I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells….

I think it was the beginning of Mrs. Bond's unquestioning faith in me when she saw me quickly enveloping the cat till all you could see of him was a ….

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents..

They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live..

There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow would….

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring..

A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again..

And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly.

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box..

And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and the mot….