Tag: Farming

  • The Wisdom of Sheep and Other Animals – Rosamund Young

    This book is apparently a follow up to a first publication venture called ‘The Secret Life of Cows’ which I have not read. I might though, because I did enjoy these gentle pages telling of life on a family farm, handed down through generations. The farm is in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds and has been run […]

  • All around the year – Michael Morpurgo

    I enjoy reading books about the natural world, the countryside, the landscape etc and I very much enjoyed this one. It is however different in several ways. This is a diary written by Michael Morpurgo of the year 1976 and was never intended for publication. During that year, I actually remember it well: drought and […]