Rapscallion Magazine Feature: My unreliable postcard from Milan – part 2. Saints, sinners, mouldy chocolates and grumpy museum security officers www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/10/09/r...

Rapscallion Magazine Feature: my unreliable postcard from Milan which includes women in red, the snog of the year, dirty toilets, trams and things the travel guides fail to mention www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/10/07/r...

Book Review: Barry Cryer’s Butterfly Brain is 199 pages of anecdotes, jokes, reminiscences of 50 years in comedy – but also includes a lot of self-praise www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/10/07/b...

She looks rather disappointed in the clothes us passer byes are wearing as she looks down on us all. But an eye-catching wall painting in Milan by Catherine Opie.

The scene in Milan on Saturday morning at dawn.

A coffee stop for Linda!

Sadness. Loved her first book on chimps. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

Bath Voice News: as the Bath Voice website saw a record 100,000 reads in September it’s an excuse to repeat one of the most popular features of the summer – about school dinners – we’ve all had them! www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/10/01/b...

ICSM Manufacturing Insolvency News: NHS supplier of PPE linked to Michelle Mone ordered to repay £122m - but firm files for bankruptcy www.icsmcredit.com/news/viewpos...

Dawn on the last day of September in Axbridge.

Diary date. And some cracking good music.

Bath Voice Sports News in brief: Sunday afternoon win for Bath City Women FC while Bath Rugby win at The Stoop and Bath Croquet Club host players in Empire line gowns for the Jane Austen Festival tinyurl.com/shenh4f2 @BathCity_FC @Odd_DownAFC @BathRugby @BathCityWFC

Axbridge News: Arts Centre Achieves Charity Status as it publishes a full list of events this autumn including music, theatre and a panto www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/09/27/a...

Journalist finally released without charge by Russia after months of torture, abuse and starvation. BBC story: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Somerset this week: 2 May 2025 open.substack.com/pub/somerset...

Updated Diary of Events in Axbridge this autumn including Indy rock at the Lamb, singer-song writer Phil Hill in concert: Take Art's Adannay, plus Dylan Squared in the Town Hall. www.harrymottram.co.uk/diary/

Axbridge News: filming v parking in Axbridge, Cheddar Reservoir’s £1bn cost; poetry evening review; busy autumn of what’s on in the town; and United on the Church Steps tinyurl.com/wfjr3nfh

ICSM Print Industry News: Swan Print debts, Boundless go bust, Ace in administration, publisher ceases trading, but Landa survive www.icsmcredit.com/news/viewpos...

Sadness at the death of Claudia - I'm biased about Italian women though. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia...

I've updated the Axbridge Diary of Events on my website. If you have a major event in the town drop me a line. www.harrymottram.co.uk/diary/

Dawn on the planet of the sleepless. Sunday.

Bath Voice News: seven candidates line up to contest the Widcombe & Lyncombe byelection on the 9th October bathvoice.co.uk/2025/09/19/b...

Somerset this week: 2 May 2025 open.substack.com/pub/somerset...

Bath Voice Opinion: in praise of Adam Fergusson and Tim Mowl’s book The Sack of Bath – And After – and a plea to reflect on the historic value of buildings from the 20th century before reducing them to rubble. www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/09/19/b...

Axbridge News: the reason why no water is refilling the reservoir; twitchers spy phalaropes and terns at the Res; algae issue; the Square is cleared ahead of the fun fair; and the drop in consultation for Cheddar Res 2 is this Friday; plus diary of events www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/09/17/a...

Bath Voice News: questions over the way the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) spends so much in exit payments for staff – with one councillor branding the latest £475k amount as ‘shocking’ tinyurl.com/2khkc55s

Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: a comic meander through the back roads of England in Kate Atkinson's Death at the Sign of the Rook as she sends up the English in this 'who took it' www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/09/17/r...

So many great movies from Barefoot in the Park, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to my favourite: All the President's Men (it's the best film about journalists). Robert Redford.

