The BV Magazine - April 2022

In this issue

👉 Rachel McNamara, chair of #Shillingstone Parish Council, acted on the universal urge to ‘do something’, packed a bag and took a flight to Poland. S p.4 👉 A heritage project between Sturminster Newton High School and J.M. Olds Collegiate (a high school in Twillingate, Newfoundland) has proved not just to be fascinating for the all involved – excitingly, it has also led to the discovery of the only known surviving garment made of swanskin, a fabric made only here in the Blackmore Vale from the 16th to 19th centuries. p.8 👉 Equestrian - Sara Greenwood talking about horses as therapy, Lucy from The Glanvilles Stud shares life as foaling season gets into swing and we welcome Toots Bartlett Eventing 👉 Giles Henschel, head oliveer at Olives Et Al shares his ‘Dorset Island Discs’ – he came to his national artisan brand by way of school expulsion, the Army, being deported from Libya with his wife (twice), and Take That …, and the influence of his travels are revealed in his eight song choices. p.18 👉 Local shepherd Bonnie Cradock is the subject of this month’s A Country Living from Tracie Beardsley. She shares what it’s like running a flock of almost a thousand sheep with her brother, whilst keeping up a career as Assistant Events Organiser for the Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show ) P.68 👉 In local history, Roger Guttridge tells the tale of Durweston’s Runaway Rector, and shows a ‘Then & Now’ of Cheap Street in #Sherborne, featuring Sherborne School’s Abbeylands. I’ve been talking to our own Allotment columnist Barry Cuff – the man with 10,000 postcards. It’s a fascinating collection. Starts on p.48 👉 In farming James Cossins is worried – in 40 years of farming he’s never seen such price volatility. Andrew is scathing about TV’s ‘Fast & the Farmer-ish’ , and NFU county chair George Hosford finds himself struggling to remain calm P.72