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Cows and Catastrophes: The Flights and Fancies of a Cornish Dairy Farmer
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Cows and Catastrophes includes tales of author Brindley Hosken’s 40 years of farming on the beautiful Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, where he has lived and worked for all his life.
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Aside from his lifelong farming work Brindley Hosken has been a parish councillor for almost 30 years, he is President of the Helston & St Keverne Young Farmers Club, chairman of his local horticultural show and of the West Cornwall Grassland Society and he has previously chaired the Cornwall Grassland Society. In between all of that he frequently writes for his local magazines and is married to wife Ruth, and has 3 children.
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