Skeoch - Our new life on a Scottish hill farm

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Author: Jennie Phillips ISBN: 9781909392137
Publisher: Any Subject Books Publication: December 14, 2012
Imprint: Any Subject Books Language: English
Author: Jennie Phillips
ISBN: 9781909392137
Publisher: Any Subject Books
Publication: December 14, 2012
Imprint: Any Subject Books
Language: English

"An amazing tale of 70's life on a remote Scottish farm" Southall Film Studios

“I have to state right now that we never had any intention of buying a farm. Least of all in South West Scotland. It wasn't one of those nice, rational decisions that we all think we will make, when the time comes. It was totally irrational and made absolutely no sense at all - but we made it just the same!”

So begins a new life for Jennie and her actor husband Conrad, star of the long-running TV series, William Tell. This is the story of their titanic struggles against cold, wind, drought, disease, illness and ill luck of every kind in their establishing of a home and a viable farm against the backdrop of a mountain called Skeoch.

We feel with the author the joy of bringing a newborn lamb back from the brink of death, and the anguish of losing a herd of dairy cattle to brucellosis. There is the day when the hay garnered at great pains blows away along with the barn in which it was stored, and times when financial ruin threatens. There are deprivations, born with fortitude and good humour, but also the delights of introducing two small daughters to life on the farm and the natural world around it.

This is a book which envelops you in its world and has you feeling every disaster and every triumph as if you had lived it.

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"An amazing tale of 70's life on a remote Scottish farm" Southall Film Studios

“I have to state right now that we never had any intention of buying a farm. Least of all in South West Scotland. It wasn't one of those nice, rational decisions that we all think we will make, when the time comes. It was totally irrational and made absolutely no sense at all - but we made it just the same!”

So begins a new life for Jennie and her actor husband Conrad, star of the long-running TV series, William Tell. This is the story of their titanic struggles against cold, wind, drought, disease, illness and ill luck of every kind in their establishing of a home and a viable farm against the backdrop of a mountain called Skeoch.

We feel with the author the joy of bringing a newborn lamb back from the brink of death, and the anguish of losing a herd of dairy cattle to brucellosis. There is the day when the hay garnered at great pains blows away along with the barn in which it was stored, and times when financial ruin threatens. There are deprivations, born with fortitude and good humour, but also the delights of introducing two small daughters to life on the farm and the natural world around it.

This is a book which envelops you in its world and has you feeling every disaster and every triumph as if you had lived it.

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