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Sally Urwin

@pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social
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I'm a very short farmer's wife from Northumberland and author of A Farmer's Diary and What the Flock. Owner of the late FatPony, Wonky and more....(and massively fascinated by #UAP and #paranormal phenomenon)

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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Ooo I grew up with that same view (well, a bit back from there). Never get tired of it.
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
It definitely shucks shometimesh
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
That is completely true
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Sorry....😁
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I know 😁 I've already eaten them
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
What on earth is this puppet of horrors?!?
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Hey thanks for all your hard work - hope you manage to get a good Xmas
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I'm feeling better than I did but still wheezy and pale and pathetic 😁
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
For some reason that looks really... spidery
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Oh I wouldn't like the body blanket pile. What happens in the middle of the night right if you open your eyes and there's a white face peering over the side of the top bunk? I've always had bunk bed anxiety. Merry Christmas
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
You see that glass balustrade thing behind the sad knee high Xmas tree? Well the kitchen is right below so I'm lying in bed listening to my 83 year old dad eating a late night mince pie and whistling onward Christian soldiers #winningatlife
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Ok because I've had the flu from hell and can't stop coughing I've been banished to the study. Next to the clothes dryer of doom plus light with no shade, two cheese strings and a box of trazadone. Oh and there's a sad knee high unlit Xmas tree next to the ubiquitous printer #duvetknowitschristmas
A sad sofa bed next to an airing dryer full of wet clothes and a basket with one cheese string and some trazadone A sad unlit knee high Christmas tree next to a printer
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
That's great to hear - I really struggle with well-being/self care and tend to just react to everything that happens. Being in the moment is something I very rarely achieve - good to see another farmer managing it
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
It might be!
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I love her onesie!
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The energy I'm bringing into 2025
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Edwin the rescue crow. I can't get close enough to see the problem but he seems very thin
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Oh dear I'm now the owner of a rescue crow. I found him bedraggled and dragging a wing. We're snowed in otherwise id take him to a vet. He's in my sunroom eating cat food and lavishly pooing on my clean washing. Cinders the Magnificent is FASCINATED
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The energy I'm bringing into 2025
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
OMG just won an award at the Northern Pig Awards! @PilgrimUk @BQPPigs Well Steve did but I'm the power behind the throne 😁 He won Growing Farm Stocks person of the Year and best of all WE GOT A CRYSTAL PIG!!! so chuffed for Steve and our piggies 😁😁😁😁 @piggyjags
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Because the farm has been in our family for four generations. I know every inch of it, the wildlife and adore living here.
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We didn't vote for Brexit. And we're a small family farm which will be hammered by the tax. Just because the land has a monetary value doesn't mean that it's in our bank accounts. My kids are on free school meals 🤷
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Bloody freezing here Sally - hard frost this morning and just waiting for snow!
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Such a good book - absolutely perfect for reading on a winter afternoon. I was walking in the woods on our farm today hoping I didn't meet Owd Hob 😬
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
So glad to find you on here - I need my regular fix of Tudor history!
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
These two at the moment - I've always loved @levgrossman.bsky.social after his Magicians series - such a good writer. And I've just finished Withered Hill by @davidbarnettuk.bsky.social - great folk horror - read it in a day!
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Beautiful. I'm still in bed clutching a cup of tea
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
😁 I've now eaten the other leg so it resembles a potato
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Thank you!
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Yep I think Keel was right...
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Gosh I've not seen your posts on Twitter for years it seems. Glad to see you're over here
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hello Eggsy!! 👋
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hello I'm now here!
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
😁😁👍
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
For me, it's people who constantly clear their throat. Loudly. I have no idea why but it makes me grit my teeth.
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Good for you - you sound very brave! Sending lots of healing thoughts - I'm currently looking at an 8hh driving Shetland on Dragon driving and wondering if my husband would notice if it appeared on our farm. Accidentally.
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
No I haven't? I'll have to look it up. I'd love to have pigs in there but because we have 1000 finishing piglets we're not allowed to have any others on the farm due to infection risk.
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Ohhhhh hang on just reread it and it was a pair of amateur archeologists. Now desperate to find out which BIT of the rivet they found it in 😁
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
This is my home town - I'm desperate to know WHO in the village found it in the river and if I can have a go at searching for more stuff in my Aldi wetsuit...
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I've discovered that I don't bounce anymore - do you ever feel nervous when you get back on? I've completely lost my nerve after a nasty fall a couple of years ago
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I would love to - mind you we have Cheviots that are master escapers...will let you know how they get on.
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Throw back to Cabbage the Lamb - he had bulgy eyes and a fleece that was two sizes too big for him. He's now no longer wrinkly but huge and handsome and living his best life tupping his wives up in the wild and woolly uplands of Northumberland (well, Alnwick)...
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Ummmm....honestly? Not really 😬 It's kind of a bit too gingery
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
No, we don't - it's too expensive for us at the moment to afford the fencing and we've got 150 ac of grazing already. We have thinned out the wood a little which has made a big difference. You can see the trees have been pollarded in the past. I'd love to have pigs in there.
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
We have a 10 acre wood - it was founded 1840 (we think) so not very old at all. So not much hazel and only a few youngish oak. Plenty of holly and sycamore and ash though. No yew sadly. The oldest tree on our farm is a gigantic ash (I think - I must measure it's trunk)
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Absolutely...they either just see us as cattle or are completely malevolent
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I completely agree - I see them as dangerous and negative - they can wreck people's lives
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I already ate a leg
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Inspired to make Christmas gingerbread this afternoon. Nailed it
Perfect gingerbread men
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Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Yes that's us - cafe unfortunately closed now xx
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