Brief Encounter Again

Posts from This Journal “dorset” Tag

• By the time they got to Bournemouth, they were half a million strong

  This wasn’t people ‘enjoying the sun’, it was an invasion. Go away!

• Blitz Spirit. Not.

  I was in the village shop early this morning. Having posted a card and got some cash, I asked for something they hadn’t got, which led to a chat…

• Thomas Hardy

  I recently read Claire Tomalin’s biography of Hardy (first published in 2006), which I picked up at a charity sale. I enjoyed it very much, yet by…