November is a serious month at Dorset Life. We’ve investigated the sudden closure of Leweston School and the allegations of dairy cow mistreatment on Dorset farms. Important, complicated stories that deserve more than a quick headline.
But there’s plenty of the usual Dorset Life miscellany too.
Julian Lloyd Webber tells us about picking up his cello again after 12 years, and has some fairly forthright things to say about the classical music world. We discover the extraordinary story of Mabel St Clair Stobart, who led a 200-mile retreat through the frozen Serbian mountains in 1915. On foot.
There’s a Dorset family raising 1,400 Christmas turkeys (and a memorable incident involving bread sauce instead of brandy butter), while our equestrian writers are battling storms, missing head torches and the consequences of their own questionable life choices.
Plus farming, business, wildlife, history, gardening, opinion, walks and some genuinely wonderful readers’ photography.
132 pages. Completely free to read. Independent Dorset journalism, with the occasional turkey.
Go on, put the kettle on. The November issue is waiting.
