The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Backinwellies on April 07, 2013, 09:30:59 pm
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Following on from the country rags thread ..... reminded me of grabbing a coat to go shopping in when I was working as an agricultural lecturer ........ at checkout looking for that lost £ out of my pocket comes a couple of orange rings ... interesting conversation ensues!
What do you find in your pockets?
Linda
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Years ago I had a Barbour jacket with all those pockets, I worked in an upper School and from one pocket pulled out an old pork pie.........more recently I went to halfords with a note in one pocket from my husband with the part he needed went to pull it out and out came my husbands skimpy, dirty pants, they were rescued from the dogs before I left... :innocent: ,red faced I wiped my nose with them to disguise them as a hanky.....think it worked :fc:
dog treats are more normal contents for my pockets
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Baler twine, poop bags (empty!) and hog rings. :)
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Crumbs from sheep feed, hay fallout, OH's tissues :P as he's pinched my jacket cause he can't find his own, holes ::)
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Hay and biscuit crumbs in my old dog walking/goating coat. In my best coat, I keep puttling out what I think are tissues and find they're poo bags. There's also a mini torch. In every pocket I have there are tissues in various stages of decomposition.
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(Empty) dog poo bags, the odd dog treat
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empty bags that i have used to take titbits down to the goats, Baling twine, loads of bits of hay , and a few rings from doing the billy kids
I find the worst is when you are at a till in the shop and you pull your loose change out of your pocket and you have a load of bits of hay mixed in with your change and start trying to pick the money out without dropping the hay :innocent:
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Baler twine and hay, never money, produced a pair of scissors from my pocket this morning OH commented he didn't recognise them so explained I had picked them up on a dog walk earlier in the week, finders keepers :innocent:
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Unused, wrinkly dog poobags after being through the washer :innocent: tissues, bits of paper the dog fetches for a treat. Dried cheese squares ( small for dog treats after fetching the bits of papar ::) ) sweety wrappers the boys insist on putting in my pockets rather than their own. Fir cones young boy finds on walks.
When helping on the farm, balers twine, penknife and chocolate wrappers as well as straw and hay. Oh and feed grains. Sorry, honestly not a thief, they just jump in on their own :eyelashes:
Tried to smuggle a lamb home in a pocket but he wouldn't quite fit ;D
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nails, screws, fencing staples.....never any money though :(
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Baler twine and penknives. Don't know how many penknives we've got but I keep buying them because I can never find one....... And then it's in a jacket pocket......an egg,
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Ah, just remembered I picked up a dog egg in a bag two days ago... Think that's still in a pocket somewhere :(
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Ahhh Spandit. I'd find that coat before the poo finds you :P
Forgot, I had an egg in a coat pocket once for a few days. Didn't break ;D Amazing with our loopy leaping dogs.
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One of the cats! We have a tiny cat who has never grown to 'full' size as was the runt of a rescued litter. When she was a kitten she used to nestle in the 'kangaroo pouch' pocket of my fleece. If I wear this fleece (which isn't that often now as it is wearing thin) she's there trying to claw up my leg asking for a free snuggle in the pocket. Not very helpful when I'm trying to muck out etc but cute nonetheless.
In my usual jacket I have yard keys, baling twine, tatty but favourite gloves, hay fallout, horse treats, dog treats, remnants of or full rich tea biscuits (i.e. sheep and human treats!) past its usefulness greying crumpled tissue, retracted (always!) stanley knife, a screw and a clip off horse rug. No wonder I'm moving slower! Note to self - empty pockets to speed up a bit :idea: .
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Usually mostly hay dust, the odd bit of rubbish I have found in a field between trips with a binbag, a dirty battered extra strong mint or two, couple of tissues, often the rock hard balls of them after they've been in the washer, and once or twice a broken egg I've forgotten long enough to bash against something ::)
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Hehe funny thread.
In my farm coat, i currently have, baler twine, fencing staples, part of a split pin out of the quad trailer (I have lost the pin in the field somewhere >:( ), a pen, bits of sweet wrappers that I sometimes find on the floor from my messy children, a hose connector and work gloves.
