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Whats happening in E Dorset?
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Subject: Whats happening in E Dorset? From: LesB Date: 22 May 08 - 05:08 PM I'll be on my hols in the Corfe Castle / Wareham area from the 30th May until the 7th June. Any Folk Clubs, Morris dance outs or sessions to go to? Cheers Les |
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Subject: RE: Whats happening in E Dorset? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 23 May 08 - 02:28 AM Watch out for the Dorset Accordion Group... they have been known to burst out in unlikely places in East Dorset. My advice is go west young man! It's much prettier. LTS (who comes from a long long line of mid/west Dorset folk)! |
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Subject: RE: Whats happening in E Dorset? From: GUEST,Terry McDonald Date: 23 May 08 - 03:37 AM Try either the Sadfolk website or Tony and Peter's Folk Diary. |
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Subject: RE: Whats happening in E Dorset? From: Sue the Borderer Date: 23 May 08 - 08:10 AM Or try Geoff Payne's site www.broadsideman.co.uk Sue (who will master... sorry... mistress those blue clickies one day. |
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Subject: RE: Whats happening in E Dorset? From: GUEST,Fran Date: 23 May 08 - 08:13 AM Wessex Acoustic have an open floor night on 4th June, they are in Wimborne. |
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Subject: RE: Whats happening in E Dorset? From: Terry McDonald Date: 23 May 08 - 08:28 AM Wessex Acoustic are now in Corfe Mullen, at the Dorset Soldier. Wimborne Folk Club is at the British Legion, Wimborne. Both are weekly events. |
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Subject: RE: Whats happening in E Dorset? From: LesB Date: 23 May 08 - 09:06 AM That's people, i'll check back after the weekend, i'm off to the Sword Spectacular in York any minute. Cheers Les |
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Subject: RE: Whats happening in E Dorset? From: LesB Date: 26 May 08 - 10:35 AM Sorry that should have read "Thanks" above, not "That's". Still I had a great time in York. Hopefully i'll get to hear some music & see some dancing whilst in Purbeck area. cheers Les |
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Subject: RE: Whats happening in E Dorset? From: Herga Kitty Date: 26 May 08 - 11:47 AM Les - if only you'd been visiting a week or so later you'd have caught Wimborne festival! Kitty |
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Subject: RE: Whats happening in E Dorset? From: Terry McDonald Date: 26 May 08 - 11:50 AM The Wessex Festival, in Weymouth, is from 6-8 June. |
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Subject: RE: Whats happening in E Dorset? From: LesB Date: 27 May 08 - 07:30 PM I might go to Weymouth to watch the dancing, but unfortunately, the two artists I dislike the most are Last Nights Fun & Dick Gaughen! Sorry. Cheers Les |
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Subject: RE: Whats happening in E Dorset? From: Les in Chorlton Date: 28 May 08 - 03:24 AM Tradition has it that in East Dorset, and West for that matter, it rains: Dorset is beautiful where ever you go The rain in the Summer makes the worzel bush grow As you sit with your girl friend ..................... ......................... to hear the Nightingale scream or something like that? Cheers Les |
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Subject: RE: Whats happening in E Dorset? From: Terry McDonald Date: 28 May 08 - 03:28 AM Les - the last lines are; And it's pleasant to sit in the thunder and the hail With your girlfriend on a turmit clump To hear the sweet nightingale. |
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Subject: RE: Whats happening in E Dorset? From: Les in Chorlton Date: 28 May 08 - 03:33 AM Thanks Terry, True enough - I just had this fragment of memory of the chorus.Is it the Yetties? |
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Subject: RE: Whats happening in E Dorset? From: Terry McDonald Date: 28 May 08 - 03:57 AM Yes, they recorded it and are the best known people to sing it. There's been discussion on its origins before. All I know is that in the mid 60s it was being sung at Dorchester Folk Club and 'everyone' (including the Yetties who were regulars there) knew that it had been written by Bob Gale from Beaminster. |
