Volume 1

Online News

Dec 18th, 1999 | By Editor | Category: Issue 63, Volume 1

The increasing success of this publications online venture, has led to expansion needs. Currently hosted by the Shepline Corporation, a dedicated site has now been acquired and BV Online will soon be relaunched under the name BV Today. Check your web browser for details.



Stop Press

Dec 18th, 1999 | By Editor | Category: Issue 63, Volume 1

EMS talks fish with Sue MacGregor on Thursday’s Today Programme and even got a sound bite in, ‘We’re all in the same boat!’



Doctor In Love

Dec 10th, 1999 | By Editor | Category: Feature, Issue 62, Volume 1

Blissfords most eligible single has been seen with Clive, fingers interlocked, moony-eyed and giggly. He denied being a state registered chiropodist from New Zealand and revealed that he was in fact from North Hampshire and involved in oil. He did not appear to be Scottish (or Texan). It must be serious as they had been [...]



Christmas Decorations/Illuminations

Dec 10th, 1999 | By Editor | Category: Feature, Issue 62, Volume 1

Ever eager to support the community that have made them so welcome since they arrived in Blissford the Hillsiders launched their illuminations on Wednesday. Unfortunately Claire Goose (Tina from BBC’s “Casualty” and John’s favourite pin-up ) was unexpectedly unavailable to perform the switching on ceremony so John had to do it himself! While admitting that [...]



Facilities Database Proposed

Dec 10th, 1999 | By Editor | Category: Issue 62, Volume 1

After reading the report in last week’s B.V. – Re-fencing Drama – which itemised the whereabouts of every gazomper (sometimes referred to as bonker!) in the area – Hillsider John (whose two handed bonker got no mention!) wondered if a more formal register of useful facilities available for loan among other readers of the b.v. [...]



Appointments

Dec 10th, 1999 | By Editor | Category: Issue 62, Volume 1

As of 13 December, Thomas Shepherd, owner of Shepline and e-publisher of the Blissford Voice Online (soon to be relaunched as BVToday), will take up his new position as Electronic Content QA Assistant at Blackwell Science Ltd, in Oxford. His main duties will be to ensure that Synergy, the online journal service is fully operational.
FTFV [...]



More Cattle Trouble at Brook Farm

Dec 10th, 1999 | By Editor | Category: Issue 62, Volume 1

Emergency fencing has failed to keep the Dexters in their correct field.



The Colonel, Ransom Paid

Dec 10th, 1999 | By Editor | Category: Issue 62, Volume 1

Where is the Colonel?
News just in. Out of concern for the Colonels safety, reporting restrictions were in place during his incarceration at the secret hide away in the Australian outback.
Two Caucasian females were seen speeding away from the Colonels hidden retreat in the early (would have been early but one is a decidedly slow starter) [...]



Leith Challenges Mortality Figures

Dec 10th, 1999 | By Editor | Category: Issue 62, Volume 1

Charlie rang from Frogham to say hed collected his back B.Vs but was chagrined to see wed chalked the dead calf as Brook Farm on the Darnley Memorial. Hed like a ruling from the High Sheriff. Do you chalk any stock lost on your land regardless of ownership? or just your own stock. Who gets [...]



Vales Last Polo Star Gathered

Dec 10th, 1999 | By Editor | Category: Issue 62, Volume 1

Our retired polo playing gentleman will no longer grace the fields of Mudmer in the Blissford Garden suburb. Gauchos last chukka has left Sarah bereft.