
Sally Urwin
@PintSizedFarmer
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I’m Sally Urwin - a very short farmer's wife from Northumberland. Author of A Farmer's Diary and What the Flock - available from all good bookshops!
Matfen, Northumberland
Joined March 2015
I have huge respect for Diana - she handled this interview with class - love her books and her approach to the Phenomenon
It's hard to describe this interview. Let's just say, I felt like I took one for the team, and a lot was "unsaid." I think some of you will read between the lines. NY Times with Ross Douthat. https://t.co/hzDAeywwTd
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This is satire right? Right?! What an enormous weapon grade muppet. Congratulating yourself for wrecking people's lives. Well done James Mee for Tone Deaf post of the year
This does seem extraordinary. An analysis that has been widely criticised by economists can win you “expert of the year”. Resulting in a policy that has already caused some business owners to take their own lives and countless months of worry for others. Well done James.
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I like digging in the old rubbish dump next to the farm house as a hobby and today as well as bottles, I found someone's mother in law
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Pea the Herdwick lamb is determined to join us for breakfast. I'm forever shouting GO AND BE A SHEEP. YOU'LL ENJOY IT from the kitchen window. Like I'm sending him on a terrible school trip or something.
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My life is so weird. Yesterday I was mucking out a shed with 1000 piglets and today I'm on an early train down to London to do a brand brainstorming session for a new product. I'm sitting in the train carriage and I swear I'm still getting a whiff of pig poo.
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I've done all my farm work so I came to the stream to cool off. Whilst I'm waist deep in the water, loads of walkers wandered past and there I am, in my bra, weird hat on, slapping flies and talking to myself. NOT ONE PERSON SAID ANYTHING. They're staying at the nextdoor B&B 😬
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First day managing a GIGANTIC farm shed with huge sofa sized pigs. My knees hurt as I fell off the loader and missed the step. Also I kind of accidentally bent the bale spikes. And this is where my husband is.I know Steve deserves it but I'm kinda hoping his Speedos are too tight
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Steve has gone on his 1st holiday since forever. He's saved up & taken kids on all inclusive abroad. Meanwhile I'm at home solo-running a pig shed with sofa-sized pigs and huge machines where I can't reach the pedals. One of us is living the dream. The other is covered in it.
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Everything stops for Pea's daily scritches. Watch as she turns into a Pea Llama 😁
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And weirdly he'll eat anything, apart from apples. I thought all horses like apples. Maybe he's scared of them.
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This is Friar, a not very good race horse who lives in our front field with his sheepy best friend Thrusty Clappernuts. Friar is retired and is a happy, if rather dim, chap. He's scared of plastic bags, crisps packets, suspicious looking bushes and the noise of Thrusty farting.
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This woolly pensioner is Button, an elderly Ouessant. Ouessants are the world's smallest sheep and Button is the size and shape of a small fat terrier. She's very deaf, has no teeth and snoozes upside down in the plastic play house on our front lawn. Classic 10/10 grandma energy
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I am potato girl. Held together with HRT, dry shampoo and a sugar addiction
i’ve been reliably informed that it’s “tomato girl summer” 🍅 but what is tomato girl summer and what about the girls that don’t fit the tomato girl summer aesthetic? never fear - i’ve broken down the aesthetic of each fruit for each type of girl this summer 🧵
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Pea is convinced she's a human and wants to join us for breakfast. I spend a lot of time bellowing from our front door, GO AND BE A SHEEP! YOU'LL ENJOY IT! Pea isn't sure about her woolly companions - she kinda likes Butter the tiny blonde Ouessant, but thinks the rest are weird
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Eventually we gave up and she just pottered around the house and shed, demanding ear scritches and terrorising the cats
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So when Pea was little she got pneumonia and had to live with us for a bit. When she got a bit better we took her out on mental health walks on a long bit of string. She thought it was the STUPIDEST idea ever and every 5 mins sat down in protest.
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Pea is a Herdwick lamb who's convinced she's a human. She was poorly for a long time so came to live in our shed and now insists on joining in our morning coffee. She's not entirely sure about her flock mates. But she's 100% behind ginger biscuits and regular ear scritches.
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Doesn't quite scan but a good attempt on his first try I reckon. Especially with one orange brain cell
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Pome by Wotsit My name is Wotsit I have one tooth I am bright orange My brain is smooth I don't like the hoover Or a black bin bag And I think my sister Is stripy old hag My new family has said they love me a lot Even when I do honking jobbies Outside the litter box End
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I've just been visited by a dog in a coat. Cheered me right up 😁
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