John Elkington

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The Y In Dorset

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Last week, we took our Tesla Model Y for an outing in Dorset, probably my favourite county. Any range anxiety was quickly and entirely relieved by recharging points at a car park at Corfe Castle, one of my favourite castles in the world – though I’m not sure that the energy was from renewable resources, as it is at home in Barnes. One key interest for me, as we explored Portland Bill, was the story of Portland Stone. Now what follows is less of a travelogue than a photo essay on a glorious week away.

Corfe Castle from a distance, over the cemetery
A glory of wasps (wopsies locally) haunt our cream teas – result of a local biodiversity project
A wonderfully hazy walk around the Arne Nature Reserve, despite my broken foot
Could almost be a T-Rex in the bracken
Joyous perspective
Ditto
And ditto again, with heather
One of the things I recall most vibrantly of my time at Bryanston – and in Dorset – is the trees
The skull of “Sea-Rex” at The Etches Collection in Kimmeridge
Dinner time for Sea-Rex – and for its prey
Back to Corfe for a proper visit
Further along
Higher still
At our B&B, a rainbow lit up the sky just as I had what I thought was rather a good idea
Anyone for cricket?
Apples on trees at Owermoigne Cider Museum
Horse-powered cider apple press – renewable, but not sure about the ethics
Chesil Beach from Portland Bill
The Memory Stones
I will rise/come again, linking to the theme of regeneration
Overview of part of Tout Quarry, recovering from stone working
Detail
Elaine as I walk back from Tout Quarry
Glimpse of Chesil Beach through Memory Stones, with ammonite (far right)
Ammonite
Mown maze in the grounds of Lulworth “Castle”
A view from the “battlements”
Looking upwards in one of the towers
The Bear in Wareham
A Jersey Tiger moth spotted in Shaftesbury – like the one that appeared in our own garden in Barnes
Sherborne Abbey was a delightful surprise
Sustainability was in the air near the altar…
…as it was in the High Street (“Cheap Street”) outside
Still life along the way
Slightly different spirit en route home, at a foundry, but chimes with the new book I’m working on
Gentler mood at Plumber Manor, where we stayed for several days, near Sturminster Newton
The Manor viewed
Welcome bouquet
Ceramic fragments and marbles in paving at Nick and Anne Hildyard’s
Nick beats the bounds
Anne Hildyard’s cushion (top) ends up in our kitchen as a memento of a week immersed in other times

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John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development. He is currently Founding Partner and Executive Chairman of Volans, a future-focused business working at the intersection of the sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation movements.

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