This week planners at Bath & North East Somerset Council must decide the fate of the Rec. Gifted to the citizens of Bath for recreation, a section of it is occupied by Bath Rugby. Some say illegally. Not so say the club. Battle lines have been drawn! somersetconfidential.substack.com/p/the-sack-o...

Today, September 13, women in England march through the streets of London against racism and fascism. #AntiRacismDay #Resist #Pinks

We felt the love last week, Toronto and Ottawa – and we know Dr. Jane did, too. 💚 With her genuine passion and her contagious enthusiasm, Dr. Jane shared her hopeful message and her personal insights with more than 4,000 people last week. 📸: Dr. Izzy Hirji / Katherine Holland / Melody Maloney

Revealing the walls of Beddingham #Roman villa East #Sussex in June 1989 #FieldArchaeologyUnit / @archsoutheast.bsky.social field school for @uclarchaeology.bsky.social directed by Dave Rudling A glorious site lying in the shadow of the South Downs #FunFunFunInTheSunSunSun #RomanSiteSaturday

Little bit of Autumn colour on our newest Clark Fields site. This land is only a few months into its rewilding journey. It’s amazing to think how it might change and evolve in the decades to come. Help us build a better, wilder future, and go to www.Somersetwildlands.org

Our sparkling new Schroder Gallery is featured in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... It opens to the public on 10 September - don't miss it!

Skinny jeans are showing signs of a comeback. Please make it stop | Dave Schilling

Lost Spells exhibition at The Victoria in Bath with the artworks by Jackie Morris and poems by Robert Macfarlan is well worth a visit. Runs until 5 October 2025.

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Axbridge Diary of Events: www.harrymottram.co.uk/diary/

Inventor and visionary - but Benny Landa's Israeli print firm is hoping for rescue by his lenders after running up massive losses with his nanotechnology. Somerset's Ian Carrotte on the situation outlined in Print Week. www.icsmcredit.com/news/viewpos... @printbusiness.bsky.social

Bath Voice News: what’s on at the theatre this month – pick of the shows at the Mission, Rondo, Egg, Ustinov and Theatre Royal Bath including The Complete Works of Jane Austen (Abridged) www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/09/02/b...

2025 Axbridge Progressive Supper. Tickets go on sale on 1st October at 8pm. It will be the first batch of courses - and more will go on sale once those are sold to balance the courses. (www.facebook.com/AxbridgeProg...) Save the date: Saturday 22 Nov. See: tinyurl.com/3mua4vzd

Diary dates in Axbridge. See www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/09/01/a...

Bus time tables for the 126 in Axbridge. Changes from today 31 August 2025. See Bus time tables for the 126 in Axbridge. Changes from today 31 August 2025. See www.firstbus.co.uk/somerset/pla...

Axbridge News: update on Cheddar Reservoir 2 with potential questions at the public consultation including those on noise, access and habitat loss, and if there will be cash for local community projects - as information leaflets are distributed tinyurl.com/5a7c7myr

Axbridge News: House prices, road collisions, Axe Vale Arts Centre and bus timetables plus Cheddar Res 2, Axbridge Court and the mystery of the missing wheelbarrow www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/08/29/a...

A rather good anecdote starts this book with the BBC Radio 3 presenter being accused of being a fake Trelawny by a very rude vicar in Cornwall on Trelawney Day. Petroc Trelawny puts her right - and there are some notes on Coverack where I camped earlier this summer. @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social

Enjoying this series on BBC Sounds about Counter Culture with Stewart Lee who I once interviewed at the Cheddar Arts Festival back in the day - strange but true www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Bath Voice News: Decision time for Bath Rugby as opponents and advocates for the planned stadium on the Rec await a decision from the Council’s planners – one of the city’s biggest planning issues in years tinyurl.com/87xuwzw8

Rain in the air. At last. but none so far. bbc.co.uk/weather/bs26

Book Review: the best account of the Holocaust I’ve read – a true story of a boy and his dad and how they survived six years in Nazi concentration camps – written in this page turner for children www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/08/25/b...