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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Gordon started writing his “stories” sometime around 1990 probably as a pastime when the weather stopped him from going to work. He was by this time well over retirement age but had always been a hard worker and was finding it very difficult to slow down. In 1993 Gordon suffered a heart attack and it was during his recuperation that he would sit and write every morning. He had had to stand on his “own two feet” from the age of 14 when his father died. His brother John was only 19 and their mother had died five years earlier. All the sisters had left home and an uncle decided that the two boys did not know enough about farming to keep their farm (Gordon describes this in his story-1930’s Recession and Depression-“as things went terribly wrong.”) When Gordon was a boy there was no electricity or running water indoors and all the heavy work outside in the fields was done with horses. Although his stories are semi- autobiographical his amazing memory for even the smallest of details gives an indication of just how hard life and work were in the first half of the twentieth century. Work was a way of life and Gordon worked! He became a true craftsman of the countryside. Many boggy fields are now dry and grassy thanks to his drainage skills and several beautiful hedges and dry stone walls on Exmoor and the Brendon Hills were built by him. (LL)