Mayor’s Blog

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,…

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…

12th June – a very busy and enjoyably busy day!  A lovely afternoon celebrating the 10th anniversary of St Mary’s Edible School Garden. It was a great pleasure to be invited to this event, one which I have held close…