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0 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Yorkshire shepherdess Amanda Owen says screens have been her family’s ‘lifeline’
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screens → say → ?
Yorkshire shepherdess Amanda Owen says screens have been her family’s “lifeline” and that it would be “incredibly hypocritical” to ban them for her children.
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it → say → children
The 52-year-old stars in the Channel 4 documentary series Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive And Kids, which follows her life in the countryside with her nine children as they renovate a centuries-old derelict farmhouse known as Anty John’s into a modern home.
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they → star → home
She said: “It would be incredibly hypocritical to say, ‘Oh, no screen time, screens are death knell of society’, because that would be totally and utterly not what I believe.
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I → say → what
“It’s what has given us the ability to put ourselves out there and basically to prop the whole business of farming up, which, let’s be honest, is in dire straits.
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’s → ’ → straits
She said she feels “blessed” to have the space in the countryside to allow her children to do other things rather than sit watching their screens.
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children → say → screens
She said: “We don’t set limits on it, but there’s other things going on.
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There’s other things for them to do.
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them → ’ → ?
So I’ve never really had to sort of push that one.
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I → have → one
The dynamics are always changing.
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dynamics → change → ?
“To have this space to be in the countryside and have animals and open land and stuff to do for all the children, there’s plenty to keep everybody interested to do other things.”
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everybody → have → things
Owen said her life changed when she read The Hill Shepherd – A Photographic Essay, by John and Eliza Forder, which documents the lives of fell and hill shepherds in north-west England.
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which → say → England
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She has since written a number of books including a new children’s volume, Cosy Bedtime Stories From The Farm.
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She → read → Farm
It follows last year’s Christmas Tales From The Farm.
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It → follow → Farm
She said: “I failed miserably at school.
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I → say → school
I was just, sort of, like, coasting.
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I → coast → ?
Wasn’t anything because nothing inspired me.
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“And it was when I found a book that did inspire me that set me on the path, the trajectory to where I am today.
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I → find → path
“Quite honestly, I never set out to write books.
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I → set → books
When someone says the word ‘author’ a little bit of me sort of dies inside because I don’t see myself as that at all.
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I → say → that
“I am just the one who has found their place, found their thing, what they enjoy, what they like doing, what they’re good at, and then from that started to write about it.
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they → find → it
The new series of Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids is available to watch and stream on More4.
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series → watch → More4
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