Nostalgic for James Herriot

A recent geocaching visit to a farm that still uses heavy horses left me feeling nostalgic for the James Herriot stories. As our paperbacks are now too fragile to read in bed, I decided to download them to my kindle. And what a joy they’ve proved to be during wakeful hours in the middle of the night. The stories are charming; equally moving and entertaining and portray a genuine picture of rural life in the middle of the 20th century when life was slower, treatment by antibiotics was a “miracle” of the future and Yorkshire pockets were still shallow! .