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DORSET ART WEEKS 14 – 29 May 2022
After the difficulties of the last couple of years, Dorset Art Weeks returns in all its glory! There are more than 250 studios opening, some offering workshops and talks. You can look at the brochure online or you can pick up a free printed copy from various outlets.
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Locally we have our own Wriggle Valley Trail: in Yetminster, Chetnole, Leigh and Hermitage, five studios/ galleries are open and all the artists will be delighted to meet you (and some can even offer refreshment!).
Venue 8 Yetminster Group of Artists at Chetnole Mill
This well-established group of 14 artists has three members who live in Yetminster and Chetnole. Do come and visit the unusual studio in the C18th flour mill gallery at Mill House, Back Lane, Chetnole, DT9 6PL. Open 10.00am–5.00pm daily. 20% of all sales will be donated to the Save the Children Refugee Crisis.
For more information telephone Bee 01935 872255 or Melita Frances 07795 153323. www.beegrantpeterkin.co.uk www.melitafrancesmoule.co.uk
Venue 9 Plaxy Pots at Leigh
Plaxy Arthur will be showing her pots and ceramics at Totnell House South, Leigh DT9 6HT. Open 10.00am–5.00pm every day except Tuesday. If you would like more information telephone Plaxy 07740 873687. www.plaxypots. com
Di Grattan-Cooper Bee Grant Peterkin
Plaxy Arthur
Venue 10 Pearl Gatehouse at Yetminster
Pearl will be exhibiting her drawings and paintings at Moreys, Melbury Road Yetminster DT9 6LX. Open 10am–5pm on Pearl Gatehouse May 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28. For more information telephone Pearl 01935 873888. www.pearlgatehouse.com
Venue 11 Old School Gallery and Café at Yetminster
Ali Cockrean www.alicockrean.weebly. com will be exhibiting at the Gallery (now in its 10th year!) and there will also be mixed media works and work by art students and the Art for All group. 49
The Gallery and Café open every day 10.00am4.30pm. For more information telephone Sarah Hedin 01935 872761. www. Ali Cockrean facebook.com/ oldschoolgalleryyetminster
Venue 23 Graham Booth and Jo Denbury at Hermitage
Graham’s paintings and photography and Jo’s sculpture will be on display Graham Booth at Yew tree Barn, Yew Tree House, Hermitage Lane, Hermitage DT2 7BB. Open Wed–Friday 12noon – 5.00pm, Saturday and Sunday 10.00am-5.00pm. For more information Jo Denbury telephone 07798 525013. www. instagram.com/photos_by_basher www.instagram.com/jodenbury_art
We look forward to welcoming you!
Bee, Di, Melita Frances, Plaxy, Pearl,
Sarah and others at the Old School Gallery, Graham and Jo
Signature Reflexology
I am a fully qualified and insured reflexologist, offering treatments in South Somerset and Dorset. I trained at The Precision School of Reflexology in Devon 15 years ago, working in various complementary practices and visiting clients at home.
Having my own Therapy space has been a goal for many years and, having moved back to one of the oldest houses in Thornford, I have found the perfect place for my private practice. I will continue to offer clients visits in the comfort and privacy of their own home.
I do not claim to cure, prescribe or diagnose but work alongside western medicine to promote better health for clients. These are some of the conditions reflexology can help with: • Stress and anxiety • Back/neck/shoulder pain • Digestive disorders • Headaches/migraine • Sleep disorders • Energy levels But you don’t need to be suffering from an illness or condition to have a reflexology treatment. It is an effective therapy to help you restore and revitalise the body, mind and spirit. It is a safe and enjoyable experience with long lasting positive effects and health benefits. One session is ideal for relaxation; regular treatments will have the greatest benefit and help to alleviate symptoms of long-term conditions. This complementary therapy is recognised by the NHS and many GPs. Come along and enjoy my Fabulous Feet workshops. In small groups I teach massage techniques to relieve tension and stress and aid restful sleep. Learning how to give a foot massage is not only great for the person receiving but it makes you feel good as well.
