Ceramics/Macrame/Model making/Collage/darning/Jewellery making/Letterpress/screenpringting/Food, Drink/ Yoga/ Hole & Corner Shop …
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The Guild King Street Wilton wiltshire SP2 0RS
Seeking an experienced, fun and active nanny east of Shaftesbury.
Country family with boys aged 1 & 3.
Hours are: Wednesday 12-6, Thursday 9-6, Friday 12-6.
Competitive hourly rate.
Knowledge of horses a bonus.
Call 07825 305 303
We are thrilled that our Dog Show will be returning to the Church Knowle Centre on Sunday 1st August. Gates will open at 11 am and dog show classes will begin from approximately 11:30 am. This year, there will be three rings of dog classes: a Male ring, a Female ring and our ever-popular Dog Olympics. Rosettes will be awarded from 1st to 6th place and prizes will be available for the lucky winners.
Does your dog have dashing looks? Does their tail go bonkers when they are happy?! There will be a wide range of classes for you to enter on the day, including: Waggiest Tail, Child Handler, Best Rescue, Most Appealing Eyes and Golden Oldie.
The fun doesn’t stop there!
There will also be the opportunity for your four-legged friends to take part in the Have-a-go Agility, which is an activity for all abilities and a great favourite to get involved in.
If you think your dog can jump over hurdles in the fastest time, don’t miss out on giving our Haybale Hurdles a go. Super prizes to be won!
There’s even more to do…
Other attractions include seeing Liberty’s Birds of Prey, getting involved in bushcraft activities with Wessex Wilderness Skills, meeting some exotic animals with WorldLife, viewing incredible vintage cars from Dorset Car Club and experiencing a Police Dog search demonstration from PD Jeff, PD Rodney and TPD Loxley.
This event is as much a day out for our dogs as it is for you, so we have made sure that our four-legged friends will be well looked after throughout the day. Water bowls will be placed across the event site and we have a cool-down zone prepared, including paddling pools, wet towels and more.
Prizes to be won!
We are delighted to have many local stallholders joining us and a selection of refreshments to keep you energised and hydrated during the event. There will also be two live performances from Allsort’d and the opportunity to enter our classic tombola, with many prizes up for grabs!
Tickets for our Summer Raffle, Grand Draw and Hampers will be available to purchase throughout the event. Don’t forget to pop by and place your entries, to be in with a chance of winning some fantastic prizes. The tickets will be drawn on the day, so make sure you stay to find out if you are one of the lucky winners!
All money raised from the event will go towards helping the rescue animals in our care and it will be a wonderful opportunity to support a local charity and get involved in the community.
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https://www.wincantonsportsground.co.uk
Contact – [email protected]
Location: Whole Wessex Water Region – Bristol, Chippenham, Salisbury, Poole, Lyme Regis, Taunton, Bridgwater and everything in between.
Permanent – Monday to Friday – 45 hours a week
Circa £25,000 per annum
Summary
Do you enjoy working outdoors in a practical, hands on role and working as part of a team? If so, we have rewarding opportunities in our civils construction team as a General Construction Operative to work throughout the Wessex Water region!
What will I be doing?
As one of our General Construction Operatives, you will be involved in carrying out construction site activities, including excavation, pipe-laying, operating plant, general groundworks and concreting.
You will be required to attend and participate in team briefs, safety updates and workplace communications to ensure the works are carried out safely to the best possible standard. You will be working within a great team which works outdoors in all weathers and deals with different challenges every day, providing a vital service to our client.
This is a multisite based role. Your work will take you around the scenic Wessex Water area. This could be anywhere from Bristol, Chippenham, Salisbury, Poole, Weymouth, Taunton, Bridgwater and everything in between.
Requirements for the role
We are looking for people with construction, groundworks or agricultural experience with knowledge of plant operation, location of underground services, working at heights, manual handling, asbestos awareness and confined spaces, however training will be provided.
If you have what it takes to join this award-winning business and want to be part of our exciting journey and share in that success, then please apply here https://www.wessexwater.co.uk/careers/vacancies
For further information, email [email protected] or contact the recruitment team on 01225 522552
FREE Family Friendly day out – Saturday 11th Septermber 11am – 4pm
Special offers in the arts & crafts and tool shops
FREE on site parking
Find us just off the A303 at Martock
Yandles, Hurts Works, Martock, TA12 6JU
01935 822 571
For more information email [email protected]
Detached 3 bed cottage, own enclosed garden, isolated farm in beautiful woodland, N. Dorset.
