YOU CAN TAKE the person out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the person.

Here are the signs you grew up near a farm:

1. Your washing always smelt slightly of slurry

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If your mam didn’t roar at you to bring it in the second the scent hit the air.

2. This was the biggest cause of delay in your life

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They sometimes moved over. Sometimes.

3. Followed closely by this

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4. This counted as a source of entertainment

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5. You weren’t allowed to have a dog, because it might ‘worry’ the sheep

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6.  Playing on the hay bales? SIGN ME UP.

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7. When the cows broke out, it was a local emergency

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GET THAT COW.

8. Midges, midges, midges

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Did we mention the midges? There were midges.

9. You spent a lot of time wondering where The Bull was

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Especially when taking a shortcut through the fields to your mate’s house, because it was quicker than using the road.

10. You got paid to pick up stones

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GOOD: Getting money. BAD: Having to pick up stones.

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