Countryside Magazine August 2024

Inside this issue of Countryside Magazine August 2024:

They’ve followed their hearts and swapped lives in the limelight for one in the countryside, and Jimi Mistry and Flavia Cacace-Mistry say they couldn’t be happier. After several years contemplating a move somewhere more rural, the couple (who met on Strictly Come Dancing in 2010) decided to take the plunge at the start of the pandemic, and since January 2021 have thrown themselves into running a seven-acre smallholding near Totnes, in Devon. Read their fascinating story in our latest edition.

Elsewhere in this issue, the world’s largest sporting event, the Olympic Games, begins in Paris on 26 July and runs for three weeks through to mid-August, and we’ll be looking at the UK’s 50 most famous rural Olympians. From equestrians and athletes to clay pigeon shooters and archers. Plus, Olympic golden girl Sally Gunnell tells us what the three things she can’t live without are!

•  How Strictly Come Dancing professional, Flavia Cacace-Mistry and her partner Jimi Mistry, have turned their hand to smallholding
• We explore the beautiful Dorset coastline
• Recipes for zingy salad dressings and delicious traybakes from Miranda Gore Brown
• Enter our reader competition to be in with a chance of winnng a bundle of outdoor kit, worth £300, from Mountain Warehouse
• How to take your dog on a wildlife sniffari
• Leading the field – our British rural olympian
• Discover more about sustainable British flower farming