitions include Shanghai, New York, Rotterdam, Miami and London, with solo exhibitions in London, Copenhagen and Los Angeles. In 2018 he created a hand painted Rhino for Tusk which was installed for a month on New Bond Street in London and auctioned at Christie’s alongside works by Harland Miller, Marc Quinn, Gavin Turk and The Chapman Brothers. davewhiteart.com CATEGORY: SCULPTURE Selector: Tania Kovats Tania Kovats is renowned for producing sculptures, large-scale installations and temporal works which explore our experience and understanding of landscape. Her work was the subject of a major solo exhibition at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh in 2014. She was Course Director, MA Drawing at UAL, Wimbledon and is Professor of Drawing at Bath Spa University. She is also the author of Drawing Water (2014) and ‘The Drawing Book: A Survey of Drawing – The Primary Means of Expression (2017).

CATEGORY: PHOTOGRAPHY & DIGITAL MEDIA Selector: Brian Griffin Guardian Newspaper’s ‘Photographer of the decade’ in 1989 Brian Griffin has also been described as ‘the most unpredictable and influential British portrait photographer of the last decades’ by the British Journal of Photography and was feted as ‘one of Britain’s most influential photographers’ by the World Photography Organisation in 2015. He received a Honorary Doctorate from Birmingham City University and in 2016 was inducted into the Album Cover Hall Of Fame. www.briangriffin.co.uk

CATEGORY: APPLIED ARTS Selector: Kate Malone Recently featured as a judge on BBC2’s The Great Pottery Throw Down Kate Malone is known for creating large, complex sculptural vessels—though her works include everything from egg cups to building facades. Works are now in collections including at the Ashmolean Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum and Manchester Art Gallery. www.katemaloneceramics.com

CATEGORY: APPLIED ARTS Selector: John Makepeace John Makepeace started his career as a designer and maker in 1959. His passion for designing furniture for individual clients has grown steadily alongside his love of our indigenous woodlands and transforming their produce into artefacts for the future. Each becomes a landmark in the evolving story of fine craftsmanship in wood. www.johnmakepeacefurniture.com

To submit work for the 2019 Marshwood Arts awards visit

www.marshwoodawards.com/enter

The final date for receipt of applications is September 19th 2019.

OLIVE OIL-POACHED POLLACK WITH BUTTERY MASHED POTATO

Photograph by Christian Banfield

You can make this recipe with cod as well as pollack. I’ve even used salmon or sea trout in the past. I’ve also used rapeseed oil instead of the olive oil and served the fish with a hollandaise sauce made from the cooking oil.

MARK HIX

INGREDIENTS

DIRECTIONS

• Thick pollack or cod fillet, about 500–600g (1lb 2oz–1lb 5oz) and 3–4cm (1¼–1½ inches) long • 1 tablespoon Cornish sea salt • Enough olive oil to cover the fish • 4 garlic cloves or ½ new-season garlic bulb • A few thyme sprigs • 1 teaspoon fennel seeds • 10 black peppercorns

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For the buttery mashed potato: • 1 large, floury potato (such as King Edward), peeled and roughly chopped • 150g (5½oz) unsalted butter • Milk (optional) • Salt and pepper

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Serves 4

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Sprinkle the fish with the salt and leave to sit for 30 minutes.

Put enough olive oil in a saucepan to cover the fish.

(Use a small, tightfitting pan, or you’ll end up using too much olive oil.) Put the garlic, thyme, fennel seeds and peppercorns in the pan. Heat the oil gently and leave to infuse on a very low heat for 10 minutes (a diffuser plate works well for this).

Remove the pan from the heat, add the fish and leave somewhere warm with the lid on for 1 hour. A pan of gently simmering water with an inverted lid is ideal, as is the warming oven of an Aga. The idea is that the fish just barely cooks in the oil and becomes beautifully translucent.

To make the buttery mash, cook the potato in a saucepan of lightly salted boiling water until tender, then drain and return to the pan on a low heat for 30 seconds to dry out.

Mash the potato as finely as possible, or pass it through a potato ricer. Beat in the butter with a wooden spoon and some of the cooking oil from the fish. The potato should have a thick, sauce-like consistency. If it doesn’t, just beat in a little milk.

Season the mashed potato with salt and pepper to taste.

HIX Oyster and Fish House is Mark’s local restaurant that overlooks the harbour in Lyme Regis and boasts the most stunning panoramic views across the Jurassic coast—this is easily one of the most picturesque spots to enjoy British fish seafood.

To book please call 01297 446 910.

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Food&Dining Gin ‘n’ history at Shire Hall

Lloyd Brown. Photo Vineyards FEW people will have missed the fact that gin has made a big comeback lately. Ask for a G&T most anywhere now and the first question is, which gin would you like? In many bars there are dozens to choose from.

In July an event at Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum on July 12th at 7pm will uncover the social history of the beverage.

From the Georgian period of gin-fuelled debauchery to the modern craft gin movement, the evening will be set against the museum’s atmospheric Georgian courthouse and cells.

Master Mixologist and Director of the Grey Bear Bar Co, Lloyd Brown, will be on hand to delve into the history of the drink and create some cocktails for guests to enjoy.

He said: “The event will be delving into the real roots of gin; from the Dutch liquor Jenever, through to Gin Lane and then the modern renaissance of gin, touching on the dark history and false tales. Shire Hall is the perfect setting as the history is literally in the walls and fits the time period well - it also deals with law and rebellion which comes hand in hand with gin.”

Guests will be treated to a classic G&T, two samples of gin and two cocktails using Tarquin’s Cornish Gin, as well as a smorgasbord of Dorset delights. Lloyd has created a special gin cocktail for the museum event called the Shire Hall Bramble, which uses blackberry gin and Dorset honey.

For information or to book tickets visit shirehalldorset.org or call 01305 261849.

New direction for The Pymore Inn THE Pymore Inn, on the outskirts of Bridport, has recently been purchased by the owner of the Bridport Electric Palace, and is re-opening at 5:00 pm on Thursday July 4th after an extensive face-lift to bring this charming country pub back to life.

The new owner, Alasdair Warren, has teamed up with local publican Steve Killingbeck to run the Pymore Inn. Alasdair, who grew up in neighbouring Melplash, said: ‘When I was growing up, the Pymore Inn was always one of the best pubs in the area—well known for its lovely garden and great food. I wanted to bring all that back and more— creating something really special and very different from any other pub in the area’.

The pub will offer a largely British menu with an inventive

twist, using the very best local produce, seasonally changing and lovingly prepared.

One of the few Free Houses in the area it will carry a broad selection of real ales and ciders and a Alasdair Warren and Steve Killingbeck bespoke selection of wines from Dorset vineyards as well as from around the world.

An easy walk, drive or cycle ride from Bridport, families and children, cyclists, walkers and dogs, will all be welcome.

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Guest Recipe

JOUDIE KALLA JOUDIE KALLA has been working as a chef for over 16 years. Having trained at the prestigious Leith’s School of Food and Wine, Joudie has worked at restaurants such as Pengelley’s (a Gordon Ramsey restaurant) under Ian Pengelley, Daphne’s, and Papillon with Michelin-starred chef David Duverger.

Joudie’s food is mainly inspired by her Palestinian descent - vibrant, moreish dishes that are easy to make and full of goodness.

Joudie’s first book PALESTINE ON A PLATE became an instant hit with critics, charting high on The New York Times bestseller list, and wowing food enthusiasts everywhere. Joudie’s career as an authored chef has been a long time in the making. It is through years of sitting with her mother, aunties and grandmothers listening to their conversations and being included in their daily cooking routines that Joudie became engaged in the beauty of traditional Palestinian and Middle Eastern dishes. For Joudie, her mission is for Palestinian food to be embraced as a go-to cuisine; to be seen in the same league as Italian and French cuisines.

FRIED AUBERGINE SLICES WITH HONEY AND TAHINI Betinjan makli bil a’sal wa tahineh My mother used to eat this during the days of Ramadan, in between breaking her fast and the following morning; this time of day is called suhoor. This dish is very simple to make, delicious and filling, with both a salty and sweet taste – always a good thing.

You could serve this with bread or simply on its own. It is reminiscent of those long nights when you crave something hot, sweet and satisfying; and it’s always good to have something nutritious with honey and tahini to start your day.

INGREDIENTS

DIRECTIONS

• Vegetable oil, for frying • 1 aubergine, partially peeled lengthways to create stripes, then cut into 1cm-thick rings • 2 tbsp tahini • A squeeze of honey • Sea salt flakes

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Place a little vegetable oil into a small pan over a medium heat; the hotter the oil the better, as you don’t want the aubergines to be drenched in oil, you want them to fry.

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Cook the aubergines for a few minutes on both sides until a golden colour, then remove from the heat and transfer the slices to a serving dish.

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Drizzle the tahini over the aubergine slices, followed by a little honey over the tahini, then add a sprinkle of sea salt flakes to balance out the sweetness.

