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Friday, 10 June, 2022

The New Blackmore Vale

A United Kingdom as more than 3,000 beacons were lit.

Jubilee round up page 16

Tilly jumps 10,000ft for charity! Page 15

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Arts & Entertainments

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Business

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Church

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Education

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Events

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Farming

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Field & Stream

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Food & Drink

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Health & Wellbeing

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History

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Home & Garden Items For Sale

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Letters

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Local Services

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Motoring

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Pets

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Politics

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Property

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Puzzles

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Recruitment

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Sport

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• Top: We round up the local Platinum Jubilee celebrations, page 16 • Above: Take your pick from the amazing festivals in and around the Blackmore Vale this summer, page 26 • Left: Focus on men’s health, page 12

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Say ‘hello’ and wave goodbye to feeling lonely

by Lorraine Gibson Loneliness has many faces. The solitary child on the bench watching classmates on the playground; the teenager in their bedroom with no one to talk to; the bereaved, the divorced, the marginalised, the shy… the list goes on.

However, isolation isn’t always that obvious. It can be felt by anyone, even when surrounded by friends and family.

Dorset and its neighbouring counties are facing an increase in mental health problems. Loneliness is a particular contributing factor, especially in rural areas, where support and positivity have never been more essential.

Take Dorset’s farmers. A study by the Farm Safety Foundation revealed an alarming 88 per cent of them under 40 cited poor mental health as their community’s biggest hidden problem.

felt alone, like I was being dramatic.”

The turning point came when a family member suggested Steps2Wellbeing. “Finally, someone listened. My feelings were validated and I was relieved to know that they were real.”

Louise explored her feelings with a therapist and learnt strategies to manage them. She now shares her experiences to help others who use the service.

For Keith Grinsted, being all too aware that loneliness can hit anybody at any time also inspired him to help others. “It can hit you for a couple of hours or for days, weeks or months.

“COVID forced people to live in isolation and has exacerbated the situation” he adds. “I’ve always been prepared to speak up about loneliness and mental health issues. If I speak openly, it enables others to, and that conversation is the first step towards recovery.”

A twist of fate came next. “I was fortunate that I had media coverage on BBC Breakfast, which prompted lonely people to contact me.

Time to share

For them, and anyone feeling alone, help is on hand. Dorset HealthCare provides free, confidential mental health support with their Steps2Wellbeing service offering talking therapy, courses and webinars to adults in Dorset and the Southampton area – accessible online.

A common thread among lonely people is an unwillingness to discuss their feelings, but the less we talk, the more isolated we become.

Louise Deeprose is a Steps2Wellbeing mental-health peer support worker from Dorset; Keith Grinsted founded Goodbye Lonely, a principally virtual hub devoted to kicking loneliness into touch. Both have both experienced debilitating loneliness and are on a mission to stop people suffering in silence.

Louise felt she had no one to turn to when struggling with her mental health.

She said: “Growing up, I had times where I felt so down and had thoughts that I didn’t want to be alive anymore. I

Keith Grinsted, founder of Goodbye Lonely

“Helping others helped me too and for a few years I volunteered at a community kitchen on Christmas Day. Volunteering is a great way to get involved and feel valued.”

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Dorset film focuses on farming

Wake, a 17-minute short film starring Alison Steadman, was written and filmed in the Blackmore Vale. It had its first intimate screening at Shaftesbury Arts Theatre recently.

With an original script written by Shaftesbury couple Rebecca and John Rose, and produced by Tina Price, Wake examines mental health issues in the farming community, which are often caused by a solitary lifestyle. Filmed in Child Okeford, Melbury Abbas and West Melbury, the film is now being entered into film festivals across the world, before its general release in 2023.

group, a website, a WhatsApp group and weekly Zoom calls,” he explains. “I offer support via one-to-one calls with conversations at any time, day or night.

If anybody needs support, they can contact me and we can chat.”

On call all day, all year round is Keith’s MO. Connections are the holy grail. He explains: “We set up telephone buddies for people and connect them with others who can help.”

Keith is delighted that his project has blossomed, as are its participants.

“One individual lost their life savings in an online dating scam. They were close to a breakdown and hadn’t spoken about it. We spent three hours on the phone before they opened up to me.”

Keith was the first person they’d spoken to about it in the six months since it happened.

“They’d heard I was non-judgemental.

We spent hours talking and within days they said their mood had changed, they were getting on with colleagues and were feeling more optimistic.

“A year later, they’re enjoying their life and call now and again for a quick catch up if they hit a bump in the road.”

Any time, any where

“The important thing is to find somebody to talk to. Just reach out to others. Send a text; say ‘I’m checking in, we haven’t spoken for a while.’

Messaging and phone calls can all help to begin the process. Be the light at the end of someone else’s tunnel!”

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Carer’s week

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THIS WEEK IS Carer’s Week, and with the theme ‘make caring visible, valued and supported’, it highlights that we need to care so much more.

Unpaid carers, and all the challenges of caring, should be recognised and appreciated in every aspect of life, and by everyone in the community.

Carers should have access to all the information and funding they may need to know about, so if you need more info check out carersweek.org, so that young and old carers, feel valued, supported, which then encourages better mental health, appreciation, and wellbeing for everyone involved.

Fundraising drive

A NEW GOFUNDME page has just been set up for Barry Robbins, 65, Blandford, who was recently given the devastating diagnosis of Motor Neurone Disease (MND), a debilitating and degenerating disorder for which there is no known cure.

Barry would like to remain in his home, with his son, while his condition deteriorates. The plan was to convert the garage and downstairs toilet to accommodate his bed, hoists and other care requirements, along with a wet room.

However, a recent NHS occupational health assessment stated that Barry is currently too ‘able-bodied’ for them to approve the conversion through the council. His family feel that by the time he reaches this level of care requirement it may be too late for him to stay at home.

“This horrible disease has no cure and is rapidly robbing him of everyday enjoyment,” says Barry’s sister, Carole House. “Ultimately Barry will have minimal mobility and speech. He will not be able to use the stairs, yet has been told that only when he needs it will they consider the alterations. I know that will be too late.”

Understandably this is causing a lot of worry for Barry and his family. They want to give him peace of mind now, by adapting the house in readiness so that he can be as comfortable as possible at home with his family.

So Carole has started a GoFundMe page for Barry, to help make this happen.

Barry and his family have lived locally in Blandford and Winterborne Stickland for generations. If you would like to support Barry, or help raise awareness in the caring community, contact Barry’s sister Carole House on 01258 880462, or email carole.house@btinternet.com.

To donate, search ‘Barry to stay at home with his son’ on GoFundMe.com: tinyurl.com/5b6d2ne7

Take a break…

A DORSET ENHANCED Staff Wellbeing Service has been visiting care facilities throughout Dorset with their Cool Coffee Cart mobile coffee and hot chocolate van, bringing a ‘Hug in a Mug’ to care workers as small thank you and token of appreciation.

“What a fantastic treat,” said Sohail

Show you care

LATE SUNDAY EVENING, the NBVM received an email from a widow, aged 62, living as a tenant in the idyllic village of Hinton St Mary, Sturminster Newton, and caring for her severely autistic son while relying on welfare. Due to an oversight in her housing benefits, the lady found herself on the brink of being evicted. Both, she claimed, were feeling suicidal: it wasn’t pleasant reading at 11.30pm.

The lady in question told the NBVM that she lives on the estate as a tenant, and while research suggested she frequently had difficulty with rent arrears, there was a mix up with her benefit payments making it impossible to pay her rent at that time. As the parent carer of a special needs individual, was she entitled to some level of support?

The NBVM, on her behalf, investigated what help is at hand. Huge thanks to ‘Marie’ at Dorset Council Customer Services, whose knowledge and experience meant that instead of 30 contacts she recommended just three.

Firstly, “if you’re struggling in any way, ‘get on the radar’ with www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk and fill in their form for individuals at risk of homelessness,” she said. “It’s a process that can guide you more effectively to hands on help”.

Then she shared the number for Firstpoint, a team of four, including Mark, who offer help to slow down, halt, or prevent homelessness and/or eviction. “It helps if we can see or talk to the individual, but if in doubt or for advice, ring us on 0330 1232550 or email fp.enquiries@theyoutrust.org.uk.”

Lastly, if you are a family carer, especially for an individual suffering with any disability or special needs, register as a carer by calling 01305 838120 so that adult social care services may be able to intervene.

At the last communication, a B&B has been arranged for the lady and her son on 7 June; the alternative was a hostel: she will have lost her home of seven years.

Daniel, Senior General Manager, at Trinity Manor care home. “The staff have loved this caffeine break and appreciate that someone has thought of them in this way, it has made the team smile. We’ve had a tough couple of years, and something as simple as a coffee has lifted spirits and encouraged

them to chat and support each other. It’s been brilliant!”

If your team would benefit, or you would like to learn more about the services, go to Joinourdorset.nhs.uk/ wellbeing or contact Trinity Manor on 01935 815 972 or Sohail.Daniel@ Barchester.com.

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Bruton School for Girls to close after 122 years

OFTEN DESCRIBED AS Enid Blyton’s Mallory Towers with its ivy clad exterior, the charming and much-loved Bruton School for Girls has however been struggling with low intake for quite some time.

After 122 years, Bruton School for Girls is to permanently shut its doors at the end of this summer term.

The independent day and boarding school has been struggling for some time. A recent parent in joining had been assured that numbers would increase, following a recent merge with The King’s School, Bruton Foundation in March 2022, and a new development plan. However, with just seven pupils in his daughter’s current class, he quickly anticipated the school would not be able to remain open.

The foundation recently released a statement confirming the closure, saying, “at the last ISI inspection in 2018 there were 199 pupils in the school. Unfortunately, pupil numbers have continued to fall with a total school roll of only 45

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pupils expected in September 2022.”

The Governors acknowledge that these low pupil numbers are not educationally or economically viable and have therefore decided to permanently close the school at the end of this academic year. There will, however, be no change to the Bruton School for Girls Nursery, which will remain open.

Headmistress Jane Evans reassured parents, pupils and staff that the school will do all it can to support girls and staff over the coming weeks.

“I would like to thank all our staff and parents for their support of the school through these extremely uncertain and challenging times,” she said. “Governors do not underestimate the difficulties that this decision brings. We believe that taking this very difficult decision now and working with our parents and pupils is the best thing we can do for all those involved.”

For more information, email reception@brutonschool.co.uk.

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Celebrating their centenary, members of Castle Cary and Ansford Women’s Institute planted a rowan tree in Fairfield.

They then gathered for the 100th anniversary with President Irene Dobson at The Shambles, Market House in Cary.

Castle Cary Women’s institute was formed on 29 May 1922 with Ansford included in the title from 1945. Joining the gathering were members from local institutes in Witham Friary and Bruton too.

Casey Worrall (Federation Secretary) read from the notes of a 1927 meeting from the WI archives, which explained two proposed resolutions to go forward to the National Annual meeting: humane killings in slaughterhouses, and adequate sentences for the guilty of the offence against children. What amazing, forward-thinking women, and still always striving to do positive work.

If you care to join the Castle Cary and Ansford WI there are monthly meetings held at 7.15pm on the third Tuesday of every month at The Shambles.

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Citizens Advice more important than ever

CITIZENS ADVICE VOLUNTEER Advisers come from different backgrounds and have varied life experiences, but they all have one thing in common: they want to help their local community.

Over the last three months Citizens Advice has seen a sharp increase in those needing help with the cost of living, including a 28 per cent increase in utilities issues and a 26 per cent increase in debt issues. Volunteers are needed more than ever to meet this demand.

“I started volunteering seven years ago,” says Sheelagh, “after 20 years of headship at Kingdown School in Warminster and five more years as a consultant Head. I was not yet quite ready to retire fully, so wanted an opportunity to keep my brain active and give something back.

I spent weeks learning about the benefit system, managing debt, housing and consumer problems. Everyone in the office was extremely kind and patient.”

“We are an important part of our local community,” says Elaine Morley, Advice Services Manager for North Dorset CAB. “Last year we helped 7,468 people with 22,518 issues.

None of this would have been possible without our dedicated volunteers”.

If you want to learn more, visit www.centraldorsetca.org.uk

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Drivers needed for care group

TWO BRIDGES, A voluntary care group offering transport to those with health problems or difficulty accessing transport, is asking for more volunteer support.

An increase in demand and a decrease in the number of drivers means Two Bridges needs more volunteers to join its team…

The group, which helps elderly and infirm people get to GP, hospital and dental appointments, is based locally to Fordingbridge and covers the surrounding areas, including Godshill, Alderholt, Sandleheath, Damerham, Martin, and Rockbourne. It relies on financial donations, and pays fuel expenses to its volunteer

Are you passionate a your commu bout nit Then consid y? e volunteering r … drivers.

“Being a Two Bridges volunteer is immensely rewarding as our clients are very appreciative,” says Derek Ayling, speaking on behalf of Two Bridges. “The role is extremely flexible, so it doesn’t matter if drivers are only available occasionally: any help is still welcome!”

If anyone is interested in joining this friendly group of volunteers, please speak to Derek Ayling on 01425 650770, call Two Bridges directly on 0845 838 5902, or email hippotrain@ btinternet.com.

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Falklands 40 lest Dementia safety we forget…

THE SHERBORNE BRANCH of The Royal British Legion is holding a Falklands Remembrance event on Saturday 18 June at 11am at the war memorial outside Sherborne Abbey.

There will be a short memorial followed by the laying of a wreath by a Falklands Veteran, remembering the 255 British service personnel who lost their lives in the conflict.

The Falklands War, the first military action since the Second World War, lasted for 74 days, after Argentine forces invaded the Falklands on 2 April, 1982. Three days later, a taskforce set sail from the UK, eventually involving almost 26,000 armed forces and 3,000 civilian crew.

For further information or support contact Andrew Norton, Honorary Poppy Appeal Organiser, on andrewwilliam@ talktalk.net.

IT’S INCREDIBLY DISTRESSING if a loved one should go missing, but potentially even more so if that person is vulnerable or has dementia.

The Herbert Protocol is a nationwide police scheme established to help trace missing people with dementia by saving crucial time during a missing person enquiry. It’s named in memory of George Herbert, a war veteran of the 1944 Normandy landings, who lived with dementia but died in 2011 while missing, trying to find his childhood home.

Carers, family or friends of a vulnerable person – or the person themselves – can fill in a Herbert Protocol form at any time. If you later believe that person has gone missing and are concerned for their safety, call the police on 999 and tell the police operator that you have a Herbert Protocol. The information gathered in advance will help the police search more quickly and efficiently.

For more information, visit dorset.police.uk/support-andguidance/missing-people/missing-person-with-dementia.

Thank you knitters!

Shaftesbury Library would like to thank the lovely ladies from the Knit and Natter group who recently gave up their time to hold a very successful tutorial in the library. The knitting and crochet sessions by the Knit and Natter group were very well attended, and it was lovely to see these valuable skills being passed on to future generations, with all ages taking part.

Declutter challenge 2022 accepted!

IF YOU’RE HAVING a good old declutter, both Age UK shops in Blandford Forum are urging you to take part in the charity’s 2022 Challenge and donate your unwanted items.

“Our Age UK 2022 Challenge aims to help the charity’s shops receive 2.2 million bags of donations by the end of the year,” says Judy Plummer, shop manager of both Age UK branches in

Blandford. “The charity will turn every bag into bags more support for older people. Items will be sold on to be loved again, with funds raised going towards services such as Age UK’s free national Advice Line and its Telephone Friendship Services.”

“If you’re having a sort out, please try and bring at least two bags – or more if you have them – to your local

Mystery tree poisonings

by Faith Eckersall That’s the question posed by Dorset Council, which says there has been an increase in damage to its trees across the county, including those on Noake Road, Sherborne and Blandford’s Phillips Road.

On each occasion, the culprit appears to be trying to poison and kill the tree so that it will have to be removed. Apart from this being illegal, the council says there is a wider safety issue of the tree becoming unstable and either it, or its branches, failing and damaging property or even causing injury or death.

Dorset Police have been informed of all the locations where such vandalism has been

Age UK shops at 77 East Street or 38 East Street Blandford Forum,” she says.

“We accept clothes, shoes, books, accessories, toys and homeware in good condition. Not only will you be decluttering your home and helping us raise funds to support older people when they need it most, you will also be helping the planet by recycling and reducing waste.”

found, and they and the council will monitor these sites for further activity.

Portfolio Holder for Highways, Travel and Environment, Cllr Ray Bryan, described the poisonings as ‘indiscriminate and selfish action’ that put people at risk.

“It’s one thing to attempt to kill a healthy tree for personal benefit, but quite another to endanger people and property while doing so,” he said. “There must be local residents who have seen and/or can identify the culprits and we would welcome any information.”

People with information can contact the council in confidence at arboriculture@ dorsetcouncil.gov.uk.

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Inspiring photographers and gardeners

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THE ROUND BARROW TODAY’S LEGACY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO TREASURE Within the landscape of our natural wildflower meadows now lies this unique, stunning and exceptional creation.

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A Bugs and Buds session at Knoll Gardens

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A stunning backdrop of specimen trees and shrubs, striking perennials and elegant ornamental grasses makes Knoll Gardens the perfect destination for gardeners, nature lovers and photographers alike.

Here, White Sheep Projects hopes to get as many people enjoying gardens through art, nature and wildlife activities. This summer they’re offering a series of informal

Shaftesbury welcomes new town clerk

photography workshops with retired photographer Dave Peckham, including how to take shots on a smartphone!

Knoll Gardens is also the ideal setting for butterfly and bee walks, weekly summer yoga sessions to the accompaniment of bird song, and monthly Bugs and Buds Saturday nature sessions for children up to six years (£6.50 each, parents go free). www.knollgardens.co.uk/ events.

Briony (known as Brie) Logan has been appointed Town Clerk for Shaftesbury Town Council with immediate effect.

Brie said: “I am thrilled and honoured to have been offered the position of Town Clerk at Shaftesbury Town Council. I am looking forward to supporting the council in delivering the many projects that are currently planned for the future.

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What drew you to The Beckford Arms?

We remember coming off the A303 and following the sat nav through this beautiful arch. There was a lake on one side and a picture-perfect cricket pitch on the other and we were convinced that we’d taken a wrong turn! We carried on for a bit, thinking we’d be turned away once someone saw us, then ended up at a crossroads with The Beckford Arms. We had a whistlestop tour of the pub and fell in love.

What are the best and worst aspects of owning and running a pub?

CHARLIE AND CHLOE LUXTON never stop… laughing. With a portfolio of successful businesses between them, they still find time to relax and enjoy their surroundings in the beautiful Blackmore Vale. Chloe is the founder of Bramley beauty products, and the couple count The Beckford Arms, Tisbury, the Talbot Arms in Mells, the Bath Arms in Horningsham and, more recently the Lord Poulett Arms in Hinton St George, in their stable.

How did you meet?

I met Charlie when I started at Cowshed because we shared an office at Soho House: I fancied him as soon as he walked through the door, and the rest is history!

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There are very few businesses where a guest looks you in the eye and gives you such instant, personal feedback. A wellorganised pub, with hospitable staff serving great food, is a unique situation. Get it right and it’s an extraordinary feeling; get it wrong and all hell breaks loose.

Would you share your top bar tip?

Drink the best wine you possibly can: the better it is, the better you’ll feel the next day.

Was one great business just not enough?

I have always loved natural products and used to make ‘flower perfume’ to sell to passers-by when I was little, so when I realised that the Beckford had eight bedrooms needing products, Bramley was born. Initially it was a collection of just six products – everything you needed in a hotel bathroom – but it has just grown.

How do you manage to stay calm and switch off your business brains?

I’ve started a weekly evening pottery class – it’s the only time that I get to completely lose track of time and create (not always that successfully!). I think it’s so important for one’s mental health. Charlie can lose himself for hours in an antiques or reclamation centre.

You’ve achieved so much together in 13 years… What’s next?

We’re not ones to rest on our laurels! We have a new fragrance collection for Bramley, a new restaurant called the Beckford Canteen in Bath come September, and a hotel opening on Corsham High Street next year!

What has been your proudest professional moment this far?

When the Duchess of Cambridge got in touch to see if Bramley could help her with a campaign to help those living in poverty during the pandemic, alongside some other iconic British brands. We were delighted to be able to help.

How did you navigate lockdown?

We really believed that schools would reopen after the Easter

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Charlie & Chloe Luxton holidays, because the coronavirus would have been contained and all would be tickety-boo. We wouldn’t have coped if we’d known that it would still be going on two years later!

During the first lockdown we juggled work and children between us and didn’t really get our heads around home schooling, but for lockdowns two and three we had help from Jack, the barman at the Beckford, who helped Charlie home-school our three children (who were five, seven and nine at the time). Bramley was able to safely stay open so I became crazy busy: our Hand Sanitiser Gel now sells at a rate of one bottle every 30 seconds.

Has lockdown taught you both anything in particular?

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What are you best holiday memories?

A week down in Mousehole, Cornwall: we rented an Airbnb cottage on the harbour with an amazing sea view and jumped off the harbour wall straight into the sea. Unforgettable! It was probably the first family holiday we’d had when the children were all old enough to enjoy it, making it all the more relaxing for us.

We thought it would teach us to slow down, but that seems to have gone out of the window now that we’re (nearly) back to normal. We all feel a little overwhelmed at the moment because everyone seems to be making up for lost time. But we’re so busy…

Country or town?

You’re a super animal friendly family: how did you discover the joy of pets?

What do you think makes you a dream team?

We have ended up with quite a few animals – starting with our dog, Elsa, who is a bit of a Beckford institution. Now she’s 12, she mainly stays at home. We also have one-yearold Pepper, who has been known to steal a steak off a table at one of the pubs! We love our chickens, and we recently bought a tortoise for our son’s 11th birthday.

Country! After studying and working in cities I was ready to get back to the green fields when we took over the Beckford.

If I go to London for work, the best bit is pulling out of Waterloo, as I know I’m on my way home.

We complement one another: Bramley supports the Beckford Group, and they support us so it’s a happy relationship.

If Chloe and Charlie took to the stage for karaoke, what would you sing?

Easy: Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond. It was our first dance and is always a floor filler.

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Take your body for an MOT

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by Brian MacReamoinn Every day you travel great distances, in all weathers. You get bumps and bruises and scratches. You hear strange noises coming from somewhere inside, but you’re not sure exactly where. Your shock absorbers take a pounding. You struggle to climb hills. You get overtaken by pensioners. You consume various liquids to keep your all your

parts in reasonable working order, but they’re usually cheap and not of the highest quality. Then one day, on a cold winter’s morning, you find you just can’t seem to get going, no matter how

hard you try. You’ve broken down, you’re a wreck.

Yes, a man’s body is not dissimilar to his car. So a man should have a MOT. For all the regular checks – spark plugs, points, emissions, brakes, lights, steering, suspension – a man should substitute blood pressure, cholesterol, oxygen sats, BMI, waist/height ratio.

The trials and tribulations of modern life lead to stresses and strains on the body. Various factors can affect posture or balance. Sitting in front of a computer screen for hours, hunched forward, snacking on bad food. Then after a day’s work, compounding the felony by sitting in pubs consuming fattening, completely unhealthy drinks. None of this seems to get offset by exercise. Gyms joined but never visited, tracksuits lying unworn in bottom drawers, bicycles rusting in sheds.

Men tend to put up with all kinds of niggling aches and pains, and compensate when there are areas of tightness in muscles. But they

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shouldn’t, as these apparently small twinges can develop into much bigger problems if left unattended.

Time for an overhaul

Some of us take better care of our cars than we do of our own bodies, a leading Irish GP commented recently. Like the Irish, the English share that weekend habit of washing their cars until they are so shiny and clean it’s as if their owners are planning to eat lunch off them; and plenty of drivers religiously and meticulously check the oil level, tyre pressure and water reservoir as recommended by motoring organisations. It is reasonable to say they do not follow the equivalent advice of medical practitioners and run regular checks on themselves.

Of course, you don’t have to have a car to put in for a body MOT. Every man should do it. So come on, gents, time to book an appointment with your local garage. Sorry – doctor.

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Here are some of things to look out for. ► Heart rate – check your pulse by placing two fingers on your wrist and count the number of beats per minute. There are various apps you can install on your phone to help. ► Testicular cancer – after a shower or bath, check for any lumps and look out for a dull pain in your testicles. ► Body mass index (BMI) is a quick way of finding out if you’re at the recommended weight. Use the online calculator at www.nhs.uk and the result will tell you if you are considered a healthy weight. ► Waist/height ratio – the NHS advises that a healthy ratio is between 0.4 and 0.49, and provides a useful pointer to your general health. There’s more info at www.nhs.uk. ► Blood pressure, cholesterol level, diabetes – affordable home test kits are widely available. ► Skin cancer – regularly check for any new moles or growths on your skin. It has recently been announced that R routine DNA screening for ‘actionable’ mutations of cancer will soon be offered at your GP, so stay alert!

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CYCLING TO VICTORY is entrant number 200 in the fifth North Dorset Cycle Ride, Lola with her toy monkey Mimi.

