What is a Thinsulate wooly toorie, Tigger??? Although I can't complete with you in the up-all-hours, out-in-all-weathers farming life, I too have had some experience of wearing layors of thermals to work.
As a market stallholder, I always went for lightness, like silk thermals and fleeces as opposied to jumpers. Combat trousers - lots of hidden pockets to store money in - and always a vest top underneath in the summer, so if the sun came out you could strip off with confidence. Loading a Volvo Estate full of rails, tarpaulins and retro clothing, lugging the stuff to my pitch, setting up my stall and doing the whole thing in reverse later in the day definitely built character, if nothing else.
Taking my stall to festivals as I did (and still sometimes do), I have frequently been mistaken for a new age travellor. People often ask me what camp I will be staying at next, where my trailor is, etc etc.
So I feel a bit of a fraud. My day job is in advertising. I am a senior copywriter, even though my spelling and grammar here on mumsnet leaves a lot to be desired! Can't work out how to spell check my messages, and I have truly dyslexic typing hands, that's my excuse.
I work for a large multi-national agency. Adore writing and mostly like my job, but would love to be a stay-at-home freelance journalist or proper writer earning pots of money.