Serves 2

Baladi: Palestine a celebration of food from land and sea by Joudie Kalla, Jacqui Small £26.00 Pics © Jamie Orlando Smith

PEOPLE IN FOOD & DRINK

Simon Mazzei - photograph and words by Catherine Taylor

SIMON MAZZEI Unable to get out of bed in the morning until his lovely wife Sam has brought him a cup of coffee, Simon Mazzei blames his caffeine addiction on his Italian heritage. Chef and proprietor of the Olive Tree in Bridport, Simon’s restaurant specialises in Mediterranean food and a big welcome to all who walk in. A bustling, bright restaurant with staff singing their way through the day, interspersed with deliveries from local suppliers, all on first name terms and clearly happy to be there. Simon has created one big Olive Tree family, sharing his love of food, drink and people.

Working most of the days of the week in the restaurant, Simon flits between front of house and chef whites. He trusts his team implicitly within their roles and so fills in wherever needed, including pulling up his sleeves at the dishwashing sink. Once a week, Simon will lock himself away in his office, obligatory coffee in hand and catch up on the accounts and paperwork. Finally, at the end of his long days, he cycles home to North Allington where downtime takes precedence. This is often in the form of a glass of wine, “I prefer to drink a glass of something good than a bottle of something rubbish”, he declares. However, an essential part of the finale of Simon’s day is music. With a sound system in every room in the house, Simon loves to sing and dance out the trials of the day to the extent the glasses on the shelves are shaking with him.

Enjoying family holidays, often to Italy, Simon relishes showing his two girls his heritage. Whether it is visiting the village his father grew up in Naples, or enjoying the embrace of the ‘familia’ with their food marathons and enduring noise and chatter, each trip is a chance to taste new flavours and recreate them back at the restaurant. At home, Simon’s creative tastes often stray further afield.

He’s currently growing kaffir lime leaves in his conservatory in order to get an authentic taste to his Thai Green Curry. Whatever Simon is making though, whether at home or in his restaurant, it is likely to be served amongst a background of music and warm smiles with a large scoop of ‘La Dolce Vita’.

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THE ULTIMATE STRAWBERRY TART Ask any Englishman (or woman!) to describe the ingredients for a perfect summer’s day and hovering near to, if not topping most lists will be a bowl full of ripe and luscious English strawberries.

LESLEY WATERS

INGREDIENTS

DIRECTIONS

• 280g (10oz) organic puff pastry • 450g (1lb) cream cheese (sweetened with a little icing sugar if required) • 450g (1lb) Strawberries, hulled • 4 passion fruit

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Preheat the oven to Gas mark 6/ 200C/400F.

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On a lightly floured surface, roll out the pastry to form a rectangle approx. 35cm x 14cm. Using a knife mark a picture frame style border around the pastry, making sure not to cut all the way through. Prick the inside of the border, liberally, with a fork. Place on a baking tray and allow to rest in the fridge for 20 minutes.

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Bake for 10 -15 minutes or until cooked. If the centre rises up, gently push down with a fish slice.

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Beat the cream cheese with the passion fruit until soft & creamy, adding a little water if necessary. Pile this mixture into the cooled pastry case and level off.

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Heat the redcurrant jelly in a pan with the water until smooth. Remove from the heat and strain through a sieve to remove any lumps. Set to one side to cool slightly.

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Arrange the strawberries over the passion fruit cream and brush lightly with the redcurrant glaze. Serve at once.

To glaze • 5 tablespoons redcurrant jelly & splash water Serves 6

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

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Arts &Entertainment

Brian Griffin to select photography for the 2019 Marshwood Arts Awards

One of Britain’s most influential photographers, Brian Griffin’s work has spanned many generations. He talked to Fergus Byrne.

Brian Griffin by Ashley Franklin

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t the opening of a new exhibition of some of his early work, photographer Brian Griffin looks slightly bemused at just how old some of the photographs really are.

‘There’s not an image on this wall that’s less than thirty-five years old’ he exclaims—an arm waving towards the many vintage prints that date from as far back as 1972. The exhibition, at the MMX Gallery in New Cross, is called Brian Griffin: Work and other stories and displays extraordinary silver gelatin framed prints including a ballroom dancer from 1972, and a 1974 image of the actor Simon Callow.

There are photographs from his corporate work in the early seventies, his visit to Moscow in 1974 and steelworkers in Broadgate in the mid-eighties, but what surprises many is the fact that his iconic photograph A Broken Frame taken at Saffron Walden for the cover of the Depeche Mode album of the same name is 37 years old. A unique vintage Cibachrome print, it’s available from the gallery for £6,800.

As selector for this year’s Marshwood Arts Awards, it is hard to find a more experienced photographer than Brian. The MMX Gallery exhibition also has signed copies of his book Brian Griffin Copyright 1978, which his close friend Martin Parr pointed out is the first selfpublished book by a photographer in the UK. Brian remembers how it came about: ‘There were no photo books around apart from, The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Bill Brandt’s Shadow of Light. It was just yearbooks—BJP yearbook, Photo yearbook, Zoom yearbook.’

He recalls seeing ‘wonderful pen and ink illustrations’ by the designer Barney Bubbles in the New Musical Express and wanting to work with him. They got together, and over a hazy afternoon in Brian’s flat developed the idea of using tiny, subtle line illustrations around some of Brian’s photographs. ‘I don’t know what made me feel so adventurous’ he says ‘because I wasn’t earning that much money then because I was doing editorial.’ He produced 500 copies, and very few of them sold at the time, but since then the book has become a collector’s item and sells for around £150.

He and Barney, whose legacy goes back to underground magazines such as Oz and IT became close friends. ‘He was like my brother’ says Brian. They worked together on many projects in the years to come until Barney sadly took his own life in 1983.

Growing up in the Black Country, Brian Griffin never really planned to become a photographer, but he did want to escape his job at British Steel. He compiled a rough photo album, ended up at

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Manchester Polytechnic, graduated with a diploma in 1972 and was soon commissioned to work for magazines like Management Today, Accountancy Age and Campaign. He had been hired by the late Roland Shenk, the design genius credited with transforming business-to-business publishing. Shenk once said that commissioning photographers like Brian Griffin was one of his “greatest achievements”.

As he was well experienced in photographing men in suits, when he took his portfolio to Dave Robinson, the one-time photographer who had helped set up Stiff Records, Brian was immediately assigned jobs to produce images for record covers. It was the post-punk New Romantic era, and there was no shortage of people dressing in smart suits for their debut albums. Brian’s first assignment, however, was to meet Graham Parker and find a way to photograph him looking like a gorilla. The result, shot near the Hayward Gallery on London’s South Bank, became the cover shot for The Parkerilla album.

The rest of Brian’s career in the record business reads like a who’s who of the music world. He photographed Nick Lowe, ‘He thought I was too arty and didn’t want to work with me’ and Peter Gabriel, ‘We didn’t work well together, although I must admit I was fond of him.’ Not much fazes Brian though, which was one of the reasons he could get such great shots. Peter Hamill from Van der Graaf Generator turned up with half a beard—he had shaved the left side of his face only, and Brian caught the idea perfectly.

Photographing Alex Harvey from the Alex Harvey band by the side of the Thames one day he turned away only to find Harvey— notorious for antics as wild as Keith Moon’s—had jumped into the river. ‘He ended up in Guy’s hospital as the Thames is so polluted!’

Album covers included Jona Lewie, ‘a true eccentric’ and Billy Idol, ‘I remember us bouncing around the studio like angels on pantomime wires’. For a Lena Lovich cover, he shot her as a silent movie star inside an empty stainless steel Guinness vat in the Park Royal brewery. He worked with Elvis Costello, Devo, Iggy Pop, Echo and the Bunnymen, Ultravox and The Teardrop Explodes.

He shot single and album covers for David Essex, Kate Bush, The Stranglers, Chris De Burgh and The Psychedelic Furs.

One of his favourites was the cover for Depeche Mode’s Construction Time Again where he had the brother of one of his assistants standing on the side of a mountain in Switzerland wielding a massive sledgehammer. He was an ex-Royal Marine and ‘fit as

A Broken Frame, Safron Walden, England 1982 by Brian Griffin

a butcher’s dog’ said Brian. They even brought the sledgehammer from London to Switzerland where it landed on the luggage carousel with such a bang that customs men immediately descended on them. The final cover image, with the Matterhorn in the background, was breath-taking.

A photograph of Joe Jackson’s shoes for the cover of Look Sharp annoyed the singer because it didn’t show his face. He subsequently never worked with Brian again, but the shot is always in the top 100 album cover lists.

In 2017 he published one of the all-time great records of photography from the music industry during that era, with a book called simply POP. It includes photographs from all of the above as well as portraits of Vivienne Westwood, George Melly, Brian May, Queen, Bryan Ferry and George Martin—to name a few. Selffunded with a Kickstarter campaign, the book is one of more than

twenty books of Brian’s photography. POP quickly sold out and is now hard to find at a decent price.

Other than a period from 1991 to 2003 when he concentrated on making films, TV commercials and music videos, Brian has consistently produced wonderfully creative photographs. However, he is acutely aware of the difficulty that success can bring. ‘The destructive element is success’ he says. ‘Success brings a lot of damage. I know for myself when I was very successful in the late 80s—I was the highest paid photographer in Britain from about 85 to 91—it really was a destructive element.’ There was a point where clients exclaimed that he was ‘more expensive than David Bailey!’ But that didn’t stop them from hiring him. However, keeping his feet on the ground was hard. ‘I had to really fight with myself to stay on course’ he admits.