Together they raised £250 for Prostate Cancer UK as they rode in typically British damp and windy weather.

Embracing the new six-mile Family Fun ride event, developed to make the previous 12-mile ride more accessible for younger children, Lola took part in a halfway rest point with refreshments and five skill tests to challenge the younger ones (as well as parents) in slow-speed bike control, balance, riding single-handed and bike positioning. The route took them through the beautiful grounds of the new Coombe House School, Blackmore Vale Dairy, before the final ascent of Gold Hill in Shaftesbury.

This year an additional distance of 75 miles was added for cyclists who prefer a bigger challenge, travelling through the beautiful Cranborne Chase, Tollard Royal, Chalke Valley, Bulbarrow Hill and Milton Abbas.

Arranged by the Shaftesbury Rotary Club, many thanks went to the services of Gillingham Wheelers, providing riders with advice at the start of the ride; sponsors Blackmore Vale Dairy, Tesco for the energy bars and bananas (Mimi the Monkey was particularly impressed), Shaftesbury School who provided car park attendants, and Dorset Marshalls among many helpers for the event.

All rides ended with an ascent of Gold Hill, where a large crowd cheered the weary cyclists through to the finish line,

Photo: James Thrift

Lola and Mimi the Monkey raise £250 for Prostate Cancer UK

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accompanied by music from Connor Smith, burgers by Dorset Farm Foods, and coffee via The Really Tiny Coffee Company.

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Time to eradicate ‘man flu’

by Brian MacReamoinn Five years ago, on a normal Monday morning in Shaftesbury, Peter Smith woke up not feeling his best. He had a bit of a runny nose and a slight ache in his shoulders.

“Darling,” he said to his wife, Alice, “I think I shall have to stay home today.

I’m afraid I’ve come down with something.” And, with that, he sneezed.

At that moment, Alice was balancing breakfast cereals, bowls and spoons with one arm while gathering up assorted items of sports kit in the other.

“What?” she said, in a croaky voice.

“I’ve got a fever,” Peter put his hand to his forehead. “I won’t be able to go into the office.”

Alice was on her phone. “Sorry, just renewing the car insurance.” She coughed, checking the time. Time to get those spreadsheets ready my meeting.

“Could you phone the doctor for me?” Her husband’s voice was faint.

Alice rolled her eyes skywards.

“Man flu!” she exclaimed, as she reached for a lozenge.

Peter looked at her, puzzled, wondering why her tone was not one of wifely sympathy but barely contained

exasperation.

Five years ago, scenes not unlike this used to be played out across the Blackmore Vale and beyond. But that was five years ago.

Now, because of the pandemic, men can no longer be accused of man flu.

Research has revealed that the use of the expression disappeared almost entirely during this period. When a man complained of various symptoms not entirely unlike those of the common cold or influenza, he was not

immediately accused of ‘man-Covid’.

This enforced break from ‘normal’ behaviour has led to changes in attitudes. A recent survey showed plenty of women offering support to men.

Caroline, from Worth Matravers in Dorset, said she found the expression “patronising”. Tisbury resident Harriet commented that women should stop treating men like children.

Of course, there are still dozens of comedy sketches on the internet about this perceived exaggerated overreaction of men, contrasting with a woman’s typical response of brushing any illness off as something very minor, but these mask a serious point. Men are ridiculed if they show weakness. Consequently, if they have a genuine anxiety about something being wrong, they are reluctant to share it, instead opting for bravado, a stiff upper lip or indeed complete silence on the matter.

It’s time for the complete eradication of man flu. A vaccine is required, but this isn’t the responsibility of the World Health Organization. No, not WHO, but the OED. Next time you look ‘man flu’ up in the dictionary, it won’t be there.

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Sky’s the limit for Tilly

by Faith Eckersall Damerham’s Tilly Shepherd, 26, made a 10,000-foot skydive to raise money for Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance, three years after it came to the rescue of a family friend, Hayley, who suffered life-threatening injuries after falling from her horse.

“Hayley’s sister, Tanya Elston, has been a close friend of ours since I was around six years old and after she suffered her fall, I wanted to do a something to help,” she said.

Tilly, who has cerebral palsy, decided that a skydive would be a great way to raise money for the Air Ambulance that helped save Hayley’s life.

As her dive day was around three years after Hayley’s accident, Tilly decided £3,000 was the perfect amount to aim for.

“The jump was from Old Sarum Airfield and there were loads of us doing it that day,” she said. After watching the induction video, she was placed in a practice harness to ensure she could land safely.

At 12 noon Tilly’s plane set off and she was strapped to her instructor.

“As you get to the drop zone you come to the front of the seating bench and then they just push you out,” said Tilly. “I didn’t open my eyes until I was outside the plane but when I did, it was amazing – you could see huge amounts of the countryside beneath you.”

The drop comprised of a speedy 30-second free-fall, during which she went through some small clouds.

Then, after the parachute was open, the drop slowed up, giving her panoramic views of the Wiltshire countryside. “It was quiet and very surreal and I had a lot of time to see what was below me,” she said.

Following a gentle landing, she was able to speak to her support team, who included Hayley and Tanya, and they were all able to see the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance as it flew overhead.

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Care for carers

by Nicci Brown Fourteen staff from The Blandford School at half term completed the Three Peaks Challenge and have to date raised nearly £3,000 in sponsorship for two local charities, the Blandford Foodbank and MYTIME Young Carers.

The group successfully conquered the three highest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales: Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon. Their first climb – the ascent of Ben Nevis in Scotland – began with the team tackling a snow-covered peak of 1,345m, and after travelling to the Lake District to climb and descend Scafell Pike they then moved on to North Wales, where the first four members of the team made it up and back to the car park from the top of Snowdon at 12.51pm the following day, with another two close behind.

Niall Clinton, Head of Years 7 and 9 at the school and trip organiser, said he was “immensely proud of the group”.

“We are so pleased that we’ve been able to raise money and awareness for two such worthy causes in the local area; the generous donations reflect the support the school wants to provide to the community,” he said.

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We had a wonderful jubilee weekend to celebrate the HRH Queen Elizabeth’s 70-year reign, did you? Looking at some of your photos from the four-day celebrations… we think you did!

The visit of Gillingham Twinners, with the new mayor Sharon Cullingford, to its twin town Le Neubourg.

Sharon’s first official function was to plant a tree to commemorate 45 years of Twinning and the Jubilee.

Her Majesty waits patiently at the bus stop in Milton Clevedon: thieves tried to steal her, but God save the Queen!

A Union Flag created at Milldown Primary School, comprising 324 illustrations (one by each pupil) of all things regal.

More than 300 children from Sherborne Primary created this aerial artwork, then celebrated with a playground picnic (right); children from St Mary’s in Bradford Abbas enjoyed a traditional street party (left).

Just one of over 3,000 beacons lit to help unite the country on the evening of 2 June.

Some of the many church flower festivals displayed over the Jubilee holiday: including St Gregory’s at Marnhull, Shillingstone, Okeford Fitzpaine and Buckland Newton.

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Friends and residents of West Knoyle joined together for fun, games, and the lighting of a beacon to mark the jubilee.

(Photos by Emma Wareham)

Sherborne station gets NBVM platinum prize for best jubilee decoration, and customer care too we gather, all thanks to ticket officer Anne Dibble who knitted these fabulous tributes to the Queen, and made everyone’s journey that much more enjoyable.

(Photo by Karen Day-Milne)

The most creative crowns at Shaftesbury Primary School.

The Athenaeum Singers at Christ Church in Warminster, with guest conductor Nigel Perrin, performing Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo.

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One man and his shed THEY SAY, ‘EVERY man deserves a shed’ – a bolthole, a place to think, a sanctuary. For Peter Thompson, 57, a semi-retired business advisor from Netton, Salisbury, his newly found passion for leatherwork gave him a new skill in his outdoor office, as he explained to NVBM recently…

I am not particularly creative, but I have decent reserves of patience, concentration and positivity: all three useful in life, but essential in leatherwork, so I’ve found. For reasons I cannot explain, I can spend an hour or two polishing shoes or dubbing boots, but barely have the patience to iron a shirt.

One day it occurred to me that I could do some of the basic repairs of my favourite old worn leather accessories myself. After all, I was able to sew on a button, so hard could it be?

Sadly, my first foray into stitching leather was an unmitigated disaster.

Father Christmas (my partner Eve) had initially brought me a one-size-fits-all leather sewing kit (in terms of quality, think 1970’s Woolworths) and my attempt to repair the butt of a leather gun slip was dreadful. In fact, it was so poor I have kept it ‘as repaired’ to remind me of how far I have now travelled. I had no idea how to stitch evenly or in a straight line and the results resembled the medical chart of an irregular heartbeat.

Picking up the skills

Feeling my distress, Eve took remedial action, booking me on an amazing residential leather stitching course. I spent a weekend immersed in both the theory and practice

of cutting, burnishing and stitching, culminating in the design and build of an item of one’s choice. I made a boot case/bag for Eve’s walking boots – to everyone’s surprise it was serviceable and is still in use.

With hit (and plenty of miss) I then undertook a series of projects for friends and family, some never to be repeated, others forming the basis of my modest repertoire today: tote bags (for the uninitiated, a ‘large and unfastened bag with parallel handles’ – I didn’t know this at the time), log baskets, fishing reel covers, cartridge bags and key fobs.

My favourite is my log basket. I love the practicality of leather and want everything I make to be both beautiful and functional. I was aware that ancient water buckets were hand stitched in leather, but I couldn’t quite see how that would work. When I started to experiment with small cylindrical containers, I realised I could make a vessel that was both watertight and incredibly strong. My log basket is a much bigger (oval-based) cylinder, essentially two pieces of 3mm thick leather, stitched with linen thread.

Although decorative, it is incredibly strong and could carry the weight of a small child. The body is 45cm high and 100cm in circumference and I really enjoy selecting a piece of leather with the right grain and texture.

I have a very basic garden shed with questionable insulation. The joy of not having anything in the way of machinery is that I can work pretty much anywhere with a solid table for my cutting mat and plenty of drawers and jars for the awls, needles, compasses, threads, knives, dye and brass work. But it is a messy business, and my desk fills up very quickly with leather offcuts, shavings, threads, bottles of dye etc.

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Yet tidiness is absolutely essential as it takes very little to scratch the surface of the leather, and that can lead to scrapping the piece and starting again.

The awl is a very useful tool for punching through the leather for stitches, but if you leave it lying around it will inevitably ruin your day. I’m a believer in Feng Shui and I try to tidy up at the end of every day.

Mindful work

I love the peace of creating something from nothing. I quickly lose myself in the ebb and flow of the stitching and crafting. No two days are the same and indeed no two pieces of leather are identical, so I have to be adaptable and patient. I also love the fact that I am progressing in terms of ability –- sometimes it’s through building an entirely new product (I had to unpick the 14 components of my own cartridge bag before I could work out how to make one from scratch…. very complex), at other times it’s simply about getting better at stitching through doing so much of it. I can’t deny am touched by wonderful feedback from customers, friends and recipients, and that is incredibly satisfying in itself.”

If you’d like to find out more about Peter’s work, or place an order, visit www.pecheleather.com or email pecheleather@gmail.com.

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Our village holds a library in its decommissioned telephone box, from which one of our number picked up a battered paperback copy of Madeline Miller’s reimagining of Homer’s Odyssey. After a couple of pages, he insisted that it should be the book club’s next title.

Miller interweaves ancient Greek myths with a version of the Odyssey that puts Circe, the daughter of Helios the sun god and originally a minor character in the story, at the centre of the action. A few of us were familiar with Homer’s epic poem, but those who weren’t didn’t find it vital to either their understanding or appreciation of this story. It helps to have a little context, and we all admitted to reading around online in search of a (very) potted account of the original, as it was generally agreed by those who had read

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it to be filled with more minor characters than a Marvel multiverse. Circe originally appears briefly, to turn Odysseus’s crew into swine and bear him children, but this exploration fleshes her out, creating her own story arc that’s a fascinating contrast to the macho posturing and adventuring of the original.

Miller’s Circe is an immortal witch, banished by the gods to live alone on the island of Aiaia, where she happily hones her craft. She is described by Homer as polpharmakos, which Miller works up into a portrait of a woman who becomes one with her island as she grows, harvests and processes herbs and magical plants for her armoury of lotions and potions. The descriptions of the sights, smells and sounds of the island are incredibly evocative. We drew parallels

between Aiaia’s fecund earth and the concept of a Mother Earth who provides everything we need to survive, in some mysterious way or another.

At its heart this is a love story, of mother and son as much as man and woman.

Some eyes rolled as the immortal witch described the trials of motherhood as only survivable because she had no need of sleep. But ultimately this is a wonderfully lifeaffirming examination of what it is to be mortal, and how we can perhaps only appreciate what we have because we know it is finite.

We’re taking a detour into poetry next, with ‘A Selection’

by Stevie Smith. If you’d like to suggest a title for the NBVM Book Club to discuss, please email newsdesk@ blackmorevale.net. We’d love to hear your thoughts.

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Generations of craft, skill and knowledge, woven with love Steeped in three generations of history, Bakhtiyar has long been a respected leader in the Persian and Oriental hand-knotted carpet trade. Headed by internationally renowned carpet expert Masoud Mazaheri-Asadi, he and his son Koroush continue to carve a new path for the industry bringing the historic beauty of Persia to homes around the world.

Spend time with Bakhtiyar’s specialists and you will quickly discover their passion and love for the craftsmanship of the carpets they source. As an authoritative figure within the industry, Masoud is often invited to share his expertise and insider knowledge with media outlets such as the BBC to discuss the ever-changing market. He also advises auction houses, insurance firms and institutions to identify and value Persian rugs and carpets.

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all we do, we carry out general carpet repairs for clients, whilst also working with many historic organisations to clean and restore carpets, bringing them back to life, in some cases removing 200 year old stains.

At Bakhtiyar we believe that no carpet is ever a lost ruin, beyond repair. As the Persian Poet Rumi once said “where

there is ruin, there is hope for treasure”.

Our team of highly skilled cleaners and restorers, based in our London Warehouse, carry out repairs using the traditional knotting methods to fully restore rugs to their former glory, taking wool dated from the same period as the rug, to perfectly match the rest of the piece.

A major selling exhbition of Persian carpets, runners and kelims.

Friday 10th to Sunday 13th of June 2022 Open 10.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. daily We invite you to join us at our summer exhibition in the beautiful Mintern Barn at Luccombe Farm in Dorset.

We will be showing a large selection from our extensive stock of hand woven Persian carpets, runners and kelims ranging from antique to modern pieces.

Persian food will be served daily with all proceeds raised being donated to The Leonardo Trust charity.

MINTERN BARN, LUCCOMBE FARM, MILTON ABBAS, BLANDFORD FORUM, DORSET, DT11 0BE Directions: Approach the exhibition at Luccombe Farm from Winterborne Whitechurch (A354), using the signed Milton Abbas Road. Ample parking is available and Mintern Barn is wheel chair accessible.

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Our Loose Canon

by Canon Eric Woods When the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited Sherborne Abbey in 1998, I rather naively enquired if I would be sent a Royal Standard to fly from the Abbey tower. I was informed that the Royal Standard flies over only two churches when the Queen is present: Westminster Abbey and St George’s Chapel, Windsor. They are ‘her’ churches, under her personal jurisdiction.

Only they fly that particular flag. So I didn’t make the same mistake when we were planning a second visit, to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee, back in 2012.

The Royal Standard flies over the Queen’s residences, cars, planes and her churches whenever she is in them. For example, if you stand in the Mall in London and watch the Queen returning to Buckingham Palace, you will see that after her car has entered the courtyard, the Royal Standard is broken out on the central flagstaff. It means that she is at home. She is in residence.

We have recently celebrated Ascension Day. It is the 40th day of Easter and marks a pivotal point in the

resurrection story. For a few short weeks the risen Christ has been with his disciples, and that defeated band of men – who fled from the scene of his death – has begun to realise the meaning of his teaching that he would indeed be raised from the dead to inaugurate a new kingdom – the Kingdom of God. But then, on that first Ascension Day, he is taken from them again.

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It must have felt like a second bereavement – but Jesus had warned them that it was absolutely necessary.

He needed to withdraw from them so that he could become available to all people, everywhere – and in every age.

They finally understood what he meant when on the Day of Pentecost – Whit Sunday, as we still call it – he returned to them in the Holy Spirit. It was such a dramatic experience that they recalled afterwards that it was like tongues of fire descending in a great, rushing wind.

So Ascension Day was not a going away by Jesus, as the disciples must have thought of it at first. Rather it was

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The Blackmore Vale recognised the achievements of two of its leading ladies recently, with the election of Cllr Sharon Cullingford to the post of Mayor of Gillingham, and Sybil Fine King taking on the role of Dorset’s High Sheriff for 2022/23.

At the Mayor Making ceremony this May, Cllr Cullingford said, “I feel immense pride to become the 50th Mayor of Gillingham and have the honour to be the first daughter of a past Mayor following in the footsteps of my father, the late Robin Hussey who was Mayor of Gillingham in 1985.”

In Dorset, Sybil Fine King took up office in April and has been meeting people and attending events in her capacity as the official representative of the Royal Family in the county.

Promoting the healing power of the natural world is one of her goals, and she’s working closely with the Dorset Community Foundation to run the Nature Heals Fund, which offers grants to groups and charities. She came to Dorset from Pittsburgh in 1985: “As soon as I got to know the area I felt a strong connection with the people and the place,” she explained.

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SELLING OUT FAST! The Covent Garden Dance Company is thrilled to be returning to the stunning two tiered walled garden at Hatch House.

For over a decade Hatch House has played host to some of the biggest names in ballet and dance including Carlos Acosta, Lauren Cuthbertson, Lucia Lacarra, Vadim Muntagirov and many, many more.

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The all-inclusive dinner ticket includes a welcome drink, three course gourmet dinner with wines and all 12 world class performances. You are invited to come and dine amongst the scents of the summer flora in Hatch House’s famous walled garden and watch some of the world’s greatest dancers perform a mixed bill of classical, contemporary and neoclassical works.

The dinner and performances all take place in a specially created 440 seat dinner theatre within the walled garden, which is covered for the event.

The three half hour sections of performance take place between the dining courses and last for around 20-30 mins per section.

'The Glyndebourne of Ballet' The Covent Garden Dance Company has a reputation for presenting some of the most beautiful gala programmes around the world.

The heady combination of ballet and fine dining is an unmissable experience for anyone and everyone.

Post show we invite you to enjoy our fully furnished cocktail bar with music 'til 1am, with a fabulous cocktail menu created especially for the event by our mixologist Theo Maxwell.

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Festival fever!

With the biggest festival of them all, Glastonbury at Worthy Farm, with about 250,000 partying guests a day, just around the corner – literally – it’s a delight to see the passion that has gone into creating the ultra mini fest!

Think same mud, different field, smaller crowd but fun for all the family.

So, if last week’s jubilee celebrations have you in the mood for more celebrating, then check out one of these fun-for-all festivals in and around the Blackmore Vale, many devoted to a wonderful cause.

You’ll find pop, rock, reggae, folk, as these small-scale events focus on local musical talent. Check first if you need to book.

Usual festival rules apply – the weather may be British, wellies or walking shoes are a must, take home your litter, be prepared to queue, keep your sense of humour, contribute to charity – and above all have fun.

Dorset Beer Fest Sat 25 June, 11am -10pm

Blandford St. Mary, Blandford Forum, DT11 9LS Super fans of real ale, cider and perries, plus live music and hot food, will know all about the the Hall & Woodhouse Dorset Beer Fest in Blandford St Mary, which is finally back for 2022 on Saturday 25 June, 11am -10pm. Run by one of the most popular Dorset breweries, the producers of Badger Beers, this popular community event helps showcase many local talents.

Fundraising for Dorset MIND, the last festival in 2019 raised over £11,500 for charity. Entry costs £10 (which includes glass/mug, programme and six drinks tokens). Call 01258452141 for more information, or visit www. hallwoodhousebeerfest.com.

Quinfest

Fri 8-Sat 9 July 3pm-11pm; entry from £15, children free

Milborne St Andrew Sports Pavilion Quinfest is in memory of Ann Quin, who died from a brain tumour in 2020 aged 36.

This family friendly music festival was held for the first time in 2019 supporting the brain tumour charity, but had to put it on hold for 2020/21.

Live music, arts and crafts, games and more are on offer – as well as camping and glamping for the full festival experience!

This year’s line-up includes Downside Up, Damion Maston, Nick Capaldi and Lili White For more information, visit www.quinfest.co.uk.

Summer Solstice Wick Fest Vintage Vehicle Gathering

Sat 9 July; £10-£20, under-12s free

Tues 21 June; £5 per vehicle

North Dorset Rugby Club Take a stroll around the Summer Solstice Vintage Vehicle Gathering, a much-loved annual event held every year on a special day in the calendar – except for those who like longer days! Think vintage and classic cars, bikes, buses and lorries, who literally arrive in their droves. Soak up a great atmosphere while enjoying good food and a chance to enjoy the sights.

This year’s new venue is the North Dorset Rugby Club (entrance off B3081 on the Gillingham to Wincanton Road) who have very kindly offered to hold the event. Sadly no dogs are allowed. If you would like to volunteer to help please call 01747 824240 or email solsticevintage_vg@ yahoo.com, or look for SSVVG on Facebook.

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6pm-1am at Seven Wells Down Farm, Milborne Port, Sherborne DT9 4LJ Enjoy an evening of sizzling summer fun for all the family at Wick Charity Music Festival.

“I am organising a charity music fest on our family farm to raise money for Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance, the Brain Injury Unit at Poole Hospital and Headway, charities very close to our heart,” says Sarah Sprake, whose husband had a freak accident on the farm in May 2020.

“He wasn’t expected to survive, and if he did, the injury to his brain would have been life-changing. However, by miracle and thanks to the amazing dedication to the people who looked after him, he came back to the family farm.

“After six months he went back to work and now does the things he always enjoyed. He suffers with short-term memory issues and tires more easily, but to us that’s minor.”

Playing on the night are an Elvis tribute, Mangled Worzels, Razing Steam and more local talent. Food stalls, bars and a silent auction will be on offer, along with camping.

Tickets are available through Eventbrite or contact Sarah Sprake on sprake575@live.co.uk.

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Petherton FolkFest Sat 18 June; free entry

10am-6.30pm, The David Hall, Roundwell St, South Petherton

by Brian MacReamoinn If you have never come across Church Clipping or taken part in a Glove Ceremony, then it might be worth visiting South Petherton on Saturday, 18 June.

These two intriguing activities are only a fraction of the fun and entertainment to be had in the village’s annual festival of all things folk.

Delays due to Covid have only made the Petherton Folk Fest organising committee even more enthusiastic, says one of its members, Penny Bool. “After two frustrating years, committee members are champing at the bit to get out there and put on a show to make South Petherton proud,” she said.

The event has an exciting array of music, dance and children’s attractions on offer. The day-long extravaganza is free of charge. As well as the traditional Maypole spectacle, there’s Irish dancing, flamenco and even belly dancing.

The David Hall will have a great line-up of performers and the festival will close with an evening gig by The Dambuskers at The Brewer’s Arms.

Full details of the festival programme can be found at www.pethertonfolkfest.org.uk or phone 01935 881782.

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The home of Country House opera in South West England featuring renowned soloists and full orchestra

Marquee Bar | Picnics | Formal Dining

Giacomo Puccini

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25, 28, 30 July at 19:00 | Matinée 27 July at 14:00 Sung in Italian with English surtitles

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

THE MAGIC FLUTE

26, 27, 29 July at 19:00 | Matinée 30 July at 14:00 Sung in English with surtitles

Coade Theatre, Bryanston, Blandford Forum

Keith Fest Sat 25 June; over 16s: £10

12 noon-11pm at Henstridge Airfield, Marsh Lane, Henstridge BA8 0TN Yvette Bowler’s amazing music festival, delayed for the past two summers, is held in memory of her late son Keith, who took his own life aged 39, leaving a young daughter.

The festival is a celebration of music-lover Keith’s life, but also raises money for CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) and the suicide prevention charity Suicide&Co. Every week, 125 people in the UK take their own life; these charities offer help to those at their most vulnerable.

Headline acts at Keith Fest include tribute band Ironed Maiden, plus supporting acts Cock Eyed Squid, Bad Uncle, No Thursday War, Unknown Identity and many more.

Phone Yvette on 07749 346812, email yvettebowler@live. co.uk or visit www.keithfest.co.uk.

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Dad’s days out…

THINK FUN-FILLED walks, fairytale inspired sightseeing trips, historythemed treasure hunts, coastal cycle rides or art appreciation, there should be something to relax your way…

Open Farm Sunday

For just one day – 12 June – over 1,000 working farms across the UK, many of them within our dear Blackmore Vale, take part in this annual initiative that celebrates British farming and the many positive ways in which the countryside can be farmed, foraged and maintained for the future.

