Teenagers killed themselves in Dorset after baby taken in to care, inquest finds https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/06/dorset-teenagers-katie-powell-jack-williams-inquest #Dorset #England #UkNews

Pedo Capaldi

https://dorseteye.com/convicted-paedophile-was-chosen-as-a-parliamentary-candidate-by-reform-uk/

#reform #ukpol #dorset #doctorwho #petercapaldi #reformuk #fascism #policing

Just noticed that I recorded 19.7°C here in #Dorset today! Two of my other stations recorded >20°C.

I visited the Dorset gem with world-class art and the UK’s ‘quirkiest’ loo

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2026/03/01/visited-dorset-gem-world-class-art-uks-quirkiest-loo-27087700/

Winter Wx stats #Wimborne #Dorset: -

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• A very wet winter with almost twice as much rainfall as the previous winter 2024-25
• Surprisingly, not as wet as the winters of 2023-24 (454mm) and my record wettest 2013-14 (559mm)

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February Wx stats #Wimborne #Dorset: -

• A VERY mild month compared to the 1982-2010 average, the WARMEST anomaly here since February 2024
• A very mild day on the 25th, but short of my February station record of 17.3°C set on 25th February 2019

In 1915 Arthur #ConanDoyle recounted in The Strand his exploration of a haunted house in #Dorset with fellow investigator Frank Podmore. Suddenly a 'fearsome roar broke out... like someone belabouring a resounding table with a heavy cudgel'. They were unable to find a cause for it. #PhantomsFriday

Hey #Americana fans did you know that Amy LaVere and Will Sexton from #Memphis are touring the UK and Europe during March and April 2026

https://amylavere.com/shows
https://amylavere.com/bio

I'm involved in promoting one of the four UK dates in Castle Cary, Somerset see https://caryfordhall.co.uk/event/amy-lavere-and-will-sexton/ for details and ticket links.

It would be great to see anyone there who appreciates original live music.

https://youtu.be/FL9Z1DBRJZk?si=Qv_OuYPrvrUKSJWw

#somerset #music #livemusic #dorset #wiltshire #bristol #bath

I’ve been finding it harder and harder to find #wool #sockYarn that is neither merino or superwash treated. I was thrilled last week to discover #AlleyCatYarns, right here in #ottawa (well, Kanata)! I placed an order that I’ve since collected and can’t wait to start #knitting with it!
#knittersOfMastodon #knittersOfFediverse #LYS #Dorset #Mohair

Martin Clunes loses planning battle with new travellers near Dorset home https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/26/martin-clunes-planning-battle-new-travellers-dorset #Dorset #RomaGypsiesAndTravellers #MartinClunes #PlanningPolicy #LocalGovernment #England #UkNews #Society

At 15.1°C, today is the warmest day of the year so far in #Dorset.

Glad that we got a clear, sunny afternoon today. Near the edge of a golf course near Studland there's a little colony of native wild daffodils, many of which (as in this photo) are double forms.

#etymology note for those interested in such matters: "daffodil" comes by a circuitous route from Ancient Greek "asphodel", which in modern languages now refers to some rather different species.

#WildflowerHour #wildflowers #Dorset

These Cladonia chlorophaea lichen always remind me of golf tees. Ironically, these ones were beside a path that crosses a local golf course. Is that where they grow them?

#LichenSubscribe #Dorset

A pair of #Dens. Thorncombe, #Dorset #Dens #Denbuilding

Original Swanage Railway restoration volunteers gather in Dorset for fiftieth anniversary http://dlvr.it/TR37l8 #BarryIsland #CorfeCastle #Dorset #IsleofPurbeck

Original Swanage Railway restoration volunteers gather in Dorset for fiftieth anniversary http://dlvr.it/TR37Z0 #BarryIsland #CorfeCastle #Dorset #IsleofPurbeck

Group refused to give RNLI £200 because ‘it would be used to pick up migrants’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2026/02/17/group-refused-give-rnli-200-it-used-pick-migrants-26949962/

I went to an abandoned village with a chequered past — I'll never forget what I saw

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/abandoned-village-experience-knowlton-dorset-36711236

On the Hunt

https://dailyphoto.creativesplurges.com/2026/02/13/on-the-hunt-3/

12 Feb 1518: Reginald Pole, future #Cardinal & Archbishop of #Canterbury is granted the deanery of Wimborne Minster #Dorset #otd He was deprived of it in June 1537 (LPL)