Postby Sniffmyfeet » Sun Feb 07, 2016 1:02 am
I'm from the countryside as well. My dad kept bulls and pigs when I was a little child. He had to give it up when I was about 10 years old, because stricter government regulation, as well as the swine flu which was prevalent at the time, made it almost impossible to make it worthwhile. Especially since it was a very small farm, about 3 hectares of land (that's 7.4 acres for those of you who still have not accepted the metric system), 20 bulls and about 100 pigs. We still live on the farm; the stables are still there, but there are no animals in them. My dad leases the land to an uncle, who still is a farmer, so he can grow maize with which to feed his cows.
Growing up on the countryside was great fun for me and my brother and sister. I really liked to help my dad feed the animals and to be on the tractor with my dad when the land had to be ploughed, manured etcetera. We (the kids) had great fun building tents from agricultural plastic and playing hide-and-seek between the tall maize plants. Playing on the haystack was also a very pleasant pastime (albeit, in hindsight, kind of dangerous because the haystack could have collapsed with me on top of it).
bondage /'bɒndɪdʒ/ noun & verb. ME.
A The condition of being bound or tied; fig. subjection to authority, constraining force, or obligation. LME.
‣b spec. Sadomasochism involving binding, handcuffing, etc. M20.
(SOED, 6th ed.)