Open Farm Sunday is a one-day immersive experience that’s a great opportunity for farmers to engage with their community and share their farming story. This family-friendly event is a great opportunity for

members of the public, of any age, to learn first-hand what it means to be a farmer, where food comes from, and the high standards required. This year’s theme is health – from minds to soil.

Each farm will offer something unique, based around the farm’s individual story.

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suppliers and – depending on the farm – meet the animals, as well as discover first-hand about how farmers are committed to countrywide sustainability, biodiversity, and animal welfare. For a guide to those farms taking part, visit the LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming) Open Farm Sunday website www.farmsunday.org where you are able to search for farms near your postcode or in your area.

(Please note, farms are not required to be a member of LEAF to take part.)

New on the scene is Durslade Farm, Bruton, home of the Hauser & Wirth art gallery owned by Manuela and Iwan Wirth and known collectively as Artfarm. In collaboration with Somerset Wildlife Trust, visitors can go on a Wild Walk foraging wander in the woodlands, watch a sheep shearing demo, and sample the free-range seasonal food from the open fires.

Famous Five-style adventures Get inspired by the NBVM’s very own Chris Slade and check out his wonderful walks online at www. blackmorevale.net (or on page 64 of

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Hidden ‘open’ gardens

this issue). Destinations include Nether Compton, Castleton, Silton, Gillingham and Stalbridge. Pack a picnic, strap on a rucksack, pick up a stick and breathe fresh air and inspiration into your mind and body.

On 11 June there’s the launch of an orienteering trail in Blandford, while on 13 June, Hash House Harriers celebrate

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On Father’s Day weekend (18-19 June), the picturesque village of Hinton St Mary will open its gardens with afternoon tea and cakes served in the Tithe Barn at the Manor House. There will also be plants for sale, along with collectables and second-hand books.

Enjoy an exhibition of old Hinton, showing the village as it was in days gone by. Entry is £6 for adults (valid for both days), accompanied children free.

That same weekend, you’ll find 25 open gardens to wander around in Cerne Abbas, 2-6pm. Proceeds are divided between Young People’s Trust and the Dorchester Youth Theatre (DYT). Tickets cost £7 for one day, £10 for both. Call 01300 341311 or visit www.cerneabbasopengardens.org.uk.

Likewise, Zeals sees six private village gardens open on 18-19 June, to raise funds for the Ukrainian DEC and St Martin’s LCC. You can visit several artists’ studios and gardens, many with artworks for sale. The elegant Green House will show a collection of classic

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There are 18 gardens open in Blandford on 26 June, 11am-5pm.

Organised by the Blandford Environmental Trust, which manages Angus Wood in St Leonard’s Avenue, tickets cost £5 to visit all gardens.

Sponsored by Colten Care, this garden event has raised over £23k to date.

Money raised from ticket sales of the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral’s open gardens will fund the preservation of this beautiful medieval masterpiece.

Enjoy tea and cake in Salisbury Cathedral School’s Millennium Garden with an exhibition of botanical art for sale in the cathedral cloisters.

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True life in the notorious asylum

by Faith Eckersall It’s been around since 1863, but the name Broadmoor still has the power to send chills down the spine.

As Britain’s first asylum for ‘criminal lunatics’, Broadmoor Hospital has been regarded as a place of unrelenting grimness. But a new book, which features the story of a Dorset woman who was detained there, could help change that view.

Writer Kim Thomas became fascinated by the stories of Broadmoor’s women patients while researching her Masters degree. As CEO of the Birth Trauma Association charity, she has seen first-hand what happens to women who become seriously mentally ill.

came home they hired farm labourer William Lodge to keep an eye on her, but this didn’t work. So the family called a doctor who said it would be best for Blanche to be admitted to an asylum.”

Kim discovered that the family had made an appointment for Blanche to enter the private Fisherton House asylum in Salisbury, but before they could take her, tragedy struck.

On 5 November 1877, Blanche picked up a loaded shotgun that her uncle had left at the farm, and blasted her mother while she was in the garden.

She died from her injuries.

To add to the nightmare, it appears Blanche had attended Shroton Fair before her breakdown and practised shooting at the rifle arcade there…

Women at Broadmoor dancing as the asylum band plays, published in Illustrated News, 1867

“I think I wanted to write about this because women’s stories are so often untold,” says Kim. “Throughout history women have been ignored; you hear men’s voices quite a lot and history is largely told by men.”

Even fewer people have recorded or paid attention to the stories of workingclass women, but Kim tracked down many of these in old newspaper reports of trials and inquests.

“In these reports the women came to life and out of the shadows,” she says.

“The spotlight was on their terrible crimes and I just found it fascinating.”

Tragedy strikes

Given that the first Broadmoor patient was a woman and that females made up one-fifth of all those there, Kim set about investigating. One of the stories she unearthed is of Blanche Bastable, who lived at Wichells Farm, East Orchard near Shaftesbury.

“She was in her early 20s when she became ill and her family became worried and sent her to a private asylum in Bristol, where she stayed for about a year and a half,” says Kim. “When she

An inquest jury pronounced a verdict of murder and Blanche was arrested and sent to Dorchester county jail. However, because of her mental illness, she never stood trial and was admitted to Charminster Lunatic Asylum, later Herrison Hospital, before moving on to Broadmoor.

‘Moral therapy’

In the admission records it was noted that the cause of her mental illness was unknown but, says Kim: “We know she had religious delusions and that the only thing she would read was the Bible.”

Her belief is that today, Blanche may have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, but this condition was uncategorised then.

Because there was no recognised mental health treatment at this time, neither drugs not talking therapies, Broadmoor’s solution was ‘moral therapy’. “This was far kinder than it sounds,” says Kim… It involved removing the patient from the environment in which they had become unwell and giving them a place of calm, with plain food, fresh air, hard work and

no stimulus that might make them anxious or too excited.

“The doctors who ran the hospital were very passionate about not punishing the patients,” she says. “In many ways people then were more compassionate and far less judgemental than nowadays.”

Changing views

Some Broadmoor patients recovered enough to eventually go home, but not poor Blanche.

“She was 25 when she went there and she remained ill and suffered delusions,” says Kim. “She then contracted TB, died in Broadmoor at the age of 27 and was buried in Crowthorne churchyard, near the hospital.”

Kim believes Blanche’s family would have experienced the stigma of her offence and her subsequent admission to an asylum but she has been unable to trace any family members. “She was one of eight children and so there would have been siblings and, perhaps, nieces and nephews so there may well be family members around today,” she says.

Her biggest takeaway from her research is that our view of Victorian asylums is probably inaccurate. “We see them as harsh and intolerant but I discovered there was a lot of sympathy for these women,” she says. “The people in charge of their welfare really seemed to do their best to help them, so much so that some were able to return to their lives.”

‘Broadmoor Women: Tales from Britain’s First Criminal Lunatic Asylum’ by Kim Thomas is published by Pen & Sword Books: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk.

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Visit some hidden gardens in our unique Georgian town

Berwick St John FRE EE E FR Y! E NT Village Fete R R T Y !

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SUNDAY 26th JUNE 2022 11am -5pm

Saturday 18th June, 2pm Upton Lucy SP7 0HP

Tickets available two weeks before the event from the BLANDFORD INFORMATION CENTRE &

-Bottle Tombola -Teas & Cakes -Plants -Berwick Boutique -Bric a Brac -Made in Berwick -Shaftesbury Silver Band -Silent Auction -Fun Dog Show -Pimms Bar -Traditional Games -Books -Steam Engine -Horse & Cart Carriage Rides

£5 for all gardens

BLANDFORD TOWN MUSEUM

Blandford

Organised by Blandford Environmental Trust Ltd. Sponsored by COLTEN CARE

All money raised goes to charities

Wincanton Memorial Hall 7.30pm 15th, 16th July 2022 Tickets £16 01963 34196

“A masterpiece of touring opera” - NODA of last year’s ‘Barber of Seville’

More information at www.bathopera.com Advert supported by the New Blackmore Vale magazine

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CHARITY CLAY SHOOT

In aid of Ducks & Drakes Cancer Trust

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Sunday 3rd July at 10am

Plush Cricket Ground, DT2 7RQ LAST ENTRY 2pm FIBRE WADS ONLY PLEASE Individual Guns Individual Traps & Team Flush Teams of 4 or U16’s BBQ & Refreshments ENQUIRIES: 07796 857744 www.ducksdrakescancertrust.org.uk

SUMMER SOLSTICE VINTAGE VEHICLE GATHERING raising funds in aid of Dorest & Somerset Air Ambulance

Pre Aug 1987 Vehicle Display Area | Post Aug 1987 Vehicle Display Area Visitor Parking Area | All £5 Per Vehicle | No Transported Vehicles Volunteer Some of Your Time to help Te:l 01747 824 240

HINTON ST MARY GARDENS OPEN

DT10 1NA Saturday 18th June, Sunday 19th June 2.00 – 6.00 PM

MODEL TOYS & TRAINS Collectors Fair

(Sell/Buy or Swap, old or new)

WIMBORNE

QE LEISURE CENTRE (Sports Hall)

B3082 Blandford Road, Wimborne BH21 4DT Sunday 26th June, 10.15am–2.30pm

Enquiries to Dave on 01202 590158 or 07808 484414

Adults: £6 (tickets valid for both days) Children under 14 free Many village gardens, including the Manor gardens will be open Cream Teas in the Tithe Barn “Old Hinton” Exhibition in the Church Plants, Books, and “Collectables and Home Decoration” stalls Sorry No Dogs Ample Free Parking

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Events Guide The Sir Edward Heath Annual Lecture

BACK TO THE FUTURE: WHAT THE POLITICS OF THE 1970S HAS TO TEACH BRITAIN TODAY WITH KEN CLARKE Joined by Dominic Sandbrook, Vernon Bogdanor, Robin Butler & Gyles Brandreth

THURSDAY 30TH JUNE AT 3PM at Salisbury Cathedral

TICKETS £25

to include a drinks reception & the Magna Carta exhibition

Minette Batters

President of the National Farmers Union

THE FUTURE OF FOOD AND THE COUNTRYSIDE Thursday 7th July, 3pm at Arundells, The Close, Salisbury Tickets £20

The talk will be followed by tea & cake in the garden and the house will be open to explore

CLIMATE CHANGE OPPORTUNITY OR APOCALYPSE? With Lord Deben Chairman of the Committee on Climate Change

Wednesday 20th July, 4pm at Arundells, The Close, Salisbury

Tickets £20 The talk will be followed by tea & cake in the garden and the house will be open to explore

FOR TICKETS OR MORE INFORMATION VISIT

WWW.ARUNDELLS.ORG/EVENTS

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Events Guide PIMPERNE GARDENS open Saturday 18- Sunday 19 June, From 11am tickets from Pimperne Village Hall FREE CONCERT Wednesday 15th June at noon. St. Mary’s Sturminster Newton.

Janet Coles (cello), Laura Manning (piano). Collection for DEC Ukraine MARSTON MAGNA MIDSUMMER FAIR 2022 A popular family event FREE - 18th June at 1:15, behind the church.

JUMBLE SALE at Marnhull Royal British Legion, Sodom Lane on June 18th. Doors open 10.15 COUNTRY LINK SOCIAL GROUP . Fresh air, fun, food and friendship. Tel. Andy 01225 834834 or Val 01749 342918 www.country-link.org.uk

LYN’S BINGO

at Marnhull Royal British Legion on Monday June 13th. Eyes down 7pm

OPEN GARDEN AT LITTLEBROOK FARMHOUSE, Belchalwell DT11 0EG for Julia’s House Hospice. Entry £5 per person. Sunday 12th June from 2.30pm to 5pm. Tea and refreshments available. Details from 01258 863683 or springheadjackie@hotmail.com EAST SOMERSET SKITTLES LEAGUE Notice of AGM Any new teams wishing to enter please attend the AGM at Castle Cary Cricket Ground on 16th June 2022 or email bowleser@gmail.com We are a 6-a-Side mixed League playing on Friday nights, within an approx 10 mile radius of Castle Cary.

MONDAY LUNCH CLUBS WEEKLY BAR BANK HOLIDAYS. A chance to socialise/ meet friends old and new. Transport free. Cost of Lunch from £6.50.

Meals on Wheels (hot food) home deliveries available weekdays for same costs Friends of Stour Connect (Charity) Sturminster Newton DT10 1JF. For bookings/menus 01258 471359/ 07849 618522 or admin@friendsofstourconnect.org

INDOOR MARKET SHAFTESBURY TOWN HALL Saturday 18th June 9-4.30pm. supporting DSAA and Weldmar Hospice.

FREE entry CANZONETTA, Dorset’s female close harmony ensemble, presents an hour of Songs for a Summer Afternoon. Sunday June 19th 3pm at St Andrews Church, Milborne St Andrew DT11 0JR. Free entry with a retiring collection in aid of the church.

SATURDAY 18 JUNE 2-4 PM CRANBORNE LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY Exhibition-Reign of Queen Elizabeth II - Souvenirs & Mementoes of Cranborne Residents; Cranborne Middle School Art Exhibition- 3 Faces of The Queen; Royal Moments in Cranborne. Cranborne Church Fete Cranborne Manor COFFEE MORNING Marsh Farm, Ibberton DT11 0EJ Saturday 18th June 10.30 – 12.30 Bring & Buy, Cakes, Plants, Bric a brac , Pony Rides Children welcome In aid of Woolland Church

PIMPERNE GARDENS OPEN Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th June 11am to 5pm Tickets from Pimperne Village Hall TICKETS £5 SHAFTESBURY LIBRARY Community Policing Drop In Surgery Thursday 16 June 10.00 - 11.00am YOUNG BEDDING PLANTS FOR SALE 11-12 June enquires 01722 714552 SP3 5NG LEGO TIME at Shaftesbury Library is proving to be very popular.

Well done everyone! Lego Time is from 11am to 12 noon every Saturday PETHERTON FOLK FEST Saturday 18th June 2022 10am - 6.30pm A day of FREE family entertainment Market Square and other venues.

UKRAINE CONCERT IN WINCANTON The Pilgrim Singers – singing for Ukraine.

Sunday 3rd July 6.00 pm in Clementina’s Garden, High St, Wincanton. £14 to include glass of Pimms, strawberries and cream.Tel 01963 33695

http://www.blackmorevalebonsaigroup.com Show 26th June Remembrance Hall Charlton SP7 0PA 11am., to 4pm.

Displays traders.

Refreshments fish and chips lunchtime info Geoff 07837781744

ZEALS OPEN GARDENS Sat 18TH- Sun 19TH JUNE 12noon-5pm Visit 10 gardens with easy walking in Zeals plus 5 Country Gardens with parking on site. Artists’ gardens showing their work, Classic Cars Refreshments & Cream teas Free Childrens Fun Trail Entry £5 at Zeals Village Hall, BA12 6NA (303 Stourhead exit) Facilities for the disabled at the hall In support of St. Martin’s LCC & the Ukrainian Relief Fund

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Church n Shaftesbury Quakers (Society of Friends).

Meets for one hour each Sunday from 10.30am at the Quaker Meeting House, Abbey Walk, Shaftesbury SP7 8BB. Everyone welcome. n West Camel Independent Methodists.

Meets at All Saints Church on the first Sunday of the month at 4pm followed by tea.

Other Sundays, evening worship is at 6pm. Phone 01935 850838 or Geoff. mead@yahoo.com. n Blandford Methodist Church. Sunday services start at 10.45am. Over-60s lunch club on Tuesday and Friday priced £4. Reserve by phone. Coffee morning on Thursday, 10am-noon.

The church is anxious to offer help to those in need.

Leave a message on the phone and it will return the call within 24 hours. n Anglican High Mass at Wimborne St Giles. High Mass is the first Sunday of each month at 10am. BH21 5LZ. n Coffee, Cake and Company at St Gregory’s Church, Marnhull. Every Thursday from 10-11am.

Everyone welcome. n Sherborne Abbey.

Monday to Saturday, 8.30am Morning Prayer; The Sepulchre Chapel.

Mondays, 9am CW Holy Communion; The Lady Chapel. Tuesdays, 12 noon CW Holy Communion; The Lady Chapel. Wednesdays, 10.30am Holy Communion with Homily; The Lady Chapel (alternates CW and BCP).

Thursdays, 12 noon BCP Holy Communion; The Lady Chapel. Fridays, 9am Ecumenical Holy Communion; The Lady Chapel. First Friday of

the month, 9am Requiem Holy Communion; The Sepulchre Chapel. Third Friday of the month, 11am Remembering the Fallen (excluding Good Friday). Saturdays, 9am CW Holy Communion; The Sepulchre Chapel. n St Peter’s, Hinton St Mary. First, second and third Sundays, 9.30am Morning Prayer. Fourth Sunday, 9.30am Holy Communion. n St Thomas’ Lydlinch.

Second and fourth Sunday, 11am Holy Communion.

3rd Sunday, 6pm Evensong. n St Mary’s, Sturminster Newton. First and third Sundays, 11am Holy Communion; 6pm BCP Evensong. Second and fourth Sundays, 9.30am Morning Prayer; 6pm BCP Evensong.

Fifth Sunday, 11am Benefice Holy Communion. Wednesdays, 10am BCP Holy Communion. n Kingston Lacy. Second Sunday of the month, 9.15am Holy Communion.

Fourth Sunday of the month, 9.15am Family Service. n Shapwick. Third Sunday of the month, 9.15am Holy Communion. n Horton Church. First Sunday of the month, 10.30am Holy Communion. n Hinton Martell. Second Sunday of the month, 10.30am Holy Communion. n Horton and Chalbury Village Hall. Third Sunday of the month, 9am Breakfast Church. n Witchampton Church. Third Sunday of the month, 10.30am Holy Communion. n Chalbury Church.

Fourth Sunday of the

month, 10.30am Holy Communion. n Our Lady’s RC Church, Marnhull. Mass Sunday, 9.30am and 6pm. n St Benedict’s RC Church, Gillingham.

Sunday, 11am. n St Mary’s, Stalbridge.

12 June, Evensong 4pm. 12 June, Evensong, 4pm. 19 June, Morning Worship, 10am; 23 June, Holy Communion, 10am. n Lower Stour Benefice June services. Sunday, 12 June: 9.30am – Communion, St Mary Church, Blandford St Mary; 11am – Communion, All Saints Langton Long. n Church of St Peter & St Paul Wincanton.

Coffee morning, Saturday, 11 June, 10am-noon.

Cakes, books, raffle.

Everyone welcome. Phone: 01963 824503. n Fancy a coffee? The churches in The Donheads, Charlton, East Knoyle, Semley and Sedgehill now have a team of friendly, approachable people – with safeguarding clearance – available to offer home visits. If you know someone who would appreciate company and a chance to chat, contact Revd. Kate at rector@ benofbart.org.uk or on 01747 830174. n West Camel Independent Methodists.

Sunday, June 12, 6pm ‘Sing Wesley’ – a service of Charles Wesley’s hymns. Sundays, June 19, and 26. 6pm. Evening worship. A warm welcome to all. Contact: 01935 850838 or Geoff.mead@ yahoo.com n Lower Stour Benefice.

Sunday, 19 June – 9.30am, Communion – St John Baptist, Spetisbury. 11am, Morning Worship, All Saints Langton Long.

11am, Family Service – Tarrant Rushton. 4pm, Family Service – St Mary The Virgin Charlton Marshall. Sunday, 26 June – 9.30am, Communion – St Mary The Virgin Charlton Marshall. 9.30am, Morning Worship – St John Baptist, Spetisbury. 11am, Communion, All Saints Langton Long. 11am, BCP Communion – Tarrant Crawford. n St Andrew’s Church, Milborne St Andrew.

Canzonetta – Songs for a Summer afternoon is on Sunday, 19 June, at 3pm.

Free admission, retiring collection for St Andrew’s Church. Tea and cake afterwards. n St Mary’s Church, Sturminster Newton.

Concert for Ukraine on Wednesday, 15 June, at noon. A short concert with Janet Coles (cello) and Laura Manning (piano).

Free entry. Retiring collection in aid of DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. n Caundle Marsh Church. The walled garden next to Glebe House and the church will be open to help fund the repainting of the church’s interior and to finance the maintenance of the churchyard on Sunday, 19 June, from 10am-5pm.

Cream and cake teas will be served. The venue is just off the A3030 at DT9 5LX –signs will be displayed on the roadside. n Cranborne Church fete. Saturday, June 18, from 2-4pm. Traditional village fete in the gardens at Cranborne Manor, by permission of Lord and Lady Cranborne. Entry is £3 adults and £1 children.

Entry includes admission to the manor’s gardens originally laid out by John

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Church Tradescant, Robert Cecil’s chief gardener, in the early 17th century. Traditional stalls, local produce and entertainment including maypole dancing, donkey rides, Morris dancers and a display of classic cars.

Afternoon tea, Pimm’s tent and games for all ages. The event is in aid of church funds. If takings allow, funds will be used to complete the restoration of

the Cranborne Village Church clock and tower. n St Mary Magdalene, Castleton. Sunday, 12 June, BCP Holy Communion, 11am; Sunday, 19 June, Mattins, 11am; Sunday, 26 June, Mattins, 11am. n St Martin of Tours, Lillington. Sunday, 12 June, BCP Holy Communion, 10am; Sunday, 19 June, Morning

Service, 10am; Wednesday, 22 June, PCC Meeting, 6.30pm; Sunday, 26 June, Morning Service, 10am. n St James the Great, Longburton. Sunday, 12 June, Family Communion, 10am; Sunday, 19 June; Family Communion, 10am; Sunday, 26 June, Village Communion – 11am (note later start time). n St Paul’s Church, Sherborne. Sunday, 12

June, Morning Worship, 10.30am; Sunday, 19 June, Morning Worship, 10.30am; Sunday, 26 June, All Age Worship, 10.30am. n Woodlands Methodist Church. In concert on Saturday, June 25, at 7.30pm, Bourne 2 Sing male voice choir. Tickets priced £7, including refreshments. Tickets from 01202 822066 or 01202 822869.

Thought for the day: Weddings I am just about to conduct my first wedding since all the lockdown restrictions were lifted.

It made me recall the dark days of the pandemic when numbers who could attend weddings were severely restricted and social distancing was the norm.

The marriage of one couple during that hard time was solemnised in The Abbey and we held

the service in the Quire.

Guests were spread out and masks were the order of the day - special white ones bought for the occasion - and a soprano soloist marked the signing of the registers.

But there were some positives – the service was very intimate and, although the couple had to adjust to their disappointments, they recognised the simplicity

and beauty of the setting and the blessing of the service taking place at all.

This week’s wedding, by contrast, will enjoy a full choir, a full nave and the joy of being together.

But I do wonder if we give time to praying for those who are about to ‘tie the knot’?

With all the stresses of modern-day living and the pull of so many distractions, keeping a

marriage alive is a demanding task.

Perhaps, too, we can give thanks for the Mothers’ Union which strives to keep families intact.

In future, as we hear The Abbey bells ring, let’s commit to praying for the happy couple that their marriage may be life-long and life-strong.

The Reverend Jane Craw, Sherborne Abbey

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History

Back to life in Georgian times

by Laura Manning The Blackmore Vale Group of the Somerset and Dorset Family History Group enjoyed an ‘entire day’ in a Georgian House during a social evening.

Gordon Le Pard took along an array of original Georgian objects to The Exchange in Sturminster Newton and explained how they would have been used.

The ‘day’ began with a flint to start the fires going at daybreak, carrying tins of hot water to the bedrooms, through the process of washing and drying laundry, meals and snuffing the candle when heading to bed.

Doing the laundry could not have been one of the servants’ favourite occupations – the owners of the house would prefer to leave the house if they could.

It was a tiring, timeconsuming drudge – thank

goodness for those lavender bushes outside the back door to drape the wet clothes over!

Meals were a variable event during the day – with the luckier people eating off newly-available bone China plates rather than risking lead poisoning from the more commonly used pewter.

And the etiquette for eating peas with only a two-pronged fork? Scoop them up with a knife, of course!

Afternoon tea became fashionable during the Georgian era – and was usually associated with ladies as it was a ‘domestic’ event – public coffee houses were the preserve of men.

It was interesting to hear how British housewives helped turn the tide against the slave trade. Sugar was usually from the West Indies – produced by slave labour

– and wealthy ladies were keen to advertise that the sugar in their household was from East India – special sugar bowls highlighting this were popular.

An alcoholic ‘nightcap before bed’ was available at many of the gentlemen’s clubs – novelty cups, such as a lady’s shoe were often used, and contained a generous amount of gin.

Take a seat: The next talk is at The Exchange, Sturminster Newton, on Wednesday, 15 June, at 7.30pm when author Jim Williams will encourage visitors to record their everyday lives to help create future family historians.

Further details available from blackmorevalegroup@ gmail.com or phone 01258 472942.

by Katrina Ffiske On Sunday, June 19, many families will be celebrating Father’s Day. Socks and gardening tools may be given as gifts to say thank-you to dad for being so wonderful.

Card shops have rows and rows of cards shouting ‘Best Dad in the World’, ‘Awesome Dad’ – it is Hallmark Cards’ fifth busiest time of the year.

