Countryside quarantine

Rachael Richards, 40, grew up on a Welsh hill farm and has spent every spring since the age of 18 travelling home to help over the lambing season. Here she discusses how in the grip of Covid 19, after being furloughed from her PR job in Manchester, she is now ‘volunteering’ back on the family homestead, alongside her four siblings, and finds very little changes in the country.

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Countryside quarantine

Rachael Richards, 40, grew up on a Welsh hill farm and has spent every spring since the age of 18 travelling home to help over the lambing season. Here she discusses how in the grip of Covid 19, after...

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