long haired lady

"Three years earlier, I had bought this sheep farm in Scotland on the suggestion of one of my accountants. At the time, I wasn't very keen on the idea - the land seemed sort of bare and rugged. But, exhausted by the business problems, and realising that if we were going to raise a family, it would not be under the magnifying glass that was London, we turned to each other and said, We should just escape?

Looking back, we were totally unprepared for this wild adventure. There was so much we didn't know. Linda would later go on to write famous cookbooks, but at first - and I'm a living witness - she was not a great cook. I was hardly any better suited for rural life. My father, Jim, still in Liverpool, had taught me many things, especially how to garden and love music, but putting down a cement floor was not one of them. Still, I wasn't going to be deterred. So, I got a guy to come up from town who taught me how to mix cement, how to lay it down in sections, and how to tamp it to bring the water to the surface. No job seemed too small or too large, be it cutting down a Christmas tree from the local forest, making a new table, or getting on a ladder to paint an old roof. A big challenge was to shear the sheep. We had a guy called Duncan who taught me how to use old-fashioned shears and put a sheep on its haunches. Even though I could do only ten sheep to his hundred, we were both knackered by the end of the day. I took great satisfaction in learning how to do all these things, in doing a good job, in being self-dependent."

— Paul McCartney from his book.

Paul & Linda McCartney with drummer, Denny Seiwell (who would end up joining Wings), 1971. This would be them recording Paul & Linda's album "RAM".

I’d like to invite you for just 2 minutes to visit my blog.

There are a few posts they say a lot about me and my family.

I can’t ask for donations directly, as some people do. I'm a bit shy.

But the famine and the dangerous poverty we are living through has pushed me to do this.

Thank you for your time and understanding.💖