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Subject: RE: Whats happening in E Dorset? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 28 May 08 - 04:03 AM Probably, yes... the Yetties 'Dorset is Beautiful'. West and Mid Dorset is green, lush and full of dairies. It has the Chesil Bank, Abbotsbury Swannery (check opening times, if they're still nesting you might not get in but it's worth it at this time of year), the highest cliff in Dorset (Golden Cap), fantastic sub tropical gardens, microclimate on the Lyme undercliff, a new landslip at Charmouth, Bridport brewery (Palmers, if it's still going), some amazing views from the highest point inland (Pilsdon Pen, 909ft) and damn good food at the Ilchester Arms, Abbotsbury. East Dorset is more forested, has sand quarries (they filmed the whole of 'Tenko' in one), all of Britain's native lizards and snakes, some impressive cliffs with photographic restrictions, a decent castle (one of the ruins that Cromwell knocked abaht a bit), the lost village of Tyneham, the Bovington Tank museum, the Army Range walks (which due to restricted access and no farming, contain several species of flora and fauna that are severely threatened elsewhere), old marble mines and caves at Tilly Whim, smugglers tales (J Meade Faulkner set part of 'Moonfleet' there), Swanage, where you can see lamp-posts and bollards from London (ballast brought down in exchange for the Portland stone that now forms the Victoria Embankment in London), many archealogical features such as the Dorset Cursus (big earthwork, no-one quite knowns why it was made), but most importantly, the Hall and Woodhouse brewery at Blandford. Watch out for the Blandford fly. The beer version is fiery and peppery, not a lunchtime ale. The creature it is named after is a tiny midge (Simulium posticatum) that lives in slow moving water (river banks, water meadows) and has a bite out of all proportion to its size. They tend to go for legs, so it's best to wear long trousers if you're going fishing in the Stour. Common reactions are blistering, hard, red swelling up to 8inches across, severe itching, rash. Extreme reactions include large blisters (bigger than a 50p) which become infected easily and occasionally open sores developing at the bite site. Frequent application of ordinary anti-bug-bite cream helps, but try not to break the blisters. If it does become infected, seek medical advice and tell them if you were near water when you got bitten. Dorset is also home to England's only poisonsous spider but it's very rare and considerably less painful than the Blandford fly. Then there's the nudist beach but I don't suppose you want to hear about that.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: Whats happening in E Dorset? From: Terry McDonald Date: 28 May 08 - 04:17 AM East Dorset also has the stunningly beautiful Poole Harbour.... As someone who's lived in the Poole area all his life (apart from a five year exile in South Wales) I think the whole county is glorious, but it's always seemed to me that 'the West Country' begins at Dorchester. The Poole-Bournemouth area has far mnore in common with the rest of central southern England. We look towards Southampton rather than (say) Exeter. PS support St Wite's Cross as our new flag..... |
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Subject: RE: Whats happening in E Dorset? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 28 May 08 - 04:33 AM Yeah, but Bournemouth isn't Dorset is it.... regardless of what they did to the boundaries in 1974. LTS - another exile but with 300yrs of history in West Dorset, 200 of that in one village! |
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Subject: RE: Whats happening in E Dorset? From: Terry McDonald Date: 28 May 08 - 04:44 AM Are you really 300 years old, then? Congratulations.... Actually, I think Bournemouth has been absorbed into Dorset quite well - geographically it's part of the Dorset heathland and there are maps from before Bournemouth's existence (i.e. before 1810) that show the land where it now stands as being in Dorset. |
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Subject: RE: Whats happening in E Dorset? From: LesB Date: 28 May 08 - 05:17 PM Liz, funny you should mention the nudist beach. Last time I was there (20+ yrs ago) I was bird watching at the hide ovelooking the Inland Sea at Studland watching Hobbies & through my binoculars I saw a load of naked bums walking around the sandhills, about a mile away. I couldn't beleive my eyes, so I had another look :) We'll drive through Blandford on the way there & i'll make sure the window is closed. When I booked the campsite & mentioned I was keen on wildlife the owner casually mentioned she had been watching a pair of Badger cubs just that morning. I've been trying to see Badgers for 30+ years. Cheers Les |
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