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to photograph those involved in the 2012 Olympics, the client, along with the sponsor and the Olympic committee, didn’t want his image of Sebastian Coe to be used. ‘They felt he looked under pressure’ they told him. ‘Well of course’ exclaimed Brian. ‘He was under immense pressure.’ The photograph captures Lord Coe’s stress brilliantly and is currently displayed at the National Portrait Gallery.

Brian is looking forward to selecting work for the Marshwood Arts Awards and exhibiting alongside the winners in November. ‘Everyone loves to be exhibited’ he says. ‘Everybody loves to be selected. It brings a lot of credibility to the person that’s selected. It’s 100% positive in every way really.’ As a judge and patron of the Format International Photographic Festival, he understands the confidence that entering work for an arts award can bring, and points out how, just looking at work to send in can take a photographer on an unexpected and often gratifying journey. ‘Maybe it’s an isolated image that they hadn’t thought deeply about’ he says ‘or maybe it helps them to prolong their investigation into that area.’

In 2013 Brian was described as ‘one of the most influential photographers over the last four decades’ and received the Centenary Medal from the Royal Photographic Society in recognition of a ‘sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography.’ In 2016 he was inducted into the Album Cover Hall of Fame.

Brian Griffin will be selecting the exhibitors for the Photography and Digital Media section of the Marshwood Arts Awards and John Hubbard Prize 2019. For information and entry details, please visit www.marshwoodawards.com Brian Griffin: Work and other stories continues at the MMX Gallery, 448 New Cross Road, London SE14 6TY until August 3rd. For more information, visit mmxgallery.com.

Photographs: Opposite page: Ballroom Dancer 1972, Big Bang Broadgate London 1986, Brian May 1990, Joe Jackson Look Sharp 1979, Rocket Man, Dungeness, Kent 1979, Bureaucracy, London 1987.

This page: Glass Eye on White Plate, London, 2017, Corporal Ashley, RAF Regiment, Benson, 2017, Sliced Bread, 1986 (originally titled Mother’s Pride).

All images by Brian Griffin courtesy MMX Gallery.

Museums&Galleries

Colour Line and Thread, an eclectic exhibition of paintings, prints, textiles, land art and sculpture at the Town Mill, Lyme Regis 1 – 26 JULY Ilminster Open Exhibition 2019 Annual exhibition by the West Country’s finest artists. Sponsored by Branston. Free.

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

4 - 17 JULY Sidmouth Society of Artists Summer Show 10am - 4.30pm Kennaway House, Sidmouth 01395 515551.

UNTIL 6 JULY Peter Archer: Farewell to the Seas The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Child Okeford, Dorset DT11 8HB 01258 863866 www.theartstable.co.uk.

6 JULY - 8 SEPTEMBER Igniting Sight: Contemporary artists inspired by JW Turner Fred Cuming RA, Vanessa Gardiner, Janette Kerr RWA RSA Hon, Luke Elwes, Frances Hatch, Alex Lowery. Sladers Yard, 5 W Bay Rd, West Bay, Bridport DT6 4GD.

Tel. 01308 459511. https://sladersyard. wordpress.com FROM 11 JULY POP Tektonism – Vulnerable Fluffy Monsters POP Tektonism is Lykourgos sound art project where she is testing the aesthetics of “rock-star” lifestyles. With an emphasis in pop music, they present a vulnerable image of a “star”, which contradicts to the polished and empowered image of a rock-star. Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA www.arnolfini.org. uk.

12 – 14 JULY Moon Landing at Nothe Fort It has travelled all over the world and wowed thousands. Now Luke Jerram’s internationally acclaimed Museum of the Moon is making its way to Dorset for the first time as part of DORSET MOON; the exciting new arts event for summer 2019. This stunning illuminated sculpture created using high-definition NASA imagery of the moon’s surface

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will land in Bournemouth, Sherborne and Weymouth. Inside out Dorset, b-side and Bournemouth Arts By the Sea present Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon as the centrepiece for three fantastic lunar-inspired events across Dorset. For all info and tour dates please visit www. dorsetmoon.com. b-side CIC b-side CIC, Outpost, 77 Fortuneswell, Isle of Portland, Dorset DT5 1LY. 12 – 31 JULY Colour Line & Thread 2019 An eclectic exhibition of paintings by Hilary Buckley, Russell Coulson & Philip Winstone, plus textiles by Sue Calder and land art by John Calder. Hilary has been painting the town of Lyme Regis red, orange and blue. Philip has been moving between abstraction and figuration. Sue has been playing with stitch. John has been charring and scarring big lumps of wood. We are pleased to welcome Russell who joins us for the first time in this our eighth year of exhibiting.

Russell experiments with different mediums when producing semi abstract

landscapes, seascapes and figurative linework. His work is spontaneous, naive and constantly evolving. The Malthouse Gallery, Town Mill, Lyme Regis, DT7 3PU, free entry, 10am 5pm, Mon-Sun. 15 – 25 JULY Torture Tips from Guantánamo Bay Town Mill, Courtyard Gallery, Lyme Regis (DT7 3PU). Curated by Ruby Copplestone, a mixture of local professional, Woodroffe student, and detainee art in a variety of mediums, reinterpreting torture art censored by the authorities in Guantánamo Bay. With various evening talks by local human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith and others. Open 11am – 8 pm, admission free with donations to buy art supplies for those detained without trial.

16 – 21 JULY Caz Scott and Rita Brown exhibiting at Eype Centre for the Arts, Bridport. For more information contact:Caz Scott Tel. 01305 757096, 07951 611964 www. caz-scott.co.uk, Rita Brown Tel. 01300 321353, 07974216417, www. ritabrown.co.uk.

20 JULY Cliff Erosion and Geology Exhibition by Sidmouth Museum 10am - 4.30pm Kennaway House, Sidmouth 01395 515551.

20 JULY – 5 OCTOBER Wicked Wessex Exhibition: The Cat O’Nine Tails Learn about the dark history of Wicken Wessex. The cat-o’-nine-tails was a type of whip used in the Royal Navy. A sailor could be flogged for anything from drunkenness to desertion. Each of the cat’s ‘tails’ was knotted to increase the pain of the lashes. Find out more at shirehalldorset.org or call 01305 261849. Shire Hall, Dorchester.

27 JULY – 6 SEPTEMBER Paint Freedom – art exhibition by Bob and Roberta Smith Bob and Roberta Smith, is a contemporary British artist best known for his political art. Paint Freedom is a new exhibition of portraits and landscapes and the works are in collaboration with the National Trust’s People’s Landscape project. The exhibition has been created by Bob and Roberta together with members of the public. The exhibition will be on display throughout the museum.

Normal admission fees apply, however, National Trust members

get £1 off entry, and there is free entry to the museum for Arts Fund Members. For more information visit shirehalldorset.org or call 01305 261849. Shire Hall, Dorchester.

29 JULY – 24 AUGUST Creative Coverage Stunning and thought provoking paintings and sculpture by selected professional artists from across the UK. Free.

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

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UNTIL 1 SEPTEMBER Fire: Flashes to Ashes in British Art 1692-2019 Fire has been vital to the human experience since the dawn of time, essential to our very survival as a species. However, when fire is untamed, it wreaks death and devastation, as we saw with the recent Notre Dame disaster and the Grenfell Tower tragedy, almost exactly two years to the date of the opening of the exhibition. The exhibition features works by titans of British art from the 17th century to the present day, such as J.M.W.Turner, John Martin, Joseph Wright of Derby, William Blake, Eric Ravilious and Graham Sutherland, alongside contemporary artists including Cornelia Parker, David Nash, Mat Collishaw, Jeremy Deller, Susan Hiller and Douglas Gordon. Royal West of England Academy, Queen’s Road, Clifton Bristol BS8 1PX www.rwa.org.uk.

UNTIL OCTOBER Down the Slipway Exhibition at West Bay Discovery Centre. The harbour of West Bay no longer shows any visible signs of its shipbuilding past. However, during the period 1769-1879 over 350 ships were built here. We will be bringing the shipyard back to life and discovering some of its secrets in this anniversary year.

(Part of Turner events in Bridport.)

Open daily 11am – 4pm excluding Mondays. Admission free, donations welcomed. Further details www. westbaydiscoverycentre.org.uk.

UNTIL 15 MARCH 2010 A Sense of Place A Sense of Place draws on a wide selection of works from the 18th century to the 20th century showing how artists have sought to capture the essential characteristics that define places as varied as Cairo and Florence. Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Queen Street, Exeter EX4 3RX 01392 265858.

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PREVIEW On Stage - In and Around the Vale Three decades of music CERNE ABBAS

THE Gaudier Ensemble, led by the distinguished clarinettist and Dorset resident Richard Hosford returns to St Mary’s Church for the 29th Cerne Abbas Music Festival, from Thursday 11th to Sunday 14th July.

