Ach, it's all changed since then anyway Sally. 40 years ago we still cut hooves off for footrot and put newly wormed sheep out onto clean pasture.
Very true. But I think the language and its interpretation wouldn’t have changed. I used to be able to read that sort of article like it was in my mother tongue
. Now it’s like doing my Latin ‘O’ level all over again; pick out the words you know, make educated guesses at some of the others, try to fill in the gaps... say to yourself, “Life is surely too short for this”, and do something else. ( No I did not pass my Latin ‘O’ level
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