Spring at Forde Abbey
After a winter of wind, rain and floods. Then a spring of snow. Today normal spring service was returned. I love spring. Then I also love autumn, winter an summer. But spring is definitely...
Tagged: Dorset
Somerset Snowdrops
This is one of my favourite times of the year, because it is the time when the snowdrops signal the beginning of the end of winter. Somerset has a wealth of places to...
Starling Trail
In a very different starling trail post I visited the flocks of starlings that roost on the lighthouse at Portland Bill. Portland Bill is a peninsula on the south coast of England in Dorset....
West Bay Sunset
I recently spent a couple of days down in the Dorset coast. As always a trip over the border of Somerset feels like a true adventure. I lived in Dorset for several years, and...
Shaftesbury Snowdrops
Today I went on an adventure over the border out of Somerset into the neighbouring county of Dorset. Shaftesbury Snowdrops Shaftesbury Snowdrops is a fanastic project to create a legacy from the Queen’s Diamond...
Forde Abbey
Forde Abbey, Somerset This is a Somerset blog and I claiming Forde Abbey because it has a Somerset address despite being just over the border into the equally wonderful county of Dorset. This was...
Duncliffe Wood
A bank holiday trip over the border of Somerset to Duncliffe Wood in North Dorset. Spring Morning Early spring morning in an ancient magical bluebell wood. You know that you got up early when...
Red Post
In 1896 the parish of Poyntington was transferred from Somerset to Dorset. This was a shame for Somerset so I will pretend it never happened and by doing so it must still in Somerset....
Somerset Vales
Another beautiful warm autumn day so I decided to leave work early and cycle home up through South Somerset and Mendip. However, it started in a lovelly bit of Dorset close to the border with...
Temple Lane Meadows
Temple Lane leads east from the village of Templecombe. It lies on the Somerset-Dorset border and along it length are a series of damp meadows full of buttercups.
