Weeks later I still keep thinking about some of the many unusual and wonderful stories we recorded, most of them now posted online. Of these I often suggest people listen to the tales Squashed by a Cow, Cant Trust a Bull and One Legged Stool, all stories about farming life in Sutton over the last 70 years. I have been sending these to people and am quite excited by the number of people that come back to me saying they have also been bashed by a cow; including Joyce from Whitehorse in the Canadian Yukon who remembers having been whipped in the face by a cows tail a few times and being squished between two cows’ huge round bellies in the milking line… she was a thin little thing when she worked on the dairy farm. And Sam in Glasgow who once got butted over a 7ft fence by a bullock.

Then I got curious about the one legged stool and found it to be more universal that I thought – here for instance is one from the San Jose Dairy Hill website.

We set up our display in St Andrews Church for feast week today. One of the lovley things about setting up in the Church was hearing the Vicar Mark Amey playing the organ in the afternoon, you can hear an excerpt here.

In the evening the Beer Festival began with live Jazz and friendly chat. The exhibit is up till Sunday and we will be around in Sutton on Friday and Saturday – hope to see you there.

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About : A Diffusion eBook made for participants in the workshop with the Sutton-in-the-Isle Youth Group, where we are making a short video. The group is collaborating to make a video about their recent trip abroad to meet other young people from around the world and exchange stories for their Your Stories project.

The eBook is a record of the first session’s activities, questions and a storyboard sketch. It captures the process of thinking and the questions we asked in the first session, as well providing a notebook for the group to write on, draw over or change as the sessions continue.

Published June 2009

*** a ‘book’ (long edge binding) eBook created using the new Diffusion Generator ***

Maljac has sent us a tweet remembering Sutton Gault in the 70s with this lovley picture of the Post Mistress. Thanks.