A townie who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, he did well enough in school to attend college on a scholarship where he is a champion rower.
The other choice was to be a townie and work at a machine shop or restaurant in my hometown.
Interference by bureaucracy and by the townie and the unrealistic antipathy to softwood is inviting long term stagnation of the industry and doing far more harm than good.
Too often the view of the countryside is that portrayed by the townie—that the countryside should be preserved in aspic and that it is not a living and working environment.
I hope that the judgment of the agriculture community will be the same for him as it will be for me—not at all bad for a townie.
They may not be acceptable to a townie.
There is a continuum between being a countryman and being a townie.
I think that he is a county figure rather than a townie like me.
