The BV Magazine - March 2022

In this issue

In the aftermath of Storm Eunice, one small hamlet was left without power for six days, struggling to stay warm, and lambing by head torch with no light or heat. P.4
👉 Andrew Livingston looked at the debate raging around the upsetting BBC Panorama documentary ‘A Cow’s Life: The true cost of milk’. P.6
👉 A 400 year old Trust is still helping young people in North Dorset, and yet no one knows who William Williams actually was. However, thanks to his actions in 1623, there’s a multi-million pound fund waiting to assist people in need; *IF* P.9
👉 Valerie Singleton braved the Random 19 questions this month. Yes. THE Valerie Singleton lives here in Dorset, and considers her favourite comfort meal to be chocolate. Like you needed another excuse to love her more… She’s on p.16.
👉#Sherborne‘s Taff Martin shares his ‘Dorset Island Discs’. He’s a Falklands veteran who has had a lifelong ‘side hustle’ as a successful gigging musician. The unexpectedly shy welshman talks about his work in the town, and reveals a deeply romantic streak as he shares his eight songs, an eclectic mix of all-time classics. P.20
👉 Self-sufficient Carl Mintern, our own Dorset Forager columnist, is the subject of this month’s A Country Living He discusses his self-sufficient lifestyle, which is far more than just veg growing. He makes his own cheese and ice cream from the 20 pints of milk a day he gets from his goats, and he slaughters and butchers his own pigsP.42
👉 In local history, Roger Guttridge shares the tale of two pubs at Fiddleford, and shows a ‘Then & Now’ of the old school house in #SturminsterNewton. Paul Birbeck discusses the rise (and fall) of cinema in Dorset p.45
👉 In farming James Cossins also touches on the Panorama documentary, rightfully declaring it’s ‘not all farmers’, and also expresses concerns over the governments drive for rewilding. Andrew Livingston has been suffering from egg theft, and discusses the constant pressure on small scale family farms. P.54