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February 27, 2007
Coastal erosion? You must be joking
- Posted by Russell Rees-Davies at 10:23 AM | add or read comments (0)
FOLLOWING the National Trust's recent report about the predicted erosion of parts of the Welsh coastline, I thought some of the media went over the top in its reporting.
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February 19, 2007
Hello Mike, thanks for reading my blogs
- Posted by Russell Rees-Davies at 11:00 AM | add or read comments (0)
HELLO Russell, just read your first two posts, the cattle around Glan Clwyd and the lamb in Cefn.
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February 16, 2007
Let's hear it for the one-and-only "gormless George"
- Posted by Russell Rees-Davies at 10:39 AM | add or read comments (0)
WHAT musical instruments have you got in your home? Piano, harp, violin, guitar?
And can you play any?
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February 9, 2007
When a cat can be a farmer's best friend
- Posted by Russell Rees-Davies at 10:31 AM | add or read comments (0)
RATS are on the rampage in towns and farms, apparently. Nothing new in that: when my family was farming many years ago, we used to get spells of rats invading our farm.
What’s the best way to get rid of them?
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February 2, 2007
Now I can only impersonate a frog
- Posted by Russell Rees-Davies at 11:50 AM | add or read comments (2)
LIFE can be so cruel. Earlier this week my animal impressions went global, and the phones started ringing with job offers .... just as I developed bronchitis.
Losing your voice is not a good thing for an animal impersonator.
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February 2, 2007
Watch out YouTube, you've got competition
- Posted by Russell Rees-Davies at 11:20 AM | add or read comments (1)
I’VE been doing animal impressions for six decades. I’ve appeared on 58 TV shows and numerous radio programmes. But I’d never done anything like this before.
There’s always a first time for everything and, at the age of 73, I was going to make my internet debut - on video.
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Russell grew up on the family’s 83-acre mixed farm at Cefn Meiriadog, near St Asaph. After his father died, Russell worked as an agricultural sale rep until his retirement in 1998. He was also a Red Coat at Butlin's Pwllheli, made 57 television appearances in Britain and abroad, and is a noted animal impressionist.
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