This is a non-fiction book.
Jackie Moffat moved from London to set up a small farm in Cumbria.
Each chapter is an article which Jackie wrote to appear in the Cumbria and Lake District Life magazine. They each tell a short story of life on the farm, or occasionally something Jackie is doing, places she is going, or just things she has been thinking about. We are introduced to many different cows, horses, sheep, pigs, dogs, a goat and even an old tractor and learn of their quirky ways and behaviour.
Jackie's joy of being outside and caring for the animals is very clear. The hard times of the foot and mouth crisis are seen through the eyes of an animal lover who had to lose all her animals and look at empty fields until it was again deemed safe to re-stock.
Coming from magazine articles, each chapter is only around 5 pages long so the book is very easy to pick up for a few minutes to read an odd chapter.
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