Celebrating Father’s Day has, however, never been greeted with the same enthusiasm as Mother’s Day. Perhaps, as one florist said: “Fathers don’t have the sentimental appeal which mothers have.”

So, when did we start celebrating fathers?

Actually, it has been celebrated among European

Catholics since the Middle Ages on March 19, the feast of St Joseph, the husband of Mary and adoptive father to Jesus.

Pagans believe the sun is father of the universe. With the summer solstice being June 21 and Father’s Day being the third Sunday of June, many see a link between the two.

Sonora Smart Dodd, from Spokane, Washington, USA, is credited for creating a day to honour fathers. Sonora loved and admired her father, William, who had to bring up her and five siblings on his own, her mother dying when she was young.

Attending her local church in 1909 Sonora had an epiphany moment while listening to a sermon

celebrating Mother’s Day. If mothers could be honoured with a special day, why not fathers? Sonora petitioned to drum up support for her idea, visiting churches, the YMCA and more crucially her local government officials.

Sonora was obviously a force of nature as one year later Washington State celebrated the nation’s first Father’s Day on June 19, 1910. As a lover of flowers, Sonora would hand fathers leaving church a rose to thank them for all their contribution to family life.

This started a tradition – sons and daughters would wear a red rose to indicate their father was living or a white rose to indicate he was deceased.

Father’s Day became more

popular during the Second World War. Politicians and the Army grabbed the opportunity to use the day to promote the troops out on the field to those back at home.

By the end of the war, Father’s Day had become a national institution. Richard Nixon declared it a national holiday in 1972.

Like many things from the United States, traditions have crept across the Ocean and by the early 1970s we too were celebrating Father’s Day, which over the decades has become more and more commercialised.

Perhaps this year, why don’t we prove the florist wrong, and give a bunch of flowers to your father to thank him for all he has done?

Novelty cups, such as a lady’s show, were used for a nightcap. Inset, an East India sugar bowl.

Father’s Day: 113 years of celebration

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Inspirational teacher honoured in awards Party poppers and cake were the order of the day at assembly at Shaftesbury School when Alex More received a teaching award.

Alex was named as one of 80 Pearson National Teaching Award Silver Award winners, successful in the Digital Innovator of the Year category.

He is the lead teacher of Innovation in Teaching and Learning at the school, an active head of faculty and leads the school’s awardwinning STEAM – Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics – programme and the ‘Future Classroom’.

He has a keen interest in teaching, learning, educational technology and progressive pedagogy.

Alex is completing his EdD through distance learning at Bath University and has recently become a Hundred Ambassador, working in an advisory

capacity to judge global innovations.

He has had a significant impact on students, parents and the local community, as well as making global connections, including with a school in Ghana.

Headteacher Donna London-Hill said: “We are so incredibly proud of Alex and he is thoroughly deserving of this national award – his energy and drive for thinking about and bringing the future of education to the heart of our school is second to none.

“I also want to congratulation Becky Yeo, another of our teachers, who was highly commended.

“She is an incredibly caring, passionate teacher.

We are very fortunate here at Shaftesbury School to be surrounded by brilliant teachers and our nonteaching staff, who go out of their way daily to provide you with support and excellence in education.”

Education

Alex More receives his award from headteacher Donna London-Hill.

As a Silver Award winner, Alex has now been shortlisted to win one of 16 Gold Awards later in the year.

These achievements will be broadcast on the BBC’s The One Show as part of a week-long celebration of teaching, which sees famous faces honour award winners every night in the run up to the ceremony.

The Silver Award winners were honoured as part of wider celebrations for national ‘Thank a Teacher Day’, bringing together

everyone across the country to celebrate the schools and colleges at the heart of local communities.

The Pearson National Teaching Awards is an annual celebration of excellence in education, founded in 1998

by Lord Puttnam to recognise the life-changing impact an inspirational teacher can have on the lives of the young people they work with. This year marks its 23rd year of celebrating our school teaching staff across the UK.

Students rise to Ten Tors challenge Students at Sturminster Newton High School completed the gruelling Ten Tors challenge in great time.

Three teams were entered – two 35-mile teams and one 45-mile team.

The challenge involves teams of six

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young people being totally selfsufficient, navigating and hiking to ten specified checkpoints on Dartmoor and camping overnight.

The teams train during weekends throughout the year, sometimes

camping out overnight in extreme weather.

Hundreds of schools from all over the country compete and this year was the event’s 60th anniversary.

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Letters Currently nearly half of the population is in need of help with economic and social problems.

Referring to Budget Statements since 1963, income and tax bands, as well as indirect taxation data, I now present 11 proposals.

First, raising the personal allowance to £15,000, paid for by an increase in direct taxation for those earning above £200,000 of 5 pence in the pound.

Second, repealing parts of the 1988 Housing Act and reinstating the 1977 Fair Rent Act. Third an immediate reduction of £20 a week in rents on private rented housing costing more than £700 a month.

Fourth, ending the current buy to let scheme.

Fifth, zero-rated VAT on gas and electric bills. Let us remember Government resistance when the EU tried to introduce it at 20 per cent then set at 5 per cent as a compromise.

Sixth, a variable charge on gas and electric bills setting a much lower rate for the first five units a day, followed by higher rates based on the quantity of power used.

Seventh, a reduction of VAT on all goods and services to 18 per cent, costing about £12.1bn, and would be paid for by a 2 pence increase in taxation for all those whose income is above £100,000.

Eighth, the abolition of VAT on all sanitary products.

This measure would cost about £9 million, paid for by increasing the tax on the income to oil companies, whose quarterly profit this year was more than 1,000 times as great.

This could also mean a reduction in the price of petrol by 10-20 pence a litre, so that no filling station

would be allowed to charge more than £1.50 a litre.

Ninth, increasing the cost of borrowing in steps of 0.2 per cent staged at twomonthly intervals up to an overall increase of 1 per cent.

This would help those relying on interest from savings, particularly the elderly. The effects of this policy would need to be carefully watched.

Tenth, empty properties to be made habitable by their owners and if this is not achievable after 12 months then they must be sold to a housing association and let at a Fair Rent, say about £100 a week – the Joseph Rowntree Foundation currently lets flats in parts of London for much less.

Eleventh, introduce a £2,000 Corporation Tax break to help small business.

If you doubt the efficacy of any of these policies, then I will take you back to the late 1960s. Then the basic rate of income tax was 30 per cent, the top rate 90 per cent and purchase tax on basic goods 7.5 per cent.

My childhood family lived on about £23 a week – we always had food on the table, never owed any money and were able to pay all bills.

The rent was about £3 a week. There was no such thing as a food bank, although I do have a memory of two boys pocketing some left-overs at the school kitchen hatch at a wellknown local school – there was no stigma with that and, looking back, they were growing fast. Above all we had plenty of fun.

These proposals would make many households more than £40 a week better off.

Unlike the recent Government announcements, they would be permanent, not sticking plaster measures, funded by more borrowing.

I therefore challenge all members of Parliament to either agree with these proposals or to produce more effective ones.

I also call upon all New Blackmore Vale readers to do the same and to write to their MP to get these or other more effective proposals enacted in the next six weeks at the latest.

Failure to do this will lead to tragic consequences, illness and loss of life.

Professor Kate Pickett, co-author of ‘The Spirit Level’ (2009) made a convincing case that better health comes when there is greater equality among the population, the main reasons being changes in body biochemistry and the effect on psychology.

If you care about other people, and civilisation in general, please act now.

Dr Colin Clark Via email I was surprised by the letter from Tony Eldridge regarding David Warburton MP and his apology for what had appeared in the press rather than for anything he may have done.

Of course, I don’t know the true details like everyone else but perhaps Mr Eldridge knows more than the rest of us. Was the article in The Sunday Times true? Who knows but until we do know maybe it would be better to hold our counsel.

It was after all, The Sunday Times which printed The Hitler Diaries!

Mr Eldridge goes on to praise the standing of Liberal Democrat David Heath and Tim Carroll. I didn’t know David Heath but I did know Tim Carroll and agree he was an honourable man who worked hard for his community.

But I would counsel Mr

Eldridge against personal attacks because I also remember Sir Cyril Smith and the Rt Hon Jeremy Thorpe who definitely were not.

I also remember, and knew, Cllr Rik Pallister, who replaced Tim Carroll as the Liberal Democrat Leader of South Somerset District Council and is currently serving at Her Majesty’s Pleasure.

It does seem to me that for such a small party the Liberal Democrats have a high proportion of miscreants!

I was also surprised to learn that the Liberal Democrats have chosen as their candidate for the Somerton & Frome Constituency a current member of the ruling district executive of South Somerset District Council who have presided over the most shameful period in the council’s history, racking up huge debts, the debacle over the appointment on the chief executive, police investigations into fraud by senior officers and a damming auditors’ report.

David Norris Wincanton I would like to point out to Greg Williams that when he talks about bus services and tells us to ‘use them or lose them’ some of us have already lost this service some years ago.

Which makes our bus passes a bit of a white elephant.

Pauline House Via email I can help your correspondent Allan Robson (New Blackmore Vale, 15 May) with his question ‘why are the builders of all new houses not being made to put solar panels on the roofs?’

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Letters They do not install solar panels because it not compulsory – they don’t have to, so they don’t.

That is the answer they give to Sherry Jespersen, our local councillor.

The house builders do not care about the energy crisis or the climate emergency or our environment or our children or helping this Government to de-carbonise our economy and environment – they just care about maximising their profits.

I have also exchanged emails with Simon Hoare, our MP, and he tells me the Government leaves it to the house builders to decide if their buildings are appropriately sited etc for the installation of solar panels.

Not a single building constructed by Bellway at Blandford St Mary is suited to having solar panels nor any of the houses built by Wyatt in Pimperne.

Bunkum. Sherry Jespersen also told me that Dorset and other shire counties ask Mr Gove – the responsible Minister – every month to change this voluntary policy and he refuses.

The largest donors to Tory party funds are the house builders. It appears the Government has a policy designed to protect the profits of its donors rather than helping with the energy crisis or its own attempts to de-carbonise our economy and environment.

Simon Hoare suggested that somehow making builders install solar panels would add another burden onto ‘hard-pressed families’, the last thing they want is a house which provides significant ‘free’ energy.

Favouring a donor at the expense of society at large looks like corruption and deliberately ensuring poorer

own the road and expect other drivers, when they have the audacity to use the PUBLIC road, albeit a LANE, to disappear!

Clare Abel Sherborne I was rather surprised The New Blackmore Vale published the letter on 27 May from Shirley Fooks describing our MP Chris Loder as a ‘chocolate teapot’.

I think he is doing rather well, especially with local matters.

I find it sad that Mrs Fooks has to sink so low as to make offensive, personal comments which diminish the value of any points she was trying to make.

Sally Waite Sherborne

people and families are stuck with expensive energy provision looks like callousness.

Simon Hoare gave no indication that he supported his fellow Tory councillors in their dealings with Mr Gove.

What a lovely picture it all makes.

Richard Foley Via email Unfortunately more councils are installing car park ticket dispensers which won’t take cash.

You need a smartphone, a good knowledge of how to use it and considerable patience to pay for your parking to not get an expensive fine.

This rules out many people, including the elderly and those with various difficulties.

The instigators of these new methods see them as

increasing their revenues because of drivers’ difficulties in using them.

Drivers should be given alternative methods of paying for their car parking because this method alone is similar to highway robbery if you struggle with technology.

A £2 parking ticket becomes a £50 fine very easily.

Nick Smith Blandford Forum I would like to point out that the piece by Ruth Kimber (New Blackmore Vale, May 13) says ‘forgive the tractor drivers if they slow you down’.

They are more likely to MOW you down, the speed they go down Barrow Lane!

I am just so glad I don’t live there – I feel sorry for the residents who do!

Tractor drivers think they

I think it is quite unfair of Shirley Fooks to criticise Chris Loder as she does (Letters, 27 May), comparing him to a chocolate teapot because he didn’t do exactly as she wished over the Minor Injuries Unit at the Yeatman Hospital – for whose reopening he campaigned.

Chris Loder isn’t just MP for Sherborne – his enormous constituency also contains several other towns as big or bigger, all with specific local issues to try and address.

My impression is he works extremely hard for his constituents and it must be a thankless task with people like Ms Fooks leaping into print to criticise.

Roger White Sherborne

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So many of Government’s 2019 election promises were illusions Roundabouts, dodgems, ghost trains, skyrides, all sorts of swings, a conjuror and an escapologist – all the fun of the fair?

No, the last fortnight in politics!

Roundabout ways of approaching the ministerial code of conduct; parties to which no-one owned up giving us those fine dodgems; there is every sign of a nationwide rail strike and no chance of taking a sky ride to anywhere nice anytime soon.

Unless, of course, you are a migrant, in which case Rwanda awaits you whether or not you have been able to get a passport.

What about the swings, you ask? We will see them in action shortly in the byelections that surround us here in the Vale. They were last seen in the local elections in early May. What of the illusionists, the Great Escapologist and his pal the Conjuror, who takes your money and only gives you some of it back?

I am sorry, I haven’t the energy to pursue the analogy any further.

So many of the promises which saw this Government romp home in such style at the end of 2019 were illusions.

Leaving the EU, it turns out, according to the new department in charge, has given us the liberty to have more powerful vacuum cleaners, bring on fracking, diminish workplace liberties and conditions, de-regulate white van man and reduce the need for PAT testing.

Oh, and the potential to bring back £ s d, lbs and oz

Allotments could be an asset in a ‘greener’ future.

Mike Chapman on behalf of Liberal Democrats across the Blackmore Vale and the rest of the avoirdupois of antiquity.

Is all this worth the reduction in GDP of about £80-100bn which Brexit has occasioned?

Government should govern in the best, forwardlooking interests of the nation with fairness and providing opportunity, but also with integrity and honesty.

That is not such a big ask, is it? Today, however, I perceive those at the top of Government operating in the best interests of their own class – in every sense – and their careers and memoirs.

Locally, though, there are

some great positives, born small but capable of scaling up.

For example, a North Dorset flour mill is now generating power as well as flour from its waterwheel.

The huge shift in energy prices lends a tremendous opportunity to this and other such micro-schemes to tap into the latent power of our rivers, to say nothing of the macro-project potential of tidal rise and fall.

We should see strong investment incentives being brought to bear here just as in other sensible, local and domestic-level forms of renewable energy such as solar thermal and solar electricity storage systems which currently fall foul of VAT disincentives.

There are myriad schemes to move supermarket surpluses into food banks and community fridges.

North Dorset is doing well on this score but there is so much more which could be done to eliminate food wastage. We could avoid some of the cost, complexity and carbon footprint of food and produce supply chains by turning on the capabilities available in our gardens and

allotments.

Yes, less choice and more seasonality, but improved food security and community well-being.

There are messages for our Planners, too. It is not rocket science to ask for allotments, for renewable energy systems, for electric charging, for higher standards of insulation, as well as more sustainable, more integrated community planning, including services and employment.

In the long run, we cannot afford not to do these things, just as we cannot afford central government handouts on the present scale ad infinitum.

Let us invest in what is needed and tax it less and tax more what is merely desirable.

Let us recognise, too, that there are limits to deregulation.

There are absolute barriers to ever-extending choice and economic free-wheeling.

There is, in the words of the originators of Doughnut Economics – worth a look anytime – a ‘safe and just space’ in which human endeavour should take place.

None of this constitutes intervention. The goal is intelligent design as opposed to muddling through in the hope the worst doesn’t happen.

The present political set-up results in the seesawing, push-me/pull-you of party-driven policy which we have seen for 50 years or more.

There must be something better. Change cannot come, though, without clarity, honesty and integrity.

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More summer specials to the seaside The Heart of Wessex line runs between Bristol, Castle Cary, Yeovil, Dorchester and Weymouth.

It is a gem which, I think, has some of the most beautiful scenery along any railway line in the UK. The challenge to get improvements on this line has been immense, with what is a very poor frequency line.

But there has been a considerable step forward with a dramatic increase in the number of trains on Saturdays during the summer with an additional seven trains in total running to and from Weymouth.

We have also had two great opportunities for community funding announced last week which I’d like to share with you.

Conservative MP for West Dorset Chris Loder Firstly, the Government’s Community Ownership fund is soon inviting local groups to submit applications to purchase community assets at risk of closure.

Please get in touch with me if you would like more information or if I can assist in any way.

Secondly, Great Western Railways’s Community Fund is now open and seeks to support a number of projects identified by the communities they serve.

Information and the application portal is now live on Great Western Railway’s website and is especially focused towards projects relating to environmental issues, accessibility and inclusion, and railway usage.

I warmly encourage as many bids as possible to this fund and wish every success to those who submit their bids before the deadline of Monday, 27 June. Once again, please get in touch with me so I can lend my support to them.

I am also pleased to inform you that Dorset has been successful in

obtaining an £875,000 boost to reform the Family Hubs scheme.

Family Hubs help to streamline the ability for struggling families, particularly with children requiring additional special needs to access the help and social services they need.

A new Platinum Jubilee fund has opened which will provide £3million of grants to 125 village halls across the UK. Village halls are, like parish churches, cornerstones of our communities and integral especially to the wellbeing of rural communities.

The importance and value of our local village halls was exemplified resoundingly over the course of the Platinum Jubilee weekend.

Government cash to re-write Local Plan West Dorset MP Chris Loder has hailed a ‘major step forward’ as the Department for Levelling Up, Communities and Housing and Communities has allocated Dorset Council £135,000 to re-write the Local Plan.

The move came weeks after a crunch summit the MP held in Dorchester with Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove, in which Mr Loder expressed the urgent need for Government support to re-work the Local Plan to shelve the controversial 4,000-home development on land north of the county town.

West Dorset MP Chris Loder with Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove.

Mr Loder said: “This support is a muchneeded endorsement from the Government of my campaign against ‘Norchester’ and will mean we are one big step closer to achieving a

Local Plan that really addresses the planning needs of Dorchester and West Dorset, and protects our most beautiful countryside.”

The cash injection now secured will act as a

project management resource to support planning policy allocation in Local Plan for a garden village and associated technical studies, design input and community engagement.

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Little to separate parties on economy They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

The Government has U-turned and implemented Labour’s policy of a windfall tax – sorry, ‘energy profits levy’ – on oil and gas firms to fund relief on our energy bills.

And to be fair to the Tories, they have actually gone further than Labour could get away with, by borrowing to provide additional support.

Listen carefully and you can hear Richard Drax spitting teeth in South Dorset.

The truth is there is little to separate the parties now on macro-economic policy or tax and spend.

The Tories have come round to the centre ground with higher taxation to better fund public services.

This provides an

Greg Williams, on behalf of Dorset Labour opportunity to Labour.

I would advocate we go into the next election promising to stay within Sunak’s tax and spend envelope, as Brown successfully did in 1997, neutralising the usual lazy attacks on our fiscal credibility.

This windfall U-turn is symptomatic of a weak Government which has run out of ideas, and for whom the agenda is set by a mixture of events, the opposition and a zealous commitment to culture war.

Creating Daily Mail pandering dividing lines seems to be all they have left. I don’t know how our local MPs put up with it.

The recent defence of parties as ‘work events’ is perverse – no one else was having work leaving dos in 2020.

It just proves that with this Government, it’s one rule for them, and one rule for the rest of us.

Every week in the House it’s the same old show – a fading Prime Minister reduced to rattling off his old hits like an artist with no new material.

‘Got Brexit done’ – not a track that he plays in Northern Ireland. ‘Worldbeating economic growth’ – another lie.

And then that worn out 45 ‘Fastest vaccine roll-out’ with the B-side ‘179,000 Covid deaths’ that he’d rather we didn’t flip the record over to hear.

The Sue Gray report – or just Sue, as Johnson referred to her in the Commons, betraying a familiarity which adds grist to the rumour mill she was leant upon by the PM in order to pull her punches – did clear one thing up.

We know why the Government delayed implementing the second lockdown in October 2020, with the needless waste of thousands of extra lives.

It’s because the staff of Number 10 were too drunk.

‘shadow of power’ should be cast across the bargaining table, as George Schulz once said.

I believe it is right to consider what off-ramps Ukraine and its supporters can offer Putin since capitulation is unlikely. After all, surrender would most likely require an – unconscionable – invasion of Russia and who knows what further hideous tactics and weapons a vulnerable Putin would resort to if faced with humiliation.

Sun Tzu called this concept giving your opponent a ‘golden bridge’ across which to retreat.

When I have raised this in the Commons, the rebuttal is that we should simply support Ukraine in its war aims. But NATO and Europe

have equity, too. This conflict and the nature of its outcome impacts on us and we are participants in it, though not at war with Russia.

We should continue to supply essential defensive systems – for example, deadly Harpoon misslies which would deal with Russian warships and help alleviate the blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, from which 90 per cent of the country’s pre-invasion grain left the country.

Otherwise we risk famines and all that falls from that.

Sooner or later we’ll need that golden bridge but in the meantime we must ensure that Ukraine and its friends attain a position of negotiating strength that is as strong and compelling as possible.

Divisions may play into Putin’s hands Putin’s creaking war machine has retrenched to the Ukrainian south and east.

Too late, Putin appears to have understood his isolated country’s limits and that he has no friends.

However, divisions risk playing into Putin’s hands.

Chancellor Scholz and President Macron are calling, optimistically, for immediate ceasefires and a diplomatic resolution, while harder line US insists Ukraine can win and that Putin should go.

Our Government’s more ambiguous position is that ‘Putin must fail’, which is supported by Labour. They are both saying Russia should be driven out of Ukrainian territory, presumably including Crimea, although the Labour spokesman seemed to

Conservative MP for South West Wiltshire Dr Andrew Murrison suggest maybe not actually Crimea when questioned by me in the Commons last week.

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Anything from a chandelier to a teak set of outdoor furniture is on offer at the General sale at its Avenue saleroom on Tuesday, June 14.

An Asian Art auction is on Wednesday, June 15. Previous Asian auctions have seen record-breaking results, most notably a millionpound teapot, so it is sure to be one to watch!

A Jewellery and Watches sale on Thursday, June 16, has lots including a Victorian Sri Lankan (Ceylon) sapphire, diamond and pearl brooch/pendant (£10,000£20,000) and a Rolex oyster

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The sale includes a rare copy of the subscriber’s, or ‘Cranwell’, edition of T E Lawrence’s ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’ (£30,000-£50,000).

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The 1968 Volvo P1800S.

Two classic sports cars, a Volvo and a Triumph, both from 1968, are set to go head to head against each other at the Charterhouse classic car auction at Haynes on Wednesday, 6 July.

Richard Bromell said: “While I admit to being around in 1968, I was just a toddler, but today have a great love for cars and bikes from the late 1960s.”

Both 1968 cars come to Charterhouse with long-term ownership. The Volvo P1800S has been in the same family from new. This sporty Volvo has had a £15,000 restoration and is estimated at £20,000-25,000.

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The Triumph TR5 PI comes to auction from its second owner. He bought it in 1971 and the car has only covered just over 56,000 miles from new. It is estimated at £36,000-38,000.

Charterhouse is now taking further entries for this classic car auction on 6 July and its classic motorcycle auction on 29 June, with both auctions at the Haynes Museum at Sparkford.

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Thirty years of dealing in antique and Collectible Toys.

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Top prices paid for all types of model railway, die cast cars, early Action Man and Star Wars, Scalextric, Meccano, unmade Airfix kits etc.

Those magical makes; Hornby, Dinky, Triang, Spot-On, Corgi, Subbuteo, Britains, Timpo plus plus plus

our forthcoming Specialist sales • Catalogues available online • Full calendar of Specialist sales A Russian two colour gold and blue guilloche enamel Novelty Egg.

SOLD FOR £9,500 Station Road, Semley, Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 9AN 01747 855 122 www.semleyauctioneers.com Offices in Dorset, Wiltshire and London

Clarke’s Auctions

Auctioneers & Valuers

Antiques & Collectibles Sale

Friday 10th and Saturday 11th June Viewing Thursday 9th June

Telephone; 01935 816 072.

Mobile; 07527 074 343 COVID SAFE

ACREMAN ST. ANTIQUES AUCTION SHERBORNE FINE ART, GENERAL ANTIQUES & COLLECTORS AUCTION Friday 24th June 10am

VIEWING Thursday 23rd June

A 19th century Irish mahogany card table.

Sold for £1450.

Colour catalogue available at the-saleroom.com and easyliveauction.com

Units 1 & 2 Kingsettle Business Park, Station Road, Semley, Shaftesbury SP7 9BU

01747 855109

enquiries@clarkesauctions.co.uk clarkesauctions.co.uk

Catalogue available to view through Saleroom.com & Easyliveauction.com We are accepting items for our June auction For all enquiries please contact Gill Norman on 07908 333577 or 01935 508764 auction@acremanstreetantiques.co.uk

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Super collection of Scottish silver Clarke’s Auctions at Semley holds the first of its summer sales on Friday and Saturday, 10 and 11 June, with plenty of interesting lots to be sold.

It will be offering a privately consigned collection of Scottish silver

by Edinburgh silversmith George McHattie. Born in the mid-1700s in Edinburgh and working through until the 1820s, he produced some of the finest quality silver tableware and his pieces are highly collectable today.

Included in this collection is a fine silver and gilt decorated twohandled entrée dish and cover with floral and swag decoration estimated £800£1,200; a George III silver twinhandled cup; a George III silver teapot on four shell-capped feet estimated at £500£800; and other silver lots

including a wine funnel and drip tray, bottle labels, sugar basin, tea caddy and cream jugs.

After the success of its Asia sale last month it has about 200 lots of Chinese and Eastern items including ceramics, works of art and Turkish Iznik pottery.

In the furniture section is a late 19th century French fruitwood kitchen table, a

Victorian-figured walnut piano top Davenport, a Welsh oak court cupboard and a set of eight George III mahogany dining chairs.

For enquiries for consignment into all future sales, or for probate or insurance valuations, and part- or full-house clearances, phone Richard Clarke or Karen Marshall on 01747 855109 at the main offices on Kingsettle Business Park, Station Road, Semley, Shaftesbury.

It is going to be a busy summer at Acreman St Antiques Auction, Sherborne.

We are now accepting items for our specialist auctions of coins and banknotes, stamps, postcards and antique topographical photographs; antiques,

jewellery, silver and watches; textiles, fashion and apparel; Chinese and Japanese works of art.

We are also still taking in items for our Friday, 24 June, Fine Art, General Antiques and Collectors Auction.

We are happy to take in

anything from single items to complete house clearances which we can arrange at competitive prices. We are happy to make a home visit if required.

If you would like to speak to one of our

specialists about entering items into any of our auctions please contact Gill Norman on 07908 333577 or 01935 508764, alternatively you can email auction@acremanstreet antiques.co.uk

GOOD CONDITION VINYL RECORDS WANTED Larger collections preferred No classical please, cash paid 07831-266478

ANTIQUES WANTED furniture paintings glassware ceramics studio pottery Asian art, records call Jerry 07906 530054

So, do you have something to sell?

WE BUY RECORDS, COLLECTIONS LARGE AND SMALL

FORTHCOMING AUCTION

CLASSIC CARS

THE MIDSUMMER AUCTION Saturday 18 June, 2:00pm VIEWING

Marquee viewing next to the Cheese & Grain in Frome

Friday 17 June, 10am to 7pm Saturday 18 June from 9am

Head of Motoring: Nick Wells nick.wells@doreandrees.com 07920 500 091

Call BILL 07967 816506 or 01747 811100 Email: bill@tunes.co.uk

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Clocks Unlimited

Tel: (01935) 423233 Mobile: 07974 520545 bclocksunlimited@aol.com www.clocksunlimited.co.uk

1923 Rolls-Royce Piccadilly Roadster Estimate: £250,000 - £280,000

Dore & Rees, Auction Salerooms, Vicarage Street, Frome BA11 1PU

01373 462 257 doreandrees.com

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Highlights of the Chelsea Show

by Sally Gregson The Chelsea Flower Show is an international showcase for the pinnacle of garden design and inspiration for new plants. Every exhibit had the ‘wow’ factor this year – each primped and preened to perfection. And this year everyone was welcoming the show back.

The top three of 2022’s selection of exciting new plants comprised two small perennials, and a gorgeous compact Weigela. They seem to have been picked for their appeal to every gardener of any sized garden. The lowest-growing plant is a bright, magenta-pink geranium, G. ‘Intense’. It would be a sensation in a pot or at the front of a border. Dianthus ‘Electric Dreams’ has strong, dark pink flowers edged silver which will flower until the frosts. And there is a smaller, more compact Weigela ‘Magic Carpet’ only 60cm (2ft) high with outstanding foliage. The leaves turn from apricot to

soft orange with pink flowers in early summer.

The show gardens put on a stunning display. The medal for ‘Best in Show’ was won by Somerset duo Lulu Urquhart and Adam Hunt for their ‘Rewilding Britain Garden’. They focussed on a naturally rewilded stream where beavers were altering the landscape. It featured a lodge and a stream which had been dammed by claw-scratched logs. The lodge depicted a beaver family’s home of several chambers and even a swimming pool to teach the young kits how to swim and dive, bounded by a woodland edge of native small trees and shrubs Adam Hunt’s reaction on hearing the news was of unbelievable joy, as it was the first Chelsea garden they have ever designed. “Just taking part was amazing,” he said. “To get a Gold was beyond our wildest dreams!”

Winner of the BBC ‘People’s Choice’ category was The Perennial Garden

‘With Love’ designed by Richard Miers, inspired by the idea that gardens are a gift, and which also won a Silver Medal earlier in the week.

But perhaps the most dramatic garden, and one with a definite ‘wow’ factor, was Sarah Eberle’s ‘Building the Future’ with a 6m construction of a cliff face using Medite Smartply. It looks heavy, and very realistic, but it’s made entirely of wood, set by a huge waterfall, among a jungle of rare and wild tree species native to Ireland.

And lastly, there was the inspirational RNLI garden, designed by Chris Beardshaw, celebrating the men and women who have saved lives at sea for nearly 200 years. The wood of the original boats themselves is featured in Scots pine and Chinese Elm trees. The classically inspired pavilion was a reference to 1824, the year of the founding of the RNLI, and the planting was rich, confident and softly coloured blue. All sure-fire winners.

Scent of summer in the garden

by Sally Gregson What could be more redolent of an English summer than the perfume of roses scenting the air on a warm June evening? It’s what every gardener has been dreaming about all winter and spring.

Some ‘old’ varieties are perfumed with a true rose scent, some with a ‘musky’ aroma – while the foliage of others has a distinct fragrance of ripe apples.

One rose which bears apple-scented leaves and truly rose-scented flowers is Rosa ‘Mme Alfred Carriere’.

She was a great favourite of Vita Sackville-West. It climbs many of the old Tudor brick buildings at Sissinghurst.

By the end of summer when La Madame has ceased to flower, other powerful perfumes fill the air. There are some beautiful, and scented, flowers for pots to

position where you sit outside.

Tobacco plants (Nicotiana sylvestris) are famously evening-scented with a heavy, pervasive perfume.

They are perfect in pots alongside a door to welcome evening visitors.

As is Gladiolus murielae – formally Acidanthera murielae. It is most unlike a ‘glad’ in appearance, and perfume, but once the pure white flowers open to reveal their maroon-red throats, they pump out a powerful scent that would fill the

entire garden.

As autumn drifts into winter some plants move up a gear – they take advantage of the lack of competition and give it their all, bright flowers, perfume, the works.

They have to attract every passing pollinating insect with all they can muster.

November brings out the small white flowers of the Winter Box, Sarcococca confusa, that can scent a huge area – worth planting in the front garden to welcome Christmas visitors. And the Algerian Iris (Iris unguicularis) starts into flower in November and continues throughout winter.

Plant a clump at the foot of a hot, sunny wall and it will produce large, soft blue, scented flowers – perfect to pick for a day on the kitchen table. They are the perfect antidote to a wet winter’s day.

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Rural, garden & agricultural items bought & sold

WINDOWS BLACKMORE WINDOWS AND DOORS. Locally based company in Stalbridge with 25 years experience. All your window and door needs undertaken, from repairs to replacement. Contact Terry on 07514224712 or find me on Facebook and WhatsApp. FREE QUOTATIONS. RESTORATION OF YOUR WOODEN WINDOWS, DOORS AND SO MUCH MORE. Embrace the old don’t buy new.

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Vale Tree Surgeons Limited www.valetreesurgeons.com Tel: 01747 228484 Mob: 07770 833734

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R&W FENCING SERVICES All types of fencing, Agriculture and Domestic 01258 880892 07980 036250

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All Hedge/tree work/rubbish clearance, gravel driveways/ Pressure Washing. Patio and Fencing Work. Fully Insuranced/Free Quotes 01258 458849/07788 907343 lesbenham@yahoo.co.uk/ check a trade

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Tree and Garden Services • 25 years’ experience • Registered waste carrier WOOD CHIPPINGS • Free estimates SALE • All areas covered • No job too small FreeFOR Quotes & Advice david.king63@aol.co.uk

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Pruning, bracing, shaping.

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Hedge cutting. Trees supplied & planted.

Landscaping & maintenance.

Heavy duty winch hire available.

Tree Surgery BS.3998 Contractors to local authorities.

Established in 1976

At TreeCare we care...

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LANGTON NURSERIES (C W Abbott & Son) Bedding and vegetable Experts plants. Pea sticks and in all Bean Rods. Perennials aspects and shrubs. Stockists of of Kings, Franchi and TREE SURGERY, Fothergill Budget Seeds.

HEDGECUTTING & Potting compost. Large STUMP REMOVAL selection of Terracotta Pots.

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Make a wise01258 choice 452513 and call Telephone: David Merefield today on 01747 850906 / 07966 522361

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Home & Garden LAWN MOWING SERVICE, Tel 01747 821 726

North Dorset Tree Surgeons We carry out all aspects of tree surgery, hedge cutting and stump grinding.

Ash dieback specialist.

Fully insured and NPTC qualified.

Call Will today on 01747 854517 or 07872 970741 Professional

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WANTED - Dave buys all types of tools Call 01935 428975 FOAM CUT TO SIZE CUSHION refilling service for all your foam requirements call 01747-228384 LANGTON NURSERIES (C W Abbott & Son) Bedding and vegetable plants. Pea sticks and Bean Rods. Perennials and shrubs. Stockists of Kings, Franchi and Fothergill Budget Seeds. Potting compost. Large selection of Terracotta Pots.

Langton Long, Blandford Forum, Dorset DT11 9HR. Telephone: 01258 452513 SEMI-RETIRED TRADESMAN, Seeks small contracts in North Dorset, Exterior painting & carpentry projects. Please phone- Hugh or Alan on 07813864334 or 07746 600113

Garden Design £395

Est 20 Years

01258 881112 07900 431701 Book your free quote today.

Covering the Blackmore Vale www.armishaws.com

SCREENED TOP SOIL FOR SALE 1T - 5T LOADS DELIVERED TEL NO: 01258 861046 CARPET FITTING Small rooms, refits and adaptations. Contact: Jeff on 0777 464 1582 01258 82 1000 EX-DISPLAY SHEDS, Stables/field shelters, summerhouses, offices, workshops, agricultural 01935 891195 6 LADDERBACK DINING CHAIRS for sale with rush seating. Painted in Farrow&Ball. Parma Grey.

Good condition. £150.00 ono Tele 01258 723003 / 07966 158711 SAM’S GRASS & HEDGE CUTTING SERVICES 07915 683822 GARDEN AND PLANTING DESIGN. Expert gardening.

Wildflower meadows and wildlife gardens. Garden restoration and advice.

Extensive plant knowledge.

Call Stephen and Claire at Manyberries 01963 441454, manyberries.co.uk

For all your fencing and decking needs

Closeboard, panels & sheds supplied and fitted.

Gates made to measure.

Sherborne Fencing Ltd Tel: 01935 814272 Mobile: 07814246332

Blackmore Vale HANDYMAN SERVICES Efficient - Tidy - Insured - Reliable 35 Year’s Experience Contact Brian 01747 821454 07410 580499 Phone / WhatsApp blackmorevalehandyman@gmail.com

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Home & Garden STORAGE BOSS

FLAT PACK STORAGE CONTAINERS

White Hart

Garden & Property Maintenance Call Marcus Smith M: 07762 798 473 T: 01963 236 92

for SALE or RENTAL* *(on your own premises)

Call 01722 714514 today to discuss your requirements www.storageboss.co.uk

established in 1978

OUR LOCAL SHOWROOMS: Newbury, Gillingham, Dorset SPB 4QL | 01747 835394 Wincanton Business Park, Somerset BA9 9RR | 01963 33574 www.cullingfordcarpets.co.uk | info@cullingfordcarpets.co.uk

Carpets Vinyls Rugs Wood Karndean Curtains Blinds Re-Upholstery

Monday - Friday: 8.30am - 5.30pm Saturday: 9.00am - 4.30pm

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REMNANTS UP TO 30% OFF NORMAL PRICE

FREE UNDERLAY

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Selected Room size remnants

extra 10% off

FREE Estimates & Free Local Delivery on all carpets & hard floors

The Guild, Wilton Shopping Village, King Street, Wilton, Salisbury, SP2 ORS Monday-Saturday: 9.30-5.30, Sunday: 10.30-4.30 www.wiltoncarpets.co.uk

Don’t forget to bring in your sizes for an instant quote

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Home & Garden LOGS GOOD QUALITY SEASONED OAK & ASH LOGS Barn stored, £170 for 8ft by 6ft trailer load, Delivery free within 10 mile radius of Templecombe.

07773 254174, ANDY

Machine or Hand-Lay Local Authority Approved ESTABLISHED 1988

SEASONED HARDWOOD LOGS £150 double load £85 half load 01258 880892 07980 036250

All aspects of Surfacing Roads Drives Footpaths Drop Kerbs Resin Bond Drives

LOGS R US 1 ton pickup load of logs £90 double load £150 dumpy bag £60 All hardwood 07790 404593 01258 818081

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20 miles radius of Sherborne FREE delivery

Call for a free quote

01747 820234

Tel: 01935 815534

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From

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Tree Tree Surgery.

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Reductions. Felling.

Felling.

Hedge Trimming.

Stump Grinding.

Hedge Trimming. Stump Grinding.

Woodchip Woodchip supplies. supplies.

Family run business Family run business since since 1946 1946 Tel: 01963 250005 Tel: 01963 250005 Mobile: Mobile: 07976 07976 934 934 252 252 www.bandgdown.co.uk

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Local Services ARCHITECTURAL, BUILDING & ELECTRICAL ALL IRONWORK. Handrails. Gates. Railings.

Repairs. Restoration.

01258 880301

Fully Insured Failed Double Glazed Units UPVC Windows and Doors Shower Screens, Balustrades Free Survey T: 01747 631899 / 07708 180306 e: shaftesburyglass@gmail.com w: www.shaftesburyglass.co.uk

DORSET LIME Specialists in all external and internal lime work.

Lime crete flooring.

All aspects of traditional building.

Call Dave or Dan 07492 181788

DORSET WOOD TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS

Oak Timber Framing Bespoke Timber Building Traditional Building Specialist inc All Building WorklAll aspects of Lime External and Internal Rendering/Plastering/Repointing Lime Crete Flooring Chimney Rebuilds and Repointing

www.dorsetwood.co.uk

Contact Dave Welsh 07838 654468

djwelsh@btinternet.com

Damp Control Timber Treatments Dry Rot Condensation Control 30-Year Bonded Guarantee

Tel: Wincanton 01963 202382 Mobile: 07881 504426 Email: maplepres@aol.com www.maplepreservation.co.uk

Architectural Services Planning & Building Applications for New Build, Extensions and Conversions

01747 822162

Our advice is always free

enquiries@bell-architectural.co.uk

ARCHITECTURAL METALWORK Custom made or restored in numerous finishes and metals

- Balustrades - Canopies & Pergola's - Estate Ironworks - Furniture & Ornaments - Handrails - Orangeries & Glass houses - Railing & Fencing - Staircases - Steelworks & Fabrications - Windows & Doors REQUEST A QUOTE: WWW.NEWTONFORGE.CO.UK/REQUEST-QUOTE 01258 472407 | MAIL@NEWTONFORGE.CO.UK UNIT 20C, BUTTS POND INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, STURMINSTER NEWTON, DT10 1AZ

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FREE CONSULTATION.

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Local Services ARCHITECTURAL, BUILDING & ELECTRICAL

J&C Handyman Services

Plumbing Door hanging & skirting boards Painting & decorating Guttering and facia clearing Shed erecting & repairs and replacement Flat pack furniture Fencing Shelves & curtain rails Pointing etc...

No job too small. Please call with your requirements.

01963 364457 07368 516658 dorsethandyman26@gmail.com www.jchandymanservices.com

Quantity Surveying Estimating Surveying Dispute Resolution

01749 813625

Robert Chalke Associates www.rca-qs.com

Bryan G Paulley Ltd Oil Tank Services Domestic & Commercial

REPLACEMENT TANKS INSTALLATIONS RE-SITING TEMPORARY TANKS EMERGENCY PUMP OUTS BUNDED /SINGLE SKIN METAL TANKS/FUEL STATIONS ABOVE GROUND OR BELOW MOLING SERVICE FOR BELOW GROUND UTILITIES COMMERCIAL BOILER REMOVAL

New bunded tank installed for between £1300 and £1900 +VAT depending on size of tank.

All areas. OFTEC Registered

Tel: 01963 363870

24hr Emergency, Leaking Tanks or Oil Spills 07836 502683

E: office@bgp-oiltanks.co.uk www.bgp-oiltanks.co.uk

Home extensions | Barn Conversions Cottage Renovations | New Build Homes Project Management Established over 40 years Phone: 07979 210 074 / 01747 855 280 E: andy@sandsltd.biz w: www.sturgessandsturgess.com

Free estimates for all electrical work, no VAT North Dorset location, will travel.

Call Alan Brown, C&G 2330, 2391,2382 on 01258 446258 or 07976 630 904 Email: alan@acbelectricals.org.uk

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Local Services ARCHITECTURAL, BUILDING & ELECTRICAL SEMI-RETIRED TRADESMAN, Seeks small contracts in North Dorset, Exterior painting & carpentry projects. Please phone- Hugh or Alan on 07813864334 or 07746 600 113.

DEREK ETHERINGTON BSc(Hons).

PC/Mac, Repairs, Networks, Websites, Tuition. Free local callout. 01963362403 07855287150 http://www.dcenet.co.uk COMPUTER MAINTENANCE & REPAIRS Purchase advice, Virus Removal, New PC Setup/ Installation, Internet Connection, Upgrades, Computer/ Software Tuition - Call Gregg on 01963370713

AERIALS & Satellite Direct Repairs & Installations - 7 days per week No VAT - Prompt & Friendly Service

General building Extensions/Renovations Loft conversions Oak frame buildings Groundwork/Landscaping All your property needs

Call 01747 229757 email: alanlewisaml@aol.com

Concrete & Floor Screed Mixed On site Any Quantity Delivered Sand Gravel Stone Cement Blocks etc Supplied Loose or in Big Bags Good Quality Top Soil in Stock

Now available... Rockery Stone

Competitive Rates 01747 853687 or 01747 855630

TOM MOSS Mob: 07931 727 961 Email: tommoss50@aol.com

Vale Computers

Your local computer specialist Any computer related problem fixed: Blank screen, slow computer, upgrades, virus removal, broadband setup and data recovery.

Fixed charge repairs – no call out charge.

New and second-hand computers for sale.

MS CompTIA+ certified engineers.

Ring 01258 880442 Email: Valecomputers.2006@btinternet.com Open Hours: Mon to Fri: 8.30am to 4.30pm Sat: 9.00am to 1.00pm

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R Laptop R Tablet R Smartphone R desktop PC

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25 Years Experience, City & Guilds Qualified Extensions, Renovations, Alterations, New Build, Plastering, Floor and Wall Tiling, Brickwork, Blockwork, Stonework and Patios, Fencing and Decorating.

FREE estimates, No VAT 01747 228827 07809 362919

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Fully Insured Tel: 01747 590584 Mob: 07812 106 513

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Joseph Crocker Computers Custom built gaming & office PCs Desktop, laptop and mobile device diagnosis and repair General computer and IT advice

• Friendly, patient, and knowledgeable help • Keep in touch with family, friends and colleagues for free over the Internet Sell online easily, quickly and reliably

• • Buying advice, setup and installation

NO JOB TOO BIG OR TOO SMALL

I’m Phil Hudson, your local tech expert and trouble-shooter. I’ll come to you and sort things out, at a time that suits you. Or you can drop off your machine at my workshop for quick, efficient care and maintenance.

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Call me now on 07805 783147

01963 23669 or 07484 690824

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Meditations in nature: Splendid just to be amidst the flowers

by Susie Curtin It is now early June, the most abundant month of our calendar. I am out walking today with no particular agenda or destination, just following where my whims and imagination take me.

Sometimes, these are the best journeys in nature.

The sun is high and casting an iridescent light through the fresh green leaves, chiff chaffs are still ringing their repetitive songs, occasionally accompanied by the more joyous, complex trills of blackcaps.

Walking down the lane, the last of the cow parsley decorates the verge in a white haze and, above me, elderflower trees are in full bloom.

As I breathe in their sweet honey-scented fragrance, I recall my friend’s wedding in Denmark, where on the

morning of her special day we collected armfuls of these exquisite flower heads to decorate the venue.

It was the perfect choice for a wedding, as in Danish mythology, the Elder Mother or ‘Hylde Moer’, enables the tree to provide natural gifts and blessings which in turn, proffer good health and prosperity.

Reaching the end of the lane, I decide to take the footpath towards the river down through the meadows.

Here, the ground beneath me is soft and yielding, and tall buttercups grace my

by Chris Slade This is an interesting walk of about four miles but, being in mostly sunken or hollow ways, there are few wide views.

Be warned that it can be a bit soggy in places, so wear waterproof walking boots or

wellies.

Nether Compton is a fairly small parish a little to the west of Sherborne.

You may notice that most of the houses are built of the local sandstone, as is the church.

Park by the village green

fingertips.

Buttercups get their intensity from yellow pigments on the surface of their petals.

Just beneath this surface there is a minute layer of air that reflects the light like mirrors, giving buttercups their unique shine.

In the language of flowers, they symbolise joy, new beginnings, and happiness.

It is certainly hard to feel sad when walking among their swaying blooms.

I follow the river until I get to a field boundary and contemplate my map.

Where to now? It really doesn’t matter. Whatever route I choose, there will be something interesting to behold. After all, there is nowhere more beautiful than Britain in June.

There is rarely a situation in our busy lives when we

are without purpose.

Modern life is rife with goals. There are lists of things to do and outcomes to be assured. Beyond the immediate satisfaction of achievement, there is sometimes little joy. Mostly, the joy comes from the journey rather than the success.

One of my favourite books is the Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd. In it she relates how, over time, she learned to walk in the Cairngorms aimlessly, just to be with the mountain, rather than conquer it.

That is how I feel today, my only desire is to be with nature as I would a friend, with no intention but to be with them.

Dr Susanna Curtin is a nature writer and qualitative researcher (rewildingjourneys.com)

and visit the nearby church.

Then head south-east, uphill, along the road for a furlong where you’ll see a smartly timbered house.

Here you turn right, then left, and enter the unpaved byway, Gore Lane, which curves round to the southeast, going down to a ford, then up a sunken, soggy, hollow way, often with water flowing down it.

The sides of the way get very steep towards the top where it crosses another track. You might spot a cave on the right.

Carry on, east-south-east until you meet the road at Stallen where you turn left, north-east, winding through the hamlet until, just round a

bend, you come to another byway, Hart’s Lane.

That winds its way uphill for over half a mile to the north-east until, at Tucker’s Cross, it becomes a bridleway, Oatcroft Lane, continuing north-east along the high ground.

At the parish boundary there’s a T-junction. Turn left along the bridleway which takes you north-west down a combe until, on your left, you join another bridleway leading south, later wending south-west along a byway to the outskirts of the village where you can join the road and make your way southwest back to your car.

Chris Slade is a retired Dorset rights of way officer.

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Don’t live life on repeat: Why we need to put joy first

by Alice Johnsen You know you feel better after an evening spent laughing – really belly-achingly laughing – with good friends.

You go home, sleep well and wake ready for the new day with an extra spring in your step and affection in your heart.

It’s all to do with the endorphins you released as you laughed.

Endorphins reduce stress. Hence how you feel.

Barbara Fredrickson, American Professor and author, scientifically links positivity and resilience.

In one of her studies, results showed those who scored higher on a resilience question in a study run immediately after the 9/11 attacks generally experienced more positive emotions of empathy, gratitude and love than those participants with lower resilience scores.

The two paths are inextricably linked.

The habit of practising gratitude

is widely beneficial.

I see it with a lot of clients.

Taking time at the end of each day to look back and focus on three things you are glad about that day brings together pausing, processing, positive thinking, stillness.

All reminding yourself there were things that day to be happy about and that it wasn’t just made up of a broken washing machine and no milk in the fridge, for example.

I was talking to a client a few weeks ago about writing.

They enjoyed writing but didn’t allocate time for writing about their area of expertise because ‘the world is cluttered with writers on this subject’.

I felt that was missing the point of writing.

If you gain value, contentment, pleasure or joy from writing – or walking, or playing squash, or collecting old motorbikes – do it.

Not because it has value beyond your four walls but because it brings depth to your life.

Now more than ever, I’m pretty sure that is a good enough reason.

To quote Shannon Kennedy, author and fellow life coach: “There is gold around you all the time if you choose to look for it, engage and be present.

This is what gives depth to our lives.”

I think that depth is the nugget we all need to keep looking for.

Take away the depth and what are you left with? Just everyday life on repeat.

Let’s make time for the things that add the depth or our lives.

