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January 10 – donation to BTC of a very unusual picture My first and very pleasant engagement for the New Year was to gratefully receive a lovely piece of art created by Richard Butterworth, kindly donated to Bridport Town Council…
January 10 – donation to BTC of a very unusual picture My first and very pleasant engagement for the New Year was to gratefully receive a lovely piece of art created by Richard Butterworth, kindly donated to Bridport Town Council…
December Blogs Dear Readers, I must have been visited by some mischievous Christmas elves! I was adding the last photo to this set of blogs and whoosh! Everything else I’d prepared just vanished into thin air and was not recoverable. …
1st November November opened with another book launch – this time the brainchild of Sheila Meaney, working within Bridport Heritage Forum on a community project called “A House Through Time”. This she explained was “The end of chapter one” –…
6th October – Lions’ Swimarathon – Bridport Leisure Centre I was invited to be present for the Lions’ fundraising Swimarathon, to say a few words and to sound the hooter for the opening rounds. We had friends visiting that weekend,…
Bridport Town Council is committed to supporting local businesses, especially the need to increase the resilience of Bridport’s local economy and drive future sustainability. In 2022, the council produced the Bridport Investment Plan, responding to consultations with businesses and the…
6 September – The Children’s Democratic Republic of Bridport A great big THANK YOU to the organisers! Well this was just ‘something else’! Brought together by The Bank of Dreams and Nightmares – being invited to open this unusual and…
30 July, Opening of Asker Meadows Nature Reserve It was a warm summer evening when I was kindly invited by the organisers of the Askers Meadow Wildlife Reserve team to do an official ‘opening’. So much thought and work has…
25th July – Raft Race – West Bay What a lot of fun! After some bright and sunny weather this day started off fairly grey and people were saying the Raft Race would be ‘washed out’ – my response was…
Monday 8th July – Young Creatives working with ‘Stuff and Nonsense’ at the Lyric Theatre This is not all that easy to put into words, but I seem to have managed quite a few here! …
27th June, St James Park Care Home, Bradpole This was a beautiful sunny afternoon and we had the pleasure of visiting St James Park Care Home in Bradpole, a charming place, where we were welcomed by their Home Manager, Mihaela…