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Strange event this morning, woke at 6 to find we only had power to a couple of 13A sockets, all the rest of the house was off. Eventually found out it was a National Grid fault but one that was not all off. Instead, as people got up their switching on reduced the volts even more. Power back 08.45

The quarry on West Cliff was extracting the fossiliferous limestone, Forest Marble. It was burnt in the kiln to produce quicklime used as a fertiliser and for lime mortar wessexcoastgeology.soton.ac.uk/Bridport-Wes...

@andyroden.bsky.social As Adam says this is a recurring problem this summer

Adam Chapman@adamchapman.bsky.social · 6d ago

I'm really not sure how, you know. GWR don't run those trains. What I suspect this actually means is that the Tisbury Loop is broken again.

Lyric Theatre in Bridport raises £100k to release Arts Council funding to enable its survival into the future. www.bridportnews.co.uk/news/2642585...

Theatre safe from winter closure as fundraiser reached

A theatre in Bridport has been saved from closing this winter after it’s huge fundraising goal has been met

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8 overs. 8 maidens. 0 runs. On this day in 1969, Brian Langford became the only person to bowl a full complement of overs in a List A match without conceding a single run. #YouAreSomerset

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Richard Sims@simsre.bsky.social · 2w ago

In the 18thC the Royal Navy required their makers of sailcloth to stamp their identity on each bolt of cloth. By chance the original stamp of John Bullock from 1781 was found a year or so ago. At Dawes Twine Works we made a replica which can be seen on our open days - the 4th Saturday of each month

In the 18thC the Royal Navy required their makers of sailcloth to stamp their identity on each bolt of cloth. By chance the original stamp of John Bullock from 1781 was found a year or so ago. At Dawes Twine Works we made a replica which can be seen on our open days - the 4th Saturday of each month

Lol I just moved my kids around London on this exact bicycle at 25mph *because you can pedal faster than the motor* oh god e-bike policy is such a mess, even the police don't have a clue.

Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike@gazza-d.bsky.social · 2w ago

Can you imagine the uproar if someone's legal car was seized and immediately crushed because some woodentop made a mistake? And the Police don't even apologise or accept they made a mistake. It's good to see this go mainstream. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A trip to Bath Potters for ceramic supplies yesterday. Up via A303/37 but back via Pilton, Glastonbury and Somerton. This took just 25 minutes longer but was so much more relaxing than the outward trip.The highlight was Marion seeing an old college friend who has now handed the reins to her daughter

The foyer @bridportarts.bsky.social has an exhibition of Nick Gilby’s photos taken during the filming of #Thomas_Hardy’s #Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd alongside are samples of the film scripts

one lil thing of this rec thread i'm real happy with is seeing Forbidden Solitaire being as big a hit as it was even before the sale; Grey Alien Games been doing incredible solitaire games to little notice and earned this kinda hit also people will get to see "solitaire with stealth mechanics"

This is a brilliant story. Hooray for archives, and for their staff and volunteers. 📝📄🗄️🗃️ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘Vanishingly rare’ copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archives

One of 11 surviving copies of ‘Exeter printing’ and only one known outside US was taken from American privateer ship

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Amazing fact Santon Downham in Suffolk is the location of both the highest and lowest ever June temperatures en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santon_...

Santon Downham - Wikipedia

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Tesco is extending its Kids Eat Free scheme to 7 days a week over the summer, where children get a free meal with an adult purchase, but honestly, this detail about how small the adult purchase can be broke my heart.

The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊

Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!@standplaatskrk.pl · last mo.

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

I thought kick off was later and I’m sad I somehow missed it but that’s a great result for Scotland.

All of France is scorching hot today. Except for one village in the northwest...

It’s only a USB port if it’s on the left side of your device, otherwise it’s a USB starboard.

@HillfortsWednesday The view of Maiden Castle from Goulds Hill. The hillfort is 1.8km from the viewpoint and still occupies most of the image width, which just indicates how big it really is.

The Seaside Boarding House started life in 1882 as one of two superior villas on East Cliff, Burton Bradstock, a speculation by Col. Pitt Rivers aimed at the summer visitors. However the scheme failed to take off. @thehistorymouse.bsky.social @househistorian.bsky.social @billybragg.bsky.social

This seal was taking a rest in the harbour at West Bay, having been seen in Portland at the weekend

Right about now (BDST) W/C L.E. Healy, the AAEAF armaments officer, received a call from the Air Ministry reminding him that the 1000 lb bomb had not been cleared for use on the Hawker Typhoon. Healy replied with one of the finest memos of WW2. RCAF Typhoons had dropped 48 of them that morning.

Trip to Axminster to pick up some prints from the framer. Excellent coffee at the Higgler then off to Lyme and lunch at The West Bay before a walk along the proms, passing the Mary Anning statue along the way. Fine views of the Jurassic Coast all the way to Portland.

This is the last weekend for Dorset Art Weeks 2026. Marion Taylor is showing her paintings, collage and ceramics at the Beaminster Gallery, open 11am to 4pm each day

Last Saturday we drove to the Exe Estuary for a family gathering. Taking the rural route we passed over Woodbury Castle Hillfort. The road cuts through the ramparts as can be seen in the photos from Google Street View. The adjacent car park allows for exploration. #HillfortsWednesday

Yarn Barton car park at Beaminster, this wall as its boundary with houses behind. It is 45m long and has 15 blocked windows. It seems to have been an industrial building. Is this the inner or outer face?Yarn Barton was used for the flax industry until the 1840s but it is not on the 1843 Tithe Map

Pilgrimage on #TowelDay to the corner of the cosmos where it all began The new plaque to Douglas Adams, freshly unveiled today at Stalbridge in North #Dorset #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy

Rhododendron Mile was one of the places you took visitors when I moved to Dorset 50 years ago. It ran along the eastern edge of Pddletown Forest …… until 2010. Now there is little to be seen There was once a narrow gauge railway here, I believe www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/1992492...

The Dorset beauty spot hundreds visited that has now vanished without a trace

A look back at Rhododendron Mile in Puddletown Forest, a once-popular Dorset beauty spot famous for its vibrant blooms before its removal in 2010.

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