Mayor’s Blog

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 and…

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 the community…

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 Oz,…

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 Bridport Town Council…

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 not recoverable. …

1st November 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” –…

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 that weekend,…

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 and…

30 July, Opening of Asker Meadows Nature Reserve It was a warm summer evening when I was kindly invited by the organisers of the Askers Meadow Wildlife Reserve team to do an official ‘opening’.   So much thought and work has…

25th July – Raft Race – West Bay  What a lot of fun! After some bright and sunny weather this day started off fairly grey and people were saying the Raft Race would be ‘washed out’ – my response was…