The pasture land is cress-crossed by public footpaths Lyncombe Hill Fields straddles the slopes below Beechen Cliff School and above Greenway Lane. The site known for its wildlife, flowers and fauna will be managed under licence by the Friends of Lyncombe Hill Fields, a newly formed not-for-profit Community Interest Company (FLHF CIC) working with the […]
Blokish and boozy, Harold Pinter’s 1978 story of tangled relationships seems at once dated and yet convincing in the selfishness of Jerry and Emma. Set in the late 1960s and early 1970s the ménage à trois features Jerry’s affair with Emma, who is married to his best friend Robert. Famously played out in reverse chronology […]
Casting has been announced for the first two plays in the Theatre Royal Bath’s Welcome Back Season this Autumn. Two of the country’s leading actresses, Nancy Carroll and Haydn Gwynne, are joined by a distinguished cast of experienced stage and screen performers. Following all government guidance and in consultation with health and safety advisors, covid-secure […]
He was spectacularly clean, runs the opening line in Jane Gardam’s novel – sharply in contrast with Edward Feather’s nickname of Filth. And the reluctant protagonist keeps it clean rejecting teenage sex, his golf-mad aunts, his father and the community he eventually retires to in Dorset. A loner, a lawyer, a judge and a man […]
When I first saw the film The Red Balloon or Le Ballon Rouge at the cinema in the early 1960s I was blown away a bit like the balloon.The 1956 fantasy featurette directed by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse follows a little boy and his adventures with a balloon that appears to come to life.With no dialogue and just a […]
Incompetent management, bad debts or a lost client can all sink a business, but there’s a new one that Ian Carrotte is increasingly angry about: Covid-19. “We are seeing on a daily basis perfectly viable businesses going to the wall because of the Government’s policies on suppressing the virus by shutting down entire economies,” he […]
One of Bath’s best kept secrets is high up on a hill overlooking the city where pigs and chickens scratch at the grass and cluck and snort in their pens. It has been a quarter of a century since Bath City Farm opened. This autumn the farm marks 25 years since it opened when there […]
The Rosie Project. By Graeme Simsion It’s an old adage: don’t look for love, let love find you. It’s the underlying truth behind the success of former IT consultant Graeme Simsion’s debut novel The Rosie Project. The self-confessed geek has also stuck to that equally old piece of advice: write about what you know. In […]
The lone London Plane Tree standing guard at the end of Widcombe Parade in Bath, following the emasculation of the community when a row of houses was destroyed to create a road to ease traffic congestion is a reminder that communities come first. Despite this wrong, Widcombe has seen a revival beginning with Widcombe Rising […]
Following the publication of an open letter by Brendan Perring of the IPIA (Independent Print Industries Association) for members of the print and allied industries to contact their MPs to lobby for Government help, ICSM Credit’s Ian Carrotte and a member of Axbridge Chamber of Commerce has added his weight to the campaign. Dear IPIA […]
From The House on the Square to Dodgy Keeper… Stretchmark Theatre stages plays written by Harry Mottram. It effectively began in 1997 with the pantomime Humpty Dumpty staged in Axbridge
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The Rapscallion is an occasional online magazine written and illustrated by Harry mottram. Last issue included:
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Join the Chamber – the organisation for businesses in or connected to the town and the self-employed and interested parties If you would like to join the Axbridge Chamber of
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Currently Bristol Water are building a pipeline from Cheddar to Barrow using part of the Strawberry Line as their conduit for the work. Before this work they wanted to construct
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New book on one midwife’s journey Midlife to Midwife by Linda Mottram After a bad day childminding and following one too many glasses of wine, this book takes you through
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STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES – Theatre Review: And so it came to pass that an anarchic and highly enjoyable version of the Nativity took place with Kid Carpet and a hedgehog
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