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Burns lover Jo ploughs a Lumley furrow.


ACTRESS Joanna Lumley Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE (born 1 May 1946) is an English actress and former model who is best known for her roles in The New Avengers, Absolutely Fabulous, Sapphire and Steel and Sensitive Skin.  followed in the footsteps of Robert Burns yesterday as the learned to plough.

The Absolutely Fabulous star took part in the horse ploughing match at Ellisland Farm near Dumfries.

The poet floughed the same field himself after he took up the farm lease in 1788, aged 29.

Lumley, 63, opened the event and watched as ploughmen and teams of Clydesdale horses competed.

She also ploughed a furrow furrow /fur·row/ (fur´o) a groove or sulcus.

atrioventricular furrow  the transverse groove marking off the atria of the heart from the ventricles.
 with guidance from farmer Neil MacPhail.

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Publication:Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date:Sep 21, 2009
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