Jonny Does Dinner
My Jurassic Coast is a big fan of Jonny Does Dinner. In fact, whatever Jonny Does…it is always good. New website, new look and new venues for those delicious and stylish pop up suppers. Check out...
View ArticleTrill Summer Cocktail Party
As you may have read in the past, I am always a sucker for a Trill event and this one ticks ALL the boxes. Botanical cocktails, seasonal canapés and music all amongst the haven of tranquility and...
View Article#iloveseaswimming
So, I have taken up (sporadic) sea swimming. Here are my tips for basic survival and how to reap that magic from the experience. 1. Choose a sandy base to enter and exit the sea. If this option is not...
View ArticleWhitebait
So we caught a fish. A mackerel. With my sons toy fishing rod. It was a big mackerel and quite the most extraordinary moment. Unexpected. So J felt quite proud I think. As novices with such practical...
View ArticleLyme Regis Sea Wall
Great excitement amongst all @lymeregis. There is a new sea wall, a useful coastline protection that doubles up as a rather lovely walk from town beach, east towards Charmouth. Perfect fishing spot…
View ArticleFossil Hunting Charmouth
Forgive the tardiness in the writing up of this post. The clement weather seems to have made time just fly away, less hibernating more doing. Great. It was end August and the day started cold and...
View ArticleItalia, Lyme Regis
Italian food in the UK is like fish and chips, it is only worth eating when it is well executed hence can be hard to find, but this new simple restaurant on Coombe Street hits the mark. Everything...
View ArticleStreet Wisdom
The New Year saw a special event occur in the one of the Street Wisdom homelands, Lyme Vegas, formerly known as Lyme Regis and renamed due to its auspicious energy and light! Street Wisdom is a free...
View ArticleOn The Rivet
Cycling is so hip, it aches. Suddenly I am interested in the lifestyle and the clothes; a pocket at the back of my top seems essential. According to British Cycling, their members have grown by 50%...
View ArticleYoga Space
Yoga is something I have missed here in the West Country. There are some wonderful teachers but I have never quite found that connection with one, who does the style of yoga I love. Until now! Amazing...
View ArticleKathrens Rare Knitwear
I have been terribly remiss with this blog for the last few months. Days have been swallowed up by a myriad of activities which seem to now hold no memory in my mind. They can’t have been as important...
View ArticleThe Writing Room, Lyme Regis
One thing that feeds my soul is writing, and writing away from the screen it must be. It counteracts the never ending demands that glowing machine makes and the slighty ‘hazy’ and to be honest a...
View ArticleThe Old Dairy Kitchen
The thing that prompts me to get motivated to write my blog is often great food, but my kind of great food these days comes with an added level of magic to allow it to register in my catalogue of...
View ArticleThe Literary Salon
According to the modern oracle Wiki ‘A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine the taste and increase the knowledge of...
View ArticleFrank & Beans Please!
The start of the weekend and our Friday release took us on a post school trip to the most delicious gelateria, Frank & Beans in Lyme Regis. Excitement all round at the impending glacial hit and we...
View ArticleMagical Cogden
Even though I live in one of the most beautiful places in the country, at times it can feel a little claustraphobic and the desire to ‘escape’ within my immediate periphery seeps in. Sometimes a jaunt...
View ArticleSoulshine Cafe
A couple of friends recommended Soulshine to me over the last few months and I managed to make it over there recently on a rainy Saturday morning attempting Bridport market. When I opened the door the...
View ArticleNiall Jacobson
Sometimes in life, something touches you unexpectedly. You take a moment out of the whirlwind of life and stop to notice something beautiful that resonates with you deeply. Niall Jacobson’s work does...
View ArticleHix Sculpture Trail Auction Dinner
Langmoor Gardens in Lyme Regis not only stands in the most desirable location in town with a panoramic view of Lyme Bay, but also has some award winning Californian style naturalistic planting and a...
View ArticleWalking and Talking Lyme Time
Some of my (and a West Country Julie Andrews) favourite things: Lunch Walking Talking People The Sea Lyme Regis Laughing Hugs Curiosity Dogs If these are some of your favourite things then you can...
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