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utmost to ensure they would wish they had never begun the action in the first place.

WRITING TO FRIENDS
I began to write to friends. I should mention here some facts I have probably missed out on
this journey through time.
From 1985 until 1989 I went back to working for newspapers. In 1960 on leaving school,
newspapers were my first job. This was the time when people did a multitude of jobs. I did
anyway. (see life at the Lincolnshire Standard in It’s a Rum Life Book Two ).

In the 80’s I worked firstly for the Skegness Standard and latterly for Morton’s, publishers
of the “opposition” newspaper in the same town.

I made many good friends over the years and one gave me a book during this next difficult
time. Graham Harvey was the author. (Graham is the agricultural story editor for the
“Archers” a very popular and long running radio serial, broadcast daily on the BBC).

His book told of the big Lincolnshire ‘prairie’ farmers who ripped out hedgerows and
created 100 plus acre fields, all in the name of progress. One of these so-called
progressive farmers mentioned in the book, just happened to be my old friend “the
plaintiff”!

CONFRONTATION.
I wrote to Graham with my story. He could not help but offered support.
I wrote to Charles Clover a feature and countryside writer for the Daily Telegraph. They
dare not!
I wrote to the editor of the Grimsby Telegraph, a regional daily with good readership and
one that had genuinely and regularly supported my efforts in rescuing creaky old horses,
at Northcote!

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