In 1982 the Griffiths left the security of suburbia to grow garlic In West Wales. This is a funny and sometimes touching, warts-and-all account of their first three years: of how they learned lambing and marketing and ploughing and hay-making: and of the dung-sodden joys of milking and the surreal terrors of bee-keeping. Be amused. Be very amused. SCENES FROM A SMALLHOLDING is by turns challenging, touching, and Informative; but above all, it Is very funny.