'Life is like a skipping game. The rope is turning perpetually, as is the earth, and when it is your moment you run in and jump for as long as you can before the rope catches you out. We have been jumping together, Margaret and I, for a good long while, but we are not exhausted yet...' Lesser mortals than Jean and Margaret Brown would indeed be thoroughly exhausted, if not 'caught out', by life at Currer Laithe, the farm they run in the Yorkshire Dales. Yet these two wonderful women, well past retirement age, drive to the ...
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'Life is like a skipping game. The rope is turning perpetually, as is the earth, and when it is your moment you run in and jump for as long as you can before the rope catches you out. We have been jumping together, Margaret and I, for a good long while, but we are not exhausted yet...' Lesser mortals than Jean and Margaret Brown would indeed be thoroughly exhausted, if not 'caught out', by life at Currer Laithe, the farm they run in the Yorkshire Dales. Yet these two wonderful women, well past retirement age, drive to the Monday cattle sales, rescue two-week-old bull calves and rear them with great skill, care and devotion. Day and night, summer and winter, they manage the farm, tending the cattle, moving heavy bales of hay, mending fences rounding up goats, ducks and donkeys, only rarely calling for help. But these exceptionally tough, compassionate sisters have even more on their plate in "We'll buy Another on Monday".Every visit to the market, every errand to collect pension, every journey to town is a major event. Onto the roof rack go three wheelchairs; into the aged Land Rover go one disabled brother, one ninety-four-year-old auntie and her friend of the same vintage, two bouncy dogs and another, elderly one without the use of his hind legs. On top of all this, the Browns also offer holiday accommodation in some of the Currer's sixteenth-century converted barn. This is a warm, entertaining and moving book which will do much to renew faith in farmers and farming, as well as in human nature generally.Hardships are not glossed over - bereavement, the anguish and slaughter during the Foot and Mouth epidemic for example - but Jean writes just as eloquently of the joys as she does of the sorrows of life in the beautiful spot that they inhabit. No reader can fail to be full of admiration for the resolutely cheerful Browns,or to care deeply about them. "We'll Buy Another on Monday" is the third part of the story of the Brown family, begun in We'll see the Cuckoo and continued in We'll trace the Rainbow. A fourth book, "We'll Blow With the Wind", will bring the story right up to date.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Grubby book may have mild dirt or some staining, mostly on the edges of pages.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN: 9781874181484.
