What ever next, Hens laying eggs, cows chewing the cud.
Spending our licence fee on this load of old swaddle really grips my sh1t.

Rant over!
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The NHS.... Hitting the targets but missing the point......

It is better to arrive late in this life than early in the next.

I have respectfully insisted that the Beeb do a similar series and call it Dogging Live.
I am certain that viewing figures will more than justify any costs
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Never let the Truth Spoil a Good Dit

If the Train to Heaven Stops at Bangkok, GET OFF!

'Trannies dogging live'.............would be fun

On balance, it's probably more entertaining and informative than X factor and other assorted humanoid based "shows".

What is? Dogging Live.
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Never let the Truth Spoil a Good Dit

If the Train to Heaven Stops at Bangkok, GET OFF!

May get a bit confusing for the participants in the dark ...

There is a cnut of a sheep farmer near Chipping in Lancashire I counted three sheep dead in one field near his house they died with the lamb breached he had a barn full of straw and his sheep out in boggy windswept fields. It would take app half a hour to build a shelter out of bales. I had words with him a while back when he started on the old get off my land crap. If the map states footpath I walk across end of story.
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BEAM ME UP SCOTTY! THERE AINT NO INTELLIGENT LIFE DOWN HERE!!!

Lots of Farmers won't pay vets bills and the price of sheep ain't that high
so any ewe that has problems lambing goes natures way .

Cruel in a way but possibly kind --the ewe would need extra care and the lamb probably would be dead anyway .

Biggest problem I used to have was not being sure if the ewe was having twins . Or first lambers rejecting the lamb .

Great having sheep though -lot of work at times but you get to know them
---especially at clipping time !!

G
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Level of education does not measure level of intelligence

Yeah, always enjoyed keeping sheep. Other than the fact that they seem to wake up one day and decide that they're going to find a way - no matter how absurd - to kill themselves. And, if they can't, they just....die.

Every time I tried to count them......I fell asleep
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Chinese Proverb

I hear and I forget
I see and I remember
I do and I understand

They're a strange lot in that area - a bit like the Exmoor oddballs
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TANSTAAFL

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain

I went to a local sheep farm a few years ago to see the ickle lambies and if lucky actually see one being born. The particular farmer was very concerned about all his sheeps and would have been horrifed to treat them like the farmer above. The lambing pens were indoors with little heaters for the orphans and they had a watchkeeper for the nights to ensure that the sheep due to lamb always had someone in attendance. Still have not been able to eat lamb since that day though.
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Lawyer/Post Grad/crazy cat lady/shoe and handbag addict

I've got a pet sheep, saves mowing the "orchard". She's called "millie". I've been informed by the blobbettes that I'm not allowed to eat her, if it's got a name it's not the done thing apparently. I'm going to get a ickle black one when she dies and name it after my cousin.
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why you kikka my dog and a call it * off?

Rosey dear, that is just the problem, too many people only see food as some prepacked hygenic package in a supermarket, but yes you lamb chop starts of as one of those funny baby lambs. They actually look at their most cuddly though when they are on their way to market.

I used to spend much of my childhood holidays, christmas easter and summer , on a sheep and ccattle farm so I do know where my food comes from. Most farmers do look after their animals as well as they can, simply because they at the end of the day are worth money, money they can ill afford to lose.
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Peter

What, Rumrat?
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JonnoJonno:

If she's from Guzz her hoop will already look like a smiling chimp's face.