Our focus has been on a pair of orphaned lambs which Sophie decided to adopt– as if we don’t have enough livestock around the place – under extreme pressure from Bob and Lottie. Before you think of doing something similar let me tell you there is no commercial logic. I have had to spend £110 on two 25 kg bags of powdered milk and a pair of bottles and rubber teats. Grudgingly I have to admit it has not actually been that much effort, and of course, they are extremely cute. Steady. However for Lottie’s benefit in particular I am taking care to repeatedly ram home the message that a lamb is for eating, not just for Easter. Bob, you will not be surprised to hear, has no inhabitations. He spends weekends guarding the pair armed with a bow and arrow and a catapault from any predatory fox that might care to wander by, but he insists that come the moment he is ready to dispatch the lambs and prepare them for the freezer himself. He is so not his fathers son, but it was with some amusement that I read an email sent me by one of your number in HK.
From: A Daily Mail reader
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 19:08:18 +0800
To: Sandison David
Subject: MailOnline :: Skin a rabbit, deliver a lamb and dance the eightsome reel: What young people should know before they leave school
David - I saw this and thought of you ( and Bob). Best wishes from HK, Alex
Skin a rabbit, deliver a lamb and dance the eightsome reel: What young people should know before they leave school
Country Life magazine, the upper class 'bible', has come up with a list of 39 skills it believes the modern youth should have - including how to handle a shotgun.
Full Story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1385783/What-young-people-know-leave-school.html
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