Linda Corbett moved to rural Wales from London in the mid
1970's. Although she had always been very involved with horses & show
jumping she was new to farming.
"One thing I've learnt from my experiences in farming
particularly, is that I changed from being a person who felt
totally in charge of their own existence. Not just totally
in charge but requiring these set things and these things were
important. And they were nearly all material things — you know,
horses, the way of life. Then I came farming and I kept coming
up against problems of nature and things that were far more
powerful than I was. And I was mixing with people who had lived
with these influences all their lives and had learnt to go
with it and not stand against it and accept it so much more.
And they accepted all sorts of things — the good
things, the bad things. And it taught me to be so much more — I
don't know — less demanding, more, more
accepting.
That was the difficulty for me when I first arrived,
was that because I had to go through this transition period,
there were a lot of things. A lot of the farmers' wives
were so very traditional and had come from such a different
background that there was such a big gap to overcome before
the communication could set in."
