Saturday, January 21, 2023
A Man Without Machinery
Ronald Blythe, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (New York: Pantheon, 1969), p. 53 (John Grout speaking):
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I have farmed in Akenfield since 1926. I had 135 acres and didn't use a tractor until 1952, and then I never got on with the thing. I have been a man without machinery, as you might say.Related post: Lord Man on His Mechanical Juggernaughts.
