During an outbreak of meningitis in Glasgow in the 1920s. The author was sent to live with his grandparents, then tenants of North Clutag Farm, Galloway, in south-west Scotland. He tells us how rare this sort of childhood has become, and how wonderful it must have been to roam so freely, absorbing the rhythms of the countryside.
Ian Niall's sublime elegy to a forgotten world: life as a boy on a farm in Galloway in the 1920s.
