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Who’s Afear’d at the Tollpuddle Martyrs’ Festival

Published on 23 October 2010 by Knobby in Dorset

Two things I intend doing is catching Dorset’s answer to Adge Cutler, Who’s Afear’d, play live and attend the Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival and Rally. Here is a video of the former playing at the latter. Enjoy!

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Harlequin Ladybirds

I’ve spotted three ladybirds in the last two days and all three have been the recently arrived harlequins. Two were red with multiple black spots, the other black with two red spots. Much has been written about these recent Asian invaders, how they are rapidly spreading across the country and threatening our native UK ladybird

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Parking warden wins unfair dismissal case for not issuing his quota of tickets

Remember when traffic wardens came under the police and were there to keep traffic moving? Since local authorities took over parking enforcement I like many others have been suspicious that it has mainly become a revenue raising exercise. Reading Auto Express magazine I came across a story about Hakim Berkani who claims he was expected

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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.

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