Council tax, utilities paid plus £ negotiable (paye). Hours part-time, variable, domestic help plus caretaker/dog sitter role.
Flexibility essential – not regular hours. Suitable for someone who loves the countryside and possibly has an occupation on the side such as a writer/artist that does not have fixed hours, maybe semi-retired.
Experience of dog care essential. Happy with small domestic chores, errands, laundry. Regular periods working alone. Other staff kept.
Experience in similar role in a private household desirable. References essential. Own pets considered. Own car essential.
Start asap.
Apply with full CV to [email protected]
A new Crop Circle in Dorset has appeared at the top of Okeford Hill near Sturminster Newton. Often suggested to be a paranormal phenomena, it’s widely known they are man-made constructions, created using ropes and boards.
No matter what your belief on their origin, they’re often a fascinating thing to see: the new one on Okeford Hill will continue to draw an increasing amount of visitors until the field is cut. But what impact does this have for the farmer whose land and crop has been used?
We spoke to Dorset NFU who have been in contact with the farmer who owns the land and the crop on Okeford Hill:
“Annoyance at the flattening of some of this crop, making it hard to harvest, and quite possibly wasting £600 worth of wheat, is tempered by some respect for the perpetrators who have made an admittedly pretty good job of this attractive geometric pattern.
Local Dorset commercial drone photographer ‘Droning On’ was happy to catch the crop circle at just the right moment “After a thunderstorm the sun and heat returned, mist rose and golden hour made for some stunning views over Dorset. Whatever your views of such formations, I have to say this was an impeccably chosen location, and this is a well-executed crop circle.”
There are no public footpaths through the field in question, and the circle is invisible from the popular walking routes across the local viewpoint. Though local drone photographers have taken to the adjoining footpaths and made the most of the circle from the air, the Dorset NFU spokesperson points out visiting the crop circle is inevitably pointless:
“Not only is there no legal public access across the field in question, the only way worth seeing it is from the air; it is not visible from anywhere on the ground, and of course being close up gives you no clue of the design.”
They also point out the potential for further negative effects from visitors on foot:
“The damage from the circle is one thing in itself. But more damage can be done by crowds of spectators at ground level. Please spare a thought for the farmer’s field, biosecurity, safety to wildlife, and farm staff as they have to clear up the flattened crop and prepare the ground for the next crop. Although elsewhere there have been attempts to set up ‘honesty’ schemes to compensate farmers for their losses by what amounts to trespass and criminal damage, these have largely not been successful.
“The Crop Circle in Dorset was created while the crop was still green, when it should have been filling the grains by photosynthesis, which should have continued over the following weeks. Once flattened this will have ceased, and valuable yield lost. A crop like this costs a lot to grow; that cost is lost, as well as the return from the grain that will be left shrivelled on the ground, which may cause a nuisance by germinating in the next crop. Birds will land on the flattened wheat to feed on the ears, and where birds go, so do their droppings, not a good mix with a food product.
The Friends of Blandford Hospital are absolutely delighted that their incredibly talented shop volunteer, Joan Capron has agreed to stage another of her Affordable Art Exhibitions this summer in their Blandford Charity Shop. Joan’s charity exhibitions are always held on the basis of 100% donation and this will be her 4th exhibition for the Friends but follows many previous exhibitions for other charities.
It has been a difficult year in which to prepare for an exhibition, particularly so for an artist instructed to Shield. Joan found herself shut away from many sources of inspiration and variety of art materials.
However, a very determined lady rose to the challenge and experimented by painting on anything that came to hand ……including slate, silk, stones, canvas, textured wallpaper and even cotton sheeting! She used pastels, inks, acrylic paints and powder, oils, pencil and collage and had great fun in doing so! To add to the variety of original art, other charity volunteers have offered to donate some examples of their work.
So lockdown not only affected the subject matter and style but also the costings. The exhibition has always been “affordable”, bringing art within everyone’s reach and of course prices will remain low. However, this year Joan has made it even more affordable by offering, alongside framed original paintings, many mounted and signed prints at a fraction of the cost of the original. There will also be a large range of greetings cards produced by Joan.
The exhibition will run from Friday 30th July to Saturday 7th August From 10am -4pm In the Hospital charity shop in Barnack Walk.
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