Get another barber!

I realise I am behind uploading, it is Monday and I am putting the one for Saturday. It's just a busy time and I havent found the time to download and process the pictures from the weekend yet. Will put Sunday's up tonight or tomorrow, and hopefully I can catch up tomorrow.


Saturday was the day of another random walk - we had to go pick a package in Keighley (not next door at all, stupid system!), so on the way back we went up a road, stopped in a village (in this case Harden, near Bingley and Keighley, West Yorkshire), walked out and followed the first public footpath we could find. We ended up going through countryside, forest, up a moor, by some abandoned farm buildings - so it turned out a nice varied walk.

As is my habit it was an 11:30-2:30 job, taking advantage of the fact that the brits just disappear at 1, so we saw almost noone.

I took something like 55 photos - quite a few pretty landscape and forest pictures, farmland, moors, cows and sheep, and some of an abandoned farmhouse - all quite nice images and colorful. But in the end the choice was between two sheep related pictures, because they are both funny - less pretty, but funny!

The first one was an illustration of the stubborness of sheep, a pile up of 3 different fences to prevent sheep from going somewhere they are clearly still going, if the wool on the barbed wire is anything to go by.

The other one was this set of rather disheveled looking sheep. There were quite a few more in the field, some mostly shorn, some with most of their fleece still on but some bits half torn. It really looked like a very bad shearing job but what do I know?

Now we have sheep farmers around blip so maybe they can tell me if this is normal, or if perhaps this is someone training?

Anyway it didnt seem to bother the sheep at all, I guess they dont feel the wool, and there are no mirrors for them to worry about. Come to think of it there are no bathtubs either - in switzerland farmers often have an old bathtub in the fields for water (we jokingly call them wild bathtubs) but I havent seen that in England.

pictures from the walk:
Selection: skewy trees || stubborn sheep 1 and 2 || derelict farmhouse || in the woods
all photos (41 uploaded so far)