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goosepimple

  • Joined May 2010
  • nr Lauder, Scottish Borders
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #15 on: April 22, 2011, 09:11:44 am »
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
All brilliant and I love this one above too - people keep telling me sarcastically  I shouldn't have bothered getting dressed up to see them - I just say its that 'I'm so rich I don't have to worry about holy t shirts look' - well, it 'sa look....! :D
registered soay, castlemilk moorit  and north ronaldsay sheep, pygmy goats, steinbacher geese, muscovy ducks, various hens, lots of visiting mallards, a naughty border collie, a puss and a couple of guinea pigs

Hilarysmum

  • Joined Oct 2007
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #16 on: April 22, 2011, 10:15:09 am »
Same for us except for lamb read piglet.  Oh and the dust can get to more than 4 inches thick.

plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Worcestershire
    • Its Baaath Time
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Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #17 on: April 22, 2011, 10:37:06 am »
am cooking a big family roast today with people coming who are not animal-minded. currently shoving sacks of lamlac out of site, mopping a floor that's not seen water for weeks and trying to spray febreze to hide any farm smells!! weird how we become a bit immune to it really? lol
Smallholding in Worcestershire, making goats milk soap for www.itsbaaathtime.com and mum to 4 girls,  goats, sheep, chickens, dog, cat and garden snails...

Brucklay

  • Joined Apr 2010
  • Perthshire
    • Brucklay Pygmy Goats
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Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #18 on: April 22, 2011, 10:43:26 am »
Quote
you open a bale and discover an old mobile phone

no mobile in ours - but several half tennis balls the dogs had lost early in the year
Pygmy Goats, Shetland Sheep, Zip & Indie the Border Collies, BeeBee the cat and a wreak of a building to renovate!!

morri2

  • Joined Jun 2008
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #19 on: April 22, 2011, 12:16:19 pm »
 Yep!  Just about sums it up.  At the moment I constantly smell of sheep wee 'cos I keep picking up the lambs and they suck my ears, nose, chin etc... if they have just had a feed off their mums then their snouts stink of wee.  Just to top that off, I'll feed one of the bottle fed ones and it will invariably pooh all down my t-shirt and jeans.   :D

Sandy

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Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #20 on: April 22, 2011, 07:04:17 pm »
No farmer, only chickens but I often go to the supermarket with muddy wellies and leaves and straw in my hair!!!!!! Love it!!!!! I do spray a bit of Impuse (horrid stuff) to camaflage the smell of dog treats and stale pond water and poo!!

Hilarysmum

  • Joined Oct 2007
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #21 on: April 23, 2011, 09:08:58 am »
Another thought, possibly an advantage, you can always find your (filthy) car in the biggest most crowded supermarket car park because it stands out like a sore thumb

OhLaLa

  • Joined Sep 2010
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #22 on: April 23, 2011, 10:26:07 am »
Oh dear - this thread is making farmers/smallholders sound more like 'dirty, smelly, can't be bothered to clean up' types. Many of us are not, honest.

 :farmer:  ;D

Daisys Mum

  • Joined May 2009
  • Scottish Borders
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #23 on: April 23, 2011, 10:48:58 am »
Oh dear - this thread is making farmers/smallholders sound more like 'dirty, smelly, can't be bothered to clean up' types. Many of us are not, honest.

 :farmer:  ;D

I think that it's more can't find the time rather than can't be bothered.  ::) that's my excuse and I am sticking to it  ;D
Anne

Sandy

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Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #24 on: April 23, 2011, 12:08:55 pm »
Well, yesterday I DID make an effort, dress, tights, earings and necklace but still ended up with dog hair and leaves all over me, a chip stuck in my cleveage that Rhum found when I got back from that posh resturant McDonalds,  and then left  a trail of mud into our lounge as I did not take off my shoes that I had just been out to the chickens in"""" Oh well, carn't say I did not try ::)

OhLaLa

  • Joined Sep 2010
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #25 on: April 23, 2011, 01:29:02 pm »
.......Well, yesterday I DID make an effort, dress, tights, earings and necklace but still ended up with dog hair and leaves all over me, a chip stuck in my cleveage that Rhum found when I got back from that posh resturant McDonalds.....

Coo - you dress up for McD's!!!!?  :o

I hope that Rhum isn't your neighbour / bank manager / doctor / dentist......   :D  :D

bazzais

  • Joined Jan 2010
    • Allt Y Coed Farm and Campsite
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #26 on: April 23, 2011, 02:20:01 pm »
Its quite lucky that in rural areas it seems to be pretty much accepted that you may stink a little and you may only have one pair of footwear - ie boots.

I can imagine if I went to london and went shopping in harrods I'd get a few looks.

I was once was waiting outside Swansea train station for my driving lesson and an old woman came and gave me 20p for a cup of tea. Cheeky old mare - but obviously a nice gesture had I actually needed a cuppa :)

Baz

Sandy

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Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #27 on: April 23, 2011, 02:22:19 pm »
 :oRhums our Chocolate lab, McDOnalds was my once in a while treat as I dare NOT eat there, weight issues that are creeping up again!!!!! Today, I have reverted back to my strechy joggers and hoody, wellies are off now and too big crocks on, style guru me!!

Fowgill Farm

  • Joined Feb 2009
Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #28 on: April 24, 2011, 10:07:54 am »
OMG i'm a farmer.
OH despairs because i go to the local SPAR shop in my wellies and piggy work clothes, he drives with the window down and says i smell of boar pig!! :D
Didn't find my mobile in a bale of straw though, fell out of my pocket whilst cuddling Clover pig and by time i realised and went back to find it she had trashed it!!
We've also had pigs in the kithcen too, left the back door open and came round corner to find two of my gilrs hoovering up the contents of the kitchen bin  ;D
Off to move some straw, doesn't it just get everywhere!!!!!!!!!!
Mandy  :pig: ;D

princesspiggy

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Re: You know you're a farmer when ...
« Reply #29 on: April 24, 2011, 10:11:14 am »
thats all soooo true...but i love it all   ::) :P

 

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