Comments on: That Rough Fell Is One Handsome Animal http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/07/that_rough_fell_is_one_handsome_animal.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:30:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: HalfEMpty http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/07/that_rough_fell_is_one_handsome_animal.html#comment-37835 HalfEMpty Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:56:20 +0000 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/07/that_rough_fell_is_one_handsome_animal.html#comment-37835 <p><i>There are ten times as many sheep in New Zealand as people (the ratio is ‘only’ six in Australia). It’s hard not to know too much about sheep.</i></p> <p>Thank gawd this argument doesn't always hold. I remain all but totally ignorant of cockroaches.</p> There are ten times as many sheep in New Zealand as people (the ratio is ‘only’ six in Australia). It’s hard not to know too much about sheep.

Thank gawd this argument doesn’t always hold. I remain all but totally ignorant of cockroaches.

]]> By: Brett_McS http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/07/that_rough_fell_is_one_handsome_animal.html#comment-37834 Brett_McS Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:54:22 +0000 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/07/that_rough_fell_is_one_handsome_animal.html#comment-37834 <p>Well it's a Kiwi, so that's OK.</p> <p>While cycling through NZ I stopped at a farm to get water; just in time to watch the sheep being sheared. All done to disco music. This was definitely post-disco era. But I'm thinking now, perhaps it was for the benefit of the sheep? Perhaps sheep prefer disco?</p> Well it’s a Kiwi, so that’s OK.

While cycling through NZ I stopped at a farm to get water; just in time to watch the sheep being sheared. All done to disco music. This was definitely post-disco era. But I’m thinking now, perhaps it was for the benefit of the sheep? Perhaps sheep prefer disco?

]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/07/that_rough_fell_is_one_handsome_animal.html#comment-37827 Rueful Red Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:30:02 +0000 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/07/that_rough_fell_is_one_handsome_animal.html#comment-37827 <p>Ah but would you teach them to dance? Here's a Kiwi who I saw at the Royal Highland Show:</p> <p>http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=8749724429173506970</p> Ah but would you teach them to dance? Here’s a Kiwi who I saw at the Royal Highland Show:

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=8749724429173506970

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/07/that_rough_fell_is_one_handsome_animal.html#comment-37821 ninme Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:15:29 +0000 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/07/that_rough_fell_is_one_handsome_animal.html#comment-37821 <p>Less stressful conditions, eh? I suppose that lets the Kiwis off the hook, but what does it say about Yorkshiremen? </p> <p>I like sheep. I like the look of 'em dotting the green hills with white in the Highlands. If I had land I'd have sheep. And cats. And a dog or two. And a ha-ha.</p> Less stressful conditions, eh? I suppose that lets the Kiwis off the hook, but what does it say about Yorkshiremen?

I like sheep. I like the look of ‘em dotting the green hills with white in the Highlands. If I had land I’d have sheep. And cats. And a dog or two. And a ha-ha.

]]> By: Brett_McS http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/07/that_rough_fell_is_one_handsome_animal.html#comment-37813 Brett_McS Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:03:24 +0000 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/07/that_rough_fell_is_one_handsome_animal.html#comment-37813 <p>"It were always rainin' in Yorkshire".</p> <p>There are ten times as many sheep in New Zealand as people (the ratio is 'only' six in Australia). It's hard not to know too much about sheep.</p> “It were always rainin’ in Yorkshire”.

There are ten times as many sheep in New Zealand as people (the ratio is ‘only’ six in Australia). It’s hard not to know too much about sheep.

]]> By: RC2 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/07/that_rough_fell_is_one_handsome_animal.html#comment-37811 RC2 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:30:10 +0000 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/07/that_rough_fell_is_one_handsome_animal.html#comment-37811 <p>Some people know more about sheep than they should be proud of. </p> Some people know more about sheep than they should be proud of.

]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/07/that_rough_fell_is_one_handsome_animal.html#comment-37798 Rueful Red Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:52:54 +0000 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/07/that_rough_fell_is_one_handsome_animal.html#comment-37798 <p>Summer isn't much of an issue on the tops of Wensleydale. The rain just comes down at a different angle.</p> Summer isn’t much of an issue on the tops of Wensleydale. The rain just comes down at a different angle.

]]> By: Brett_McS http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/07/that_rough_fell_is_one_handsome_animal.html#comment-37792 Brett_McS Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:26:21 +0000 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/07/that_rough_fell_is_one_handsome_animal.html#comment-37792 <p>The Australian Merinos have to cope with pretty harsh conditions in summer. The Kiwis get longer strands of wool out of their sheep because of their less stressful conditions. Stress causes the wool to have a weak point and it breaks into shorter strands.</p> The Australian Merinos have to cope with pretty harsh conditions in summer. The Kiwis get longer strands of wool out of their sheep because of their less stressful conditions. Stress causes the wool to have a weak point and it breaks into shorter strands.

]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/07/that_rough_fell_is_one_handsome_animal.html#comment-37785 Rueful Red Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:38:16 +0000 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/07/that_rough_fell_is_one_handsome_animal.html#comment-37785 <p>Don't underestimate the Wensleydale. Beneath all the frills there's a lot of Yorkshire grit - needed up in that part of the world in winter.</p> Don’t underestimate the Wensleydale. Beneath all the frills there’s a lot of Yorkshire grit - needed up in that part of the world in winter.

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