The Jurassic Coast Team and Trust – along with nearly 100 supporters – enjoyed a wonderful evening last Thursday on a springtime sunset cruise boat trip from Poole Harbour. The trip took in the eastern end of the Jurassic Coast from the iconic chalk stacks of Old Harry Rocks, past Swanage and Durlston Head, and…
Those who know me well will know that I am slightly obsessed when it comes to exercise. For me, though, it has always been more about being out there in the elements than about the actual keeping fit bit. ‘The elements’ have varied from the tropical heat and my early days of running while living…
It isn’t often that a brilliantly sunny Saturday morning in Lyme Regis makes me groan and utter the words “oh, if only it would cloud over…”. But that was what we were saying last week when the wondiferous Tim Britton, author and illustrator and all round good egg, was at Lyme Museum all ready to…
It’s a strange thing, the lure of ‘the coast’. I can remember like it was yesterday those summer holidays down to the southwest, eagerly peering out of the window in the back of my dad’s Ford Sierra for that first glimpse of the sea. I usually started looking just past Andover, so I had a…
14th March 2015 is a significant day for us as it marks the 10th anniversary of our move into Norburton Hall and the start of our holiday accommodation business. Ten years on, it’s amazing to look back and acknowledge how life has changed. The greatest developments are associated with technology and the Internet. There are…
* Geodiversity: the variety of earth materials, forms and processes that constitute and shape the Earth, either the whole or a specific part of it. My interest in geology began at the age of six years old, as a consequence of my relationship with the land around me; the land of my ancestors. During the…
I got into geology at the age of 11 on Charmouth Beach – a walk by the seaside and the chance spot of a perfect iron pyrites ammonite fossil just lying in the sand and, well, that was it! The really nice thing about Charmouth is that some 40 years on, kids of my age…
The new exhibition “The Wonders of World Heritage” opened at Durlston last week and I hot footed it over there, with my husband and the kids, this weekend to check it out. The exhibition has been put together by my colleagues in the Jurassic Coast Team, most notably by the ever-inspirational Sam Scriven, and it…
When I first started this job back in the long, bright days of September, it seemed to contain a multitude of strands – our Ambassadors and Volunteers, Business Partners and Friends among others. Each needed its own thinking, planning and organising. What’s become abundantly clear over the last few weeks is how these different elements…