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The day Richard and Linda saw Low Arvie, a run down and neglected farm in Galloway in rural southwest Scotland, they hoped they had found their future home. But they could not foresee quite how their life would change in so many ways.
Beginning with their struggle to move not just themselves and their belongings, but also Linda's redoubtable ninety-year-old mother, two-hundred miles north, The Ladies of Low Arvie chronicles Richard and Linda's journey to fulfill their dream.
The Ladies themselves are the herd of pedigree Black Galloway cows they purchased and brought to Low Arvie to inhabit its acres, bringing with them much joy and a little tragedy along the way.
Richard and Linda set about learning the ropes of keeping cattle under EC regulations and to cope with broken machinery and the vagaries of the Scottish weather, where all four seasons sometimes occur on the same day. Just how they overcome their hurdles, helped time and again by coincidence and the kindness of their new neighbours, and how the Ladies themselves settle into their new home is at the heart of this gentle and sometimes moving account of Scottish country life.
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Born and bred in South Yorkshire, England, Linda Watson spent the first fifty-four years of her life in the same village and pursued a career as an infant teacher. She and her partner, Richard, now live on their farm in Scotland.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a fantastic book which I could not put down. It is an emotional journey and one which inspires me to live my life to the full. Linda Watson has a great way with words and the story is humerous and poignant at the same time. I would recommend this book to anyone who would like a bit of light relief and an insight into another life.
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I HAVE READ THIS BOOK 3 TIMES ALREADY AND WILL STILL ENJOY AGAIN.
KEEP WRITING LINDA
STEVE HILL
KEEP WRITING LINDA
STEVE HILL
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Review of Linda Watson, The Ladies of Low Arvie: Living the Farming Dream (iUniverse, 2005) By Annis Pratt
Linda Watson's book about what it was like to take up cattle raising in Scotland is well written and compellingly narrated, drawing you right into the practical issues and frequent crises of starting a whole new way of life in middle age. I started it one afternoon and couldn't put it down until the last calf of their first season had been safely brought into the world around midnight, Detroit time.
The "back to the land" genre of telling what it is like to take up country life has been popular in America since Betty MacDonald wrote about moving from city to farm in The Egg and I (1947), followed in 1951 by Helen and Scott Nearing's Living the Good Life, about the simple self-sufficiency they sought on a farm in Vermont. The counter culture of the 1960s and 1970s engendered a plethora of back to the earth writing, and our current emphasis on environmentalism and voluntary simplicity keeps the genre popular.
Some of us are urban types who like to sit around in our supermarket provided homes and read these books because they take us into worlds and lives we admire but have no desire to emulate; others, who are possessed of similar dreams, read them as a way of gauging the difficulties and pondering the possibilities of throwing a whole way of life out the window to undertake another.
Both will enjoy Linda Watson's The Ladies of Low Arvie because she fills it with practical details but never mires her reader down in them and because, though exceedingly modest of the fact, hers is a story of admirable pluck and courage.
Linda Watson's book about what it was like to take up cattle raising in Scotland is well written and compellingly narrated, drawing you right into the practical issues and frequent crises of starting a whole new way of life in middle age. I started it one afternoon and couldn't put it down until the last calf of their first season had been safely brought into the world around midnight, Detroit time.
The "back to the land" genre of telling what it is like to take up country life has been popular in America since Betty MacDonald wrote about moving from city to farm in The Egg and I (1947), followed in 1951 by Helen and Scott Nearing's Living the Good Life, about the simple self-sufficiency they sought on a farm in Vermont. The counter culture of the 1960s and 1970s engendered a plethora of back to the earth writing, and our current emphasis on environmentalism and voluntary simplicity keeps the genre popular.
Some of us are urban types who like to sit around in our supermarket provided homes and read these books because they take us into worlds and lives we admire but have no desire to emulate; others, who are possessed of similar dreams, read them as a way of gauging the difficulties and pondering the possibilities of throwing a whole way of life out the window to undertake another.
Both will enjoy Linda Watson's The Ladies of Low Arvie because she fills it with practical details but never mires her reader down in them and because, though exceedingly modest of the fact, hers is a story of admirable pluck and courage.
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Low Arvie
22 Jun 2010
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An inspiring, uplifting true story., 11 Nov 2005
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This review is from: The Ladies of Low Arvie: Living the Farming Dream (Paperback)
This is a fantastic book which I could not put down. It is an emotional journey and one which inspires me to live my life to the full. Linda Watson has a great way with words and the story is humerous and poignant at the same time. I would recommend this book to anyone who would like a bit of light relief and an insight into another life.
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This review is from: The Ladies of Low Arvie: Living the Farming Dream (Paperback)
This is a fantastic book which I could not put down. It is an emotional journey and one which inspires me to live my life to the full. Linda Watson has a great way with words and the story is humerous and poignant at the same time. I would recommend this book to anyone who would like a bit of light relief and an insight into another life.
copied from Amazon.co.uk
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