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If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

The peace in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly.

I’m chuffed. The actor who plays Herriot in the new series, Nicholas Ralph, is doing the reading in his native Scottish accent, he does all the accents of the farmers and townsfolk in a smashing manner, we just helped a cow 🐄 with a very difficult birth indeed and I’ve had a brand new suit in high quality tweed gifted to me. I’ll have my pint 🍺 and it doesn’t get much better.

audiobook narrated by the actor who plays veterinarian James Herriot in the new television series

Herriot mostly gives us upbeat stories and only rarely the inevitable tragedy. This collection appears to begin with the latter and I was dreading it. But there was a brilliant turnaround and the first story leaves us with smiles all around 🥹