3 day market held every week in Wimborne, Dorset. It is every Friday/Saturday/Sunday

The farmers market is Friday, but there are a wide range of stalls, most of which are regular. There are 2 or 3 veg stalls and I find you need to shop carefully as prices vary. There are also butchers, a coffee company and a cheese seller, as well as a wide range of interesting craft, bric a brac and antiques stalls.

The market is on the outskirts of Wimborne, at the back of the Riverside Trading estate. For visitore it is well signposted from the main roads.

I go on Sundays and if, like me, you don't agree with paying for parking, most of the businesses in the next door trading estate are closed, so I park for free there. There is a private parking company that patrol on Sundays only, and will take your numberplate and send a ticket later on. What they are doing is not legal, even though the DVLA sells them your address. We've had 2 invoices from them over the last 2 years but ignored their threats. If you get a ticket ping me for further details of how to deal with the scumbags

We stumbled on this by accident, when looking for something else, and happened to arrive on a day when a rep from the real meat co was there. He asserted their commitment to ethical meat farming, and quality meat. He told me something that I had already suspected - that animals slaughtered when they are terrified do not make good meat because their muscles are tensed by the chemicals of fear, coursing through them.

There is a good choice of meat, and the butcher knows his stuff, so you can get whatever cut you need. Another bonus - they open at 7.30am, so I can pop in before work. (Not open on Mondays though).

We've been enjoying meat that tastes like it did when we were kids.

Another bonus - there is a good fishmonger next door, though he's not inclined to get up early