Bring a friend. The next dates will be on my website events page shortly. www.signaturereflexology.co.uk
Elaine Copping MA
Answers from last month’s Just for fun Dorset quiz
1. Corfe Castle 2. Blandford Forum 3. A natural limestone arch in the sea 4. William Barnes 5. The Dorset Naga chili pepper (former hottest chili world record holder. (Scoville Heat Units (SHU) are used to measure the heat of chilis) 6. Lyme Regis 7. The Jurassic Coast 8. Maiden Castle 9. A.F.C. Bournemouth 10. The Tolpuddle Martyrs 11. Poole Harbour 12. Hovis advert (Gold Hill is a steep cobbled street) 13. Fossils (Mary Anning became known around the world for several important finds and inspired the tongue twister, ‘She sells seashells by the seashore’.) 14. Speedway 15. John le Carré 16. Old Harry Rocks 17. Sandbanks 18. Weymouth’s esplanade 19. Bournemouth 20. Isle of Portland 21. Dorchester 22. The Scout Movement (scouting was started there in 1907 by
Lord Baden-Powell) 23. Chesil Beach* 24. Wimborne Minster 25. The French Lieutenant’s Woman (by John Fowles) 26. A Tank Museum (it’s the world’s biggest display of historic moving armour) 27. On Chesil Beach 28. A third force of landowners in the
English Civil War** 29. Badbury Rings 30. Harry Paye
* Chesil Beach was initially formed from predominantly sandy deposits in Lyme Bay. As water levels rose rapidly at the end of the last ice age (about 12,000 years ago), the material was transported to Chesil Beach by longshore drift via a series of pocket beaches. ** The Clubmen objected to both Royalist and Parliamentary forces being garrisoned in their area, damaging land and ruining crops. They fought actively and the most famous skirmish in Dorset was at Hambledon Hill where Cromwell defeated a group of Clubmen, imprisoned them overnight in Iwerne Minster church, disarmed them and let them go.
Geoff Goater
Update from Dorchester & Sherborne offices of Central Dorset Citizens Advice
New “no fault” Divorce Procedure
The biggest reform to divorce law since 1969 was introduced in the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 on 6 April this year. It brings an entirely new basis for obtaining a divorce, in that the law will no longer apportion blame to one party, e.g. by listing out examples of their ‘unreasonable behaviour’ in the petition. There will no longer be a requirement for those involved to prove fault and they will instead need to make a statement of irretrievable breakdown of marriage, or a joint statement if both parties have applied for a divorce. Joint petitions and joint applications for the final divorce will be allowed. Much of the archaic language will be gone; instead of a Decree Nisi there will be a Conditional Order and the Decree Absolute will be replaced by a Final Order. It will be possible to apply for a divorce online or by paper application with a target completion in 26 weeks. Information about these changes will be on the Citizens Advice website.
Local offices
With the easing of Covid restrictions the small teams that have kept offices open during the pandemic will be increased gradually by more advisers and other staff who have been working from home. This will be kept under regular review but should mean that more face-to-face appointments will become available in addition to phone appointments and email advice. Each interview room will have a filtration unit.
Appointments at village GP Surgeries. If you are registered with one of following GP Practices it may save traveling and/or be more convenient to book an appointment with a CA adviser through the Surgery reception – Bere Regis Surgery, Cerne Abbas Surgery, Crossways Health Centre, Puddletown Surgery, and Pound Piece Surgery, Maiden Newton. This service one day each week is funded by the local NHS.
Should you have concerns about pensions, employment, benefits, housing, family, household and energy bills, consumer issues etc, you can contact Citizens Advice via our Freephone Dorset Advice line number on 0800 144 88 48 between 10.00am–4.00pm, Monday to Friday. Alternatively visit our national website: www.citizensadvice. org.uk.
POETRY PAGE Sara Teasdale: romance and lyricism
Sara Teasdale was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1884.‘Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems’, her first collection, was published in 1907.
By the time her third volume of poetry, ‘Rivers to the Sea’ appeared in 1915, she was an established figure. Further success followed in 1918, when she won the Pulitzer Prize for ‘Love Songs’.
Such was her skill weaving wonderful romantic and lyrical patterns, a great many of her poems were set to music. The beauty of her work seems at odds with much of the sadness of her own life, ill health had dogged her early years and a failed marriage blighted her later life. She died by suicide in 1933. These three poems have the freshness of early summer but there are undertones of less optimistic times to come.
May Day A delicate fabric of bird song Floats in the air, The smell of wet wild earth Is everywhere. Red small leaves of the maple Are clenched like
Teasdale: unlucky in love. a hand,
