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  When I agreed to take over the magazine from the previous editor Annie Vickerstaff in October last year, I did not think my time would be spent doing much other than this project and looking after my elderly mother. However, it never occured to me that a Facebook post would pop up requesting a host to help a PhD student from Mongolia, who came from a herding family and was studying sheep farming in Wales. 

Being an inquisitive type of person and having watched the Mongolian film The Cave of The Yellow Dog 20 years ago, I couldn’t resist the offer of board and lodging in my home situated on a farm. My landlord agreed and on 20th February, my guest Dorjraa Purvei arrived. 

Dorjraa had posted the same request on many FB pages of farmers, clubs, sheep groups etc. but sadly (happily for me), only two people responded. One was a farm down in Pembrokeshire and the other is yours truly! While Dorjraa is learning about sheep, I am learning about Mongolia. I want to share this with the readers of MidBorder News in case some of us never quite get round to putting Mongolia on our holiday list. I'm saving my pennies now . . . 

Dorjraa leaves me after three weeks on 15th March to head off for lambing on a farm in Norton and thanks to the landlord/lady at the Harp Inn in Old Radnor we have made an incredible contact with a farming family on Cadair Idris. On the mountain that will remind him of home, Dorjraa will help with the lambing season and might get a chance to ride a horses and show off his lassoing skills . 

I have told Dorjraa he is welcome back here any time and I would love him to bring his wife and little baby over to visit. He will be sorely missed by us all in our little patch of rural Wales on the borders of England. 

We cover Knighton, Presteigne, Kington and copies can be found in New Radnor, Eardisland, Beguildy, Knucklas and in shops and venues in the locality. If you would like to be included on the distribution list, please drop us a line. We can distribute to overseas at additional cost.

Yes, we welcome submissions from freelance writers and journalists who are interested in the local area. However, all submissions must meet our editorial guidelines and go through our review process before being published on our website or included for print. No fee is paid but you can showcase your work with us. 

Use the submission form to contact us and we can send out a media pack if you are interested in advertising in print.