Alice Johnsen is a life coach based near Sherborne (07961 080513; alicejohnsen.co.uk)

Take time at the end of each day to look back and focus on three things you are glad about that day.

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Beetroot is packed full of goodness

by Rebecca Vincent With this recipe we are combining beetroot and lettuce.

I have to admit it has taken me years to come round to enjoying beetroot, I’ve kept trying them over the years in various forms as they are wonderfully nutritious, but struggled.

This recipe is a recent favourite thanks to my Aunt, I really appreciate all her help finding beetroot recipes I can savour!

Beetroot are a great source of folic acid, fibre, manganese and potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron and vitamin B6.

Betacyanin is a watersoluble, nitrogen containing

anti-oxidant that gives beetroot their vibrant purplecrimson colour but be careful when preparing them as this colour stains easily.

Lettuce is often maligned as ‘rabbit food’ but it’s a good source of vitamins A and K, and contains smaller amounts of vitamin C, calcium and iron. Lettuce also has a high-water content, up to 95 per cent, so contributes to our hydration.

I hope you enjoy this recipe

as much as I do.

Beetroot and lettuce boats (Serves 2-4) 2 medium beetroot Lettuce 2 tbsp live yoghurt 3 spring onions Pinch black pepper 1 tsp cumin seeds Zest of ½ a lemon Optional extras: fresh herbs such as chives, dill or mint Heat oven to 180 degrees.

Wash the beetroot and wrap individually in tin foil. Pop on a baking tray in the oven for about 45 minutes, until they can be easily pierced with a knife, then set aside to cool.

Lightly toast the cumin seeds in a dry frying pan on a medium heat, being careful they don’t catch. Then set

aside.

Peel the beetroot and dice into small cubes. Finely slice the spring onions and add to the beetroot with the yoghurt, cumin seeds, black pepper, lemon zest and any herbs you are using, mix well.

Separate out the lettuce into individual leaves, wash, dry and use them as boats to spoon in some of the beetroot mixture – little gem lettuce works especially well for this.

Lovely served as a light starter or addition to a selection of mixed salads.

Rebecca Vincent BSc (Hons) is a BANT-registered nutritionist working in Wincanon (07515 019430); www.rebeccavincent nutrition.co.uk

How to find some inner peace

by Katrina Ffiske It seems quite common these days to hear people saying they feel anxious much of the time. Anxiety seems to affect people of all ages from school children to pensioners. I spoke to Matthew Jackson, an osteopath and Chinese medicine practitioner from Glastonbury, to hear why he believes anxiety is more prevalent these days and offers some useful tips on how we can help reduce anxiety.

“I believe it is a mixture of two things that are making levels of anxiety higher in people,” Matthew said. “Firstly, we do not move around as much as our ancestors did, and then we are disempowered by life. For example, we cannot stop wars from happening, we cannot halt inflation, we may not be able to control day-to-day worries in the family or our work.

When we feel out of control, there is a trigger which increases our blood pressure, this creates tension, then as a result, anxiety. Taking some degree of control in our lives, by simply giving attention to people and being kind to those around us, is key. Human connection is important, touch is so important – even hugging someone for

20 seconds minimum creates a feeling of well-being.

“Our way of life can be very sedentary these days – sat in front of computers, peering at phones and watching too much television. Preinternet we were so much more active and as a result less anxious. As a herbalist and practitioner of various forms of natural medicine, I’m obviously interested in the close relationship between the human body and the natural world. Spending time with plants, trees, flowers and water, including the sea, lakes and streams, is proven to have a healing and calming effect.

“Our physical and mental states are entwined. Many people get addicted to sport, the running and moving producing endorphins, that make them feel happy.

Many of us don’t have the luxury of loving sport or being able to afford a gym membership, but there are many ways we can help ourselves just by moving a little each day. Small amounts of movement each day can shift our mind and thought patterns.

“Exercise, however small, can bring down the blood pressure. Set yourself small challenges. It can be as simple as walk to the end of your garden and back

five times. If you do not have a garden, walk up and down the stairs five times a day. Perhaps you live in a bungalow?

Walk up and down the kitchen ten times.

Set yourself these small targets as achieving them gives a great feeling of satisfaction and the exercise will move the blood around your body. Taking action to move and following it through can divert the mind from your worries.”

Be more mindful in the moment “Our minds are so good at controlling us,” Matthew said. “Worries can drop into our minds at any point and it is hard to push them away. It is really important to try and feel gratitude for things in life.

Don’t worry if you have too much gardening to do, push that thought away by focusing on the petal of a flower. The news is overwhelming you? Turn the radio off, close your eyes and remember a happy moment in the past.

“We also all have a mechanism which can help control our minds – breathing.

This is a simple form of meditation.

People often think meditation means stopping thought – but that’s impossible.

It is good to notice the breath or say a silent mantra and let thoughts come and go without giving them attention, thereby calming the mind.”

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Introducing…a favourite herb

by Fiona Chapman Inula helenium or elecampane is one of my favourite herbs.

I started growing it last year but just got the foliage, huge lance-shaped leaves, but this year, excitingly, it is going to flower, a bright yellow flower, a cross between a daisy and sunflower.

It is also known as elfwort – apparently elves live under the leaves, although sadly I haven’t met one yet!

The root of the plant has a huge amount of healing powers and is a very restorative tonic, especially where there is excess phlegm and fluid in the body.

First and foremost, we use it as a lung trophorestorative.

Any condition, from a cold to chronic bronchitis, where there is infection in the lungs,

thick green mucus and bacteria we give elecampane.

It has stimulating, warming and pungent bitters that get right down into the lungs and will remove old sticky mucus allowing new, immunologically rich, mucus to form.

These bitters support the digestive system so if we swallow old mucus from the lungs it will protect the digestive tract.

It is a highly anti-sceptic and anti-bacterial herb. I have

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Its warming action will decongest stagnant fluids and work on the lymphatic tissues – tonsils, adenoids, lymph glands – of the throat down to the gut to sanitise them and remove any congestion which will also help with oedema.

Not only does this wonderful plant look after the lungs, it is full of inulin – this is a starch which does not trigger insulin – but gives blood sugar to the peripheral parts of the body and muscles.

It is nutritious and building so perfect for those in a depressed or weak state both physically and mentally. As it stimulates the liver and pancreas to release bile, it helps digestion and nutrient

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An oil can be made from the root and it can be applied topically to help with rheumatism, especially if it is worse from the cold, or wounds which refuse to heal over, ‘proud’ flesh, where a bacterial infection is stopping healing.

In Ayurvedic medicine it is given as a heart tonic and for the grief of being taken away from your home.

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Spring greens broth is just delicious

by Mrs Simkins Any time of day is the right time for this nourishing and versatile broth.

Terrific for lunch or supper, you can also separate the greens and broth to make two meals – strain the greens and pile them onto wholegrain toast for breakfast and save the broth for lunch or supper.

Tips Make ahead of time and microwave for 1-2 minutes on ‘high’ to re-heat. They are lovely as they are or topped with a fried or poached egg Summer-sown spring greens are the first cabbages of the year – their leaves still only loosely wrapped around unformed hearts. Deliciously sweet and fresh, they are full of nutrients including

Two meals for the price of one with spring greens.

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greens into cold water, shake dry and remove any thick midribs.

Two servings 2 small-medium spring greens heads, washed thoroughly, tough outer leaves and stalks removed 1-2 tablespoons oil 1 small, onion, diced 6 or so spring onions, sliced, including tender green parts ½ sliced red chilli or pinch of chilli flakes 1 garlic clove, finely chopped – or squeeze of puree Grated fresh ginger to taste 600ml hot vegetable stock – or 1 gel vegetable stock pot dissolved in 600ml hot

water Slice the prepared greens finely – roll the leaves – minus the thick ribs, see above – into cylinders and slice thinly for best results.

Fry the onions. Add the chilli and garlic towards the end of cooking time.

Add the greens and continue cooking for a further two or three minutes until wilted and bright green. Pour over the stock and simmer for three to five minutes.

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Puppet master performs for theatre Comedian/ventriloquist Paul Zerdin, who won America’s Got Talent in 2015, is set to return to the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil.

Paul, a patron of the theatre’s Name A Seat initiative, will be helping to raise funds for the redevelopment of the venue.

The puppet master will be accompanied by his regular puppet playmates Sam, Baby and Albert, plus newcomers Roger, the bodyguard who claims to be ex-CIA, and a troublesome Urban Fox which follows him everywhere – most likely for the ‘snack value’.

The show, which will be filmed for future release, will feature a mix of Paul’s best loved comedy along with new material he will be ‘sneak-previewing’ for his forthcoming Edinburgh

America’s Got Talent winner Paul Zerdin is coming to The Octagon.

Festival shows.

Octagon arts and entertainments manager Adam Burgan said: “Paul has always been a brilliant friend

and supporter of The Octagon Theatre and his shows are hugely popular with our audiences.

“Paul was the first live

performance to re-open our venues during the pandemic and as the patron of our Name A Seat campaign he’s always been there to support our theatre. This event will be a superb evening of entertainment from a true master of comedy, all to support the development of our theatre.”

Tickets for ‘An Evening with Paul Zerdin’ on Wednesday, June 15, are for sale on a ‘pay what you can’ basis ranging from £5-£25 via www.octagon-theatre. co.uk/whats-on/comedy/ an-evening-with-paulzerdin/8844. All proceeds will go to the Foyer Club registered charity.

For more information about the Name A Seat campaign visit www.octagontheatre.co.uk/discover-more/ name-a-seat/

Although it is not currently a legal requirement, please consider wearing a face covering to protect yourself and others when visiting the Tivoli.

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Take two: Opera is back in town!

by Hilary Porter Bath Opera makes its highly anticipated return to Wincanton this summer with the dramatic opera ‘Tosca’,

by Giacomo Puccini.

The 2022 summer tour features nine performances in seven venues over six weekends in June and July.

The opera will be sung in English.

Despite last year’s Covid-19 restrictions, bringing grand opera to Wincanton High Street last July proved a great success.

The audience was limited to 100 for ‘The Barber of Seville’ and the sell-out resulted in a return performance being arranged in August at the end of the tour.

Bath Opera chairman John Clark said: “The reviews were amazing – NODA called it a ‘masterpiece of touring opera’ – and the enthusiasm of the ‘Winky opera-goers’ was so great a coach was laid on for them to go up to Bath in February to see Bath Opera’s fully staged main show ‘Eugene Onegin’!”

He added: “It was incredible what happened.

We’d only moved to Wincanton from Yeovil a few months before in December 2020. I didn’t know anyone, and I thought it would be too difficult to put opera on here, but tickets sold like wildfire!”

John’s wife Jane is again directing the production, which visits Memorial Hall, Wincanton, on Friday and Saturday, July 15-16, and each performance can accommodate 180.

One of the world’s most popular operas, ‘Tosca’ is highly topical, set in a republic with high religious and cultural values, which

has been invaded by a cruel dictatorship.

In the title role is Ghiulnara Raileanu, who has performed ‘Tosca’ in her own country, Moldova, but this will be her first leading role in England.

She told us about her excitement, the emotions, and the relevance of Tosca in these troubled times…

NBV: How do you feel to be taking on this role?

GR: I am Tosca through my eyes. Performing this role, I feel everything she has gone through. You need to feel Tosca’s pain to understand that and all the challenges the role brings. I guess this role is in my blood.

NBV: Do you think the story/ themes will resonate with audiences, particularly as we are witnessing such turbulent times so close to home?

GR: There are unmistakeable parallels between the cruel invading regime in ‘Tosca’ and what is happening in Ukraine today. I suppose the story will also resonate with audience, because even though she is a strong fighter woman, she is also the victim of sexual blackmail. A man who uses his power to harm her. Unfortunately, this kind of situation is all too present in our times.

NBV: How emotional is it for you when you perform?

GR: It’s very high definition.

It’s a high level of acting and singing. It’s more like an emotion. In a sense I need an audience’s applause and energy like a vampire needs its daily blood! I feed myself with these feelings.

NBV: Why do you think Tosca is such a popular opera?

GR: Tosca is without doubt a powerful drama with the most iconic music.

‘Tosca’ will provide Ghiulnara Raileanu’s first leading role in England

The famous soprano aria ‘Vissi d’arte’ sung by Tosca is one example. In my opinion Maria Callas was magnificent, she lived on stage singing this role.

The heart-wrenching ‘E Lucevan le stelle” sung by Cavaradossi is one of the most popular arias in the Italian tenor repertoire.

And, of course, the impressive ‘Te Deum’ is another example. It’s a religious canticle sung by the evil Scarpia with a chorus.

Tosca is full of musical motifs which represent the different characters and ideas in the story. ’Tosca’ therefore remains a mirror in which we all look, from time to time, TOSCA TOUR DATES

for the peaks and descents of the soul.

NBV: How do you feel about performing in the UK? GR: It is my first performance in the UK and I am so happy that I will start my experience here with this role of Tosca. It’s a big challenge and an experience for me because I will sing it in English. I hope to bring out those feelings needed in an audience. I was rewarded to see tears in the Bath Opera panel when I auditioned for the part. n For tickets visit summertour.bathopera@ outlook.com or phone 01963 34196 (24-hour answerphone).

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Four takes on famous author’s life

by Faith Eckersall Fans of Thomas Hardy are in for a summer treat as four local museums hold coordinated exhibitions, examining different aspects of his work.

Hardy fans can discover more about the Victorian poet and novelist in the exhibitions which run at Dorchester, Poole, Salisbury and Devizes until October.

Dorset Museum in Dorchester is exploring Hardy’s views on social tensions and animal welfare.

Despite his national acclaim, Hardy never lost touch with his experience of the working-class lives and poverty of rural Dorset and the museum is using paintings, writing, costume and drawings to bring his writing to life.

One of the highlights is The Village Choir painting by

A Village Choir by Thomas Webster is on show in Dorchester, © The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Image no: 2006al3887

Thomas Webster, loaned by the Victoria and Albert Museum, which provides a snapshot of the rural musicians Hardy grew up with and wrote about.

Poole Museum will examine Hardy’s relationship with the coastlines which inspired his writing – from first meeting his wife, Emma, on the wild cliffs of Cornwall,

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to his fascination with the Napoleonic wars.

Among the exhibits are the handwritten notebook for his novel ‘The Trumpet-Major’, compete with scribbles and sketches. Visitors can also see the 1816 artwork ‘Weymouth Bay’, by John Constable, loaned to the museum by the V&A. In Salisbury, the exhibition uncovers Hardy’s links with the city and his views on religion and feminism. During the 19th century, Hardy’s sisters attended a teacher training college based in The King’s House, now the museum. The college inspired an episode in Jude the Obscure, one of the original manuscripts featured in the show.

Meanwhile, at The Wiltshire Museum in Devizes, the theme is Ancient Wessex - Superstition and old beliefs.

With its proximity to Stonehenge, which plays such an important role in Tess of the D’Urbervilles, the Wiltshire Museum is wellplaced to investigate how Hardy’s writing merged his present with the past.

It will also show how many of his plots were set against a background of superstition in these ancient landscapes where old beliefs died hard.

Among the exhibits are his hand-annotated copy of Einstein’s new theories and his ‘Book of Facts’, in which he recorded old beliefs and superstitions.

Battens Solicitors, which has six offices in Somerset and Dorset, is sponsoring Hardy’s Wessex. The law firm was founded at Church House in Church Street, Yeovil, in the 18th century, before moving to its current headquarters in Princes Street.

The branch would have been open in 1876 when Thomas Hardy and his wife Emma lived in lodgings at 7 St Peter Street, Yeovil. The couple stayed there from March to July, during which time Hardy corrected the final proofs of his novel ‘The Hand of Ethelberta’.

More information, including ticket prices and opening times can be found at each museum’s website.

Theatre school visit The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School is staging two touring productions in Dorset this month.

‘Great Expectations’, Charles Dickens’ wry coming-of-age story, is at Lytchett Matravers village hall on Friday, 17 June, (phone 01202 623299).

The group returns to

present a thrilling and nostalgic production Thackeray’s satire ‘Vanity Fair’ at The Exchange in Sturminster Newton on Thursday, 30 June, (phone 01258 475137).

Further information and tickets for these Artsreach performances is available online at www.artsreach.co.uk

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Mayor of Sherborne Cllr Juliet Pentolfe cuts the ribbon to officially open the new Platinum Skies community in Sherborne.

PHOTO: Paul Collins/ Platinum Skies

Mayor officially opens ‘absolutely fantastic’ retirement village

By Andrew Diprose Homeowners and businesses came together to enjoy a party to celebrate the launch of the new Sherborne Platinum Skies community.

As one of the first official engagements of her mayoral year, Cllr Juliet Pentolfe, Mayor of Sherborne, cut the ribbon on the independentliving apartments in Mulberry House and neighbouring houses which are home to people aged 55 and over.

The Mayor, accompanied

by Mark Edwards, comanaging director of Platinum Skies, and relationship manager Sara Rowan then took a tour of the communal facilities including a bistro and bar, activity room, treatment room and homeowners’ lounge.

She also saw some of the homes available for

purchase, which include one-, two- and threebedroom apartments, and two- and three-bedroom detached, semi-detached and terraced houses.

All have access to the shared communal spaces.

Speaking after the event, Cllr Pentolfe, said: “I love the Sherborne Platinum Skies community. I think it’s absolutely fantastic.

“It’s a brilliant concept and it has a wonderful community feeling.

“I’ve been to look around the apartments and the houses, and as soon as you walk through the door, it feels as though you’re on holiday.

“It’s gorgeous.”

Homes are available to buy in the Sherborne community from £130,000 with the Platinum Skies shared ownership option.

Sherborne has two

dedicated community managers, Hayley and Vanessa.

They organise fun activities to enable homeowners to socialise, which can include winetasting workshops, talks, live music, yoga, coffee mornings, quizzes and crafts, as well as providing practical and emotional support.

Among the party’s guests were Pamela and Derek Emerson, who moved into a house in Canon Woods Close earlier this year.

Derek said: “It’s one of the best new-build houses we have seen.

“From my point of view, I think it’s one of the best

moves we’ve ever made – and that’s coming from someone who really didn’t want to move out of their last house.”

Pamela added: “We came from Devon and lived on Dartmoor in a large house with no neighbours.

“It meant we were isolated, although I was happy to spend all day in the garden.

“Thinking about coming into a retirement village was initially quite daunting, but as Derek says, we settled in quite quickly and the community managers go to a lot of effort for us, along with Agata, who runs the bistro.”

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Some common issues in old cats...

by Lynn Broom Longmead Veterinary Practice Cats are independent and this makes them very good at hiding signs of ill health. Old cats will be less active and old age itself is not an illness but watching out for subtle changes can help identify any underlying signs of illness.

A common condition in old cats is having an overactive thyroid gland – hyperthyroidism – which typically causes weight loss despite a good or excessive appetite. It can cause heart failure and the weight loss will eventually lead to severe weakness. It is identified using a blood test and is often very treatable.

Dementia can also be a side-effect of hyperthyroidism but age itself can lead to brain deterioration and the development of strange behaviours. In combination with deafness, cats may start to yowl loudly and randomly.

Loss of litter training can be dementia-related but may also be due to underlying physical causes. Some supplements or medications may help these symptoms.

Chronic kidney failure becomes more common in

Old cats will be less active but owners should watch out for subtle changes which can help identify any underlying signs of illness.

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old age, leading to irreversible loss of kidney function. Early signs include drinking more but, as many cats choose to drink outside, this may go unnoticed. This will progress until the cat has a reduced appetite and may vomit intermittently. Affected cats are hungry but feel nauseous, so don’t actually eat. A blood/urine test can diagnose this and, in the earlier stages, diet changes and medications can improve symptoms.

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Arthritis is also common but frequently under diagnosed. If a cat is sore from arthritis it will stop jumping up on to raised surfaces and will be generally less active. It may become more grumpy due to the ongoing pain and may over-groom in areas of sore joints. Various options are available for pain relief, either orally or by injection.

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on the front feet particularly curl round as they grow and will embed themselves in the cat’s food pads causing pain and infection. Regular clipping can prevent this.

Old age often causes hearing and sight loss. Cats with high blood pressure, often secondary to kidney or heart problems, can go blind because of the pressure effects due to retina damage.

Blind cats can cope well in their own environment and their blindness may go unnoticed. If identified early through blood pressure testing medication can prevent eye damage.

Cancers also become more common with age. Nonpigmented skin on the ears and face can develop skin cancers which start off as a non-healing or recurring scab and can progress to large ulcers. Using sun block from an early age can prevent this.

Surgical removal where possible is usually curative.

Cats can live happily into old age with very little to ail them. However, many are showing subtle signs of illness which will be affecting their quality of life and noticing these can help them get the help they will benefit from.

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BEHAVIOUR TIPS

These are just some of the cats at Blandford and Sturminster Newton Branch Cats Protection looking for new homes…

by Helen Taylor Tip# 16. Jumping up.

Teach your puppy how you want him to greet people. Sitting is ideal as it is impossible to sit and jump at the same time.

Always keep him on a lead in any situation he may jump on visitors or strangers, so you can prevent him practising this.

With strangers or visitors who want to greet him, ask him to sit – having taught this previously – and reward and praise him for choosing to sit.

If he is calm, allow him to approach – still on lead – and ask him to sit again to greet – and give him a treat.

If his front paws come off the ground, immediately lead him out of range so the interaction is ended – do not jerk or drag him.

Practice this until he starts to realise that sitting is rewarding but jumping up is fruitless.

At home, focus on pre-empting jumping situations by asking for a sit for reward – or distracting him with something else – before he jumps.

If he does jump, turn and walk away without saying or doing anything.

There is no need for a cue word for something you never want your dog to do!

Just train a default behaviour!

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Felix (13) and Patch (ten). Timid pair who need a home together.

Stanley (one). Lovely boy learning to trust again.

FEATURED CATS Hattie, Simba and Nero (right) are beautiful black and white kittens of about eight months of age.

They are a bit complicated, as they have always lived indoors, but were not handled until recently.

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Nero will accept a bit of a fuss from his fosterer but is still a bit wary. Hattie, unfortunately, is still very wary, although

can all start off indoors to be given the chance to be inside/outside cats or, if they prefer, to be outside cats, so having a decent amount of outside space where they could call home is a must.

They could probably go with other cats but we are not sure about dogs. They could go with older children who might have the patience to encourage them to be friends.

will sit beside Simba when the fosterer visits but will move away with a bit of a hiss. She really doesn’t want to know her human other than for the food they supply at the moment.

None of them are aggressive – they just need someone who has time to give them.

Ideally, we would love to find them a home together – we know it’s asking a lot – to a home where they

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DEATHS

CHARD Neville

KIM MICHELE DOBBINS

Joan and family wish to thank the doctors, nurses and staff at Yeovil District Hospital. on Ward 9A for all their kindness and care. We also thank relatives and friends for their kind cards and messages of sympathy, for their attendance at the service and for donations. Please accept this as our personal message of thanks.

CELIA, SUE AND FAMILY would like to thank all those who kindly sent cards, messages and donations and everyone who attended the celebration of Tony’s life service.

A special thank you to Vicky and Lavinia for a lovely tribute and also Adrian and Jake at the Natterjack. Please accept this as our personal message of thanks.

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BIRTHDAYS HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARAH Wow, can’t believe you are 40 On the 8th June Lots of love from Mum, Dad and all the family xxxx

DEATHS GLADYS SQUIBB née TAYLOR On 28th May 2022 peacefully in Salisbury District Hospital aged 91 years of Shaftesbury, formerly of Ashmore and Cranborne.

A dearly loved Mum, Nanny and Great Granny “Forever in our Hearts”. Funeral service takes place at St Nicholas Church, Ashmore on Friday 17th June at 11 am, followed by Interment.

No flowers please but donations if desired to The Stars Appeal may be made online at www.mhfd.co.uk or sent to Merefield & Henstridge F/D, Ridgemount, Pitts Lane, West Melbury, Shaftesbury, Dorset. SP7 0BU.Tel.01747 853532

Age 60 years Peacefully passed away on Monday 6th June 2022. Will be sadly missed by all her family and friends.

Funeral to be held on Friday 24th June, 11am at St Mary’s Church, Gillingham. Family flowers only.

Donations to Salisbury District Hospital Oncology via Peter Jackson.

MARY TREVIS (of Stalbridge) Peacefully on the 22nd May 2022 aged 87 years. Dearly loved Mum, Gran, Great Gran & Auntie. Private funeral service.

Donations if desired for Cancer Research UK or British Heart Foundation. C/o Peter Jackson Funeral Services, Mons, High St, Henstridge, BA8 0RB. Tel: 01963 362570.

GARRY DARE Peacefully at home in Henstridge on the 29th May 2022 aged 50 years. A dearly loved Son and Brother. Funeral service at Yeovil Crematorium on Wednesday, 22nd June at 11.20am.

