I’ve been away for a few days to sunny Dorset – and yes, it was sunny. Showers were forecast but we seemed to dodge them. We did a splendid walk from Thorncombe Beacon taking in Golden Cap and Seatown. Sitting outside the Anchor Inn with a plate of fresh whitebait and a glass of chilled wine is as good as it gets (if you can ignore the aching legs and sore feet). I’m already planning the next great escape…
Diana Nadin's Holiday
This year’s Writers Bureau annual Poetry and Short Story Competition closed a couple of weeks ago and we’ve been preparing the entries ready to send off to the adjudicators (Alison Chisholm – poetry and Iain Pattison – short stories ). I can’t help looking through a fair selection and I’m always amazed by the quality of some of them. There really are some talented writers out there! By the same token, there are some absolute ‘stinkers’ – boring, badly written and lacking any kind of plot. You’re lucky – you only get to read the best ones on our website. We should have them posted there, for your delectation, by mid-September.
