I have now watched it on iPlayer and can recommend it. In between the items on trimming cows' feet and the robot milking of the poor beats you will see why I am always going on about the hills here. Sadly, more from stock footage than from what the Countryfile people shot on their very damp day in the county.
And I was pleased by the influence on William Penny Brookes (I once wrote about his Much Wenlock Olympian Games in the New Statesman) and Malcolm Saville.
By coincidence, today I met two of the people who involved with this issue of Countryfile.
Mark O'Hanlon (whom I know from the early days of the Malcolm Saville Society and who now runs his own Saville website) was in the Station Inn at Marshbrook at lunchtime.
Later I met the owner of Priors Holt - indeed she very kindly gave me some of their spring water (I suspect I looked very hot) and then a cup of tea and piece of cake. Having afternoon tea at Witchend is about as good as it gets for a Malcolm Saville fan.
Both said that the day the Countryfile crew was in Shropshire was appallingly wet - far worse even than it appears on screen.
Today, by contrast, has been roasting and there are reports of a major gorse fire on the Stiperstones.
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Wot, still no mention of that daughter of Shropshire Alison Williamson?
She was on Countryfile and in my New Statesman article. Twang!!
Last Thursday we used the Shropshire countryside as a launch site for our Edge of Space project. Before reaching a height of 30km our camera got some good views of The Long Mynd:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqtKktjAx7c
In 2008 I was cycling to Great Bedwyn, Wilts on a Sunday morning at aprox 9 30am when I was confronted by a Lynx in the hedgerow. It looked at me and jumped the fence and ran off across the field. I tried to report this at the time but I just got laughed at.
Perhaps we do have some wild Lynx in GB already.
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