Publisher's Synopsis
In 1990 journalist and broadcaster Paul Heiney decided to turn back the clock and realize a dream - to become a small farmer working a traditional mixed farm, using horses instead of tractors. Glorious though the dream was, reality has often proved very different.;Heiney has shared his experience with readers of "The Times", in a series of weekly progress reports, and this book continues from where the first collection of these pieces, "Farming Times", left off. It resumes the story of his three cart-horses and Alice the sow, and introduces new personalities such as Sage the cow. As ever, the yearly farming cycle is a soap opera of rebellious antique machinery, unforgiving weeds and truculent livestock.;Despite his stubborn advocacy of the Golden Age of Agriculture, Heiney is nevertheless a distinctively contemporary voice who finds a place in his pastoral idyll for Madonna, "Viz" and "The Silence of the Lambs", and wryly observes the laxative effects of different radio stations on his horses.
