A young music graduate is working as a human scarecrow on an English farm to fund a dream holiday to New Zealand.
Jamie Fox, 22, is paid NZ$500 a week to be a real-life Worzel Gummidge to protect a farmer's crops from scavenging partridge birds, the Daily Mail reports.
Mr Fox spends his days strumming his ukulele, playing the accordion, and reading books.
He admits it's not the dream job after studying music and English at Bangor University, but is happy to be working eight-hour days towards his trip to New Zealand next year.
"I get to sit and read for a lot of the time, but whenever the partridges appear I have to get up and scare them off," he told the UK paper.
"I ring a cowbell and I've even played the accordion, but the ukulele doesn't seem to have any effect on them.
"It's not a bad job - and a couple of chums in busier more generously-paid jobs are slightly envious."
