Using humorous cartoons, verse and stories in books and on CD, Henry Brewis dealt with the hill farmer's world in the 1980s and 1990s. It is a world of awkward sheep, pot-bellied calves, broken down combines and hopeless worm-drench reps.
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Chewing the Cud (Paperback) - Henry Brewis
Ref: 504B
‘The sheep are on the road again, the cows are in the corn,
the bank is on the telephone, the pigs are on the lawn.
The combine’s standing idle and we cannot get it fixed...
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Clarts and Calamities (Paperback) - Henry Brewis
Ref: 505B
A fictional but very believable farming year in diary form: ‘This is a year in the life of a bloke who’ll never drive a Porsche, seldom wear a tie, and doesn’t commute to work, because he’s there already...
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Country Dance (Paperback) - Henry Brewis
Ref: 506B
As the 1990s progressed, Henry Brewis bore witness to the new rural life he saw around him. This is his wryly humorous fable of the changes one traditional farm and village underwent as farming declined...
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Diaries of William Brewis of Mitford 1833-1850, The (Paperback) - Transcribed by Joan Foster & Dr Michael Smith
Ref: 562B
William Brewis farmed at Throphill Hall, near Mitford, Northumberland. He was also an overseer of the poor and a high constable for the west division of Morpeth. His diary entries cover the progress of his farming against the background of the Repeal of the Corn Laws. Fairs and markets, weather, crops and livestock are all included.
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Don’t Laugh Till He’s Out Of Sight (Paperback) - Henry Brewis
Ref: 510B
One of the earliest books by Henry Brewis, this perennial favourite is a confection of stories, poems and cartoons from the early 1980s...
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Funnywayt’mekalivin’ (Paperback) - Henry Brewis
Ref: 547B
funnywayt’mekalivin’ was the first Henry Brewis’s titles to be published by Farming Press, in 1983, since when it has reprinted on numerous occasions. It contains 130 cartoons on timeless subjects familiar to Brewis devotees...
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Last Round-Up (Paperback) - Henry Brewis
Ref: 529B
When your toes are warming by the hearth and there’s a glass of liquid encouragement t’hand... when life has calmed down a bit... well, if you can’t occasionally see the daftness of it all...
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Little Bit O'Nonsense About Sheep (Paperback) - Henry Brewis
Ref: 572B
Compiled from previously published books and in a handy, pocket-sized format, this is a fresh look at Henry Brewis’s fondest enemy: the mule yow.
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Rural Stew and Country Casserole (CD)- Henry Brewis
Ref: 402C
Awkward sheep, potbellied calves, brainless collie-dogs, mart days and wet days where cock-ups are commonplace and hard to hide. That’s Henry Brewis’s view of hill-farming life in this collection of amusing stories and verse written and narrated by Brewis himself.
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Second Helpings (CD) - Henry Brewis
Ref: 404C
Second Helpings is the third collection of stories and verses written by Northumbrian farming humorist the late Henry Brewis and read by Brewis himself. Originally recorded in the 1980s and released on audio-cassette, Second Helpings is now being made available for the first time on CD, re-mastered.
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Shepherd's Pie (CD) - Henry Brewis
Ref: 403C
Death-wish sheep, hyperactive collie dogs and exclusive extracts from the secret diary of Shep, the politically incorrect peasant farmer. Followers of Henry Brewis will be happily reunited with some familiar characters on this second CD
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Henry Brewis set of 3 CDs
Ref: 930S
Henry Brewis set of 3 CDs £19.95
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