So it would appear that anyone these days can be published, all it takes is a click of a button even if you are crap! As a teenager I enjoyed writing short stories particularly about antics on the farm based on a man I knew. I will never say I was good at it but its all about the enjoyment!
Apparently i am a “riot”, sure they are just waxing lyrical but one thing is for sure a dull day in my life is a blessing. My days are made up of Farm duties, running Roan’s Dairy with family, being a mum, i sit on a couple of committees, paperwork for another business, wifey duties, Oh and clean the house, the latter seem to get a bit neglected. There are more things i do day to day but frankly i am depressing my self listing them. There are more busy people on earth but i am at max capacity and really need a holiday.
I work with family everyday and that would lead to a post that could write it’s self, however as anyone who does work with family will know it gives an interesting un conventional twist on dynamics, yet it works for better or worse. We bring our strengths to the table and get on with what needs to be done.
Don’t call or refer to me as a Farmers Wife, it winds me up! You don’t say your an accountants wife, Civil Servant wife or a Checkout operator wife NO you do not, I married a farmer end of!
Whether you are sitting back with a cuppa, or reading on the go with your phone Thank you x
By the way that’s me & hubby, my favourite person in the world AKA Stuart.
day, all still good then it starts to happen for me I am usually about 100 yards away from the house and slowly but surely one sock starts to creep down the leg, I think it’s fine pull it up and on i go but it starts again and before i know it, it is half way down my foot and if I am having an especially fab morning in bundles at my toes where it can not go any further. By this time it is too late to change it I have to carry on till tea break or lunch, that’s not bad i hear you think but have you ever had a naked foot in a welly ugh yuck totally nasty and all I had to do was turn back when i got the first signs and change it but No. I am not alone with this affliction, if you have never had this what is your secret?
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I love to read (can’t quite get the audio book thing) and i love information, the more information you have the more empowered you are, that is what i was always taught though i wish i actually put that into practice when i was in school! At the New Year i was ill and didn’t read anything for nearly a month nor looked at my social media and then that’s when it happened i got a back log! When a back log happens your doomed, you can’t catch up i tried it’s was overwhelming!
Information now is so easily available have a thought just google it, google does not judge, google never says why do you need to know that or you should know that, there are no silly questions and i am full of them.
On a weekly basis the Alan the Postie delivers us 
How is anyone meant to keep up with all this, you can’t its just impossible that’s why the coffee table in the living room is being supported by pile of magazines and the office has multiple leaning towers of magazines. How to wind up hubby, threaten to have a bonfire he has a melt down.
On top of all this there is Social media / Internet. You can be updated on whats happening every second, minute, hour & day, it’s at your finger tips. You scroll through your news feed and see something of interest, then you click on a link which gives you more info, another business / person to keep an eye on AKA follow! Have a quick look over breakfast, pop back in at lunch time, then in the evening and you are up to date with the world except the reality is most people are on in between as well and a quick look turns into 5 mins or 15mins, you loose your precious time in Social media. For the sake of my phone i turned the notifications off as i cant afford to buy a new one, as i lob it across the room.
then asked on twitter what wellies do people wear, why & what type of farm. Wow what a response, it seems a topical subject. If you wish to see everyone’s response in full please see my 
not any other!
a good tread so feet are off the ground and not bad on ice.
(Oh this sounds so stupid) if I was on a family walk or visiting another farm or just to look good but the reality is my legs are too fat to look good, too close to the ground which means my feet feel vulnerable & cold Oh and slightest bit if ice and game over, taking them off haha that is a sight for sore eyes, hubby won’t help me anymore, our youngest just looks at me in despair shakes head & walks off so it falls to the eldest to help me de suction the wellies of me. In short they don’t see the light if day very often. However I found 1 good point, you can walk through mud without them being left behind or having to curl your toes to hold them on.
They look good and with a pair of white jeans they would be fab, but just not on me, apart from the obvious of why I don’t wear white jeans I would end up wearing my hot pink Wednesday knickers and everyone would see I don’t know which day of the week it is!! Anyway I have digressed, they are heavy, one leg is much tighter than the other especially round ankle and just not made for day to day drudgery of mud and shit also crap on ice.
a lot of home truths & hard decisions being part of this programme but it was worth every minute.
It is all my fault!!
Tales of A Dairy Maid 