Is this just fantasy?

Patrick Galbraith says Brian May is wrong: farmers do care

AT THE CELTIC CAFE, ON Market Street in Aberaeron, I sat down to scrambled eggs on toast. Except for a table of old sheep farmers, the place was almost empty. “Shooting today, boy?” one of them called across, switching from Welsh to English. I guess he had noticed my breeks and socks. “Yes,” I replied. “Start of the duck season.” I don’t go to rural Wales very often, but when I do I’m reminded of how friendly it is. I often think the countryside in Britain varies massively in terms of how keen people are to chat. In Norfolk they seldom manage more than four words; in Scotland they do a sort of happy-cum-grumpy thing; in Yorkshire they tend to be rude while telling you they’re just saying it as…

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