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An Ideal Farm Husband
•Are farmers considered to be romantic?
•How can you find the right woman to be your perfect farm wife?
•What will it take for your mother and your wife to get on?
•Is it ever a good idea to live with your parents?
•How can you get away for a break?
Farmer/farmer’s wife and author Lorna Sixsmith looks at what it takes to become an Ideal Farm Husband. You’ll find out how little effort it takes to be romantic, how to propose with pizzazz, the best ways to survive stresses like the Pre Silage Tension and the Pre Scanning Shakes, and how to overcome your disappointment at finding your girlfriend is not, after all, telepathic. You’ll discover why water, social media, sales representatives, your dog and sharing housework are so important for your wellbeing.
With “his and her” quizzes to test your progress (and yes, there are wrong answers), this is a book you can read together to ensure you become a modern, IDEAL farm husband.
This is a perfect read for all farm husbands and boyfriends (and wives and girlfriends), and country lovers everywhere.
•How can you find the right woman to be your perfect farm wife?
•What will it take for your mother and your wife to get on?
•Is it ever a good idea to live with your parents?
•How can you get away for a break?
Farmer/farmer’s wife and author Lorna Sixsmith looks at what it takes to become an Ideal Farm Husband. You’ll find out how little effort it takes to be romantic, how to propose with pizzazz, the best ways to survive stresses like the Pre Silage Tension and the Pre Scanning Shakes, and how to overcome your disappointment at finding your girlfriend is not, after all, telepathic. You’ll discover why water, social media, sales representatives, your dog and sharing housework are so important for your wellbeing.
With “his and her” quizzes to test your progress (and yes, there are wrong answers), this is a book you can read together to ensure you become a modern, IDEAL farm husband.
This is a perfect read for all farm husbands and boyfriends (and wives and girlfriends), and country lovers everywhere.
306 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 2, 2016
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February 13, 2021
This book may be aimed at members of the farming community but I'm not a farmer, farmer's wife, and don't even have any farming relations. I do, however, live in a quiet enough place that hosts an annual tractor run and have been know to attend and enjoy an agricultural show now and then.
Lorna has done a great job with this guide to being the best possible farming husband, in fact it would be a pretty good guide to being a husband of any type, I may loan it to my own!
The tone is light throughout and the quizzes will give you a laugh but she has done her research too and it was fascinating to read the personal ads seeking farm wives in Ireland from the 1930s onwards. Her observations about how to ensure happy relations between a farm wife and her possibly living nearby mother in law were spot on too.
I think anybody who lives in a rural area, or aspires to, should have a read of this one and any man (or woman) who is planning a first date or a proposal might pick up some useful tips from those chapters. I was surprised to find that pre-nups are being used to protect farms in the case of divorce, but given the average size of a farm in Ireland you don't want to split it up, I guess.
A good read, funny, informative, and engaging. Eye opening for those of without farming blood and I'm sure those that do have it will recognise friends and neighbours in the pages.
Lorna has done a great job with this guide to being the best possible farming husband, in fact it would be a pretty good guide to being a husband of any type, I may loan it to my own!
The tone is light throughout and the quizzes will give you a laugh but she has done her research too and it was fascinating to read the personal ads seeking farm wives in Ireland from the 1930s onwards. Her observations about how to ensure happy relations between a farm wife and her possibly living nearby mother in law were spot on too.
I think anybody who lives in a rural area, or aspires to, should have a read of this one and any man (or woman) who is planning a first date or a proposal might pick up some useful tips from those chapters. I was surprised to find that pre-nups are being used to protect farms in the case of divorce, but given the average size of a farm in Ireland you don't want to split it up, I guess.
A good read, funny, informative, and engaging. Eye opening for those of without farming blood and I'm sure those that do have it will recognise friends and neighbours in the pages.
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