Dorset to Newfoundland Swanskin mittens, the award winning oliveer and oh so many foals

April issue out now! Grab a coffee and settle in for your favourite half hour of the month... https://bit.ly/TheBV Top stories this month: - chair of Shillingstone Parish Council, Rachel McNamara, saw the events unfolding in Ukraine and like all of us yearned to help. So she packed a bag and headed to Krakow, where she's been providing much-needed help at a refugee station. - A unique heritage project between a Dorset high school and one in Newfoundland has accidentally unearthed a 200 year old pair of mittens, made from previously-thought extinct swanskin  - Giles Henschel is this month's castaway - the award-winning ‘oliveer’, who came to his national artisan brand by way of school expulsion, the Army, being deported from Libya with his wife (twice), and Take That ... - in Equestrian, foaling season is underway (of COURSE we photographed beautiful new babies for you) at the Glanvilles Stud, and we welcome rising star in the Eventing world Toots Bartlett with her new column. - Plus Farming, Art, Health, Puzzles, Jobs, Garden ... it's your favourite half hour of the month.