The WDM is an antidote to the blues

For a few days recently, I had been feeling quite low for all sorts of reasons, then this morning I picked up your magazine and read it thoroughly. After I had finished, I felt refreshed and uplifted as so many of your stories had a good feel factor. I am therefore recommending your magazine as an antidote to mental health issues!

Thank you so much – long may you continue.

Hilary Charlesworth

Minterne Magna

I look forward to reading each new issue of your excellent magazine, but have become increasingly disappointed with the Letters pages.

I found many of the letters published recently to be far too long and rambling to be interesting e.g. a diatribe two and a half columns long (from a London resident) in Edition 25. I suggest you impose a limit of day 250 words and include more letters on matters of local interest – oh yes, and none from ‘Anon’.

Gordon Ratcliffe, Chetnole

I wanted you to know how pleased everyone here is with your article about Tolpuddle Old Chapel. It is the most accurate and well put together piece ever written about the building and our work of saving it.

Andrew McCarthy Chair, TOCT

Pulpit Rock stands in a trance

Betwixt old England and yon France

While all about the waves do dance

As tides retreat and then advance.

When was it last the Pa’son stood

Upon this Rock in gown and hood

A’tellin’ fo’k just what they should Do if they wanted to be good?

What Portland child has never dared

To scale this Rock, however scared

Wi’ knuckles white an’ teeth abared

For graze of tumble quite prepared?

If you should go to Portland Bill,

Just see if Pulpit Rock stands still

And, even better if you will, Use it to play at Jack and Jill!

Chris Slade, Maiden Newton

Solar panels installed on three of Weymouth Town Council buildings have prevented 150.3 kg of carbon dioxide (CO2 )being produced by the burning of fossil fuels. (West Dorset Mag, Feb 2023) CO2 is essential for the growth and health of all green plants including food, plants, and trees. Plant life has therefore been deprived of 150.3kg of a vital nutrient.

I do not agree with the political consensus that a ‘Climate Emergency’ exists. The climate has varied over eons of time due mainly to sunspot, but also to volcanic and meteorite activities. In Roman times grapes were grown as far north as Hadrian’s Wall. During the Medieval Warm Period the Vikings were practising agriculture in Greenland. During the Little Ice Age ‘Ice Fairs were held regularly on the frozen River Thames in London.

Carbon dioxide is not the cause of climate variations. Ice-core data demonstrates delays between CO2 rise and temperature rise, and that from one age to another, the CO2 rise follows the temperature rise. The idea of man-made climate change is central to Agenda 21/ Agenda 30, which is being run through the United Nations, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Central Banking System for total control of the world.

Robert Theobald Weymouth

It is pleasing to see that the local Conservative MP has been talking about lower bus fares and indeed the reduction in a single fare from Broadmayne to Dorchester is a step in the right direction if we are to tackle climate change. However, I personally remain deeply disappointed by our MP’s disregard for the environment and the threat of Climate Change. He supports the digging of a new coal field in Cumbria despite its impure coal being unsuitable for steel smelting; he also backs the opening of new oilfields in the North Sea despite the threat to our planet from the huge amounts of carbon that will be released. He also voted to allow water companies to continue dumping raw sewage in rivers.

Personally, I feel let down by this disregard for the future of our planet.

Joe Brake,