"A Nasty Niff" - or "The Poundbury Pong"

From "View from Weymouth/Dorchester", October 21st, 2015 - see page 7 of the Weymouth and Dorchester editions - "What's causing the Poundbury pong?" (South West quadrant and south of Bridport Road).

A blockage in the public sewer?

Other local news:

"Future of Dorset’s fire service HQ in Poundbury uncertain after plans unveiled for combined Salisbury hub" - Dorset Echo

"11-hectare solar farm approved in Dorset AONB"  Planning Resource

On the bright side - beautiful daffodils!

Edward Fox: Shakespeare and T.S.Eliot

A celebration of Britishness:
John Betjeman, Rudyard Kipling, P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh, Noel Coward and much more (ot forgetting Shakespeare and Eliot).

Bright lights, hard pews.

A poster in the rain

Be wise as thou art cruel (Shakespeare Sonnet; YouTube)

Selections from T.S.Eliot's "The Waste Land"

Edward Fox:  Listen to the Wind (Purbeck Journal)

Edward Fox: how I helped save Wareham from the supermarkets (Telegraph, 10 October, 2010)

From Baltimore Marathon to Dorset Cream Tea

After finishing the Baltimore Marathon, a flight the same day to Heathrow, then back to Dorset for a relaxing week in Dorchester, Sherborne, Cerne Abbas, Weymouth, Portland, Moreton, Burton Bradstock - and more running to come.

From Dorset to South Africa: from jogging Weymouth, overnight flight to Johannesburg, South Africa, to visit SABC:

Then on to Nairobi, Kenya, and back to DC...

Watercolour Paintings of Greece: Dodwell and Pomardi Exhibition

Greece’s Enchanting Landscape: Watercolours by Edward Dodwell and Simone Pomardi - October 21, 2015–February 15, 2016, GETTY VILLA

View of the Parthenon from the Propylaea, Athens, 1805, Simone Pomardi; sepia. The Packard Humanities Institute

Read Dodwell's description


From The Pappas Post

Tutankhamun's Beard

From The Guardian - Fixing Tutankhamun's beard (with video): 'unfortunately they used epoxy' - "Restorers give progress report as they attempt to rectify damage done when beard was broken by worker, then bodged back together with everyday glue".

T.E. Lawrence, Moreton, Dorset: The Graveyard and The Quarry

From Dorset Magazine - "Bid to block proposed Dorset quarry that would encroach on Lawrence of Arabia’s final resting place".

"Let Lawrence of Arabia Rest in Peace"

"The Lord is my light" 

Read down left column first, then right column

Dominus illuminatio mea - the motto of Oxford University; 

 Psalm 27, The Lord is my light.

Lawrence of Arabia's Dorset retreat has listing upgraded -BBC

Photos discovered

T. E. Lawrence Society/

T E Lawrence image from Wikimedia Commons 
under Creative Commons licence