shepherdess

A wonderfull story of how patronising media types keen to make an “X Factor” type human drama out of everything have decided the frontier nature of this wonderful ambassador for young farmers is a bit too authentic for their squeamish tastes. The artice tells the story of Emma Gray a lone Northumbrian farmer. It describes her as:

“Attractive, articulate and funny she defies the stereotype of the crook wielding pastoral, and she has not been short of offers since publicity following the publication of her book about her adventures One Girl and her Dog: Life, Love and Lambing in the Middle of Nowhere.

But she says she does not reply to letters, smiles pleasantly at overtures in the street and has no wish to encourage anyone right now.

Yet it is soon apparent that that “right” person would have to be made of stern stuff as she tells how she accidentally knocked a deer down recently, loaded it in the back of her van and brought it home to cut it up for her dogs.”