You know you are lambing /calving when?

[abitdaft]

Thought I would start this rather continue to hijack the " feck up " thread ( that just took me 3 or 4 minutes to recall the title!)

You are eating breakfast when you should be eating dinner and are eating dinner when you should be in your bed.

Your child comes home from school and walks in the door and tells you that they went to science class and had an experiment involving iodine and " it smelled like home ".

When milk is the last thing you think about before sleep and the first thing you think about as you wake up.

When sticky toffee pud is acceptable even though you are stuffed to the brim with the dinner you ate at half past ten ( 15 mins ago ) with double cream

 

[Muddyroads]

When someone on the phone wishes you a “nice weekend” and you just feel like growling at them, then realise you didn’t even know it’s a Friday.

 

[sodbuster]

When even shagging is too much effort

 

[abitdaft]

When even shagging is too much effort

Trying to be demure here but

 

[abitdaft]

Sad but true-
When the effort of reorganising the freezer make you want to greet your eyes out.

 

[Gulli]

When you go for a haircut and realise there's blood up your arm...

 

[Longlowdog]

Your friends visit and bring a flask of coffee for themselves because they know you're not going into the house till that ewe is in a pen with lambs full of colostrum.
When your real friends arrive unannounced, know where you hide the front door key, let the dogs out for a pee, make YOU a flask of coffee and bring it to the shed with cakes they brought.
When your ciggy tastes a bit like roast amniotic fluid but so what.
When the 1/4 scale, bow legged, miniature lamb occupies you from 3 till 6 am but you can't give up on it because... well, just because.

 

[poorsheepfarmer]

When your Sat having coffee and biscuits at 3.09 before a final walk round, up at 6

 

[Tim W]

----when you get up & go to bed the same time as usual
The only difference with the rest of the year is i may have a couple of lambs to feed occasionally & i'm leisurely checking the ewes every day so get to sit and observe them more than i would at other times

 

[unlacedgecko]

When even shagging is too much effort

I have never been that tired.

 

[M-J-G]

----when you get up & go to bed the same time as usual
The only difference with the rest of the year is i may have a couple of lambs to feed occasionally & i'm leisurely checking the ewes every day so get to sit and observe them more than i would at other times

Lambs to feed, surely not!

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

When you're shirt sleeve is permanently damp and smelly

 

[Macsky]

When you’re turning the key on the quad trying to start it instead of pressing the button

 

[Longlowdog]

When you need to add at least a tenner to the swear jar after cursing all the way to the tool shed to get a pipe fitting for the *******ing stuck tap at 2am (that you saw yesterday and haven't slept more than 40 minutes since) only to realise when you've trudged back with a bucket full of stuff to fix it that you were trying to force it more open than its already fully open state. So much for 50 years of muscle memory.

 

[primmiemoo]

When the Senior Collie puts on a bit too much weight, because everybody is making sure he gets fed every time they leave the house

 

[TexelBen]

When you wonder why your front door won't lock when using the fob for the pick up

 

[Al R]

When you need to add at least a tenner to the swear jar after cursing all the way to the tool shed to get a pipe fitting for the *******ing stuck tap at 2am (that you saw yesterday and haven't slept more than 40 minutes since) only to realise when you've trudged back with a bucket full of stuff to fix it that you were trying to force it more open than its already fully open state. So much for 50 years of muscle memory.

Hell you need less sheep! Or a lot more!!!!

 

[Estate fencing.]

When you get 20 mis calls and messages a day about sheep in “distress”.

 

[Longlowdog]

It's only a fraction of the year. My Mrs wouldn't let me back in the house if she thought there was anything cold or hungry. I don't know if I could leave the shed if there was anything not right anyway. I know that my attitude wouldn't work with a couple of thousand ewes but when you only have a wee puckle it becomes all consuming to make every life count either at the pedigree sales or at least to send it to the butcher's shelf.

 

[Macsky]

When going somewhere on the bike without the trailer clattering behind you feels like a treat