The festival began in 1990, when Richard Hosford had a vision of a music festival that he believed would be different from the standard commercial model. He wanted a location that gave the musicians an attractive venue in which to perform but, equally importantly, somewhere they could all be together for a week to play the music they wanted to play—at the highest artistic standards.

He wanted to develop strong links with the community, provide accessible music to the people of Dorset and create a stimulating environment for local young musicians and children. He chose Cerne Abbas partly because of the excellent acoustics of the church but also because of the village and its community.

The opening event at 4.30pm on Thursday 11th is The Great Community of Composers, a talk by musicologist and broadcaster Robert Philip, who will look at the many and varied styles of composition in the festival programme and examine the links and inspirations between them.

In the evening, at 7.30pm, the Gaudier Ensemble plays works from the baroque repertoire, including works by Handel, Telemann, Bach and Corelli.

On Friday 12th at 7pm, the ensemble play a programme that incudes Nielsen’s charming Serenata, Mendelssohn’s piano trio in the less familiar version with flute in place of violin, and Beethoven’s Septet.

The late night concert, at 10pm, is Music

Pianist Clare Hammond from Hungary, with works by Bartok, Kodaly, Veress and Kurtag, ending with Bartok’s masterpiece, Contrasts, which was written for Benny Goodman.

Saturday’s coffee concert has a varied menu with Ted Bor’s Bach at the Double, for two violins and double bass, Oliver Tuan’s The Chase, Jean Françaix’s quartet for finds and Haydn’s string quartet in C major.

The evening programme includes Madeleine Dring’s inventive 1968 trio for flute, oboe and piano and Dvorak’s delightful Dumky trio.

On Sunday at noon, the programme features Devienne’s quartet for bassoon and strings, and Schubert’s Trout quintet. The festival finale at 6pm opens with the oboe quintet by Bax, followed by Weber’s quintet for clarinet and strings, and ending with Dvorak’s second string quintet.

Virtuoso pianist on tour TOURING

THE brilliant pianist Clare Hammond, praised for her “wizardry’ on the instrument, is the soloist with Concerts in the West at venues in Devon, Dorset and Somerset from 4th to 6th July.

The series starts on Thursday 4th July at Wellhayes Vineyard, Clayhanger near

Tiverton, at 7.30pm. On Friday 5th Clare will give a coffee time recital at Bridport Arts Centre at 11am, followed at 7.30pm by a concert at Ilminster Arts Centre at The Meeting House. The final venue, on Saturday 6th at 7.30pm, is at The Dance House, off North Street, Crewkerne.

Her programme includes the world premiere of Michael Zev Gordon’s Diary Pieces, as well as sonatas by Josef Mysliveček and Rachmaninov.

Acclaimed as a pianist of “amazing power and panache” (The Telegraph), Clare Hammond has developed a “reputation for brilliantly imaginative concert programmes” (BBC Music Magazine). She also played the young Miss Shepherd in the film adaptation of The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett.

Her recent BIS recording, of music by Kenneth Hesketh, has been widely praised, with the Observer describing her as a “star interpreter of contemporary music”. Her album Etude received unanimous critical acclaim for its “unfaltering bravura and conviction” from Gramophone, while BBC Music Magazine said that “this array of wizardry is not for the faint hearted”.

Her discography includes world premiere recordings of more than 20 works.

Introducing classical piano DORCHESTER

IMPROVISER, actor, comedian and latterly pianist—Alistair McGowan is a man of many talents, as he demonstrates in his one-man show, An Introduction to Classical Piano, at Dorchester Corn Exchange on 5th July at 8pm.

The performance includes classical piano pieces from his album, and short works by composers as varied as Philip Glass, Chopin, Grieg and Debussy.

Along the way, he talks a little about

RADICALS RETURN THE annual celebration of radical thought, trade unionism and socialism returns to Dorset on 19th to 21st July with the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival.

The weekend will be the familiar mixture of talks, radical films from around the world, folk and protest music, comedy and political speeches, all culminating in the traditional procession on Sunday afternoon.

The headline performer is folk singer Eddi Reader, and others are Jess Sile, Elvis McGonagall, Scribes, Les Carter, Joe Solo and Baque Loar.

The festival also has a visual arts element this year with the artist Bob and Roberta Smith running a range of activities focused around the Tolpuddle oak tree, under which the Martyrs met in 1834. This event is part of the National Trust’s People’s Landscapes programme.

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PREVIEW the history of each piece, each composer and the problems and benefits of starting to learn the piano at the age of 49—with more than a sprinkling of his trademark impressions.

Welcome return BUDLEIGH SALTERTON

THIS year’s Budleigh Salterton Music Festival is the final year for artistic director Nicky Marshall and welcomes some favourite musicians back for the festival, which runs from 12th to 20th July.

The new artistic director will be Jason Thornton, who for 18 years has been the music director of Bath Philharmonic, renowned for his collaborations with leading soloists including Nicola Benedetti, and guest conductor with orchestras including the Halle. Jason joined the Budleigh team in January and will programme his first festival in 2020.

He takes over from the much-loved and hugely respected Nicky Marshall, who originally joined the Budleigh festival in the opening year, 2005, as adviser to the founder Roger Bowen, and in 2006 founded the Festival Orchestra. He became artistic director in 2012. He will continue to conduct the Festival Orchestra.

This year’s festival programme, with concerts in St Peter’s Church and the Temple Methodist Church, welcomes back musicians who have played at the festival before, including the 2014 BBC Young Musician of the Year, Martin James Bartlett, the Pleyel Ensemble, artists from the 12 Ensemble and Wu Qian on her fourth visit, revisiting as part of the Sitkovetsky Trio.

Newcomers to the Budleigh audience include the acclaimed Elias Quartet and the Sansara a capella vocal group, whose festival programme will include works by allis, Victoria, Britten, Chilcott, Sandström and Marshall.

The lunchtime concerts have a particular focus on artists from the south west, and the festival finale will be a return for Devon Opera with Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte, at 7pm at St Peter’s Church, on Saturday 20th.

Guitar festival silver jubilee ILMINSTER

DILLINGTON’s annual celebration of the guitar marks its 25th anniversary this year, with a programme of masterclasses and workshops, and evening concerts with some of the world’s leading guitar ensembles, at Dillington House near Ilminster, from Sunday 28th July to Thursday 1st August.

The emphasis is on participation, with students working in a non-competitive and supportive environment, performing in en-

sembles both large and small. The course is suitable for players of all levels of ability other than complete beginners.

Highlights of the silver jubilee event include new arrangements by tutor Peter Rueffer and an opportunity for all to participate in a guitar duet class directed by the Copenhagen Guitar Duo. Each evening students join the audience at the Guitar Festival featuring a fantastic line up of international artists. Come and be part of a week of fun, friendship and performance—you’ll get hooked!

The concerts, all starting at 8pm, begin on Sunday 28th July with the Vida Guitar Quartet playing works by Corelli, Gershwin and Andrew York.

On Monday 29th, the Katona Twins will play works by Tarrega, Tedesco, Ennio Morricone and Peter Katona, and on Tuesday 30th, the Copenhagen Guitar Duo will play guitar compositions by Albeniz, de Falla and Piazzolla/ The Prague Guitar Quartet, on Wednesday 31st, will play a varied programme of music by Rodrigo, de Falla, Zdenek Lukas and John Duarte, and the final concert, on Thursday 1st August features Gitarrissima from Vienna with an exciting repertoire including works by Bizet, Tchaikovsky, Gershwin and Elgar.

Marvels and mayhem BRIDPORT

Dr Giles Roberts, Bridport’s Georgian druggist ANYONE suffering from gout, dropsy or even the King’s Evil should make an appointment with Dr Giles Roberts, when he holds court at Bridport Arts Centre on 19th July.

The Golden Gift is described as a scientific comedy, showing the life and times of Dr Giles Lawrence Roberts MD, “our celebrated druggist, apothecary and accoucheur.”

The performances, at 11am and 7.30pm, paint a colourful picture of the “Medical Practices of Georgian Bridport containing tales of a Doctor of Science and Spirit, replete with character, song, comedy, cauterisation and efficacy of bloodletting, featuring that most famous of ointments, ‘The Poor Man’s Friend’.”

For those with medical needs, “the doctor may be approached after the lecture for the diagnosis of gout and scorbutic

complaints.” He will also reply to letters “concerning the dropsy and King’s Evil” and “novel experimental electrical therapies are always free to the poor.”

Dream birthday concert EXETER

ELGAR’S massive and majestic choral masterpiece The Dream of Gerontius is the summer choice for Exeter Philharmonic Choir, at Exeter Cathedral on Saturday 6th July at 7.30pm.

The performance of this deeply spiritual work has been organised by conductor Brian Northcott to celebrate his 75th birthday. It will be performed jointly by Exeter Philharmonic Choir, Exeter University Chapel Choir, St David’s Singers and Exeter Symphony Orchestra.

The soloists will be tenor Thomas Hobbs mezzo Madeleine Shaw, and bass Tim Murfin.

