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Clarke finds consolation in how silence makes room for memory and for the company of the animal- and bird-life which surrounds us
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Buying the Farm by Eliza O'Toole PRE-ORDER Jane Clarke Clarke finds consolation in howPublished 15th July 2025. Available for pre order. The phrase 'to buy the farm' is a euphemism for death. Attested etymologically at least to WWII where if someone had died, they had "bought the farm in the sky. The term to 'buy it' means to die, and the reference to 'farm' relates to the Anglo Saxon 'feorh' which signifies life. 'Eliza O'Toole's landmark work is much more than a 'word hoard' of and around the farmland of East Anglia, the territory of
