Ernest Hemingway once said his best work was a story he wrote in just six words: 'For sale: baby shoes, never worn.' Here's a challenge for you - can you sum up your farming life in just six words.
Here's mine to start things off:
Physically in office, mentally in field.
And should you require more inspiration:
Grow it, sell it, eat it.
Youthful optimism, government stupidity, looming bankruptcy.
or
Cheap food, expensive oil, food rationing.
Beef cattle, no money, renewable energy.
Brilliant! Love the first one.
I've just thought one up on behalf of Matty (but don't let it stop you, matty )
Young man, writes blog, new friends
Some adaptations of the Hemingway:
"Farm for sale: not much growing."
"Swamp for sale: too much rain."
"For sale: sheep, dirty fleece, hungry."
Too much rain, too little sun
If it can escape, it will...
If I was to be positive ,then:
"The future's green,
the future's farming"
or more realistically:
"We had never kept sheep before......."
My farming life could be summarised by a series of collective nouns:
i.e a Catastrophe of Cluns
a Turning-over of Texels
a Scouring of Suffolks
a Migration of Mules
a Butting of Blackface
But to keep to the 6 word challenge:
"The ewe has fallen in WHAT?...........
No Farm, No Friends, Billy No-mates.
Alright strictly seven but it was my first lightbulb.
Do you need a group hug?
the aged clun: My farming life could be summarised by a series of collective nouns: i.e a Catastrophe of Cluns a Turning-over of Texels a Scouring of Suffolks a Migration of Mules a Butting of Blackface But to keep to the 6 word challenge: "The ewe has fallen in WHAT?...........
Very good 'aged clun',
the Butting of Blackafce is especially ture!
Isabel Davies: Do you need a group hug?
I'll be alright in a minute..............Thanks [:'(]
fed up: its always greener over the hedge
its always greener over the hedge
that's because it's so badly drained!
"bound to be better next year"
connached: "bound to be better next year"
Masterful
'restless farmers feed global hunger' - done it in five!
Farming
Attributes
Reaps
Many
Everlasting
Rewards
(6 words, spells farming down the side!)
We just needed one more rain.
Her calf was good last year.
We need one more sunny day.
Alot of cows have three quarters( I cleaned that one up a bit).
It was working fine last year.
I don't think we'll get stuck.
I swore he was a steer.
Try this one:
WHY AM I STILL DOING THIS?
The forecast is dry for tomorrow
Things that farm student's only have to say,to make the blood run cold.
Err, I am a bit stuck.
It just went bang and stopped.
The gateway was a bit narrow.
It was deeper than I thought.
I found this hanging off it.
burgundy beef: Err, I am a bit stuck. It just went bang and stopped. The gateway was a bit narrow. It was deeper than I thought. I found this hanging off it.
You forgot the most important...
"But it was not my fault"