Ninebarrow

BBC R2 Folk Award Nominees | Wandering Minstrels | Purveyors of Musical Walking Holidays | ★★★★★ EFDSS | ★★★★★ Maverick Magazine | ★★★★★ Morning Star

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Our bootunias, chrysantheboots and bootigolds are ready to go! 😅 Josh has finished his final checks (‘These are lovely’ he says!) which can only mean one thing…Musical Walking Holidays 2026 are very nearly here! 🤩🥾🎵

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A gorgeous brimstone moth snapped in Worth Matravers today! 🤩

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A small path cutting-back equipment upgrade needed this year! 😬 Some of the routes were totally impassable - but happy to report (as you may have guessed from our expressions!) we are now good to go for Musical Walking Holidays 2026! 😎🎵🥾👌

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Pondfield Cove looking rather glorious in the sunshine with its folded layers of limestone telling stories millions of years old, while the waves sparkle away beneath them. 🌊

A proper Purbeck gem at the end of the Tyneham valley. ☺️

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A gorgeous little holly blue was polite enough to pause for a moment in the HQ garden yesterday! 🦋 ☺️

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This was the Rempstone woodland just below Nine Barrow Down last week. It’s always gorgeous in the spring - but it’s looking particularly super this year. Wild garlic and bluebells in abundance! ☺️

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It’s that time of year again! WISTERIA WATCH! We were delighted to find New HQ equipped with a small wisteria - but it’s not quite reached its best yet. This was a fine specimen in Corfe last week though! 🥰 Come on - let’s see your favourite wisteria snaps from your area! 📸

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The wild garlic is looking (and smelling!) fantastic in Purbeck at the moment! 🤩 Anyone else got some woodland snaps to share?

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We had a glorious day out in various parts of Purbeck today checking over all of this year’s Musical Walking Holiday routes! A bit of cutting back needed, but other than that - everything’s a-ok! 👌🤩

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What a year it’s been for bluebells?! 🤩 Jay took this shot over near Cranborne last week. Anyone else got bluebells ringing in their neck of the woods?

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A tulip after the rain in the New HQ front garden! 🌷☺️

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A gorgeous speckled wood snapped at Durlston Country Park yesterday! ☺️

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What a lovely tour leg this is turning into?! ☺️ A sell 0ut at the gorgeous St Leonard’s in Sheepstor last night & another full house at St Peter’s in Dunchurch tonight! And just a handful of tkts left for Tetbury tomorrrow! Thanks so much for the support everyone! ❤️🙏

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All ready to roll in Hackney this evening at the gorgeous St John of Jerusalem. ☺️ Tomorrow: Childrey in Oxfordshire (and just a handful of t|ckets left for anyone hoping to join us! 🎵

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🌅 Clavell Tower standing watch above Kimmeridge Bay, with the great sweep of Gad Cliff beyond. Another shot from Heaven’s Gate the other evening. ☺️

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Sunset from ‘Heaven’s Gate’ in Purbeck with Kimmeridge Bay in the distance. It’s been a pretty gorgeous this last week hasn’t it?! ☺️☀️

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What a joy last night was?! ☺️ Another fabulous ‘Hour of the Blackbird’ concert with the @hartvoices, led by the inimitable Roy Rashbrook at the stunning All Saints Church in Fleet. What a way to start the tour?! ❤️

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Hard to believe that this photo was taken at Heaven’s Gate in Purbeck on this day 8 years ago! 😮 March can be a funny old month can’t it?! Quite different out there today! ☀️ 😎

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An exciting addition to HQ is coming very soon…! 🎹🥳

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Our first viewing at the New HQ bird box location! ☺️❤️