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Aileen Posted 22 years ago
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All Creatures Great and Small - heart warming & funny

(DVD) All Creatures Great & Small
Set in the windswept dales of Yorkshire, England, All Creatures Great & Small perfectly captures the warm drawing room fires and freezing wintry barns of the English countryside of the thirties. While this remote area cannot remain untouched by the threat of impending war, there are still plenty of battles to be fought on the home front: on the farms, in the fields and hand-to-hand in the surgery.

(Book) All Creatures Great & Small
This is the start to one of the most famous series of all time - James Herriot's books about his life as a veterinarian in Northern England. All Creatures Great and Small begins with Herriot getting a job as assistant to a rather unusual vet, Siegfried Farnon, and goes through his early years as a working vet with a varied practice - both large and small animals. Though the stories are far from momentous, they are wise, witty, and wonderful; there's a good reason millions of people love these books.
  

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We lived near there and went to his practice. He looked after our dog Lady. He was a wonderful man and very humble They were called Sinclair and White and the place wasThirsk.

  • We lived near there and went to his practice.
  • He looked after our dog Lady.
  • He was a wonderful man and very humble They were called Sinclair and White and the place wasThirsk.
  • Never seen so many tourists outside a door.
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We lived near there and went to his practice. He looked after our dog Lady. He was a wonderful man and very humble They were called Sinclair and White and the place wasThirsk.
Never seen so many tourists outside a door.
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Oh, I love the countryside from the TV series – it’s just magic. And the intimate village life… just makes me want to get lost in it all.
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I've read some of James Herriot's books in my native language(Japanese), but I've never read them in English. I'd like to try this one.
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My Family and Other Animals
By Gerald Durrell

Here’s a little somethin’ from the back cover of the paperback (actually, my copy is back home, I got this from Amazon)

English writer Gerald Durrell (1925-1995) devoted his life to writing and the preservation of wildlife, from the Mauritius pink pigeon to the Rodriques fruit bat. My Family and Other Animals was intended to e
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When I was a child, my dream for the future was to be an animal doctor. I read a lot of books about animals and farms. Emotion: smile
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Hey Candy,
Can’t turn back the clock can we? Sometimes I wonder if they’re not better without us (sigh). I read this today. I wanna go!!!

June 20, 2004
Uganda's Animal Kingdom By MICHAEL GAVIN
MY wife, Jen, and I both work in environmental conservation, and we have been living in western Uganda for over a year now. On short forays we have explored many of the region'
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Hi Aileen,

Thanks for the article by Michael Gavin. I read it with interest. Emotion: smile
It gave me a great feeling, and it
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That sounds so thrilling, an encounter with wildlife...
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Hey Candy,
Sometimes I wonder what they think about. I’m sure that dogs have their own little characters, they’re very emotional. But wild animals, they’re much harder to figure. All I know about them comes from discovery TV (LOL) so I’m no expert. I find that the documentaries made recently often show that wild animals are strongly social and communicative. Even dumb old sharks are pretty
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Hi Aileen,

"They do nearly everything with their eyes shut (swimming, hunting etc). "
Emotion: surprise
Wow, it's amazing!! Ho

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