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TheOtherHalf | 13:21 Mon 08th Oct 2012 | ChatterBank
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Jamie Fox, 22, who recently graduated from Bangor University, will use a ukulele, accordion and cowbell to frighten away troublesome partridges.

While his fellow students may be pulling pints, going travelling or desperately seeking their first professional role, Mr Fox will earn £250 a week patrolling the ten-acre field.

Wearing a bright orange coat, he will play the musical instruments in a bid to finally scare off the hardy birds, which were unperturbed by ordinary scarecrows.

His employer, a farmer from Aylsham, Norfolk, even warned him to “bring a deckchair and a good book” for his days in the oilseed rape field, where he will also practice his ukulele in the hopes of getting a full-time job in music.

Mr Fox, who says his friends are “slightly envious” of his role, is now saving to pay for a trip to New Zealand next year.

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"I get to sit and read for a lot of the time but whenever I see the partridges, I have to get up and scare them off," he told the BBC.

“I ring a cowbell and I've even played the accordion, but the ukulele doesn't seem to have any effect on them.

"The farmer said to me, 'Bring a deckchair and a good book'. A couple of my friends in busier, more generously-paid jobs, are slightly envious.”

Farmer William Youngs said he resorted to his human scarecrow after partridges were not put off by more ordinary methods of frightening them away.

"The only way to get rid of them is to walk down the field and push them off," he said. "Jamie's doing a good job. You can really see the difference."
If Mrs O stood in the middle of the field in her overall I bet that would scare the birds off. And she comes cheaper than Jamie Fox.
With her doctorate in Phycology, I doubt she would be cheaper, parkdale
Phycology?
phycology (f-kl-j)
The scientific study of algae.
sibton, smarty, besides it has given the person a job, so not a scrounger, x lol
He's not just an ordinary graduate- he's outstanding in his field
I consider myself slapped, em10 :-)
He's crowing about his new job to all his mates.
sibton, naw, just lightly cuffed. Interesting word, not one i have come across.
The student must be getting an itch from all that straw.
wonder if this is what he will look like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xNA8seaqGQ
well his cv is going to look good

* experience with rape
* sown a few oats
* can handle difficult cows
* good at blowing his own trumpet

etc etc
even better, how will they know where to poo on him.

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