Alison Burrell's passion for farm life leads to sheep dog trialling

By Conor Hickey
Updated May 23 2016 - 3:44pm, first published 3:04pm
HARD WORKERS: Alison Burrell with her dogs Penny, Sam, Curly and Pippa, which will herd sheep during the next four days. Picture: Geoff Jones
HARD WORKERS: Alison Burrell with her dogs Penny, Sam, Curly and Pippa, which will herd sheep during the next four days. Picture: Geoff Jones

MOST of her friends wanted to go on holidays to the beach when Alison Burrell was growing up, yet it was farms that always captured her imagination.