A happy hour with Gyles BRIDPORT

JUST A Minute regular, raconteur, author and one-time MP, Gyles Brandreth comes to Bridport Arts Centre on 8th July with his new show, Break A Leg. They say all political careers end in tears but in the case of Gyles Brandreth it’s surely tears of laughter, as the actor, author, One Show reporter, and former government whip celebrates all things theatrical.

Without hesitation or repetition (and just a touch of deviation), Gyles delivers a happy hour of wisdom, high drama, low comedy, and hilarious name-dropping— running from Oscar Wilde to Laurence Olivier and beyond.

Party time with Holy Moly STURMINSTER & HALSTOCK

HOLY Moly & The Crackers come to Dorset, fresh from a European tour and releasing their third album, with two Artsreach dates, at the Exchange at Sturminster Newton on Friday 26th July and Halstock village hall on Saturday 27th, both at 7.30pm.

Influenced by an eclectic range of music, this gypsy folk-rock band play an exciting mix of rowdy dance music, compelling storytelling, original songs and old time drinking tunes.

Following their success at several 2018 festivals, including Glastonbury, Boomtown Fair, Bestival, Camp Bestival and Beautiful Days, in April this year Holy Moly & the Crackers released their third album, Take A Bite, an eclectic take on folk, blues and indie rock.

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PERFORMANCE TUESDAY 25 JUNE BEAMINSTER, St Mary’s Church, Hugh Morris, organ, Bach, Sweelinck, Buxtehude etc, 11.30am: The Turn of Midnight, Minette Walters in conversation with Karen Hunt, 2.30: Rose Opera in Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte, 7.30.

BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Exhibitions on Screen, Van Gogh and Japan, documentary, 7.30.

Electric Palace, Victoria, satellite screening from Northern Ballet, 7pm.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, All Is True, film, 7.30.

MONTACUTE, House, The Handlebards (women), The Tempest, open air.

WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE BEAMINSTER, St Mary’s Church, Lauren Zhang, piano, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, 11.30am: Those Who Are Loved, Victoria Hislop in conversation with Daisy Goodwin: Clarinet Goes to Town, Emma Johnson, clarinet, John Lenahan, piano, Paul Clarvis, percussion, 7.30.

ILMINSTER, Warehouse, IES in Present Laughter, to Sat. SHERBORNE, Abbey, James Henderson, organ, 1pm.

THURSDAY 27 JUNE BEAMINSTER, St Mary’s Church, Due Dorado, Baroque extravaganza, 11.30am: Histories of the Unexpected, Dr Sam Willis and Prof James Daybell, 2.30: Mark Padmore, tenor, Morgan Szymanski, guitar, Songs of Love and Loss, 7.30.

BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Small Island, by satellite from National Theatre, 7.

DORCHESTER, Max Gate, New Hardy Players in Far From the Madding Crowd, 7.15.

HONITON, Beehive, Small Island, by satellite from National Theatre, 7.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Small Island, by satellite from National Theatre, 7 SIDMOUTH, Manor Pavilion, The Kings Speech, play, to 3 July.

FRIDAY 28 JUNE ABBOTSBURY, Sub-Tropical Gardens, New Hardy Players in Far From the Madding Crowd, and Sat, 7.30.

BEAMINSTER, St Mary’s Church, Ferio Saxophone Quartet, 11.30am: Marmen String Quartet, Ravel, Bach, Beethoven, 7pm: No Strings Attached, Ferio Saxophone and Marmen String quartets, informal late night concert, 9.30.

BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Angela Barnes, comedy, 7.30.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Talon, the Acoustic Collection, 8.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Here Come the Girls, dance.

YEOVIL, Octagon, Al Murray, comedy.

SOLD OUT.

SATURDAY 29 JUNE ALRESFORD, The Grange, Grange Opera in Verdi’s Falstaff, with the BSO, cond Francesco Cilluffo.

BEAMINSTER, School, The Ben Waters Band, 8.

BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Hotbuckle in Jane Eyre, 7.30.

FRAMPTON, Village Hall, BOVTS summer tour, The Canterbury Tales, 7.30. AR HONITON, Beehive, Destination Wedding, film, 7.30.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, LR Comedy Club with Vikki Stone, Phil Lucas, Dan Thomas and Tom Glover, 8.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Aretha, Respect with Janine Johnson.

SUNDAY 30 JUNE BEAMINSTER, St Mary’s Church, The 12 Ensemble, Vaughan-Williams, Grieg, Schubert, 7.30.

DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Flying Elephant in Picasso’s Women, Three Monologues, 7.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Jazz in the Bar with Lynn Thornton, 8.

MONDAY 1 JULY EXETER, Northcott Theatre, Ian McKellen, 7.30.

TUESDAY 2 JULY BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, The Mikado, by satellite from ENO, 7pm.

BRISTOL, Old Vic, Kneehigh in Dead Dog in a Suitcase, to 13 July, 7.30, Thus/Sat mats 2.30.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Hitchcock’s Vertigo, film, 7.30.

WEDNESDAY 3 JULY LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Ian McKellen, 7.30.

THURSDAY 4 JULY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Juliet, Naked, film, 11am: Sometimes, Always, Never, film, 7.30.

CERNE ABBAS, The Vicarage, New Hardy Players in Far From the Madding Crowd, 7.30.

SIDMOUTH, Manor Pavilion, Wife Begins at 40, to Wed. TIVERTON, Wellhays Vineyard, Clayhanger, Concerts in the West, Clare Hammond, piano, Myslivecek, Gordon (world premiere), Schumann, Debussy, Rachmaninov, 7.30.

YEOVIL, Octagon, The Armonico Consort, Beowulf 7.30.

FRIDAY 5 JULY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Clare Hammond, piano, Myslivecek, Gordon (world premiere), Schumann, Debussy, Rachmaninov, 11am: Jazz Cafe, Still Crazy After All these Years, Julie Dunn and

Philip Clouts, 8.

DORCHESTER, Came House, New Hardy Players in Far From the Madding Crowd, 7.30 and Sat 2.30.

Corn Exchange, Alistair McGowan, Introductions to Classical Piano, comedy, impressions, music, 8.

EXETER, Northcott Theatre, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, to Sun, various day times: Pamela’s Palace, comedy, 8.

HONITON, Beehive, Jethro - the Count of Cornwall, 7.30.

ILMINISTER, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Clare Hammond, piano, Myslivecek, Gordon (world premiere), Schumann, Debussy, Rachmaninov, 7.30.

SATURDAY 6 JULY ABBOTSBURY, Sub-Tropical Gardens, Show of Hands.

BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Relight the Fire, the Take That Experience, 7.30.

Electric Palace, The Secret Life of Pets 2, film, 11am: Westlife, on screen, 8pm.

CREWKERNE, Dance House, Concerts in the West, Clare Hammond, piano, Myslivecek, Gordon (world premiere), Schumann, Debussy, Rachmaninov, 7.30.

HONITON, Beehive, Sweet Honi and Honiton Band, 7.30.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, The _Dhol Foundation, bhangra, 7.30.

SHERBORNE, Abbey,Sherborne Abbey Choir dir Paul Ellis, Peter Bray, organ, anthems, motets, etc, under the watch of the Dorst Moon, 7.30.

SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, The Leylines, folk, 8.

SUNDAY 7 JULY BEAMINSTER, Public Hall, Beaminster Festival, Vintage Tea Dance with Glenn Bayliss, 2.30.

EXMOUTH, Pavilion, Raymond Froggatt.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, That’ll Be the Day. MONDAY 8 JULY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Giles Brandreth, 7.30.

TUESDAY 9 JULY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, The Taming of the Shrew by satellite from the RSC, 7pm.

MAPPERTON, House Gardens, Castle Theatre in Love’s Labours Lost, 6.30.

WEDNESDAY 10 JULY WEST BAY, Sladers Yard, People in a Landscape, poetry with Paul Hyland, Catherine Simonds, Frances Hatch and Pam Zinneman-Hope, 7.30.

THURSDAY 11 JULY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Barefoot in the Park, 1967 film, 11am: Happy As Lazzaro, film, 7.30.

CERNE ABBAS, Music Festival, to Sun.

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PERFORMANCE St Mary’s Church,The Great Community of Composers, talk by musicologist Robert Philip, 4.30: Gaudier Ensemble, Handel, Telemann, Bach, Corelli, 7.30.

DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Mallets, new play by Rex Fisher, Edinburgh Fringe preview, 8.

EXETER, Barnfield Theatre, Little Theatre Co in 9 to 5 - the musical, to 20 July.

ILMINSTER, Dillington House, Taunton Thespians in The Importance of Being Earnest, 7.30.

SIDMOUTH, Manor Pavilion, JB Priestley’s Dangerous Corner, to Wed. WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Kastoff Kinks.

YEOVIL, Octagon, Welsh National Opera in Don Pasquale, 7.30.

FRIDAY 12 JULY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Comedy Club with Josh Berry and Matt Rees, 8.

BUDLEIGH SALTERTON, Budleigh Music Festival, various venues, to 20 July, inc 12 Ensemble, Sansara, The Pleyel Ensemble, The Sitkovetsky Trio, Martin James Bartless and Devon Opera.

