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Article: Life Mag: Food & Drink: Buffalo man's joy: Bob milks his dream.(ROP)
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- Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
- Article date:
- May 2, 2001
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Byline: MAUREEN MESSENT
HIS girls, says Bob Palmer, are probably the best in Europe. 'They're aristocrats, you see,' he adds. 'And there's this sweet docility and friendliness about them all.'
That he met and fell in love with buffaloes was a coincidence, of course, because Bob's working life started with his being a reluctant commercial apprentice in a Coventry car factory, the sort of young bloke who yearned for rural pastures.
So he got himself a wife, 20 acres and some Jersey cows in Shipston-on-Stour. But there wasn't enough profit in cows' ...