Author Topic: You know you're a farmer when ...  (Read 21842 times)

loosey

  • Joined May 2010
  • Cornwall
You know you're a farmer when ...
« on: April 21, 2011, 02:30:26 pm »
getting up at 7am is a lie-in

you've got the RPA's number on speed dail in your phone

when someone says they live on an estate you think of fields and woods rather than a housing development

you tut at people in tesco buying danish bacon and french bread

you don't sit down to a single hot meal in august

you fall asleep with-in 3 minutes of sitting down in front of the t.v

your sun tan ends just above the elbow in the summer

you get more letters from DEFRA than you do from friends and family

you only take the kids to the seaside when it rains

your hair turns grey at 31

you can't drive along a road anywhere in britain without studying everyone else's crop's and livestock

your 4x4 acctually goes off road

you get frustrated by people calling straw "hay"

You get frustrated by people calling hay "straw"

your ideal holiday is to visit other peoples farms

your hands look like they are made with the same material as your boots

your bag on your hoover is full of grain from july to september

the faint (but agreeable) smell of pooh never leaves you

your most valued possession is your pen knife

track and field has nothing to do with athletics

a lamb follows the children into the kitchen and no one thinks its unusal

you confidently walk around the supermarket in wellies

your lawn includes hundreds of livestock hoof prints

you open a bale and discover an old mobile phone
 ;D ;D ;D

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2011, 02:54:31 pm »
 ;D ;D ;D Great - I suddenly feel like I belong  :farmer: :D :D
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

 Love your soil - it's the lifeblood of your land.

Eastling

  • Joined Oct 2010
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2011, 05:59:10 pm »
lol me too just alittle
Labradors leave foot prints on your heart as well as your clothes

OhLaLa

  • Joined Sep 2010
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2011, 06:16:53 pm »
SIT down in front of a tv?

pikilily

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • Do what you enjoy; And enjoy what you do!!
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2011, 06:30:50 pm »
Thats me down to a T  ;D ;D ;D but I also add in a few horsey ones about a shopping trip to the tack shop etc
i am also wondering if i really need to get changed to go to work, surely no-one would mind if i turn up at the hospital in jodphurs !!
Emma T
If you don't have a dream; how you gonna have a dream come true?

Sudanpan

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • West Cornwall
    • Movement is Life
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2011, 06:49:27 pm »
Or trips out include making a note of which nearby farmers have what machinery just in case you might need to borrow it  ;D

Sylvia

  • Joined Aug 2009
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2011, 08:21:08 pm »
And don't you get a few looks in the supermarket! Could be the smell of pooh ;)

Beewyched

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • South Wales
    • tunkeyherd.co.uk
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2011, 08:49:00 pm »
Just discovered I must be a farmer  ;) ;D ;D ;D
Tunkey Herd - registered Kune Kune & rare breed poultry - www.tunkeyherdkunekune.com

Elissian

  • Joined Oct 2009
  • Wiltshire
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2011, 09:08:47 pm »
I get my hessian bags out at the till and deposit straw all over the conveyer belt. Not terribly hygenic!

Beewyched

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • South Wales
    • tunkeyherd.co.uk
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2011, 09:14:17 pm »
It's like when you offer somebody a lift & they take one look at the straw/hay/dog hair on the seats & they recoil in (not very well hidden) horror & (usually) politely decline - even better now I got a Landy - they automatically refuse - thing is it's actually cleaner than the car used to be  ;D ;D ;D
Tunkey Herd - registered Kune Kune & rare breed poultry - www.tunkeyherdkunekune.com

little blue

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Derbyshire
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2011, 09:29:12 pm »
We washed the car for the first time in years.... there are still strands of hay tangled up round the windscreen wipers!

Another 2 years for my grey hair then, but apart from that, Spot on!
Little Blue

bazzais

  • Joined Jan 2010
    • Allt Y Coed Farm and Campsite
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2011, 11:11:54 pm »
Thats cheered my day right up that has, I sometimes wonder much the same things.....

I have always been a bit of a 'scum' and love the the stinks of farming, I always wonder if I'll ever get kicked out of tesco for the s**t on my jeans. 

The one thing is- I dont have kids - though I often wonder if thats because I am a stinking mother fucker or if the excuse works both ways.!?

Every farming house I have visited is in exactly the same state as mine, my car is a mess, the yard the same - but its my mess and its all work in action.  I challenge anyone to cope any better!!

If your farm is clean - your not farming.

Baz

Beewyched

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • South Wales
    • tunkeyherd.co.uk
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2011, 11:18:00 pm »
Baz  :wave:

HOW can you say you're a farmer & then go to T***o  :o

or is ot just to see if they'll kick you out  ;) ;D
Tunkey Herd - registered Kune Kune & rare breed poultry - www.tunkeyherdkunekune.com

Skirza

  • Joined Mar 2011
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #13 on: April 22, 2011, 08:00:20 am »
Hoover....July-September? My best friend picks up the broom on her way into my kitchen and sweeps the floor (that's why she's my best friend :D)

plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Worcestershire
    • Its Baaath Time
    • Facebook
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #14 on: April 22, 2011, 08:27:40 am »
that's brilliant!! and makes me feel so much better about the little boy lamb that wanders round our kitchen waiting for his bottle  ;D
Smallholding in Worcestershire, making goats milk soap for www.itsbaaathtime.com and mum to 4 girls,  goats, sheep, chickens, dog, cat and garden snails...

 

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