A Farmer Once Told Me One Of

That Quotation About Not Having Time To Stand And Stare Has Never Applied To Me. I Seem To Have Spent A Good Part Of My Life - Probably Too Much - In Just Standing And Staring And I Was At It Again This Morning.

I Was Helped By Having A Verbatim Memory Of What Happened Years Ago, Even If I Can't Remember What Happened A Couple Of Days Ago.

For Years I Used To Bore My Wife Over Lunch With Stories About Funny Incidents.

And The Peace Which I Always Found In The Silence And Emptiness Of The Moors Filled Me Utterly

If A Farmer Calls Me To A Sick Animal, He Couldn't Care Less If I Were George Bernard Shaw.