CERNE ABBAS, Music Festival, St Mary’s Church, Gaudier Ensemble, Nielsen, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, 7pm: Music from Hungary, Bartokk Kodali, Veress, Kurtag, 10pm.

DORCHESTER, Maumbury Rings, Miracle Theatre in A Perfect World, 7.30.

DULVERTON, Garden Theatre, Knackershole Barn, West Knowle, Cygnet Theatre in The Merry Wives of Windsor, open air, 7pm.

EXETER, Corn Exchange, Carl Hutchinson, comedy, 8.

HONITON, Beehive, The Merry Wives of Windsor recorded from Shakespeare’s Globe, 7.

ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Mike Denham and the Sunset Cafe Stompers, 8.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Fisherman’s Friends, film, 7pm.

MONTACUTE, House, The Pantaloons in Sense and Sensibility, open air, 7pm.

PRIDDY, Folk Festival, to Sun. WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, What’s Love Got to do with It?, Tina Turner tribute.

YEOVIL, Octagon, ABBA Mania.

SATURDAY 13 JULY CERNE ABBAS, Music Festival, St Mary’s Church, Gaudier Ensemble, coffee concert, Ted Bor, Oliver Tuan, Jean Francaix and Haydn, 11.30am: Madeleine Dring, Brahms, Dvorak, 7.30.

EXETER, Corn Exchange, The Guns and Roses Experience.

EXMOUTH, Pavilion, Kastoff Kinks.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Paul Lamb and the King Snakes, blues, 7.30.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Beach Boys Tribute Show.

SUNDAY 14 JULY CERNE ABBAS, Music Festival, St Mary’s Church, Gaudier Ensemble, Devienne and Schubert, noon: Bax, Weber, Dvorak, 6pm.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Petite Annonce, gypsy jazz, 8.

MONDAY 15 JULY YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, It Runs in the Family, to Sat. TUESDAY 16 JULY BRISTOL, Old Vic, Amelie, the Musical, to Sat, 7.30, Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, How Green Was My Valley, 1941 film, 7.30.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Rhythm of the Dance, 20th anniversary tour.

WEDNESDAY 17 JULY BATH, Forum, kd lang, Ingenue Redux.

BRYMPTON D’EVERCY, Brympton House, Taunton Thespians in The Importance of Being Earnest, 7.30.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, BSO, cond Marta Gardolinska, Last Night of the Proms.

THURSDAY 18 JULY BATH, Theatre Royal, Rupert Everett and Katherine Parkinson in Uncle Vanya, new version by David Hare, to 3 Aug. BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, The Dish, film, 11am: First Man, film, 7.30.

EXMOUTH, Pavilion, Viva Neil Diamond.

SIDMOUTH, Manor Pavilion, Noel Coward’s Present Laughter, to Wed. FRIDAY 19 JULY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, The Life and Times of Dr Roberts, play with music, 11am and 7.30pm.

HONITON, Beehive, Rocket Man film, 7.30.

ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, An American Songbook with Laura Collins, the Craig Milverton Trio and Nigel Price, guitar, 8.

SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Mary Queen of Scots, film, 8.

TOLPUDDLE, Martyrs Festival, to Sun with Eddi Reader, Elvis McGonagall, ect, comedy, radical film, talks, music, etc SATURDAY 20 JULY BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Fee Jeanes Ballet in Cinderella, 2.30.

WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Some Guys Have All the Luck.

SUNDAY 21 JULY YEOVIL, Octagon, Here Come the Boys, dance, 2.30 and 7.30.

TUESDAY 23 JULY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Dyad in Dalloway, play, 7.30.

Hyde Gardens, Folksy Theatre in The

Comedy of Errors, open air, 7pm.

PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Calendar Girls - the Musical, to 3 Aug. WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Pirates of the Pavilion, summer pantomime, and Wed. WEDNESDAY 24 JULY PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, The Lab, Ruth Mitchell in The Secret Listener, and Thurs.

Devonport Park, Heartbreak in Wuthering Heights, open air, 7.30pm.

SALTASH, Pentille Castle, The Lord Chamberlain’s Men in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, open air, 7.30.

YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Castaways in Saying Goodbye, to Sat. THURSDAY 25 JULY BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Fisherman’s Friends, film, 11am and 7.30pm.

Electric Palace, The Lehman Trilogy, live by satellite from West End, 7pm.

HONITON, Beehive, The Lehman Trilogy, live by satellite from West End, 7pm.

ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, The Sotavento Big Band from Argentina, 8.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, The Lehman Trilogy, live by satellite from West End, 7pm.

SIDMOUTH, Manor Pavilion, Double Death by Simon Williams, to Wed. FRIDAY 26 JULY BRIDPORT, various venues, Folk Festival, in aid of Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance, to Sun. SATURDAY 27 JULY BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Bridport Folk Festival, Karsilarama, Balkan and Klezmer, The Featherweight Spacebiscuit, 8pm.

HALSTOCK, Village Hall, Holy Moly and the Crackers, gypsy folk rock, 7.30. AR LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Comedy Club with Ben Norris, 8.

MARTINSTOWN, Village Hall, Squashbox Theatre in Curious Creatures, 2.30, puppet workshop 3.45. AR SUNDAY 28 JULY BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Grace and Growl Dance in Collect, 6pm.

ILMINSTER, Dillington House, guitar festival, to Thurs. Vida Guitar Quartet, Corelli, Gershwin and York, 8.

LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Dave Holdsworth’s New Brew, jazz, 8.

WHITCOMBE, Manor, A Summer Sunday with Dillie Keane, Dorchester Arts fundraiser, noon.

MONDAY 29 JULY ILMINSTER, Dillington House, guitar festival, Katonah Twins, Tarrega, Tedescho, Morricone, Katonah, 8.

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Torture Tips from Guantánamo Bay

By Clive Stafford Smith

DECIDING what the world may see of Guantánamo Bay is an uncertain process.

Over the years, representing the detainees with my colleagues at the charity Reprieve, I have indulged in a little light entertainment testing the limits of the censors’ paranoia. For example, Jack and the Bean Stalk got banned—perhaps because detainees might escape, using a magic bean.

Sometimes the censors are more depressingly predictable: with art that portrays torture.

Eighty of my clients are free, but there are two fine artists among the forty men who remain there, seventeen years after it was opened. Under President Donald Trump some of their pictures have no more chance of release than they do.

When Ahmed Rabbani portrayed himself being subjected to strappado—an age-old torture once employed by the Spanish Inquisition - the censors’ stamp came down hard. Admitting your international war crimes is, of course, a threat to national security. During my visits to the prison, I have seen Ahmed’s torture pictures, as well as Khalid Qassim’s, and I wish you could too. You never will. However, the censors did allow my detailed description of them out. For example, “a dark haired man is in a twenty-foot pit, a square of neon light

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above him … his wrists are shackled to a bar … he is forever on tiptoes. And there he stays for days on end.”

Curated by student Ruby Copplestone, Torture Tips from Guantánamo Bay brings professionals from Axminster to Australia together with artists from Woodroffe School to reinterpret Ahmed’s and Khalid’s art—liberate it, if you will—so visitors to the Town Mill Courtyard Gallery may see that which is forbidden. Later in the month, the project will link arms with Shire Hall in Dorchester, where Royal Academy artist Bob & Roberta Smith is leading a programme on the Tolpuddle Martyrs.

Some parallels are obvious: the agricultural labourers, demanding fair treatment, were accused of swearing a secret oath to an evil union assemblage; they were rendered 10,000 miles to Australia for their sins. Almost two centuries later, Ahmed and Khalid were accused of swearing an oath to another hated group (al Qaida), of which they were likewise innocent. They were rendered in turn round the globe from Karachi to Guantánamo Bay. It is here that the parallel ends: after two years, public outrage prompted the government to pardon the Tolpuddle Six. Ahmed and Khalid have never enjoyed even the ineq-

Please telephone or check website for directions and opening hours Bridge Street, Lyme Regis.

01297 443370.

ALLHALLOWS MUSEUM

CHIDEOCK MUSEUM

High Street, Honiton.

01404 44966.

Church of Our Lady, North Road, Chideock. 01308 488348.

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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

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PORTLAND MUSEUM

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CREWKERNE & DISTRICT

BEAMINSTER MUSEUM

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

217 Wakeham Portland.

01305 821804.

Whitcombe Road, Beaminster.

01308 863623.

www.crewkernemuseum.co.uk

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DORSET COUNTY

BLANDFORD MUSEUM

High West Street, Dorchester.

01305 262735. (Closed)

Bere’s Yard, Blandford Forum.

01258 450388. 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.

uitable Shire Hall trial permitted in 1834, and they remain in their Cuban prison cells after 17 years.

Ruby Copplestone shines a light on their plight. I will be one of several ‘experts’ privileged to give a series of talks during the ten days of Torture Tips from Guantánamo Bay—from July 15-25. I hope you will join us.

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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

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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

On Screen - In and Around the Vale 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. 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. 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. The Beehive, Honiton. www.beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

WEDNESDAY 3 JULY First Man (12A) 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 https://www.kilmingtonvillage. com/other-organisations.html.

