Working with the Curlew: A Farmhand’s Life

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Working with the Curlew: A Farmhand’s Life Author: Format: Paperback / softback First Published: Published By: Green Books
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Pages: 128 Illustrations and other contents: 20 b&w illustrations Language: English ISBN: 9781903998342 Categories: ,

In Working with the Curlew Trevor Robinson shares his enthusiasm and joy for his work as a shepherd on the moor at Great Whernside in Yorkshire and later as a farmhand near Leominster in Hereford: “A lovely environment, very busy and hard work with no lorries, no electric motors, no tractors, just nature’s own sounds.” He celebrates the intricate details of traditional farm life: selling rabbits at tuppence each, the village hop, sheep shearing, lambing, shire horses, haymaking, the warm welcome taste of tea on a snow-bound moor, muck spreading, cheese and bread making, trout-tickling, and killing the pig, a quiet job well done. During one severe Yorkshire winter six hundred sheep were lost, and he had to leave the job he loved, ‘the call of the curlew was still over two months away, when it came I was not there to hear it’. His new job in Herefordshire brought different skills: hedge laying, ploughing matches, haymaking, chain harrowing and crop rotation, and inevitably, the arrival of tractor and combine harvester.

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Author Biography

Trevor Robinson was born in Huddersfield in 1930, and worked as a shepherd and farmhand in the Yorkshire Dales and Herefordshire from the age of eight. He lives with his wife in Worcestershire.