Saturday 2nd – Teddy-bears’ picnic and crowning Carnival Princess and Attendants on the Millennium Green A delightful event. Lots and lots of children with all sizes and shapes of teddies, having a wonderful picnic with extra attractions and lots to do…
Mayor’s Blog 165 6 June – Rotary Club of Bridport – President’s Evening 2025 This was held at The Bull in town. A formal evening, hosted by the current President where we were invited to their President’s Dinner. There is…
4 May – Ukrainian Door Almost my last event as Mayor for 2024-5, was the event to welcome the Ukrainian Door, an actual door from a bombed home in Ukraine which has been lent to Bridport for a while…
Mayor’s Blog 163 2nd April – Westlands Entertainment Centre, Yeovil We were kindly invited by the Mayor of Yeovil to a very entertaining evening’s show at this lovely venue, which was a celebration of the huge number of choirs formed within…
Mayor’s Blog 162 Hi readers! So sorry I am very late with these two months worth of Mayoral activities….please forgive me, life, family and other commitments! 7th February – Bridport Pantomime Players – 60th Anniversary! An excellent production of The Wizard of…
Mayor’s Blog 161 January 10 – donation to BTC of a very unusual picture My first and very pleasant engagement for the New Year was to gratefully receive a lovely piece of art created by Richard Butterworth, kindly donated to…
Mayor’s Blog 160 December Blogs Dear Readers, I must have been visited by some mischievous Christmas elves! I was adding the last photo to this set of blogs and whoosh! Everything else I’d prepared just vanished into thin air and was…
November opened with another book launch – this time the brainchild of Sheila Meaney, working within Bridport Heritage Forum on a community project called “A House Through Time”. This she explained was “The end of chapter one” – as it can,…
Mayor’s Blog 158 6th October – Lions’ Swimarathon – Bridport Leisure Centre I was invited to be present for the Lions’ fundraising Swimarathon, to say a few words and to sound the hooter for the opening rounds. We had friends visiting…
Mayor’s Blog 157 6 September – The Children’s Democratic Republic of Bridport A great big THANK YOU to the organisers! Well this was just ‘something else’! Brought together by The Bank of Dreams and Nightmares – being invited to open this unusual…