Local author Helen Pugh pens a junior edition of her book about Somerset Following on from the success of Unsung Women in Somerset, local author Helen Pugh has now written a junior edition of the book, aiming to bring amazing women to the attention of children and their grown ups. Both versions of the book detail the…
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Words with Wine
Write up by Kev McCready Yeovil, a place known for gloves and helicopters is now known for something else – poetry! Eight on Silver Street became the first gig for the Alive Poets Society, a new collective of artists bringing poetry off the page and onto the stage. The collective formed of Dan Wakeman, Sarah…
Cadbury Castle
I enjoyed a lovely, sunny trip to Cadbury Castle recently. It’s like a mini Maiden Castle (in Dorset) for those who have been. If you’re taking little people it’s no more than a 10 minute ascent, which is fine for little legs, although you will likely need to explain that there is no chocolate and…
Clevedon Pier
Clevedon is located on the coast between Weston-super-Mare and Bristol. It’s the sort of place you might overlook, opting for a more balmy beach location, rather than a rugged one. It’s only an hour from me in Yeovil and I’d never visited until one cold December weekend. If you visit Clevedon you will find romance…
The Holcombe/ PR invite
It’s always worth going off the beaten track a little to find something special and in this case that something special is The Holcombe. The Holcombe is an 11 bedroom 17th century Inn (three of the rooms lodges) in Holcombe – a small parish in the northeast of the Mendip Hills. The charm of this…
The medieval village of Dunster
Having lived in South Somerset for most of my life, it’s rare that I venture north of the county so I was delighted to get the opportunity to go to Dunster and it felt like a proper break being somewhere totally new for me. I was taken aback by the beauty of this medieval village…
Space Adventurers, Taunton!
We loved our time at Space Adventurers, it was like landing in the soft play of the future! It was a great set up for both the kids and adults, and my kids age 4,6 and 8 all had a blast! The first thing I noticed were the amazing slides, the soft play here really…
Find your Christmas calm!
How do you maintain a sense of peace and calm at Christmas time? I must admit I usually prefer Halloween or Easter as they are much more low key celebrations. But there is no denying that Christmas is a magical time with the scent of pine needles in the air, spiced mulled wine, the kids…
Memories of East Coker
There was a while when I was working in Dorchester a couple of years ago, that I’d park my car in the village of East Coker, where I grew up, on the way home from work and go for a jog around the village. One of the routes I’d go was to jog up Pendomer…
Carymoor
Carymoor Enviromental Centre is a unique, magical place which combines a working landfill site with beautiful nature reserve and much much more. My youngest daughter affectionately refers to it as “Forest School” as we booked ourselves in for three Friday sessions of Carymoor fun. I’ve also taken my eldest two, but that was a few…
Somerset space walk!
Somerset space walk is a great day out, essentially a scenic walk along the Taunton and Bridgwater canal with to scale models of the solar system. I have to say it was absolutely brilliant for helping me understand how big everything is in relation to each other and the distance between planets. Particularly brilliant for…
Take 5 with artist Neil Whitehead
Welcome to my new feature ‘Take 5’. The idea is that you take 5 minutes out for yourself to have a read and learn about someone through 5 bits of work that represent them, it could be 5 yoga poses, 5 poems or in this case it’s 5 striking pieces of urban landscape art by…
Somerset Soul 