Sorbet seems to be the hardest word

When Annie and Sam Hanbury found their new home near Bridport came with a ramshackle but highly productive market garden there seemed only one solution to what to do with all those raspberries, apples, pears, medlars, blackcurrants and gooseberries – make ice cream. Lots of ice cream. ‘The garden had been abandoned,’ says Annie. ‘We Read More…

The long shadow of The Longest Day

Seventy-five years after the event it’s almost impossible to imagine what it would have been like for Portlanders to be awoken in the early hours of Tuesday 6 June 1944 by the din of 30,000 American servicemen preparing to be shipped across the Channel to launch the Normandy landings, D-Day.  As dawn broke on The Read More…