Where the Hell's the Time Gone? A Life in Farming
Where the Hell's the Time Gone? A Life in Farming
Author(s):
Tom Evans
Publication Date: 07 October, 2023
Available in all formats
Publisher: The Books Council of Wales
ISBN: 9781800995116
ISBN: 9781800995116
Price: INR 620.99
Description
Table of contents
Well-known shearing commentator Evans discusses his farming life, from a tough post-war childhood with no mother, tractor or car, to days on shearing gangs and in hedge-laying competitions, to his own sheep farming, commentating and his impact on policy through work with the National Farmers Union.
Description
Well-known shearing commentator Evans discusses his farming life, from a tough post-war childhood with no mother, tractor or car, to days on shearing gangs and in hedge-laying competitions, to his own sheep farming, commentating and his impact on policy through work with the National Farmers Union.
Table of contents
- Mother leaves home
- School bullies
- Breaking new ground
- Chief cook and bottle-washer
- The art of hedging
- On the road
- A place of my own
- Farm fit for a wife
- Running water, at last!
- Struggling to make a living
- Pastures new
- Back to Wales
- Lucky for some…
- The farming life once more
- On the move again
- Ty’n y Cwm
- A growing business
- Better times
- A visit to France
- Farming film stars
- On the march in Brussels
- Wedding bells
- A victory for Welsh shearing
- Another country
- Stolen goods
- Foot and mouth
- Meeting the Queen
- Time to slow down
- More royal connections
- Shearing Down Under
- A health scare
- Back to New Zealand
- Home… and alone
- Life goes on
- Pictures