A flying visit to Dorset

This is one of the retrospective write-ups that will require some thought on my part as I am writing it two months hence.  The genesis of the story begins on the 2017 Badger Moot.  As regular readers know, one of our favourite haunts while in that corner of Dorset is Lyme Regis.  In Lyme Regis there is a gallery that sells paintings by Lucinda’s favourite contemporary artists:  Lucy Young.  Lucy Young’s muse is Lyme Bay and in particular scenes on Lyme Regis beach and the Cob.  Every year we enter the gallery and Lucinda gazes upon the paintings trying to convince herself to buy one.  There have, in the past, been many that she has liked but none that have inspired her to part with her hard-earned money.

Until this year. Read more

Badger Moot 2017 – Part Two

Usually, the gap between part one and part two of holiday write-ups is not that big as I recall the events of the previous week or so, but as is rapidly becoming the norm this year, the gap between these write ups has widened remarkably.  Therefore, if you have completely forgotten what we did in part one (I know I have!), or indeed where we were as that write-up ended, please click here and read part one (as I had to before writing the following). Read more

Badger Moot 2017 – Part One

As regular readers of this blog will testify, October half-term is the usual time that the Bagnalls join the greater Badger clan for the annual Badger Moot.  Descendants of Lucinda’s maternal grandfather, Grandpa Badger, flock – if, indeed, Badgers flock? – to the Dorset coast for a week of fun and frolics.  This is the 13th moot and the 12th at our usual destination of Berwick Manor.  For those of you that don’t know, Berwick Manor is a large manor house set on the Puncknowle Manor estate in the Bride Valley, West Dorset just north of Burton Bradstock. As this is the 13th time we have stayed here (12 moots and once for Uncle Bill’s birthday) we know it very well; it feels like home from home and it is large enough to accommodate the ever-growing clan of Badgers, we peaked at 28 Badgerettes this year. Read more