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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Is it just strawberry picking or is there something more going on?
It’s June, its’ Wimbledon, it’s the strawberry season! What is it about a trip to the PYO farm that fills you with an innocent excitement of your childhood? The anticipation of being the first one to find the fattest juiciest … Continue reading
Posted in Life's Like That
Tagged choose, death, farm, life, philosophical, picking, strawberry, the meaning of life
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Lyme Regis Celebrates deliverance from the Royalist Siege
The Pearl of Dorset with its stunning scenery and views; part of the World Heritage Jurassic Coastline; a famous seaside resort with the highly acclaimed Cobb and exciting fossil forays. Such are the enticements of this wonderful part of the … Continue reading
Posted in Special events
Tagged Alan Vian, carnival committee, celebrate, dignatary, English civil war, Lyme Regis, Lyme Regis Regatta, mayor, Parliamentarian, Royalist, siege
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South Somerset Green Scythe Fair Sunday 13 June 2010
If you found yourself in south Somerset on a sunny Sunday 13 June, you would have been spoilt for choice for things to do; from the Open Farm Sunday organised by LEAF, to a host of small village fetes alongside … Continue reading
The Green Cross Code is 40 years old this year (2010)
Statistics show that if a child is hit at 30 mph there is an 80% chance they will survive, but hit at 40 mph there is the same percentage chance they will die. It was in 1935 that the urban … Continue reading
Posted in Special events
Tagged children, Darth Vader, Green cross code, John Pertwee, Prowse, road, RoSPA, safety, SPLINK, Star Wars, stop look listen, Tufty Club, Tufty Fluffytail
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I’ve been in an Ariel Atom Racing Car
A Mediterranean blue sky with a slight breeze blowing so the lush green trees rustled and shushed me as I walked along the narrow country lane to the Ariel Motor Company that is based just outside Crewkerne in south Somerset. … Continue reading
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