funnywayt’mek’alivin’ 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: sheep with a death-wish, the long-suffering farmer’s wife, the experts and officials who plagued farmers twenty years ago as they still do today.
The central character is hill farmer Sep of whom Brewis writes: ‘Anyone who has survived a lambing, pleaded with the bank manager, nearly murdered a persistent worm-drench rep, been kicked in the Y-fronts by a suckler calf, watched the heavens open on to a field of hay ready to bale, viewed the hunt gallop over his winter wheat, and choked on a tax demand – will recognize Sep.’