All clenched up and finally finished

Mick O'Reardon

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Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
21 November 2024

Memoirs; Rural trades & skills

After retiring to Cyprus and looking forward to a life of leisure, a neighbour told me the donkey sanctuary was losing their farrier and was I interested! This was the beginning of my second career as a farrier in Cyprus that led me to some way out places, and to meeting some really interesting people. Also I was asked if I could shoe a horse which snowballed into horseshoeing the length and breadth of Cyprus and over the border into the Turkish area too. My work all came from recommendations. I did try to control my work to two or three days a week as i wanted to follow other leisure activities. Some weeks though, that plan went out of the window.

One leisure activity I did get involved with was a writers group. For years I had always wanted to write a book about my life as a farrier, but it was always going to be tomorrow when I would start it. I had told God knows how many folk over the years that one day I would write a book but it certainly wasn't going to be today as I had no idea how to go about it. That changed when I met the chairman of Paphos writers group and told him about my plans to write about my farrier life, one day he said; ''Well it is no good talking about it. I hope to see you at our groups meeting at 10 o'clock tomorrow. That morning was the ''tomorrow'' that had finally come to start writing my first book; All clenched up and nearly finished.'' Now I write regularly and my second book ''All clenched up and finally finished'' is published.

By: Mick O'Reardon
Imprint: Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 323g
ISBN: 9781836150701
ISBN 10: 1836150709
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 21 November 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

My name is Mick O'Reardon and I was born in a village called Lastingham on the edge of the North Yorkshire moors in February 1948. I lived with my grandparents until I was nine years old. my father who was in the RAF moved us into married quarters. After ha had had several postings we ended up in Leicestershire were I started my farrier life at the age of 16 in 1964. Shoeing horses became my way of life for the next 52 years.

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