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An animated William Barnes reads his poem

Published on 30 June 2010 by Knobby in Dorset

I came across this on YouTube. Jim Clark takes pictures of long dead poets and audio recordings of their poems and marries them together to give the impression of the poet reading his poem. Here he presents Dorset’s very own William Barnes performing The Humstrum.

Tags: animation, dialect, Dorset, Jim Clark, The Humstrum, William Barnes, YouTube

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Innocent Moroccan Veg Pot

I’ve spotted Innocent Veg Pots in the supermarket before and thought “they look interesting”, then I saw the price and quickly moved on. Tonight there was an Innocent Moroccan Veg Pot in the markdown section of Tesco’s chiller cabinet at £1.25 as it had today as the sell by date. I thought that will do

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An animated William Barnes reads his poem

I came across this on YouTube. Jim Clark takes pictures of long dead poets and audio recordings of their poems and marries them together to give the impression of the poet reading his poem. Here he presents Dorset’s very own William Barnes performing The Humstrum.
Plaque in Martock, Somerset, in memory of the horses killed in the Boer War.

I was in Martock recently and was struck by this memorial to the huge number of horses killed during the Second Boer War that took place in South Africa between 1899 and 1902. There is a large stone trough with an inscription that is now being used as a large flower tub. The plaque in

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