For long enough now, the regular users of this site have been battering, sniping, bitcing, moaning, and poking pointy sticks at each other from behind their on-line anonymity. Today we launch our new initiative, today is the day we put aside all anger and rage and say hello to our fellow Bridport Radio members, we would encourage you to post all manner of encouraging, helpful, inciteful, positive, uplifting and healthy nuggets for all members and non-members to take a biscuitty uplift from and gift words of empowerment, and, gathering together we can manifest or hooch the impossible for all members, we would like to begin with this little beauty from Goethe which has helped me in many a sticky situation:
I see a Councillor Cast has recommended a 20 mph speed limit for the whole of Bridport to the Town Council to stop boy racers speeding up and down West/East/South Streets after 11pm. The police say these should be accompanied with road humps and other 'traffic calming' measures to stop them. All I can say is that the history of modern politics is littered with the imposition of sweeping and draconian laws that are aimed at curbing the influence of a tiny minority of wrongdoers but affect us all.
I went down to a well known Bridport pub for the quiz night on Sunday, the first day of the smoking ban. Apart from the two people who were organising the quiz and the barmaid, I was the only person in there and I definitely wasn't going to play with myself. Unless pubs do a heck of a good job to make smokers comfortable outside, they're all going to go the way of The Boot. Can anybody tell me what the best pub in Bridport is for outside smoking facilities? i.e one that has a little bit more than an open sided bus shelter or a leaky umbrella?
A new series of lectures beginning in July 2007, to be held at Symondsbury Manor on Thursdays at 8p.m.
LECTURES on EVERYTHING will welcome: a philosopher, an art historian, a poet, a green activist, a journalist, a scientist or an astronomer. We aim to provoke and stimulate with a one hour lecture on a well researched subject close to the speaker’s preoccupations. Thereafter, libations being poured and passed around, the discussion is open. Occasionally the lectures will take the form of a dance performance or live classical music.
I went to the Food festival on Sunday, and one of my party happened to mention to someone in the tent that I was "Realworld" from the Bridport Radio website. Within a few minutes, what can only be described as a drunken rabble led by a chap in red tartan trousers and wearing a red Pays de Basques hat harangued me for my views. I was basically chased out of the Food festival. I am therefore resigning from Bridport Radio I am cancelling my account and I will not return. I am also thinking very seriously of selling my home in Bridport. The behaviour of these people was deplorable. You know who you are - you are a disgrace to the town. Real World
I had to talk to Bridport fuzz and having no time to visit decided to phone them. Where did my call go ? to a call centre in Bournemouth..The kind lady had no idea about Bridport and no local knowledge and explained that she would e_mail ? the duty sergeant somewhere? and if he decided it was important he would get the local fuzz to contact me! No wonder the crime figures are down - you cannot talk to them... She didn't know about Bridport or even where the sergeant was, and of course no-one contacted me.
Jason Lewis, (the guy with the peddle boat from Askerswell) has run in to trouble after entering Egyptian territory without permission. The 38-year-old was detained and has been questioned as a potential spy as he kayaked on Egyptian waters in Lake Nasser as part of his round-the-world human-powered 'Expedition 360'. Read the full story...
Is it just me or does anyone else think it is a complete waste of tax payers money to train soldiers who will never actually use any of the skills they are taught? What’s the point of soldiers who never actually fight or are never placed in any danger in a war zone?
It’s all very well some top brass in the army saying that to put prince Harry in Iraq would ‘endanger the men around him’, but why didn’t this bloke think one step ahead and refuse to have in the army at all when he joined up, thereby saving all that wasted tax payers money?
I was astounded to read that an army general said Harry would ‘be a target’! Helloooo, if we are not allowed to have targets in the army there would be no one to shoot at! If the criteria for being safe back in Blighty when there’s a war on is ‘you could be a target’, no one would go would they?
Apparently Harry as been ‘persuaded’ to stay in the army to serve in ‘other ways’. This presumably means poncing around in a uniform in complete safety in Buck House. Let’s hope he puts the right uniform on and doesn’t get mixed up with that nazi one he found in his Great Grandad’s attic.
Send him down to Bridders to open the new medical centre, that’s nice and safe.
Dear Sirs, re: the Boot calling time. Palmers dont seem to understand how to run pubs. They have totally missed out on the massive interest and market for local food production, and the expectations of locals and visitors to have thriving Dorset village pubs that show off the local wares. I am not wearing rose tinted spectacles, healthy local produced food and drink is a boom industry, and is a major draw to a growing sector of our tourism.
Despite the trickle of liquid sunshine there was a good turnout for this years nettle eating competition at the Bottle Inn at Marshwood. the competition was won by Mr Paul Collins of Seaton who ate 56ft of nettles, the ladies winner was Sonja Fewkes who ate 20ft
For long enough now, the regular users of this site have been battering, sniping, bitcing, moaning, and poking pointy sticks at each other from behind their on-line anonymity. Today we launch our new initiative, today is the day we put aside all anger and rage and say hello to our fellow Bridport Radio members, we would encourage you to post all manner of encouraging, helpful, inciteful, positive, uplifting and healthy nuggets for all members and non-members to take a biscuitty uplift from and gift words of empowerment, and, gathering together we can manifest or hooch the impossible for all members, we would like to begin with this little beauty from Goethe which has helped me in many a sticky situation:
I see a Councillor Cast has recommended a 20 mph speed limit for the whole of Bridport to the Town Council to stop boy racers speeding up and down West/East/South Streets after 11pm. The police say these should be accompanied with road humps and other 'traffic calming' measures to stop them.
I went down to a well known Bridport pub for the quiz night on Sunday, the first day of the smoking ban. Apart from the two people who were organising the quiz and the barmaid, I was the only person in there and I definitely wasn't going to play with myself. Unless pubs do a heck of a good job to make smokers comfortable outside, they're all going to go the way of The Boot. Can anybody tell me what the best pub in Bridport is for outside smoking facilities? i.e one that has a little bit more than an open sided bus shelter or a leaky umbrella?
A new series of lectures beginning in July 2007, to be held at Symondsbury Manor on Thursdays at 8p.m. 
I went to the Food festival on Sunday, and one of my party happened to mention to someone in the tent that I was "Realworld" from the Bridport Radio website. Within a few minutes, what can only be described as a drunken rabble led by a chap in red tartan trousers and wearing a red Pays de Basques hat harangued me for my views. I was basically chased out of the Food festival. I am therefore resigning from Bridport Radio I am cancelling my account and I will not return. I am also thinking very seriously of selling my home in Bridport. The behaviour of these people was deplorable. You know who you are - you are a disgrace to the town.
I had to talk to Bridport fuzz and having no time to visit decided to phone them. Where did my call go ? to a call centre in Bournemouth..The kind lady had no idea about Bridport and no local knowledge and explained that she would e_mail ? the duty sergeant somewhere? and if he decided it was important he would get the local fuzz to contact me! No wonder the crime figures are down - you cannot talk to them... She didn't know about Bridport or even where the sergeant was, and of course no-one contacted me. 
Jason Lewis, (the guy with the peddle boat from Askerswell) has run in to trouble after entering Egyptian territory without permission. The 38-year-old was detained and has been questioned as a potential spy as he kayaked on Egyptian waters in Lake Nasser as part of his round-the-world human-powered 'Expedition 360'. 
Is it just me or does anyone else think it is a complete waste of tax payers money to train soldiers who will never actually use any of the skills they are taught? What’s the point of soldiers who never actually fight or are never placed in any danger in a war zone?
Dear Sirs, re: the Boot calling time.
