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Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, In James Herriot's book, All Things Bright and Beautiful, I read a chapter about how he had to work during Christmas and in the cold weather. It was quite funny, actually, because on Christmas Eve he was expecting to get a lie in the next day but he was actually awoken by a phone call which he originally thought was his alarm clock. The person who answered the phone was Mr Brown, the farmer, who had a cow down for milk fever. The farmer was quite mean and selfish because he told James to hurry up, he kept him behind after injecting the cow with medicine to voice his concerns about the other animals, and he complained about the vet bills being too expensive. I just found that that was incredibly ignorant of Mr Brown to do that. When James returned to Skeldale house, his wife Helen, said that he got another phone call at another farm about a female goat that was choking. The goat was called Dorothy and it turned out that she at...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, I feel like everybody goes through a period of time when they just don't want to read. Recently, I've been quite busy with work experience and school and I didn't have the time to get much reading done. However, there have been quite a few books that I've been reading recently, that I've been meaning to get through but just hadn't had the time to. What I decided to do, to help me with getting a bit more reading done, is to read in every spare minute of my time. For example, when I come back from the dance studio after work experience, I can perhaps pick up the book I'm reading and read it while I have the time. Even if it's just for 5 or 15 minutes, I find this really effective. I also try to read before I go to bed because that's when I find that I have the most time during my day and I find that it really helps me get to sleep a lot better. If I don't have time at night to get much readin...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, As some of you may know, if you follow what goes on in my main blog, on Thursday I celebrated my 15th birthday. I was given quite a few books to read. The list goes like this: Let Sleeping Vets Lie by James Herriot It Shouldn't Happen To A Vet by James Herriot   Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E.Frankel   War Horse by Michael Morpurgo   The Choice by Edith Eger   The Homage To Catalonia by George Orwell I'm really excited to read all the books but I'm most excited to read The Choice by Edith Eger because it's about a dancer who survived Auschwitz. She was sent there at the age of 16 and she was made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele. Surprisingly, when the camp was liberated, she was pulled from a pile of bodies, barely alive. This sounds like a truly inspirational story and I can't wait to read it. I'm also excited to read Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankel....

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, As I'm sure you all know already, I've been reading the second book of James Herriot's memoirs as a Yorkshire country vet. One of his friends/colleagues and brother to Siegfried, is Tristan. Tristan had quite a mischievous personality and was always known for making his older brother very angry. One time he crashed both of Siegried's only cars and this sent his brother over the edge because they needed the cars to carry all the expensive veterinary equipment and to get from farm to farm so it was certainly an inconvenience. However, this time, he did something even worse. There was a country myth going around that this monk would turn up by this chapel on a specific night and as soon as the drivers saw him by the road, they would rev up their engines and soar up the road. Little did they know that it was actually Tristan! One time, he played the prank on James and heard him soar off into the distance after coming ...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, I feel like I've been talking a lot about Sarah Helm's book, If This Is A Woman and I've kind of been neglecting some of my other books that I've been reading so today, I'm going to talk about James Herriot. If you don't know already, I'm reading his second memoir, All Things Bright and Beautiful because I really liked his first book and I thought that I would delve into the second. We all know the challenges of being a vet. Especially a Yorkshire country vet like James. Sometimes you have to separate you social life at home, with your working life on farms. This can be very difficult because sometimes country vets get called in the middle of the night to deliver a calf and they have to work during the day to treat a large cattle group for husk. It can be very strenuous work. One thing that I would find the most difficult is when it comes to helping everyday stray pets. On his way back from a farm on...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, If you follow my main blog, Keeping Up With Juliette, you will know that I've been wanting to talk about this topic of inward terror in a concentration camp for a while now. I know that I keep going on about this book and I promise that I'll be talking about some more of James Herriot's second book later on next week but I think it's really good to touch base on this topic. This book is so incredible because I keep on finding new things to talk about as I go through it which is a rarity for a lot of books that I read. If you've never done GCSE history before in the past, then you may not know about the prospect of inward terror within a concentration camp. The Nazis used this form of terror to ignite anger amongst the prisoners themselves so that they were the ones being violent and the Nazis were the ones who didn't have to do anything. If you haven't seen my previous post, then you won't know a...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, As I've mentioned in my previous post, I'm currently reading a very interesting historical book called If This Is A Woman by Sarah Helm. Whilst it's a very accurate and fascinating book on Ravensbrück concentration camp for women, it does reveal some shocking truths on how people were treated. Drawn to the 'red Vienna,' a woman named Hanna Sturm, joined a trade union and helped fight anti-fascist battles during Austria's turmoil of the 1930s. However, this often lead her being imprisoned behind bars. Sentenced to 'aggravated arrest' in Ravensbrück, Hanna was confined to a small wooden cell which was 2 metres wide and 2 metres in length. The cell was dark so whilst she tried to get used to the darkness, she often lost track of time. She also had no bed, no mattress but the floor to sit on and only a proper meal was provided on Thursday once a week. 100g of bread and a bowl of so-called coffee was gi...