Personality Transplant

Nature abhors a vacuum, a position held by Aristotle, and later Galileo in their efforts to find a fitting explanation for the operation of hand primed water pumps. Obviously these boffins of days gone by had little to occupy their time, like TV, stamp collecting or trainspotting and their idea of a good night in was fiddling with their water pumps and pondering why water filled the space where once there was air.

This phrase may also be used to explain why now, when the goats are carefully shut away so I can navigate through a sea of treacherous mud laden with animal foodstuffs unhindered I suddenly find myself tripping over, getting jumped on by and other ways annoyed by a a very bothersome sheep who until this moment in time has done little to try my patience. Quite why she has had a personality transplant is beyond me but Meg the Suffolk Cross is doing her best to be voted "Most likely candidate for Mr Whirlpool" (the freezer!)with her current behaviour.

So determined is she to be the first to sample the bucketfuls of the feed mills best offerings she has taken to guarding the gate so that from the moment I step out of the front door she can harass me.

P.O.W. latest news!

Despite having negotiators on standby no contact was made this week with the militia believed to be holding the Rock Four captive.

A breakthrough in Diplomacy was achieved today and direct discussions for the release of the Rock Four were finally held with those holding them.

No information was given as to their exact whereabouts but it is thought they managed to get five miles behind enemy lines before they were discovered and taken hostage.

Those holding them have given assurances that they are fit and healthy and have committed to releasing them as soon as they admit to having strayed onto private farmland and acceptable transport can be arranged. The position of Rock HQ was maintained, that they were non combatants on Common Land and should have been allowed to continue their grazing unhindered. As a gesture of good will the militia have agreed to transport the captives back to Rock HQ in the near future. In the meantime they will be entertained at the militias expense.

Unfortunately it has been disclosed that only three of the missing four are captive and only vague descriptions have been passed to Rock HQ. It is unclear which three are being held although it is almost certain that one of the prisoners is Meg the only brown face Suffolk cross of the group.

Our thoughts are with the three captives and the remaining member of the grazing party that must still be classified M.I.A.

Meanwhile the plight of the Rock Four continues.