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Dairy Cows and Duck Races: The Tale of a Young Farmer

Dairy Cows and Duck Races: The Tale of a Young Farmer


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About the Book

As a boy, all Northumbrian-born Philip Dixon wanted in life was to be a farmer. In Dairy Cows and Duck Races he tells the story of how he got there, starting work on a farm at the age of fifteen, along the way handling many temperamental bulls, meeting some very witchy" women, getting married and raising a family, acquiring his own farm and being part of the Round Table team that invented the plastic duck race!

Table of Contents:
1 Peepy Farm 2 Manor Farm and Tom Hall 3 Cookies, Diehard Boys and a Princess 4 Ceilidhs, Marriage and Cows 5 A Holiday and a Pregnancy 6 Ashington Farm 7 Italian Neighbours and a Career Opportunity 8 Another Manor Farm 9 Pendragon Round Table and More Babies 10 Upper House Farm and a Xeroradiograph 11 Rebuilding Works, Fireworks and Duck Races 12 Kelly's Heroes and Feeding Experiments 13 The Great Merrydale Turkey Shoot 14 Get Fresh Daily 15 The Dating Game 16 A Second Marriage, and Cut-throat Partners 17 Living in a Castle 18 The Cows' Hill Hotel 19 The Geordie Mafia20 Blaydon Blaggards and Thieves

About the Author :
Philip Dixon's formative years were spent around the banks of the River Tyne, in the north of England and later on farms in the area in the 1950s and 1960s. He describes himself as "first and foremost a dairy farmer" and has spent much of his working life farming and managing dairies in England and France, and has owned and run a chambre d'hote in France.Besides farming, Philip has renovated houses, appeared on television and radio and had articles written about him in Farmers Weekly. Presently he lives in Surrey. He has four children of his own and is stepfather to three more, all of whom are now adults. When he wrote this book, he was working in a special needs school, which he describes as an incredibly rewarding experience. He and with his wife, Heather now live in Dorset


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780993101885
  • Publisher: Earlswood Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Earlswood Press
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Weight: 212 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0993101887
  • Publisher Date: 27 Apr 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Sub Title: The Tale of a Young Farmer
  • Width: 129 mm


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