Pockets full of rubbish ;D
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In my coat pockets you will find a folding silky pruning saw, a left handed curved spoon knife, gloves (2 pares),
Hat,ash tray, bits of fencing wire, staples and stones (they really are there deliberately ::) ;D ).
In my trousers pockets you will find a knife, hair band, tobacco, rizla, zippo,more bits of fencing wire,staples and stones ( I like stones)
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Holes ! and trails of tissues over the garden or stuck in the tops of my boots if they do not drop out of my trouser legs. Must tell the OH to repair them :-J
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ha - iv just paid for a feed delivery and out with the money came a pair of scissors, wee stones, threads of landscaping membrane and the little pieces of glass and i always find but no idea where they come from. and then theres the little pieces of mattress filling that the dogs shredded....
ha
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Ahhh Spandit. I'd find that coat before the poo finds you :P
Forgot, I had an egg in a coat pocket once for a few days. Didn't break ;D Amazing with our loopy leaping dogs.
Nearly 12 hours later and I still haven't checked...
...just looked and I was right, there was one in a bag! Disposed of now... :D
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Baler twine, scissors, knives sometimes (!)
eggs, shredded paper - from around the eggs, nesting boxes
hay,
various tools - secateurs, screwdrivers etc
screws, nails
a paintbrush today,
depending on what jobs we've been doing & when I last washed the sh*t off my coat!!!
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I,ve got pockets like a clowns pooch, every think in them,
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Dog poop bags, castration rings, pen and pad ::) and bits of hay.
And the odd chocolate wrapper.
And sometimes a golf ball (we live not THAT close to a golf course but I find them in the field).
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I dread ever getting searched :-[ :-[
At the moment I have;
Knife
Hypodermics (new ones)
castrating rings
Dagging shears
Lighter
baler twine
Cable ties
Sheep poo
a random key I found
gloves
lipsalve
carrier bag
::)
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You must have big pockets, colliewoman. Are you sure you haven't just looked in your handbag too ;D
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Baler twine, pen knife, ear tags, bits of hay, drawing pins (from pinning signs up at shows), camera memory cards (I'm a photographer), sweet wrappers, random bits of paper normally shopping lists.
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You must have big pockets, colliewoman. Are you sure you haven't just looked in your handbag too ;D
No handbag hence very big pockets. I have a poachers pocket in my jacket that really would hold a pheasant :thumbsup:
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You must have big pockets, colliewoman. Are you sure you haven't just looked in your handbag too ;D
have visions of the ladies (and any men who feel the urge) of TAS wandering around their holdings with hand bags....
in my head they are old granny style hand bags hooked on the crook of the elbow...
i clearly need some sleep but at the moment its quite a funny image...
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I much prefer big pockets to handbags...but going out to work we women needs them, around the house I love an apron with a big pocket, I carry the phone, keys, glasses, things I find that need re homing then...I collect the eggs.......no accidents for a while due to messing up 2 phones previously with broken eggs..
Oh of corse we all have decomposing tissues....I bought some cotton hankies, hey are so handy.....But...I have now lost them....
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My pockets bulge HUGELY with snotty hankies, its blooming cold out there :cold: sniff.
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My pockets bulge HUGELY with snotty hankies, its blooming cold out there :cold: sniff.
As a rhinitis sufferer, all my pockets in all my clothes are full of tissues
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I always have tissues too plus the odd plastic bag that I use to take bread out to the chickens & geese. So pockets usually have breadcrumbs at the bottom mixed up with the tissues.
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Tissues! What's wrong with your sleeves
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Sleeves are usually covered in hay/straw/muck
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Tissues! What's wrong with your sleeves
You obviously don't suffer from it in the same way as me... they'd be saturated in minutes!
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My sleeves are for dusting :innocent: ,
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what is dusting? :innocent:
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what is dusting? :innocent:
Something to do with crop spraying and bi-planes
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It can sometimes be quite dangerous to put my hands in my pockets, i did the other day and stabbed my fingers on some staples!!
