It’s Apple Day today and as you would expect – what with them being the ones that started it – details of nationwide events can be found at the website of Common Ground .

Regular readers will have seen the posts concerning our quest for information about Country Bizarre magazine, a fascinating slice of underground press from the early Seventies. I’m pleased to say that the detective work has paid off and next week I’ll be meeting up with co-founder Bernard Schofield. In the meantime, here’s an appropriate page from it’s somewhat posher, but no less fascinating, Eighties incarnation, ‘Country Bazaar’: