All Cheeses Great and Small

This is the story of Alex James¿s transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker and father of five.¿I was hanging around the pigsty in the way I¿d previously hung around at The Groucho Club. I felt wonderfully connected, grounded in the real world, standing in pig muck¿Following fifteen years in Blur, Alex James did two wild, unexpected things. He fell in love and he bought a farm.Moving into a rambling, chaotic farmstead in the beautiful Cotswold countryside, he decides the best way to learn about farming is the same way he learned most about music: by jumping in and doing it. As his family settles in, he discovers the unexpected joys that country life abounds in: finding the first egg from your very own chicken, coming across a bramble bush laden with blackberries, roasting home-grown pears on an open fire, before stumbling on a new venture ¿ making cheese.Wonderfully warm, witty and perfectly observed, this is the sto