Category: Letters & announcements

Letters to the Editor March 2025

If you spotted a sudden flood of turquoise newspaper covers this month, don’t panic – it’s not an optician’s test, and you haven’t accidentally...

Letters to the Editor February 2025

This week I heard a news story (OK, fine, I watched a TikTok. But I promptly checked it was true!) about a beaver colony...

Letters to the Editor January 2025

A few weeks ago, I came across a few sentences that have stayed with me: “Winter is here to remind us to rest, to...

Letters to the Editor December 2024

This Christmas issue of The BV is bursting at the seams with amazing people, fabulous Dorset producers and makers, and frankly, an absurd amount...

Thank you – Jenny Pond-Jones

A huge thank you for the very many cards and loving gestures received, and to all who supported me when my dear daughter Jenny...

Letters to the Editor | November 2024

’m not sorry to see October go – usually it’s one of my favourite months, but the mental load has been quite something. As...

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Life in the new yard!

Completely different yet utterly the same, let me explain… A full month of being back at my family base in Somerset. Wow what a...

How Dorset Became One of England’s Finest Food Counties

There are counties in England with a food reputation that precedes them: Yorkshire for its puddings, Cornwall for its pasties, Kent for its orchards....