a big disappointment
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I had heard many mixed reviews about this book and I have to say that if you're after an account of running a smallholding (as suggested by the title)you'll be sadly disappointed. Boycott starts promisingly yet continually rambles on about her life and her successful lawyer husband. She brings up the important issue of supermarket produce and how it has a massive effect on local producers and farmers markets, yet at times these points go on for too long. I felt that her interest in farming is little more than a hobby and what she does eventually say about her oh so brilliant farm is pesimistic and whingey. At one point she writes 4-5 pages on soil and insects which was a little nauseating to say the least. However there are some charming moments in the book but sadly these are overshadowed by Boycott boasting about her successful life. This is nothing more than a cleverly disguised autobiography.
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What rubbish!
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I was extremely disappointed by this book! I bought it thinking I was going to be told about a smallholding and the experiences the author had in developing this. Instead I had bought a self indulgent rant by a woman playing at "farms". The style of writing is incredibly irritating, the way she pumps money into her toy is nauseating and her real agenda is to get on her soapbox and slam a major supermarket. Well, be honest if that is the case and write a book against supermarkets without dressing it up as something else. That way I would not have wasted my money! So - buy this if you do not like Tesco!!
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All about Rosie Boycott
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This book was a huge disappointment.
I was expecting to read an interesting account of a year in the life of a smallholding (as described on the cover). Instead it is an incredibly self-indulgent account of Rosie Boycott. Wow! This woman is a legend in her own mind!
Avoid.
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Worthy testament to Tesco tyranny
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As someone who was born and brought up in Ilminster, I remember it as the happy, friendly little market town that it was - where you knew the shopkeepers by name and always bumped into someone you knew during the Saturday morning shop. Ms Boycott's description of Tesco's bullying, and the spinelessness of the town council, is desperately upsetting. These people will have destroyed the town's personality and social framework for ever - all because of their greed. I agree the book is not perfect, but as a record of ths scandalous arrogance of Tesco, it is a worthy effort.
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A really good read!
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I fully enjoyed Rosie's book. If you are looking for a book that tells you how to rear pigs or grow veg then this will not be for you, but then this is not what the book is about. Although you will learn some of the problems there are with animals and crops, the book is mainly about the highs and lows that there are when undertaking a project such as this.
It reads almost as though one is having a conversation with someone at a get together. You want to know why they are where they are, and what happened to them on the journey. Rosie answers your questions as you read on in the book, and you learn of the pitfalls and the problems, both of the smallholding and of human nature in the society that surrounds such a commitment.
I thoroughly recommend it!
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