Any Fool Can Be A Villager

Any Fool Series #4

by James Irvine Robertson

In this sequel to the uproarious Any Fool Can Be A Countryman there are more revelations from the soft underbelly of rural life. There is none of the country candyfloss of skipping lambkins, maypole dancing and apple-cheeked innocence about in James Robertson' countryside. People struggle to maintain their dignity in the farcical situations that Nature throws at them and they create for themselves. How does an arrogant illiterate old farmer go about finding a wife who has to match up to his high expectation? How do you extract one ton of randy bull from a river? Why do so many pumas prowl the peaceful English meadows? And how can the townsman fit into a typically timeless country village whose unsophisticated simple inhabitants have a ruthless cunning that the likes of JR, Machiavelli or Iago could only dream about?
Politicians, pilots, actors, policemen, and tourists, as well as natives discover again that the most widespread crop to be found in the countryside is the banana skin.

Hardcover

First published September 11, 2012

About the author

James Robertson was born and educated in Scotland. He studied law before working in advertising in London, Toronto and Johannesburg.

He is an author, broadcaster, historian, humourous columnist & contributor to a wide variety of newspapers and magazines in the UK, US and Australia

After working in advertising he became a pig and dairy farmer in South West England, contributed to agricultural journals and wrote a series of comic novels - the ‘Any Fool’ series. He returned to Scotland in 1991 since when he has concentrated on history.

As James Irvine Robertson, he writes articles and books largely relating to Scots history.