Down in Dorset

Thankyou Jon and Shirley for a lovely weekend down in Dorset. We really lucked out with the weather. Beautifully sunny and dry.

Up on Hardy's monument we could look across all of Dorset and beyond-we could almost see our house!


Portland Bill was cool. We're hopefully going to be able to do a series of cheesy pictures like this one on our tour across Europe next year, for our honeymoon.

The spinny light in the light house apparently spins on 3/4 of a ton of Mercury. We couldn't see where it all was, though. The spinny thing was very impressive, as was the view from the top of 153 steps!









I wasn't knackered at all once I got to the top. Really. Ahem.



After being fed to bursting point, we stopped off to look at the famous Cerne Abbas giant, and his big club. Or something. As we had a bit of light left we thought we would climb up and around the Giant. What we didn't realise was that once you were on the hill the giant was fenced off, and you couldn't actually see the bastard thing! It was a very steep hill and I almost broke into a sweat. Very worrying. Still, we got to see a beautiful sunset from the giant's point of view. He doesn't have a bad outlook, all things considered. He'd better watch out, his council taxes will rocket.