THURSDAY 4 JULY Juliet, Naked (15) Breakfast screening – free coffee and pastry with your ticket.

Bridport Arts Centre, 9A South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3NR 11am £6 01308424204 www.bridport-arts.com.

Sometimes Always Never (12A) Directed by Carl Hunter and starring Bill Nighy, Sam Riley & Jenny Agutter.

Bridport Arts Centre, 9A South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3NR. 7.30pm £6/5 01308424204 www.bridport-arts.com.

FRIDAY 5 JULY The Upside (12A). presented by Petherton Picture Show. Starring Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston. 8pm Tickets: £5. No concessions. The David Hall, South Petherton, TA13 5AA www.thedavidhall.org.uk 01460 240 340.

MONDAY 8 JULY First Man To mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landing Moviola are showing this film at Beaminster Village Hall.

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

WEDNESDAY 10 JULY On Chesil Beach Tickets are £30 and

include a two course meal, cocktail, and film screened in the chapel. Tickets available from reception, or by calling 01297 424010. Alexandra Restaurant and Hotel, Lyme Regis.

THURSDAY 11 JULY Barefoot in the Park (PG) Bridport Arts Centre, 9A South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3NR, 11am £6 01308424204 www. bridport-arts.com.

Happy As Lazzaro (12A) Bridport Arts Centre, 9A South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3NR 7.30pm £6/5 01308424204, www.bridport-arts.com.

FRIDAY 12 JULY Stan and Ollie shown by Milborne Movies in Milborne St Andrew Village Hall DT11 0JX. Doors and Bar open 7pm; film starts 7.30pm.

SATURDAY 13 JULY Aladdin (PG) 3pm £6.80/£5.80 Family of four £22. A The Beehive, Honiton. www.beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Green Book (12A) 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.

SUNDAY 14 JULY The Kid Who Would Be King (PG) Bridport Arts Centre, 9A South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3NR 2pm £6/5/4 01308424204 www.bridport-arts.com.

THURSDAY 18 JULY The Dish (12) Bridport Arts Centre, 9A South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3NR 11am £6 01308424204 www.bridport-arts. com.

First Man (12A) Bridport Arts Centre, 9A South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3NR 7.30pm £6/5/4 01308424204 www. bridport-arts.com.

FRIDAY 19 JULY Rocketman (15) 7.30pm Adult £6.80, U16 £5.80. The Beehive, Honiton. www. beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Mary Queen of Scots (15). 8pm presented by Petherton Picture Show. Tickets: £5. No concessions. The David Hall, South Petherton, TA13 5AA www.thedavidhall.org.uk 01460 240 340.

Mary Poppins Returns (U) Emily Blunt stars as Mary Poppins in this film suit-

able for children and big kids! Tickets available for £5 and £2.50 from Eleos, the PO and Barron’s, and also online at ticketsource/ cinechard. £6 and £3 on the door. CineChard at The Guildhall 7pm for 7.30pm.

SATURDAY 20 JULY The Secret Life of Pets 2 (U) 3pm Adult £6.80, U16 £5.80 Family of four £22.

Continuing the story of Max and his pet friends, following their lives after their owners leave them for work or school each day. The Beehive, Honiton. www. beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

SUNDAY 21 JULY The Gleaners and I (U) Bridport Arts Centre, 9A South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3NR 2pm £6/5/4 01308424204 www.bridport-arts.com. An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country’s poor and its provident, as well as by the film’s own director, Agnes Varda. The aesthetic, political and moral point of departure for Varda are gleaners, those individuals who pick at alreadyreaped fields for the odd potato, the leftover turnip.

FRIDAY 26 JULY Nostalgic Cinema: Sabrina (dementiafriendly screening) 2pm £3.80 - includes tea and biscuits 1954. The Beehive, Honiton. www.beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

Gloria Bell (15) 7.30pm Adult £6.80, U16 £5.80 The Beehive, Honiton. www.beehivehoniton.co.uk Box office 01404 384050.

SATURDAY 20 JULY The Favourite (15) Halstock Village Cinema on the big screen in Halstock Village Hall. Queen Anne is frail and her close friend, Lady Sarah, governs the country in her stead, while tending to Anne’s ill health, mercurial temper and more. Deliciously funny, witty, sad and clever. Best Actress Oscar for Olivia Coleman (as Anne). Tickets £6 from Halstock Shop or on the door. Licensed Bar opens at 7pm for 7.30pm start.

THURSDAY 25 JULY Fisherman’s Friends (12A) Bridport Arts Centre, 9A South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3NR 11am & 7.30pm £6 (11am, ticket includes hot drink and pastry) and £6/5/4 (7.30pm) 01308424204 www.bridport-arts.com. Inspired by a true story, Fisherman’s Friends tells the tale of an unlikely group of male fishermen from Port Isaac.

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Health&Beauty The Living Tree’s ‘Book of Words’ A Book of Words is a collection of writing and artwork produced by members of The Living Tree cancer support group in Bridport.

The book is a colourful collaboration of work that explores personal experiences of living with cancer; reflections, memories and the beautiful Dorset landscape.

Living Tree chairperson Jo Millar says: ‘We’ve always endeavoured to offer art and creative workshops to our members as we regard them as fundamental to their health and wellbeing. This book is testament to all we’ve achieved and share as a group’.

A Book of Words is available to buy at the price of £12.00 during Friday afternoon Living Tree meetings at the Friends Meeting House (2.30 - 4pm) and in four local book shops: Good Books, Gundry Lane, Bridport. The Book Shop, South St, Bridport. Serendipity Book Shop, Lyme Regis. Archway Book Shop, Axminster.

All proceeds go to the Living Tree to help fund future projects.

Next generation of Dorset poets celebrated at Max Gate THE winning entries for the inaugural Thomas Hardy Young Poetry Prize have been celebrated with an awards afternoon at Hardy’s own home of Max Gate.

The six winners came from across Dorset, and were all aged between 13 and 18.

This is the first year the National Trust has run the competition, with the support of the Thomas Hardy Society, but it has been so successful it has pledged to turn Four of the finalists, from left winner Kitty Fisher of Hooke, the prize into an annual event.

Beaminster, Alice Padgett from Dorchester, Leonie Cobban from Weymouth and Eve Gilmour from Dorchester.

The judges were Dr Faysal Mik©National Trust/Rebecca Paveley dadi, Academic Director of the Thomas Hardy Society, Professor Angelique Richardson of Exeter University, and musician and writer Virginia Astley.

Between them they spent hours poring over the entries.

The overall winner was Kitty Fisher, from Hooke near Beaminster, with her poem Reading “A Wife in London’’, which judges praised for its wit, depth and poetic passion. Runner up Leonie Cobban, from Weymouth, wrote the moving poem, The Wind Watches. There were four poems for which the judges awarded Highly Commended: Aiden Phillips The Wind, Alice Padgett’s 1 March 2018 2.36pm, Eloise Cray’s A Walk in the Park and Eve Gilmour’s I’m Just a Tree.

Dr Mikdadi said: “The quality of entries was stunning. These are the poets of tomorrow whose poems I fully expect to read in the future. The range and depth of the poems was remarkable.”

Rebecca Paveley, from the National Trust, said: “We hoped that the prize would inspire the young people of today, living in the landscape which Hardy loved, to try their hand at poetry. The competition showed us just how much talent, creativity and passion there is out there among young people.’

The poems will be on display at Max Gate from the end of June and the competition will now run each year. Entries for the 2020 competition will be open from November.

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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

SITUATIONS VACANT

CURTAINS 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 FOR SALE

jul 19

ELECTRIC BIKE HIRE Electric Bike Hire from Monkton Wyld Holiday Park 40 - 60 miles of power assisted peddling Detailed routes available.

01297 631131

T20 diesel engine and box axel in bits. Offers please ring 07767 268801

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Monthly Quiz –

Kathmandu Animal Treatment Centre We rescue animals in Nepal creating a healthy rabies free dog pupulation in Kathmandu. We are looking for an animal lover to act as voluntary Treasurer. The Board of Trustees meet four times a year in Lyme Regis. The present Treasurer who has been in the post for 10 years will be able to guide and give support where required. Contact Carl Salter on 01207 443334 merrylymeregis@gmail. com For more details on our charity visit www. katcenter.org.np

FOR SALE

Splash and Play Paddling Pool 9ft x 6ft x 2ft deep. Used Once. £25.00 01297/33436 Mountain bike for sale.

Marin Nail Trail 6* blue, approx 12 months old and used only three times from new. Excellent condition.

16” frame. £750 ovno.

Photos available. 01935 Pair of round painted 891857. drum tables with 2 drawers Shower enclosure side with glass tops H75cm, screen- Made by CrossDiam 24cm £50 01395 515 water, model Simpsons 635.

DSPSC0800, 800mm.

Hinged Shower Screen for Ht 1950mm, clear tembath, plain smoked glass, pered glass, quality prod68.5cm(27”) x 131cm(51 uct. Installed for two days, 1/2 ”) tall. £10 o.n.o. Tel but was wrong size for our 01308 867104 shower. Reboxed, with

fittings. £60 ono. 07761 469676.

