All those guys and girls sweating their days away down in the Financial Services Centre, tired already of their drudgery, their expansive pay packets and that darn Emerald Tiger, all dreaming of becoming paysannes in remote parts of Clare and West Cork, should note that John Seymour's classic book, The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency. has just been republished.
Mr Seymour is living in Wexford these days, from where he still runs a school of self- sufficiency, near New Ross. Whatever you need to know about managing a smallholding is contained in these pages, the archetype of "the good life" detailed crisply and accurately, indeed seductively.
The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency is published by Do4ing Kindersley. price £14.99.