Married A Farmer? You’ll Enjoy These Tweets

19th January 2015 by Lorna
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Twitter has been throwing up some great farming hashtags lately. There’s been #datingafarmer and #FiveWordsToRuinADateWithAFarmer and last night the #marriedafarmer hashtag took off. Considering I use #marryafarmer for my book, I just had to get involved with lots of tweets!

Here’s some of the best of the #marriedafarmer tweets:

 

Farm Women Interviews Required

18th January 2015 by Lorna
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I’ve just resumed the writing of my next book. The working title is How To Be A Perfect Farm Wife – with plans for it to be realistic yet funny with plenty of tongue-in-cheek humour. ?Similarly to Would You Marry A Farmer?, this book will be written for the new farm wife in mind, the woman who is marrying a farmer and isn’t quite sure what she is letting herself in for, who wants to be informed but I hope [...]

How To Stay Married To A Farmer

5th December 2014 by Lorna
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Being married to a farmer has its challenges, there’s no doubt about it. Being married to a farmer means that you end up being bottle-washer, calf rearer, taxi service, book keeper, midwife, cook, cleaner, grass measurer, negotiator, sales person – you not only become a farmer yourself but you have to be one with bells on! So how do you stay married to one?

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First Anniversary and It’s A Good One!

29th November 2014 by Lorna
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It’s a year ago today (it was a Friday lunchtime) when 1000 copies of Would You Marry A Farmer? arrived to my hallway and piled up there in brown boxes. The smell of new paper filled the hall and landing for the first few days until we got used to it. ?I wasn’t too worried about selling the first thousand, I knew that 235 were going to my crowdfunding pledgers and I hoped to sell 500 in total by Christmas, [...]

Tips For Attracting An Eligible Farmer

6th November 2014 by Lorna
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Tips for attracting an eligible farmer at an agricultural show!

The lovely Denis Lehane posted these 5 tips within his feature in the Irish Examiner – just before the Ploughing Championships – and I’d sent them to him. These tips (and the book of course) got me 8 radio interviews that week?

Irish Examiner - September 2014

Irish Examiner – September 2014

5 Tips For Attracting An Eligible Farmer

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