Comic confronts Dorchester theatre reviewer
VETERAN theatre critic Marion Cox found herself at the receiving end of comedian Gina Yashere’s wit when she spotted her making notes during Dorchester Festival’s comedy night. Grabbing the notes, the keen-eyed comic demanded: “Why are you writing down my jokes – are you a standup? What is your name?” “I’m a theatre reviewer,” Mrs [...]
Lush Places: Happy Oak Apple Day
Odd’s fish, it’s Oak Apple Day: Charles II’s birthday and the 350th anniversary of his restoration to the throne. Here in Lush Places, the day passes by unnoticed, as people scurry under large umbrellas across the village square in a dance choreographed jointly by Renoir and Magritte. They charge to the shop for their Telegraphs [...]
Bridport Open Studios: Kit Glaisyer on painting West Dorset’s ancient landscape
ST MICHAEL’S Studios in Bridport are open to visitors this Bank Holiday Weekend, 10-5pm Sat – Mon. Kit Glaisyer writes here about his participation. I GREW up in ‘deepest darkest’ Dorset, several miles from any town, so the nights were truly dark, and the stars were bright in the sky, with just the sounds of [...]
The answer is £5.44…
… TO THE QUESTION that has seen me tossing and turning at nights over the years and has, no doubt, troubled most of you in a similar manner. It is such a relief to have, at long last, learned this figure. I am indebted to Mr Graham Burridge, Bridport’s affable postmaster, for finally putting my mind [...]
The Great Dorset Jellyfields Mystery
First things first ONLY the village of Walditch near Bridport boasts a real place called Jellyfields. It’s a 3-hectare Local Nature Reserve off Lower Walditch Lane, with grass, woodland, stream and small pond and it’s managed for West Dorset District Council by Dorset County Council’s Countryside Service. The NEWS is that a resurfaced path is [...]
Photographs from Burton Bradstock’s Spring Tide Food Festival
MORE than 1000 people went to the National Trust’s first Spring Tide Food Festival at Hive Beach in Burton Bradstock. A farmers’ market sold produce grown, reared or made within 40 miles of the marquee, and there were craft stalls and free entertainment. If you weren’t there and you want to see it was like, [...]
How to be a Dorset cider thrower
CIDER THROWING isn’t a Dorset thing. Not yet, anyway. I say not yet, because I suspect it’s one of those things that – once you’ve seen it done, or even just read about it – you’ll feel irresistibly impelled to try yourself. Probably when you’ve already had a bit of cider… which could actually be a bad time to [...]