Family flowers only please, donations if desired for the Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Trust. C/o Peter Jackson Funeral Services, Mons, High St, Henstridge, BA8 0RB. Tel: 01963 362570

COOPER EDWARD PETER (Pete) Aged 71 years of Hornblotton. On 22nd May 2022, peacefully at Yeovil District Hospital. A much loved husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle and friend. Funeral Service at Yeovil Crematorium on Wednesday 15th June at 10.a.m. Please wear colorful clothing. Family flowers only please, donations in memory of Pete are being invited for Yeovil Hospital Charity, Oncology Unit or Musgrove Park, Haematology Unit. (please make cheques payable to love Musgrove.) C/O Harold F.Miles, Funeral Directors, South Cadbury, BA22 7ES. Telephone (01963) 440367

MICHAEL JOHN ALFORD On 19th May 2022 peacefully in Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton aged 82 years lately of Beauchamp House Nursing Home and Fern Brook Lodge, Gillingham, and formerly of Motcombe, who will be sadly missed by all family and friends.

Funeral service takes place at Salisbury Crematorium on Monday 27th June at 2pm. No flowers please but donations if desired to The RAF Benevolent Fund can be made online at www.mhfd.co.uk or sent to Merefield & Henstridge F/D, Ridgemount, Pitts Lane, West Melbury, Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 0BU. Tel: 01747 853532

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Announcements DEATHS DULCIE DIANA HOUSE (Church Organist 1982 – 2019) Of Milton Abbas passed away peacefully 1st June 2022, aged 85 years. Devoted mother of Ken, Thelma, Colin and Neville and much loved Mother-inLaw, Grandmother and Great Grandmother. Family and friends welcome to attend the funeral service 14th June 1200 noon at St James Church, Milton Abbas followed by a gathering at the Hambro Arms, Milton Abbas.

Family flowers only. Donations to St James Church, Milton Abbas, please make cheques payable to: St James Church – Milton Abbas For online donations please contact Churchwarden Jennifer Harrisson – wvmabenefice@gmail.com

DAVID LITTLE David passed away peacefully in Salisbury hospital on June 2nd aged 92. Beloved father of Martin, Richard, Joanne and Jenny, and loving husband of Colleen, who died ten years ago, having been nursed by David in her last years. His funeral will take place at Yeovil crematorium on Wednesday, June 29th at 1.20pm. Family flowers only, please, but donations can be made direct to the Alzheimer’s Society at www.alzheimers.org.uk

HARWOOD DENNIS LESLIE Dennis Harwood of Sturminster Newton, passed away peacefully at home with his family by his side on 26th May 2022 aged 95 years. Much loved husband, father and grandfather.

Funeral Service to be held at Salisbury Crematorium on Wednesday 15th June 2022 at 12 noon. Family flowers only please, but donations if desired for the Royal British Legion or Friends of Stour Connect c/o Grassby and Close Funeral Service, 4 Innes Court, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, DT10 1BB, Telephone 01258 471024 or made online by visiting www.grassbyclose-funeral.co.uk

VAUGHAN DAVID GEORGE Peacefully on 23rd May, aged 64 years.

Much loved brother, cousin and friend.

Funeral service will take place at Yeovil Crematorium on Tuesday 21st June, at 11:20am.

JUNE TOPP née Weightman on 27th May 2022 peacefully at home aged 86 years of Shaftesbury. A much loved mum, nan, great nan and sister, who will be sadly missed. Funeral service takes place at Salisbury Crematorium on Tuesday 14th June at 10 am. Family flowers only but donations if desired to Help for Heroes may be made online at www.mhfd.co.uk or sent to Merefield & Henstridge F/D, Ridgemount, Pitts Lane, West Melbury, Shaftesbury, Dorset.

SP7 0BU. Tel: 01747 853532

PERROTT SHEILA Passed away on Monday 16th May 2022, aged 85 years.

Beloved wife of Robert, mother and grandmother. Funeral service will take place on Monday 13th June 2022, 12.30p.m. at Mendip Crematorium. Family flowers only please. Donations in memory of Sheila for Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance may be sent c/o A. J. Wakely & Sons, The Old Police Station, Carrington Way, Wincanton, BA9 9JS. Tel: 01963 31310.

Please make cheques payable to the charity.

EDWARDS NANCY GWYNNE (née Harrison) Died peacefully at Cools Farm, East Knoyle on 26 May 2022, aged 99. Much loved mother of Quentin and Charlotte and widow of Kenneth Edwards. The funeral is on Wednesday 15 June 11.30 am at St John’s Church Tisbury.

MARY JUKES Passed away peacefully at home on the 25th May 2022. Much Loved, and will be sadly missed by all. The Funeral service is taking place at Yeovil Crematorium, on the 28th June 2022 AT 1320. Family flowers only please, donations if desired in aid of Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance, may be sent to Bracher Brothers, Gillingham, Dorset, SP8 4QL. Tel: 01747 822494.

All respectfully invited.

CATHERINE YOUNG “ KATE” Passed away peacefully on 19th May at the Ashwood Care Centre, Warminster aged 95 years. She’ll be sadly missed by all her family & friends. The funeral service is at Yeovil Crematorium –2pm on Thursday 16th June followed by an informal gathering to celebrate Catherine’s life at her neighbours house “St. Andrews”, Hillclose, Wincanton BA9 9NF. All are welcome Just wear bright clothes. –Family flowers only, online donations to World wildlife fund. catherine Young (wwf.org.uk)

MARGARET DIBBEN The family would like to thank everyone for the cards and messages of sympathy received, and for attendance at the funeral service at St Andrew’s Todber on 23 May. Grateful thanks are also extended to the staff at The Old Rectory, Stalbridge for their care and support.

DAVID ARTHUR JACK Passed away peacefully at home on the 18th May 2022. He was much loved, and will be sadly missed by all. The Funeral Service is taking place at Salisbury Crematorium, on the 11th July 2022 at 1pm. Family flowers only please. Donations if desired in aid of Dementia UK, may be sent to Bracher Brothers, Gillingham, SP8 4QL, Tel: 01747 822494. All respectfully invited.

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Announcements DEATHS SAMWAYS NENVILLE ‘ADRIAN’ of Melbury Bubb

RICHARD GEORGE PETTIS “Dick”

Passed away peacefully at Yeovil District Hospital on Monday 30th May, 2022, aged 92. Beloved Dad to Sonia and David.

Grandad to Ben and dear friend to John.

Forever in our hearts, he will be sadly missed.

Funeral service will take place at St. Marys Church, Melbury Bubb on Thursday 23rd June, 2022 at 2.00pm.

Family flowers only please. Donations in memory of Adrian for Yeovil Hospital Charity may be sent c/o A.J. Wakely & Sons, 16 Newland, Sherborne, DT9 3JQ. (Please make cheques payable to the charity)

Of Sixpenny Handley passed away on 31st May in his 91st year. He will be greatly missed by his family and many friends.

Graveside service takes place at St Mary’s Church, Sixpenny Handley on Friday 24th June at 11.30 am. Family flowers only please but donations if desired to Cancer Research UK made be made online at www.mhfd.co.uk or sent to Merefield & Henstridge F/D, Ridgemount, Pitts Lane, West Melbury, Shaftesbury, Dorset. SP7 0BU. Tel: 01747 853532

PATRICK MONAGHAN Passed away on 27th May 2022 in Bristol, aged 64 years.

Husband to Julie, Father to Andrea and Natasha, stepdad, father in-law, pops, and friend to many. He will be forever missed. Funeral service Monday 20th June 1:15pm, at Westerleigh Crematorium Bristol BS37 8QP, all donations to the NHS.

IAN VICKERS (Of Fordingbridge, formerly of Iwerne Minster and Wimborne) Passed away on May 26th, 2022, after a long illness bravely borne. Much loved husband of Angie, dad, grandad and brother.

Funeral Service will take place at Poole & Wimborne Woodland Burial Ground on Friday 24th June 2022 at 12:30 pm. No flowers but donations in memory of Ian for Myeloma UK may be made through the website https://ianvickers.muchloved.com

COLEMAN KEVIN JOHN, Aged 59 years of Wincanton. On 28th May 2022, peacefully at Yeovil District Hospital. A much loved husband, dad, grandad, son, brother, uncle and friend. Funeral service at Mendip Crematorium on Monday 20th June at 11.30.a.m. Please wear some colour. Family flowers only please, donations in memory of Kevin are being invited for Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance.

C/O Harold F.Miles, Funeral Director, South Cadbury, BA22 7ES. Telephone. (01963) 440367

BRIAN GRAY Richard & Family would like to thank everyone for the cards, kind words, support & offers of help given to them during the period that Brian had been ill & for those who attended his funeral. It has been most comforting for them during this very sad time. Special thanks to the staff at the Cedars Nursing Home & Salisbury Hospital for their care in looking after Brian.

Thanks also to Ian Merrifield, Funeral Director, Reverend Kate Macfarlane for the lovely service & the ladies who decorated the church so well in memory of Brian. The sum of £967 was donated between Donhead Sports Club & Wiltshire Air Ambulance.

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Stalwart Rex, 80, still going strong Sherborne FC celebrated their own England hero as the national side struggled against Hungary in the opening Nations League match.

Rex Buttle, 80, made his England debut in walking football against Wales over-75s at Merthyr Tydfil as the oldest player in the 15-strong squad.

Rex, who early in his career was struck with paralysis and told he would never play again, began his footballing life 63 years ago with Yeovil Town in 1959.

His extensive footballing journey saw him play for Sherborne and Westlands.

After hanging up his boots – the first time – he began a long run in management with Sherborne, Gillingham, Crewkerne, Street, Weymouth (Youth) and

Shaftesbury.

He also joined Yeovil Town after bumping into chairman John Fry at Tottenham’s White Hart Lane ground where Rex was taking young players trials – which perhaps cut against the grain for the lifelong Arsenal fan!

In his first season with Yeovil’s 16s side they won everything, and the next season at 18s level, they did the same. Rex went on to manage the Dorset County 16 and 18 age groups and assisted with Somerset under 18s.

He also managed the Blackmore league side on two occasions before stints at Weymouth as a kit man and physio.

Today Rex works with walking football teams and

Shaftesbury FC 1888 had their most successful season under the management of Ollie Cherrett and assistant Chris Hart last season, with the pinnacle being winning the Wessex League Cup. They beat Fareham Town 2-1 in the final at AFC Portchester in front of a record crowd of 852, the highest attendance since the tournament began in 1986.

They also won the Salisbury Hospital Cup defeating Bemerton Heath Harlequins 6-5 on penalties, after the match finished 2-2, with Asa Philips scoring twice.

The Rockies finished third scoring a record 126 goals, narrowly missing promotion to the Pitching In Southern League South West Division.

Only Bashley’s late season

form denied a runners-up finish behind Hamworthy United.

Bashley put the Rockies out of the FA Vase in the second round, 6-5 on penalties following a 2-2 draw in the New Forest.

Having seen off Arundel 5-0 and Longlevens 3-0 away, it was a disappointment for the club to exit the FA Vase after early promise.

Shaftesbury had a record gate of 610 for the narrow defeat to Bath City in the FA Cup Second Qualifying Round, after knocking out Southern League Highworth Town in a replay. Progressive chairman Steve Coffen will no doubt have been pleased with the return.

Asa Philips bagged an outstanding 34 goals, Ash Pope (24), Aiden Shepherd (20), Luke Burbidge (16),

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Rex Buttle has made his England debut in walking football.

Ability Counts, helping disabled players enjoy the game he loves. It is a worthy cause for a man who grew up with blind parents.

Rex was honoured on his 80th birthday with a charity match in his name at Dorchester Town Football Club to raise money for Ukrainian refugees, one of many charity games Rex has

been involved with over the years. He is still out either playing or coaching five days a week.

Rex has helped hundreds of youngsters take up the sport he loves and his passion for grassroots football stands as a reminder to those in the highest leagues that they are standing on the shoulders of giants.

Luke Delaney (15), Cameron Beard (14), Greg Peel (13) and Luke Delaney (15) with a total haul of 167 goals for a team firing on cylinders. The 126 goals in the league included a 10-0 win over Hythe and Dibden, 9-2 against Amesbury Town and the 9-0 win over Christchurch.

There were impressive doubles over Horndean, Blackfield & Langley, Fareham Town, United Services Portsmouth, Portland United, Bournemouth FC, Amesbury Town and Christchurch, as the team pursued Hamworthy United, who won 2-1 at the County Ground to all but seal the title.

The lows included a 3-0 defeat at Brockenhurst, losing 5-1 to AFC Portchester, a 2-1 loss at

home to Alresford Town and a 3-0 defeat to a then on-fire Baffins Milton Rovers at Coppice Street – Shaftesbury won the return 5-0 at the Kendall Stadium in March, however, which was a great response.

The Reserves in the Dorset Premier League had a difficult season finishing 13th. Highlights were a double over local rivals Blandford United and two victories in the last two games after only one win since November.

The club are hoping to attract more support in the new season with gates having doubled in the time Steve Coffen has been chairman. Some 217 fans saw the game with Bashley in early April, compared to just 38 who saw the Alresford defeat.

Rockies ride high in cup-winning season

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Cyclists saddling up for good cause The Macmillan Dorset Bike Ride returns to The Blackmore Vale next month.

Starting in Corfe Mullen, the ride heads towards Blandford along the River Stour. At Winterborne Stickland, where the routes divide, the 38-mile ride heads down the Winterborne Valley and the longer rides ascend Bulbarrow Hill where the challenging 100-mile course descends into the Blackmore Vale.

Cyclists of all abilities are welcome to enter and help support the needs of those with cancer.

After two years of Covid-19 cyclists are being encouraged to get out and take part in an organised event.

Ride organiser Peter Smith-Nicholls said: “We know lots of people have been out cycling in recent

The annual Macmillan Dorset Bike Ride attracts about 500 cyclists.

months, so why not put all that fitness to good use and raise some money for a good

cause.”

The event on Sunday, 3 July also offers an

opportunity to cycle some of the course the professionals will ride in September when the 2022 Tour of Britain comes to Dorset.

The Macmillan Dorset Bike Ride is sponsored by Sunseeker International and supported by Primera Sports, The Hendy Group and Coles Miller Solicitors. All the money raised and donated by the cyclists will go directly to help support people living with cancer.

Primera Sports is giving a prize to the top fundraiser for each distance: £38, £48, £63 and £100 vouchers will be awarded to the top fundraisers.

Cyclists can enter online at www.macmillanbikeride. co.uk Full support is provided around the course by marshals and bike mechanics, and with refreshment stops.

Fun, fun, fun in mud, glorious mud!

The mud has washed out my running clothes, the aching arms have subsided – and now I’m advising you to put 20 May 2023 in your calendar for next year’s Dorset Mud Run! The event was held at the Stock Gaylard Estate at Sturminster Newton, on a fabulous 6km course, after being cancelled due to Covid-19 in 2020.

Participants were organised into small groups over the weekend and the atmosphere was one of laughter, fun and teamwork.

Cheerful volunteers were on hand to encourage us along – and on occasion to help pull us up out of the steep, slick, muddy river banks!

As we ran through the beautiful scenery in glorious sunshine, we climbed, crawled, pulled ourselves

through thick mud, swung over ditches, clambered through rivers and swam across the lake.

From the moment we arrived on site, we were presented with the finishing line, a large inflatable slide into a pool of water already muddied by previous participants.

It looks fun until you need to find the last bit of strength to pull yourself to the top while being sprayed with water.

Half way up, I had my doubts about completing the course, but this is the final obstacle, it had to be done.

Yes, my stomach felt like it was left behind at the top of the slide, but the moment you re-surface, you are ready to book in for next year’s event.

On completion, we

Coming down: The large inflatable slide.

collected our finishers’ T-shirts and complementary Gritchie beer, and felt pretty proud of ourselves!

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Flyers hit the heights in SW champs Five Blandford Flyers Swimming Club members took part in the South-West Regional Swimming Championships 2022 at Millfield School, Hengrove and the Life Centre, Plymouth, over three consecutive weekends.

They were Harry Silvey, Stephen Quine, Maximus Leigh, Wilfred Leigh and Joshua Yip. In arguably the most competitive region in the country, Blandford’s swimmers represented the club in 29 events. Swimming numerous personal bests along the way, they made an impressive 19 finals, punching

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well above their weight.

Special mention goes to Harry Silvey, who won a gold medal in both the 50m and the 100m breaststroke, and Wilfred Leigh who competed in 11 events winning 11 medals – six gold, two silver and three bronze.

Club representative Jonathan Creffield said: “We are very proud of our swimmers and hope their achievements will be an inspiration to other young children from Blandford and the local area.”

Parents of youngsters

Blandford’s swimmers made an impressive 19 finals.

interested in getting involved with the club should visit the website at www. blandfordflyers.co.uk The friendly club welcomes all standards of youth swimmers

from Learn-to-Swim Level 7 upwards.

In the picture (from left) are Harry Silvey, Stephen Quine, Max Leigh, Wilf Leigh and Joshua Yip.

Hamworthy Harriers Aces (2h 59m 35s).

The Doddlers would like to thank everyone involved, including the runners and spectators around the course, who provided incredible support.

Local businesses provided sponsorship and prizes which means Dorset Doddlers can make donations to local

charities. They would like to thank Dorset Vehicle Rentals, White Hart Ale House, Twisted Cider, Running Free, Stalbridge Linen, Farnfields Solicitors, Dorset Dairy, Spar (Marnhull), Wriggle Valley Brewery.

Further details and full results can be found at www. dorsetdoddlers.co.uk

Strong entry in marathon event RUNNING

The Dorset Doddlers’ had a huge entry in both the marathon and relay races when they held the North Dorset Village Marathon for the first time since 2019 – and rain could not dampen a great atmosphere around the course.

The 26.2-mile course, which starts and finishes in Sturminster Newton, takes in some of Dorset’s most picturesque villages such as Marnhull, Stalbridge, Todber, Margaret’s Marsh and Child Okeford before coming back along the Trailway.

First male was Stuart Nicholas (Bournemouth AC) in 2h 40m 30s, followed by Martyn Bell (Egdon Heath Harriers) in 2h 44m 42, with third Male going to Graham Sherwin (Egdon Heath Harriers) with 2h 45m 10s.

Daisy Baker (Millfield Tri Club) was first female in 3h 04m 59s, followed by Tracy Cook (Dorset Doddlers) 3h

15m 05s and Alexandra Door (Egdon Heath Harriers) placing third in 3h 15m 27s.

The relay races were a sell-out, with 40 teams lined up at the start. First male team over the line were Chard Road Runners with a combined time of 2h 34m 20s. The first female team were R4T1 (2h 58m 23s) and the first mixed team were

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North Dorset Rugby Football Club Job Vacancies Kitchen Supervisor The club needs a team member to assist us in running the clubhouse kitchen. Commencing 1st September 2022, the role initially involves working for a minimum of 4 days a week. The hours can be flexible but a typical 30 hour week in the rugby season from late August to the end of May will include weekends. In addition to this, during the summer months, the kitchen supports a variety of events as required. The job mostly involves preparing, cooking and serving after match meals, lunches and the supporters’ menu as well as the day-to-day running of the kitchen. Experience in a similar role whilst not essential would be an advantage.

Clubhouse Support Staff The Club also needs a number of team members to assist our Clubhouse Manager and Kitchen Supervisor. The working hours will be flexible and will involve working evenings and weekends subject to business needs. The roles, for which you must be over 16, involves assisting in the kitchen, waiting at tables and bar support.

Experience is not necessary as training will be given.

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BLANDFORD AND WIMBORNE FOODBANKS ARE EACH LOOKING FOR A PART-TIME TEAM-LEADER to oversee their growing Debt Advice work. For further information and application details please see: https://faithworkswessex.org.uk/news/vacancies/

CLEANER WANTED between Sherborne and Dorchester part time 1-2 days a week. Please call or text 07762 168130

COME AND EARN EXTRA MONEY. 7 till late Friday and Saturday nights. Good hourly rate + lots of tips, taxi driving with Blandford’s OAKWOOD TAXIS. All expenses paid for. Must be over 25. For more details ring Andy on 01258 455555, between 9am & 2pm, or email: oakwoodtaxis@aol.com

GREENHAVEN LANDSCAPES Landscapers and labourers needed.

We are looking for skilled landscapers and general labourers to join our team. A good knowledge of hard and soft landscaping along with a can do attitude required, drivers preferred but not essential. Long term positions within an establish local company. Previous applicants need not reapply. 07792892999 info@greenhavenlandscapes.co.uk

TRAINEE STONE CASTER. This Role involves the manufacture of architectural masonry hand tamped into moulds.

We have a small team of friendly casters at our works on the Butts Pond Estate, Sturminster Newton, many of whom have been with us for several years.

Full training is given so no experience is necessary but an ability to work with your hands and a good level of fitness are required. 39 hour week.

Twenty eight days holiday a year to include bank holidays and a five day shut down over the Christmas period. Company Pension Scheme and free parking. Starting Salary £19,318 per annum with the likelihood of increase after completing a successful training period. Request an application form from team@cranbornestone.com or call 01258 472685

CLERK TO NORTH VALE PARISH COUNCIL North vale Parish Council seeks a Clerk and Responsible Financial Officer. Part time (24 hours per month) Starting as soon as possible. The successful candidate will be expected to attend meetings (usually one evening per month), handle the formal minutes, agendas, planning applications and correspondence of the council, as well as preparing all relevant accounts. A laptop computer is supplied. Experience is preferred but not essential. Please send applications, including a CV, via email to:northvalepc@gmail.com.

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PARISH ADMINISTRATOR St Luke & St Teresa, Wincanton are seeking a part time Parish Administrator, 12 hours a week.

This is an interesting and challenging position and requires flexibility, strong organisational skills and excellent literacy, numeracy, communication and IT skills.

Please send a CV and covering letter to dominic.findlay-wilson@cliftondiocese.com Closing date Friday 24th June 2022 HIGHFIELD HOUSE RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME for Elderly people in Castle Cary have positions Vacant Catering Assistant and Waking Night Care Assistant Please Call Rachel on 01963 350697 or email manager@highfieldhouse.net for further information.

ATALIAN SERVEST HAVE VACANCIES FOR TWO PART TIME CLEANERS at Sigma Aldrich Gillingham Day Cleaner 08.00-11.00 Monday-Friday Evening Cleaner 17.30-19.30 Monday-Friday Pay £9.50 per hour For further information please contact Mark Smith on 07468 693240 EXPERIENCED BRICKLAYERS needed in Shaftesbury SP3 0PD Good rates of pay. CSCS card essential Please contact office on 01202 826278/email info@brooklynhomes.co.uk EASTBURY HOUSE RESIDENTIAL HOME, Sherborne.

We are looking for a night care assistant (1-3 nights a week) and a part-time domestic support.

Must be honest, hard-working and kind and must like old people!

Please call 01935 812132 or e-mail admin@eastburyhouse.co.uk for more information CLERK TO HORSINGTON PARISH COUNCIL Horsington Parish Council seeks a Clerk and Responsible Financial Officer. Part time (16 hours per month) Starting as soon as possible. The successful candidate will be expected to attend meetings (usually one evening per month), handle the formal minutes, agendas, planning applications and correspondence of the council, as well as preparing all relevant accounts. A laptop computer is supplied. Experience is preferred but not essential. Please send applications, including a CV, via email to:horsingtonpc@gmail.com.

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ASHRIDGE COUNTRY SERVICES are looking for a reliable tractor operative local to Fordingbridge, Hampshire. The ideal candidate will be a motivated, hard working individual to join our team. The successful candidate will be expected to complete grounds maintenance including but not restricted to Hedge cutting and verge cutting in addition to some agricultural work when needed. Please contact us on 07884 264805

AUDIO SECRETARIAL SUPPORT required with excellent IT skills.

12 hrs plus per week. Some attendance in office required. £16 per hr Reply to : 07974743512

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A position has arisen for a pig stockman on an indoor finishing unit in the Wimborne area.

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Building Surveyor / Heritage Consultant As a result of planned growth we have a vacancy for a further building surveyor / heritage consultant (full or part time) to join an established niche heritage and building surveying practice based in Tisbury. From there we work with an impressive and eclectic selection of clients and projects conserving and developing our built heritage across the UK. The role will involve •

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‘A dripping June keeps all in tune’

by A J Selby

We dream of June through the dark days of winter; we dream of sunshine and gardens bursting with colour; we dream of a cacophony of birdsong and a riot of wildflowers in field and hedge. And we dream of the verdant green that envelops us in high summer. Then we blink and it’s the longest day and the start of the gradual decline back to winter.

It takes forever to arrive and then is gone like a dandelion clock in a gentle breeze.

June is the traditional month of hay-making and the start of the meteorological summer – the month that farmers keep a sharp weather eye open for that brief window when grass is mown, turned, tedded, rowed and baled.

In my youth I can remember many sunny afternoons turning and rowing up hay on an old MasseyFerguson 35 with a multi-tool piece of kit on the back called an acrobat. It had four spoked wheels like a spider web and you could adjust them offset as two by two or in a row of four, each just behind the next like a plough.

