‘The first hint of an idea came when we were up at Souter Lighthouse in the North East,’ Jay LaBouchardiere, one of half of Dorset folk duo Ninebarrow, recalls. ‘There was a large education board about Cuthbert Collingwood, who was second in command to Lord Nelson at Trafalgar. In our innocence, we had never heard of him. But the name of the board was A Pocket Full of Acorns.’ The phrase become the title of the group’s wonderful fourth album, which was released a few weeks ago to deserved acclaim. In Collingwood’s time, oak trees were crucial in the building of the British Navy. Concerned that the country might run out, Collingwood would take, yes, a pocket full of acorns when out walking, scattering them around in the hope of planting trees to make ships of the future.