There are usually, pony treats, polos , bits of hay/straw, baccy tin, sweet wrappers, baler, dog ends, and with the weather we are having all usually soggy!! :(
Gord help any would be pick-pockets!! ;)
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:roflanim: I sometimes mistake a dog treat for a sweet...not bad though :-J
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what is dusting? :innocent:
its removing the sticky fingers off the laptop. sleeves are essential for this :roflanim:
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what is dusting? :innocent:
its removing the sticky fingers off the laptop. sleeves are essential for this :roflanim:
I second this essential sleeve use :roflanim:
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I always put my jumper over my hands hen hang onto the bannister when walking downstairs, gives the ril a wonderful sheen, also a flip around the bathroom sink and the mantelpiece....I should be stuck if I did it have long sleeved jumpers
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I have a Gerber knife, tissues, a Swiss Army knife, tissues, secateurs, tissues, old postcard with lambing records from last year, tissues, a pencil, tissues, latex gloves and a tube of KY - for lambing emergencies (I do hope I don't accidentally pull those out in a shop), tissues (ok you get the picture about the tissues), various packets of seeds, odd coins, plant labels, Didgies for sheep treats mostly in a plastic bag but lots of crumbs too, lip salve, keys, phone, various bits of binder twine and garden twine, hay of course, and....tada....I've just found the spare car keys which have been 'lost' for weeks :sunshine:
The trouble is I have several jackets which I wear depending on the weather, from fleecey things to waterproof things, and whichever jacket I'm wearing is never the one with just what I need in it ::)
I recognise various things mentioned such as stones (hopefully bits of agate), which I pick up when I'm gardening -I have shells too if we've been near the sea; eggs, occasionally broken; poop bags; hair bands - none of those today though. I have no horsey or smoking things - just as well as there's no room ::)
Oh and I often cram in a small bottle of water.........no wonder I get puffed out carting that lot around.
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Ah yes stones! I sometimes have a collection of flints that the moles have un-earthed (just in case they turn out to be arrow heads ( Budding time team person here! :D ) And sea shells after a walk on the beach!
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Watch the secateurs Fleece, I did that with my last 'sheep coat' - it pocked a hole in the corner of the pocket and then the snotty tissues leaked out through the hole completing my 'bag lady' look ::) then with best intentions of sewing it, I actually did lose the car keys through the hole.
Eventually one of the ponies smelt a bread bag in there one day and ripped the whole pocket off like some slapstick trick.
Oh, and you don't want to impale yourself on jaggy pockets now, nasty ;D
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:roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
It's ok my secateurs have a blunt end, but my OH does tend to carry foot shears in his pockets, which is ok until he rugby tackles the sheep he wants to catch.........
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I was just thinking what fun the writers of CSI or similar would have with the contents of our pockets. They could identify first of all what things actually were - little red rubber rings ??? - then from there what the occupation of the victim was, then just which animals he/she keeps, and what they grow, then find the right smallholding to fit the bill, then identify the DB. It sounds as if most of us have enough in our pockets to make an ID :roflanim:
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Everything except money :innocent:
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Gabi's hands usually
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Glad to know it's not just me carries the odd egg in my pocket and forgets it's there... ::)
Most of my jackets now have pockets so ripped they'll hold nothing reliably, so I can only carry what'll fit in my jeans pockets. Orange rings, of course (did you know that handspinners :knit: carry these now? they fit most flyer shafts as bobbin spacers - can't think who would have been spreading that trick around :innocent:), baler string of course, never without a pocket knife, ditto large cotton hanky, usually got the mobile phone. Hay and straw bits yes, though more in trouser turnups and wellies. Otherwise I mostly only have hazardous items picked up to avoid ingestion by curious ruminants. ::) Including torn-out eartags. Yes, all guaranteed to never fall out... ::)
Tizz - in your dreams ::)
Mammyshaz - where's that waggling finger emotiwotsit?!
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Found a wallet with £600 in it two diamond rings in matching boxes and a porsche key set .
Thought " Oh my god I've got someone elses jacket " went back inside the venue and handed in the jacket and was escorted along the racks to find mine as I'd handed in the ticket .
Then I woke up with our dog licking my face ;)