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May 28, 2007

Me and the strange case of the Tetley tea folk

EVERYONE has a double, or doppelganger, so they say. Even me.....

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May 23, 2007

Postcard from the Emerald Isle

A COUPLE of weeks ago my family and I returned from an enjoyable week's holiday in Ireland.

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May 15, 2007

Memories of a wee farm lad doing National Service

BRING back National Service, that’s what I say. I don’t mean just for yobs or ASBO kids. I mean for every boy and girl of 17 or 18. Farmers’ children as well.
No exceptions.

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May 3, 2007

A farmer's work is never done

WHEN I was farming, the work was never ending, a bit like the title of this poem.

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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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