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– a big box towed behind the tractor with tines at the edges like tail feathers and giving it its name of the cock pheasant. This would fluff up the hay ready for baling and at this time a crop is at most risk from bad weather and could be spoiled with a few hours of heavy rain.

Early summer is a time of white flowers, often unnoticed with all the abundant growth of green, but from the profusion of may blossom and the starlike flowers of the wild garlic through to hedgerows bedecked with cow parsley, to the ox-eye daisies that follow, white is to be seen everywhere.

By June the tall hogweed with its large white umbels fills hedgebanks and waste ground while higher up the drooping saucers of deliciously scented elder flowers give contrast to the backdrop of greenery.

June is so full of life and activity that it’s easy to relax

locally and see much. An hour recently spent sat on the riverbank yielded many delights from the flash of iridescent blue as a kingfisher darted past to the mesmerising stop-start hovering of the damselfly.

At the water’s edge, a mallard duck shepherded her brood around the kingcups and watercress while swallows dived, skimming the surface picking up all manner of insects.

On the far bank a water vole made its way along the water’s edge and the clack of a moorhen could be heard a little further downstream. So much to see almost without moving from a comfy spot.

And amid all of this bounty is the worry of declining habitat, species extinction and relentless building on greenfield sites.

It has to stop. Surely we owe it to wildlife and our children and their children.

I haven’t heard a cuckoo in the area for half a dozen

years now and he is just a marker bird for so many other species.

Yellowhammers, previously common, are now rare and other once familiar birds like jays, bullfinches and nuthatches are on the amber list.

Only a generation ago a car drive of any distance would result in a mass of insects on the windscreen and the headlamps but today I can drive to Cornwall and back and have barely a bug to clean off.

Insects are a major food source for millions of birds and their decline only exacerbates the problem for many of our songbirds. With fewer insects to feed on their range is extended but they overlap with other species looking for similar food or run into new housing estates, supermarkets or factory projects built on what was once pristine countryside.

It’s time we collectively said enough is enough.

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Baler is a temperamental beast

by Tria Stebbing The sheep’s feet have remained our main concern over the last fortnight, with Disney Princess still making a good job of limping dramatically when being watched.

We have so much grass, more grass than we can remember, and it is still growing. So, therefore, we have some very fat lambs as the ewes are filling themselves up on the sweet lush green stuff.

The thistles and stinging nettles also seem to be enjoying the conditions for rapid growth, and we need to get on top of them now as we do not want them in the bales when we cut.

Him outdoors is giving the antique farm machinery his worthy attention so that we have no issues with the historically temperamental baler, which can bale, and tie five bales beautifully, and then spit out the sixth in disgust.

As it is my job to run behind the baler, it is also me who must stop what I am doing and fork the broken bale up and throw it back into the temperamental machine.

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We bale in hot, dry conditions and need a week of dry weather to ensure the best outcome.

First comes the cut, choosing the optimal time for sweetness, then comes the turning or tedder, which uses its forks to aerate or waffle the hay.

The sun needs to be overhead and strong to dry the surface of the grass – it will go mouldy if baled wet. We turn twice a day for three or four days before bringing in the baler.

Baling day does not start early as the dew needs time to dry off, but once we start there is no stopping until it

is all done.

One year we had a commercial baler in the next field which made light work of its field – dwarfing our own ancient machinery by at least three sizes, it was finished in the blink of an eye.

I liked to tell myself it was far more rewarding to use the old school machinery – you can certainly get to edges the big boys can’t – but watching the young lad in his air-conditioned cab was at the time an attractive proposition.

We hope to sell the bales directly from the field this

year, saving us the arduous task of towing the flatbed trailer behind the tractor and stacking them six high and transporting them back to the barn to stack them again.

Last year wasps had nested in the old bales and as soon as we went near the barn, they became very angry and chased our willing helpers across the field getting me a couple of times – and very painful it was, too. More painful even than the aching bones from walking up and down the field behind the tractor.

The field next to ours has been sold and we are as concerned as the rest of the village as to what might happen to our rural idyl.

Planning has changed a lot in recent years and more and more green spaces are being gobbled up to build homes where our ancestors made their living through farming.

The adjoining hedge was laid a few years back and has thickened nicely, so privacy will not be an issue – it is the not knowing what could go there that is our main issue. Watch this space.

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The skills of our dispersal teams are however equally suited to sales of all types, including retirement, closure and relocation of businesses.

Next week, Auctioneer Greg Ridout will be conducting a full dispersal sale of manufacturing and office equipment on behalf of long established local business Tetra Pak CPS Ltd, who are relocating from their premises on Coldharbour Business Park in Sherborne.

With some 1000 lots being sold including items from power tools and safety equipment through to racking and office furniture, the sale offers a tremendous opportunity for business

owners and householders alike to source equipment.

Auctioneer Greg Ridout is looking forward to the sale, “There really is something for everyone, whether you are involved in farming, building, mechanics, manufacturing or a keen DIY enthusiast, the range of goods on offer is unbelievable, with much new, unused and still in packaging”.

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All the cattle are on the pastures

by Ruth Kimber All the first cut silage is safely in – it was a tormenting time with the catchy weather, rain then sun. The crop was pleasing in quality and quantity in the main.

All the cattle now out on the pastures, changing the farm routine from feeding, cleaning out and bedding up, to checking the cattle and making sure they have enough grass and that no gates are left open or fences breached.

The maize has popped its heads up, so we are on track for the animals' winter feed.

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spooked, so it's important to check on them after a visit!

We were given tickets for the Chelsea Flower Show as a Christmas present – it was a super day.

Among the exhibits was a Government stand – the Animal & Plant Health Agency warning people not to bring in any plants or plant materiel from abroad.

There are so many problems with our native plants and trees. Seeds, bugs and disease can come unintentionally on plants and cuttings.

There have been tree viruses from overseas – Larch, Chestnut and Ash are in real trouble. Then there’s invasive plants like Japanese knotweed and Himalayan Balsam. Also, we have insects, Colorado beetle, processionary caterpillars, which are very toxic, and many more.

So please don’t be tempted to bring back from your holidays ANY plant material – and it's

ILLEGAL. The first of our day-old turkeys have arrived! Just 100 to start with – we are growing these especially for Thanksgiving and early December trade.

Prices are still all over the place – it's really difficult to budget for anything, whether the farm or shop.

The costs are going up faster than the resulting products. The milk cheque is all spent before it hits the bank!

Cows are in short supply and very dear. Many dairy herds have been sold, lots of the larger herds have gone.

It's not just dairy cows that are short but beef also.

I can never remember such strange times.

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Have you seen the world through a cow’s eyes?

Alice Miller BVSC DBR MRCVS Friars Moor Livestock Health As well as working as a full-time farm vet, I am also a member on the board of directors for BCVA (The British Cattle Veterinary Association).

I love my day-to-day clinical role working with farmers and their animals but it has also been refreshing to take on a new challenge carrying out my responsibilities for the BCVA. Part of the role is to represent the views of our vet members to the wider livestock industry, which can result in policy changes and implementing new ideas.

We also run courses and conferences for our members. The cattle vet world is relatively small, so there is a good community of vets within the BCVA who all get to know one another and come together to share knowledge and, importantly, socialise!

I am currently working at The BCVA’s Young Vet Conference – sadly having qualified in 2009 I no longer qualify as a ‘young vet’

Cows do not see in black and white – they see yellow, blue and green.

anymore! But in chairing the sessions I enjoyed sitting in on many of the lectures, before running my calving workshop.

One of the lectures was given by the world-renowned Miriam Parker who presented a brilliant interactive session on cow behaviour.

Miriam told us how she worked with a charity for blind people, which makes simulation goggles to mimic visual impairments.

They worked together to specifically create a set of goggles to represent what a cow sees.

When learning about cattle

handling you can really appreciate life from their perspective when you see it through their eyes.

Contrary to belief, cows do not see in black and white but instead see yellow, blue and green.

It comes in handy when spotting the luscious grass to eat but you may then wonder why bulls are thought to charge at a red flag? It is not actually to do with the colour – they react to the movement and flapping.

Also, they have binocular vision, directly in front of them, with good depth perception but only for a limited area (a 25-50-degree

Farming arc).

Their monocular vision spans all around them, apart from a blind area directly behind them, and because of this blind spot they have no depth perception in the entire peripheral area. As a result, they struggle to see clearly all around them.

They are much more likely to see something if it moves, and to help themselves they put their heads down to see things and need to move slowly to visualise things properly.

A volunteer was plucked out of the audience and instructed to find their way across the room wearing Miriam’s goggles.

They were asked to walk in a straight line, without putting their arms out in front of them.

They managed it but what was remarkable was how quickly the person then seemed to adopt apparent cow behaviour.

Unknowingly, she mimicked the way cows lower their heads, move their heads from side to side and proceed very slowly to find their way.

Being transported to a cow’s world means we could then go on to further understand cow behaviour and what handling methods and which systems work most effectively in keeping the cow happy and the handler safe.

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Opens Tuesday 7th June and closes from 10am 15th June 2022 Tetra Pak CPS Ltd, Coldharbour Business Park, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4JW Viewing Day – Tuesday 7th June 2.00pm – 6.30pm.

Collection Days – Friday 17th & Saturday 18th June 10.00am – 4.00pm Full dispersal of manufacturing and office equipment following the relocation of Tetra Pak CPS Ltd. Highlights including: Angle Grinders, Drills, Polishers, Riveters, Nail Guns,

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Guide £40,000

2.23 acres (0.90 ha) of mixed broadleaf woodland with a small hidden hut and former gravel pits. For sale by private treaty.

A 28 ucti Ju on ly

Tungsten Grinder, Sheet/Pipe Cutters, Pipe Threaders, Air Lines, Cable Reels, Heat Guns, Bearing Pullers, Sandblasters, LED Work Lights, Lifting Straps, Brothers Chains, Lifting Hooks/Eyes, Sheet Grabs, Retractable Tag Lines, Safety Harnesses, Scaffold Hooks, Ratchet Straps, Chain Blocks, Vices, Banding Machine, Bottle Jacks, Retractable Gas Line Reels, 10t & 20t Body Jacks, Mechanic Creepers, Stools, Bar Benders, Carver Clamps, Sash Clamps, Hole Saws, Inspection Cameras, Hand Tools, PAT Tester, Granite & Metal Work Benches, Cabling & Hosing, Purge Monitors & Fittings, Welding and Grinding Masks, Step Ladders, Trolleys, PPE Equipment, Powered Lifting Trucks, Pallet Trucks, Welding Sundries, Welding Screens, Dust Extractor Units, Assorted Platforms, Highcycle Motors, Steam Boiler, Safety Barriers, Polishing Booths with Extractor Units, Storage Units, Bins, Workbenches, Steel Racking, Roller Stands, Trestles, Stainless Steel Fittings, Filing Units, Shelving, Office Stationary, Fans, Whiteboards, Storage Boxes, Chubb Safes, Herras Fencing, Stainless Steel Sheeting, Box, Tube, Flat, Bar, etc. In all some 950 Lots.

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43.21 acres (17.49 ha) of productive level chalk arable land. The land is situated in a magically peaceful spot.

STANDING STRAW AUCTIONS 2022 Wednesday 29th June

Pinhay and Bindon – The Grain Store, Heathfield, Rousdon, Dorset.

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Durweston – Travellers Rest Farm, Durweston, Blandford, Dorset.

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Wynford Eagle – The Grain Stores, Manor Farm, Wynford Eagle, Dorchester, Dorset. Approx. 1,500ac of Standing Straw

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Guide £125,000

32.45 acres (13.13 ha) of mature mixed broadleaf woodland boasting stunning views over the Blackmore Vale and a small disused limekiln.

Contact: Andrew Tuffin 01258 472244

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Stalbridge

Guide £315,000

A beautifully presented end of terrace 3 bedroom Edwardian house with a large kitchen / dining room and brimming with character situated in Dorset’s smallest town. F/hold; CT Band C; EPC E

Sturminster 01258 473766

Sturminster Newton

Guide £795,000

An imposing, beautifully presented, totally renovated and remodelled 4 bedroom detached house with a double garage situated within walking distance of the town centre. F/hold; CT Band E; EPC C

Sturminster 01258 473766

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Iwerne Minster

OIEO £795,000

A spacious 4 bedroom detached house with two garages, a workshop, and a large mature garden with delightful countryside views located on the edge of this popular north Dorset village. F/hold; CT Band G; EPC F

Sturminster 01258 473766

Marnhull

OIEO £1,250,000

A lovely 6 bedroom former Georgian Rectory with tremendous internal accommodation of over 4000 sq ft, 3 stone barns, gardens and field totalling 1.63 acres. F/hold; CT Band G; EPC E

Sturminster 01258 473766

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CARAVAN, WATERY LANE, TINCLETON, DORCHESTER Six level paddocks with a small group of outbuildings comprising Railway Carriage and adjoining Lean to’s and field shelters with level hardcore parking area. In total the site area extends to 7 acres (2.83ha) or thereabouts.

Certificate of Lawful for Residential Use.

FORMER QUARRY SITE AT COOMBE HILL, KEINTON MANDEVILLE A former quarry site which has been disused for some 50 years or more and now comprises an attractive and undulating site enclosed within broadleaf hedgerows with good road frontage.

In total extending to 1.37 acres (0.55 ha) or thereabouts.

BONDS FARM, WEARNE, LANGPORT A superb former farmhouse with garaging and an outbuilding with annexe potential in the hamlet of Wearne, just outside Langport.

Requiring modernisation throughout, offering superb potential set in a generous and varied plot totalling 5.64 acres.

Auction Guide: £225,000 Yeovil Office: 01935 423474 farms.yeovil@gth.net

Auction Guide: £25,000 Yeovil Office: 01935 423474 farms.yeovil@gth.net

Auction Guide: £500,000 Langport Office: 01458 250589 residential.langport@gth.net

THE OLD CHAPEL, HAMBRIDGE, LANGPORT Former chapel is in need of complete renovation and modernisation, offering an exciting opportunity to convert this historic property to a two bedroom dwelling (subject to planning).

LAND AT BAILEY’S LANE, SOUTH PERROTT A nature lovers dream. An attractive parcel of pasture land located in a secluded location with river frontage near the village of South Perrott.

In total the land extends to approximately 0.63 acre (0.26Ha).

55 HIGH STREET, ILMINSTER A rare and exciting opportunity to acquire this centrally located 3 bedroom Grade II Listed property in need of complete renovation, within close proximity to the centre of Ilminster.

AMENITY LAND AT HORTON, ILMINSTER An attractive enclosure of meadow pasture land with an area of scrub woodland that adjoins the river Ding. The land in total extends to 5.45 acres (2.20Ha) or thereabouts.

Auction Guide: £100,000 Yeovil Office: 01935 423474 farms.yeovil@gth.net

Auction Guide: £17,000 Yeovil Office: 01935 423474 farms.yeovil@gth.net

Auction Guide: £100,000 Ilminster Office: 01460 57222 residential.ilminster@gth.net

Auction Guide: £60,000 Yeovil Office: 01935 423474 farms.yeovil@gth.net

SILVER HOW, BAY HILL, ILMINSTER, A very exciting opportunity to acquire this superbly positioned three bedroom detached bungalow, situated in a fantastic and elevated plot with stunning countryside views, garage, workshop, mature gardens and off-road parking, just a short walk to the centre of Ilminster.

KENNY LODGE, KENNY, ASHILL, ILMINSTER A hidden gem in need of full renovation comprising a three bedroom detached house, double garage, stunning countryside views, grounds of circa one third of an acre and situated at the end of a no through road.

LAND AT CLATWORTHY, TAUNTON A single block of commercial farmland down to permanent pasture, for sale as a whole. In total the land extends to approximately 34.99 acres (14.16 ha).

LAND AT WITHYPOOL, MINEHEAD Two blocks of permanent pasture land, for sale in two lots. In total the land extends to approximately 2.17 acres (0.88 ha).

Auction Guide: £475,000 Ilminster Office: 01460 57222 residential.ilminster@gth.net

Auction Guide: £275,000 Ilminster Office: 01460 57222 residential.ilminster@gth.net

Auction Guide: £150,000 Sedgemoor Office: 01278 410250 harriet.pike@gth.net

LAND AT CHARLTON ROAD, CREECH HEATHFIELD A single enclosure of pasture land and agricultural building, the enclosure is bound by mature hedgerows and is directly accessed from a gateway via Charlton Road. In total extending to 0.48 acres (0.19 Ha) or thereabouts.

Auction Guide: £25,000 Yeovil Office: 01935 423474 farms.yeovil@gth.net

Auction Guide Lot 1: £25,000 Auction Guide Lot 2: £15,000 Sedgemoor Office: 01278 410250 harriet.pike@gth.net

LAND AT WHATLEY, FROME A single block of enclosed pasture land for sale as a whole. In total the land extends to approximately 3.85 acres (1.56 ha).

27 UPPER HIGH STREET, TAUNTON An old public house benefitting from spacious accommodation spread across three floors, with complete renovation works required.

Auction Guide: £35,000 Sedgemoor Office: 01278 410250 harriet.pike@gth.net

Auction Guide: £100,000 Taunton Office: 01823 277121 residential.taunton@gth.net

FURTHER ENTRIES INVITED For a free market appraisal or further information about selling by auction please contact: Justin.lowe@gth.net 01935 423474 at our Yeovil office G R E E N S L A D E TAY L O R H U N T

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Early signs of slowdown as prices hit high The average cost of a UK home has broken through the £250,000 barrier for the first time to stand at a record of £250,200.

But the property market is showing signs of slowing down as potential buyers face pressure on their finances due to the rising cost of living.

Both the time taken to sell a home and the number of price reductions on properties have increased, according to Zoopla's latest House Price Index.

While the rate at which property values are rising is likely to ease during the rest

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of the year, house prices are not expected to fall.

House prices rose by 8.4 per cent during the year to the end of April, slightly down from the annual rate of 9 per cent recorded in March.

Property values edged ahead by just 0.2 per cent during April itself, compared with monthly gains of 0.7 per cent at the start of the year.

Wales saw the strongest price gains for the 15th consecutive month, with property values rising by 11.6 per cent. Although this was down from the growth of 13 per cent recorded in February.

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GILLINGHAM SPACIOUS ROOM to rent for a working person, use of full equipped kitchen, wi-fi, tv, all bills included £100pw 07976135326 WEST BAY 2 -BEDROOM ground floor flat to let Tel 01963 23456 BARN TO RENT, High ceilings, Approx 3600 Sq Ft, Could be split up to suit, Melcombe Bingham, 07725910364 GUIDE £240,000: LOVELY 2 BEDROOM COTTAGE within thriving, established North Dorset semi-rural cohousing community.

Includes many shared facilities plus extensive gardens with polytunnels and orchard. Visit http://www. thresholdcentre.org.uk, follow “Vacancies” links, contact private email.

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KingsLand Property & Land Agents • The Tythings Commercial Centre • Southgate Road • Wincanton • Somerset • BA9 9RZ E: sales@kingslandproperty.com • W: kingslandproperty.com

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Gillingham - Guide Price £170,000

Thornford - Asking Price £500,000

Mere - Guide Price £285,000

Bright and spacious purpose built first floor apartment with two double bedrooms, situated close to the town and train station with countryside views in the distance.

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An individual, well proportioned brand new family home with three double bedrooms, situated just a short walk to the centre of the village with fabulous rural views.

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A delightful end of terrace cottage style modern home with three good sized bedrooms, no onward chain and enjoying a quiet position within walking distance to the town.

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Bishops Caundle - OIEO £525,000

Bourton - Guide Price £570,000

Marnhull - Asking Price £750,000

Detached stone cottage with three double bedrooms and a spacious one bedroom annexe, close to the heart of the village with no onward chain.

EPC D

An individually designed detached five double bedroom family home boasting in excess of 250 sq m of living space and good sized sunny garden.

EPC D

A substantial, recently refurbished detached family home with three/four double bedrooms, stunning kitchen and delightful garden, lane side position EPC D

Gillingham 01747 824547 Sturminster Newton 01258 473030

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Cann Common, Dorset Guide Price £1,750,000 A handsome family house with elegant rooms, beautifully landscaped gardens, paddocks and superb views.

6 bedrooms, 4 bath/shower rooms, 3 reception rooms, kitchen/breakfast room, boot room, wc.

Gardens, outbuilding with planning consent, stables. In all about 3 acres.

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Contact Charlie Stone in confidence 01747 442500 www.ruralview.co.uk

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SHERBORNE, DORSET

SUTTON WALDRON, DORSET

STURMINSTER MARSHALL, DORSET

GUIDE PRICE £1,600,000

GUIDE PRICE £595,000

PRICE GUIDE £1,100,000

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A picturesque semi-detached period cottage with potential annexe/holiday accommodation in a sought after village with views towards Cranborne Chase.

SOLD EPC: Exempt Grade II Listed

Blandford Forum 01258 423002 Guide Price £745,000

STOURPAINE, DORSET

SHERBORNE, DORSET

ASHMORE, DORSET

GUIDE PRICE £795,000

GUIDE PRICE £330,000

GUIDE PRICE £750,000

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SHILLINGSTONE, DORSET

LEIGH, NORTH BREWHAM, SOMERSET A beautifullyDORSET restored and presented former coach house with mature gardens in a thriving and popular village location with access to the Trailway.

GUIDE PRICE £1,550,000

Blandford Forum 01258 423002 Guide Price £675,000

GUIDE PRICE (TENDER) £350,000

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BLANDFORD

01935 810141

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EPC: Band D

GUIDE PRICE £560,000

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SHERBORNE, DORSET

SUTTON WALDRON, DORSET

STURMINSTER MARSHALL, DORSET

GUIDE PRICE £1,600,000

GUIDE PRICE £595,000

PRICE GUIDE £1,100,000

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STOURPAINE, DORSET

SHERBORNE, DORSET

ASHMORE, DORSET

GUIDE PRICE £795,000

GUIDE PRICE £330,000

GUIDE PRICE £750,000

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IWERNE MINSTER, DORSET

LEIGH, DORSET SOMERSET An outstanding new house that blends classical styles withNORTH ultra-modernBREWHAM, technical specification in a glorious village setting.

GUIDE PRICE £1,550,000

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GUIDE PRICE (TENDER) £350,000

Shaftesbury 01747 850858 Blandford Forum 01258 423002 Guide Price £2,950,000

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An exceptional contemporary style four bedroom detached house situated on the edge of Wincanton whilst walking distance of the town centre. Large open plan living/dining/kitchen area, two en-suite shower rooms, oak staircase and lift to first floor, heated garage, built in 2020 with £50,000 of upgrades. EPC Rating: B.

An imposing Grade II Listed period house situated in the heart of Bruton.

This impressive property oozes charm and character and enjoys versatile living accommodation spread over three floors. Four bedrooms, family room, two reception rooms, master bedroom, office, garage and attractive garden. EPC Exempt.

WINCANTON

£410,000

An individual and deceptively spacious four bedroom detached bungalow which enjoys the benefit of a large landscaped garden. Characterful sitting room, separate dining room, large kitchen/breakfast room, master bedroom with dressing room and en-suite and useful attic room.

EPC Rating: D.

SOUTH CHERITON

£430,000

A substantial three bedroom detached bungalow situated in a small close in the sought after village of South Cheriton. Spacious sitting room with open fire, separate dining room, kitchen/breakfast room, utility/boot room, en-suite shower room, attractive landscaped garden and garage.

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If you are considering bringing your property to the market we would be delighted to provide you with a free £285,000 Templecombe £90,000 Wincanton market assessment and valuation.

A modernised one bedroom retirement flat Spacious three bedroom detached house Please call 01963 34000 situated in the heart of Wincanton. Larger situated in a delightful position backing onto than some within the building, bedroom with fields with far reaching views. Extended to to arrange£225,000 an appointmentWINCANTON or email BRUTON £226,500 dressing room, open plan living room/kitchen, provide a utility/boot room and cloakroom, living house situated within a short walk of A spacious four bedroom terrace An exceptionally well presented three bedroom semi-detached house with wincanton@hambledon.net dining area, bathroom.

EPC Rating: C. room, stylish kitchen, Rating:enjoys E. localgarage. schools. EPC The property the benefit of a loft conversion creating stunning far reaching views overstylish Wincanton and countryside beyond.

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Sitting room, stylish fitted kitchen, master bedroom with en-suite shower room, cloakroom, driveway and garage alongside property, landscaped garden. EPC Rating: C.

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£325,000 Wincanton WINCANTON

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Delightful sunny a mature development.

SpaciousInsitting kitchen/diner, residential development. presented in excellent order and redecoration, comprising of sitting room, dining room, fitted kitchen, master aspect garden with far of reaching light and airy lounge, kitchen/ easy to maintain garden, allocated parking, ideal investment or first enjoys the benefit a car port,views, long driveway, enclosed garden, sitting bedroom with en-suite shower WC, conservatory and breakfastroom, room,fitted conservatory, converted garage providing additional living time buy.

EPCroom, Rating:downstairs C. kitchen, conservatory and potential to extend (STPP).

EPC Rating: D. Rating: C. garage. EPC Rating: D. accommodation.

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