It was late Sunday evening that my beautiful and oh so patient wife told me I should look for a lost lamb. She had been out on Will.I.Am and both had ventured to the land of the Technohermit and from her high vantage point had spotted a wooly back that looked stuck. I on the other hand floundering around in the dark with a torch that threw as useful a beam of light as a badgers arse totally failed to find any life form in the wire and dutifully reported back that all was well.
Clearly all was not well and poor Wooly (Tigs brother) remained stuck fast until today when yours truly decided to finish a report at home and in so doing was able to wander up the Bonsai Mountain ostensibly to get his thoughts in order but mostly it was having a bit of a skive while there was some day light and as I was borrowing the remaining apples from an unattended tree heard the plaintive bleat of a distressed Ryeland. Eventually the source was traced to this poor chap and after much huffing an puffing (and I was grateful at one stage as I straddled him gripping him with my knees and pulling his ears that there was no one around with a camera to take a picture that would have reinforced all stereotypical thoughts about what happens to sheep on the Welsh hills) little Wooly was able to toddle off to find more impossibly small gaps to try and squeeze through.
Day 20 30 30 lvl 14 hill training 10.5 km Porcupine Tree The Incident
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Well that's your excuse and you can stick to it!!
Whilst I of course know that your smallholder skills know no bounds, for anyone else faced with a sheep stuck in sheep wire [why do they make the squares the perfect size for silly sheep to get their head into anyway??],rather than risk losing fingers by trying to persuade ears etc back the right side of the fence, all the while trying to stop said dumb animal from pushing further into the hedge, simply stand behind it, grasp the offending animal just forward of, or by the rear hips on either side and pull backwards. Having removed many hundreds of sheep from wire in this way, it will automatically shake its head thereby aiding your rearwards pressure and out will come said head - with the added bonus that you have not lost all the skin off your fingers as they get jammed between solid head and wire!
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