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.

or

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

 or

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.

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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   [:'(]