Set of golf clubs in carrying bag. Used only a couple of times but kept in the garage, hence the price £20. Phone 07941504149.

Wooden Shed Good condition 193cm wide, 184 cm height (max), 89cm deep.

Lockable with key. Buyer dismantles and collects. £80. Tel: 01305 459622.

Youngman Laddalock platform five tread metal fold out stepladder. Good condition. £15. Tel: 01297 34958.

Pair wrought iron gates w136c x h96c, £40 pair 01460 54093 evenings.

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 Fifehead Neville. The winner was Mrs Hart from Aylesbury.

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FOR SALE

WANTED Dave buys all types of tools 01935 428975 Oct 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.

Dec 19

Wanted. Blacksmith, Silversmith, Bookbinding, Engineering, Glassblowing, Foundry tools & equipment. 07875 Jul 19 677897

FOR SALE Recliner/Riser armchair, excellent condition and perfect working order. £175.00 Tel. 07495 888794 (Bridport).

2 man chainsaw with 250cc Villiers engine plus another for spares.

Not working, challenging project for enthusiast £45 01300 320938.

Mantis lawn aerator, border edger, lawn dethatcher, crevis cleaner & wheel kit. All new £250 ono Tel 07721 530520.

Single pine bed, + 2 drawers under, no mattress, £20, cream parasol 3metre £15, bed comes apart. Buyer collects, tel no 01308485669, near Bridort, Dt2 9el.

Gents mountain bike excellent condition (rover 350). £80 Ono 01297 22216. 07771745639.

Cane suite, excellent conditioning. Consists of two seater settee, two chairs and a glass top coffee table.

Removable covers, soft pile material, multi coloured cream, beige, brown, rust.

Pictures can be emailed.

£175 or near offer. Telephone 01404 41245.

Original cast iron cottage windows – suitable for listed cottages. 19 – 400mm x 800mm, 5 – 480mm x 880mm, 2 – 440mm x 900mm, 26 in total, 15 panes of glass in each window, £200 01258 830537.

1 Three wheeled shoppe £40 or £30. 2 x 15ft ladder £40-£30 each 01308 421026.

Drum kit, Black ‘Cocktail’ style (stand up to play) never used still boxed £300 07410957900.

Vax power Midi 2 for sale good condition and good for getting in awkward places £20 01460 62074.

Caravan 2 berth very good condition with large awning new carpet worth viewing at £950 01404 851267.

Used golf clubs for sale, 9 irons 3 to sand wedge, 1 ping g10 driver with cover, 2 cobra rescue clubs with covers, 1 Odessy putter, 3 ass. Fairway woods,

1 carry bag £80 01460 62644.

Safety step ladder, (Metal) with extended safety top rail, wide anti dip treads and side safety rails. Folds flat for storage. Only used once or twice £25 ono 01404 815232.

Beatrix Potter books. Set of 23 ex. Cond. £20 01395 513055.

Garden table and six chairs plus lazy susan full length chair cushions solid teak good condition bargain £150 01460 53150.

Table marble granite 140cm length, 70cm width, 43cm height VGC must be seen £60. Genuine Turkish rug 180cm x 120cm £50 01308 420926.

1000W generator handbag style, hardly used still in box £40 01460 57078.

10 in 1 multi purpose ladder £35 ono 01460 57078.

Woodburner multifuel cast iron inserts into fireplace opening 59cmH, 21cmD, 53cmW £200 01297 445724.

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PEOPLE AT WORK

Simon March, photograph and words by Catherine Taylor

SIMON MARCH EVERY morning Simon makes the tea, five mugs of Earl Grey for his wife and four children - ‘all tea snobs’ he says laughing, as he sips at his coffee. Bundling everyone out the door to school, he just about makes it in time to open up the shop at 8.30am. Setting out the signs and starting the machines, Simon is the face and manager of the Bridport branch of Timpsons.

He started in 2000 when it was run as ‘The Menders’, training up in shoe repairs. Now, Simon does everything required in the shop from key-cutting, engraving, sending off the dry cleaning, mobile phone repairs and of course mending shoes. There isn’t much time to pause over the paperwork as Simon has customers walking in throughout the day, dropping off, picking up and asking for advice. He juggles the demands of his customers with completing the work at hand. Often he hasn’t got time for a lunch break as he is interrupted with a walk-in, which as he points out doesn’t matter as he’s usually eaten it by 11 am anyway. Lucky to have his wife Jody make his pack lunch each day, alongside the children’s, Simon saves his best smile for when he talks about her and how she cares for them all.

Not everything in Simons’ life is shoe leather and rubber glue though. At the weekend he morphs into a version of his earlier life and gets his DJ and disco equipment out. Previously a DJ at a couple of popular night venues in Bridport and Yeovil, Simon now runs Galaxy Discos & Karaoke, bringing the party to dance floors all over the county.

5.30pm brings the end of the working day at Timpsons when Simon locks up. He might stop for a cheeky half on the way home, needing a short break before the onslaught of four children hits him. ‘It can be a bit nuts some days, with one hanging off your leg, the other climbing onto your back, as soon as you walk in through the door’, he grins, clearly loving fatherhood, in all its guises.

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FOR SALE Wheelie bin large including logs and kindling bargain £10 01297 445724.

Lets go indoor walking aid light weight complete with brakes and tray excellent condition bargain £35 01460 220181.

Child’s cot for sale good clean condition 1970 ono £25 01935 872796.

Mens 2 piece M/c leathers good condition 1920s black 5ft 9 – 5ft 10 £55 01935 411372.

Ercol light oak dining table 55” x 39” extends can seat 8 people Exeter £200 01392 271398.

Large dog cage new never used £60 01460 62158.

Dog kennel wood 110cm

length, 90cm high as new well made 01308 423629 £20.

Sturdy metal framed hiking backpack child carrier £35. Gallon glass demijohns for winemaking four for £10 01297 443930.

Old wooden sewing machine table with machine underneath that

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rotates up £40. Hardshell wheeled suitcase £10 01297 443930.

Little black dresses good makes Next, Jaeger Wallis etc (ideal wear for waitressing) sizes 12 – 18 £5 each also trousers 01297 443930.

Free hardcore/rubble Uplyme area also lots of plants for sale 01297 443930.

For sale assortment of bricks and large stones £10. Dog shed and kennel to suit Labrador. Ladies Blazer size 14 rust/orange Laura Ashley good condition £10 01308 898611.

Wooden garage doors brand new with all hinges and locks 2 doors 7’ x 3’6” £200 Burton Bradstock 01308 898632.

Days 4 Wheel 106 Lightweight Walker with seat good condition £25 01460 220122.

Ladies Golf 5 Wood Ben Ross Jewel with head cover £25 01308 897385.

18” Sony TV no remote control £15. Mirror 24” x 30” £10. Mirror 16” x 16” £8 01297 560251.

To give away Gulbranson Organ with stool and manual needs little attention 01460 240081.

Black leather car coat 42” chest top quality £65 ono 01297 631330.

National Geographic Magazine 1957 to 1996 01300 320749.

Le Creuset 2 Royal Blue Saucepans 2 Litre. Suit Aga, Rayburn £30 each £50 pair GWO Ilminster 01823 481950.

Yarcombe woodlands heavy shed and greenhouse 8’ x 12’ long plus greenhouse £500 buyer dismantles and collects 01460 54104.

New/boxed Dartington crystal plain glass decanter/carafe + 2 glasses excellent present £18 ono 01297 631330 Combi Ladder (each step is articulated) length 13’3” also has telescopic safety legs, cost £237 selling £100 ono health forces sale 01297 631330 Florabest long reach electric hedge trimmer little used £40. Tel 01297 553368 Two IKEA Tressels, fully adjustable with board top, 4ft x 2ft 8 ins £55. Tel 01297 553368 Two versatile two-tier wooden trolleys, 70cm x 50cm x 62cm £20 each.

Tel 01297 553368 Pine Victorian Farmhouse Table with drawer under, approx 48”(l) x 32”(w) x 28” (h). £190. Tel 01297 553368 Coffee Table with toughened glass top and slatted lower shelf. 26”(w) x 38”(l) x 18”(h). £55. Tel 01297 553368 Large pet carrier, little used. £10. 01297 553368.

FOR SALE Small wheeled TV / Stereo Stand, 2ft x 1ft x 14ins high. £5. Tel 01297 553368.

Heavy Duty StrimmerPetrol 2 stroke, McCulloch, good condition, £20 Heavy Duty Strimmer, electric, very long cable, Qualcast, good condition, £20 01297 631025 Heavy Duty Steel Paper/ Card Guillotine, 50cm x 32cm. £20. Tel 01297 553368.

Yamaha 12-string acoustic guitar with cut away and built-in pick up. Vgc £180.

Tel 01297 553368.

Dreadnought steel strung folk acoustic guitar. £35.

Tel 01297 553368.

Caravan Awning Keswick size 965 cm - removable front and side panels £90 ono 01300 320815 Dualit Espressiv expresso coffee maker in cream finish. Hardly ever used. Cost over £170 new. Sell for £50. tel 01308 898374

CHIMNEY SWEEP

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