Steph Bradley is walking around the UK, visiting Transition Towns everywhere. She came to Wimborne in April and Angie wrote of the visit:
“Well, what a lovely lady! And what an inspired idea and a Grand Adventure. Steph’s walking around most of the Transition Towns, cities & villages of England over the next 6 months, entirely on foot, collecting up our stories as she goes. I met her on Canford Bridge, brought her back to my home for a lunch of nettle-and-leftover veg soup and homemade bread, accompanied by my daughter’s very refreshing home-made ginger beer, a rest in my comfortable post-op chair & footstool (rescued from the Tip for a fiver) and a good natter; the budgies couldn’t get a word in edgeways. Then we strolled through Wimborne, noting the course of the rivers & millstreams that used to power the town, & marking all the genuinely local shops we have left like Burtons the Butchers and Minster Greens.
We’d just inspected the Jubilee herb Garden behind the Town Hall when we met up with Tom from Gaunt’s House, who had kindly offered to host her for the night. I may have been feeling a bit down in the dumps before her visit, that we hadn’t really managed to achieve anything much here yet… But she’s left me feeling inspired and energised, and Nicky’s 100% right with the idea that we just keep on popping up, nibbling away at people’s consciousness, until we break through. Steph’s advice is that whilst it may look as if nothing’s happening, momentum is quietly building in the background. So, onwards and upwards!
I’m going to be trying to arrange the Re-Skilling day this week. With any luck we’ll be able to go for the week before the Folk Festival, ie the first weekend of June, which is also the first weekend of halfterm, which doesn’t leave long to organise things. As I’m also organsing the Dorset WSD Guild’s stand for the County Show, as well as attending various Craft Fairs in my own right over the summer, I’d be glad of some help on the organisational front, if anyone could spare the odd half-hour?”