THIS has been a bad winter but one Holmfirth farmer tells me how, years ago, it had been so cold in the night that the next morning he found all his cows frozen solid in the field, like statues.
As he stood in shock, an elderly woman walked by and asked what was the matter.
The farmer simply pointed towards the cows.
Without hesitation, the woman went into the field and began to rub one of the cow’s noses. After a few seconds, it began to twitch and was soon back to normal. One by one, the woman defrosted all the cows.
The farmer asked how he could repay her but she just smiled and went on her way. A chap who had witnessed the whole thing approached the farmer.
“You know who that was don’t you?” he said.
“No,” said the farmer. “Who?”
The man said: “Thora Hird.”
