Happy New Year, Sherborne
All the best for 2026. For now a brief wildlife report and some teasers for the future:
Otters continue to frequent the Brook. I reckon they pass through once every ten days. They are kind enough to leave their poop and their footprints on the Glos Wildlife Trust Mink raft near Waterloo bridge. There have been reports of mink so I’m monitoring for their presence but nothing seen. Below are the otter footprints from a day or two ago.
I’ve obtained a new tool to help in my analysis of the landscape, an £8 app for my phone called “theodolite”. Really helps me survey suspect burial mounds, alignments and it is at the core of a project I’m doing looking on the “design “ of Sherborne Park. In the next 4 weeks I’ll be using it and some other tools to do a thorough survey to confirm (or otherwise) a suspicion I have about the very peculiar design of the local landscape that we all sit within, an unseen secret framework. I think it has been there for hundreds of years and is now forgotten. I think with these tools I can dust it off to show the landscape’s clever design features, and shed a fresh light on the heritage of this place we live in. Here’s a screen shot of the theodolite tool:
3. Here’s a clue. Many of you will pass this derelict doorway daily. It sits right on the road through the village. This doorway is a secret sign, a clue, a hint that points towards something very remarkable. It’s much more important than it looks. Watch this space. If you see me cycling round the local roads, waving my phone in the air and chuckling, you’ll know I’m up to something.
