Listen "RABBIT FARMING Who would have thought it! Northcote in the very early days. 1984"
Episode Synopsis
I might ad that in the almost three years that I was engaged in Rabbit farming, I never ever had one sick rabbit. This I considered a major achievement.Not that I can say the same for myself as just entering the second year of the enterprise I suffered a heart attack.It happened one night quite unexpectedly. Severe pain down left arm and incredible pain in my chest. A huge angry hot orange was doing its best to push its way out of my insides.All I could do was lie still on the bed. Sweat poured off me and yet I was icy cold.Ruth wanted to call for help, but I persuaded her that I could survive and if I were to be carted away what would happen to those hundreds of rabbits that depended on my twice daily care?I did survive, obviously, but come the morning, I was as weak as the proverbial kitten!I managed to crawl out of bed at 6am, fed the horses we had at that time and then began to walk across the field to the rabbits.It took me 15 minutes to cross the field that first time. I clung on to each and every fence post and the wire in between.Once in the feed store which had been a piggery before our time and was destined to be a tea room for the new visitor centre far into the future; I sat and rested for another 15 minutes.Thank you for listening to our Buzzsprout audio stories.You can follow many of these with added film and photographs as videos and slide showson our YouTube Channel at "cracker books on youtube".WEB SITE CHANGE: New Web site at www.crackerbooks.frAt the same time, Cracker Books have produced 10 complete page turninge-books on their own Site.All the books are free to download to any device.Have a look at our bookcase and view all the book details. http://online.flipbuilder.com/crackerbooks/ Finally for lots of further information about what we publish and why have a look at our website at www.crackerbooks.fr