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The Wisdom of Donkeys

The Wisdom of Donkeys

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Author: Andy Merrifield
Publisher: Short Books, London
Category: Book

List Price: £12.99
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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 reviews
Sales Rank: 3763

Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.3

ISBN: 1906021244
EAN: 9781906021245
ASIN: 1906021244

Publication Date: March 6, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Condition: Brand New. Shipped from UK Mainland. Delivery is usually 2 - 3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail.

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my donkey.   June 3, 2008
 1 out of 7 found this review helpful

The subtitle of this book is "finding tranquility in a chaotic world". Well, I ascertain that if Mr Merrifield (if that really is his name) believes donkeys provide this, he has never ever seen a donkey. I will go further - he has never heard a donkey. He has never smelt a donkey. He has never touched a donkey. He may have tasted a donkey, but it's not for me to cast aspersions on a) his diet, and b) what he gets up to in the privacy of his own barn.

Take my two latest donkey aquisitions, Katy and Zoe - lordy lord lord, they give me a donkey shaped headache. Katy will not eat any donkey food, she will only eat Quorn cottage pies that have been cooked three times and then mildly warmed on a toaster. Zoe will also not eat any donkey food, but will happily eat anything else - grass, fencing, sunlight, masonry, buses, and on one fateful occasion she ate Prince Edward's antique gazebo (I swear we won't be invited back to another one of their garden parties...)

But then, compare them to the rest of my donkey menagerie. How do they fare against Sebastian? Edgar? Billy Sideways? Braying Simon? Jesus the donkey? MUCH better, because they're all boring idiots that give me a quiet life, which is absolutely what you don't want in the heady, exciting, anything-can-happen-and-then-get-eaten world of donkey ownership.

Tranquility? My ass.

ps - the book is good read it.