Parallel with each other are certain aspects of rural life that affected me in my roles as husband, father, citizen and farmer.

Introduction.

Welsh Black cattle, descendants of a breed that was found in Wales in pre-Roman times, have been at the core of my working life since I was a childwhen my father ran a Welsh Black milking herd at the farm known as Bryngaga, situated in Bow Street, a few miles north of Aberystwyth, which I continued after his death.

Chapter One. Uplands and Lowlands.