Onto a heap, making a churned brown trail across the whiteness. ‘Now then,’ he muttered along the side of a half-smoked cigarette. He was over seventy but still ran the smallholding single-handed. He...
Felt drained. Watching the life of the
Though in her late thirties, she had no fears of spinsterhood because she had been assiduously courted for fifteen years by Charlie Hudson from the Darrowby fish shop and though Charlie was not a temp...
My mind went back to that picture in the obstetrics book. A cow standing in the middle of a gleaming floor while a sleek veterinary surgeon in a spotless parturition overall inserted his arm to a poli...
We were using ether and oxygen as anaesthetic and she was particularly adept at holding her breath while the mask was on her face then returning suddenly to violent life when we thought she was asleep...
It was the first time I had had the opportunity of drinking champagne by the pint and it was a rewarding experience. I
I have never been able to use that soap since. Scents are too evocative and the merest whiff jerks me back to that first night away from my wife, and to the feeling I had then.
I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my...
Las cosas suelen resultar mejor de lo que uno espera.
I went back to my conversation with Siegfried that morning; we had just about decided that the man with a lot of animals couldn't be expected to feel affection for individuals among them. But those bu...
I think it was the beginning of Mrs. Bond's unquestioning faith in me when she saw me quickly enveloping the cat till all you could see of him was a small black and white head protruding from an immov...
I pulled a packet of Cold Flake from my pocket. Cliff, you’re a marvel. Will you have a cigarette? It ’ud be like givin’ a pig a strawberry, the little man replied,
I only half realised at the time how lucky I was. I had a demanding, round-the-clock job, and yet I had the company of my children at the same time. So many men work so hard to keep the home going tha...
I don't think he ever gave a thought to other people's opinions, which was just as well because they were often unkind
His name is Tristan, by the way. Tristan?Yes. Oh, I should have told you. You must have wondered about my own name. It was my father. Great Wagnerian. It nearly ruled his life. It was music all the ti...
But Siegfried held up a restraining hand. Just one moment, he slurred. The windscreen is very dirty. I’ll give it a rub for you. The ladies watched him silently as he weaved round to the back of the c...
At times it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work; for driving out in the early morning with the fields glittering under the first pale sunshine and the wisps of mist still hanging on the hi...
Animals are unpredictable things so our whole life is unpredictable. It’s a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you’ve got to really like it to stick it.
He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to the cause of doing as little as possible. Tristan did, in fact, spend much of his time sleeping in a chair.
Great waves seemed to billow from him – impatience, frustration, criticism, irritation.