Shearing
Jun 20th, 2009 | By wool gatherer | Category: Island LifeLast Saturday (my goodness, was it really a full week ago?) I took our visitor from Tokyo up to Hillside and we joined SpinningGill at her sheep shearing. My stated intention was to take a set of photographs suitable for the revamping of a website that Gill and I share, but I ended up staying for the full afternoon’s shearing. I took 65 photographs, drank quite a lot of tea, and learned a lot about the principles of shearing.
No. I didn’t have a go myself – but Gill did, under the expert tuition of Ian Simpson.
Here is the evidence:
Gill gets stuck in
Ian is a patient teacher
I also strayed a little with my camera and took some peeling paint shots. . . (more at Flickr)
The door to the byre in which we were shearing
There’s a set of shots at Flickr – or view them in this slideshow (26 images)
She was a very patient sheep as well!
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woolgatherer Reply:
June 21st, 2009 at 10:25 am
she certainly was! woolgatherer(Quote)
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