For Jane - sheep racing at Montese

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I couldn't put it better myself, Mel.

Lol!

Please don't mention the freezer, they might hear you :o(

Doesn't matter where you go in the world there will always be a silly pastime, usually based on betting.

Oh brilliant! Love it. looking at the shape of them, they are definately heading for the freezer. What fatties. I can just imagine them tying the jockey sheep on. lol Jx

Hhahaha Love it!

My money was on the one that just lost it's rider :))

How funny. Reminded me of Lambchops the american kids programme, Lol.

The strange thing is, you virtually never see sheep in the fields in this part of the world.

Our neighbour's sheep are all too busy to race - they're out in the fields having lambs! Every couple of days we hear a mad bleating and see a tiny pink-ish lamb being carried back to the corral followed by its panicking mum, then everything settles until the previous lambs manage to get the new lamb into mischief, then it's all panic again until each lamb is with its own mum! Silly creatures! I think if our lot set off to 'race' they'd go in different directions. ;o)

I used to help a couple of farmers at lambing time (did a course at agricultural college). I thought sheep were silly creatures without an ounce of brain but they are quite intelligent in a wooly sort of way.

Lol. I know the feeling!!! Jx

how do you get a sheep to run? what would you tempt them with?

I think you get behind 'em with a sharp stick, Fran.

Love this photo .

Trust me, opening a sack of sheep shreds has a similar effect. Tons of woolly muscle charging down the fields towards you. Not for the faint hearted. Jx

Mmmm, sounds scrummy, Jane! Thank you again, Fabrice; it came out rather well, I thought!

Lol!! I have missed you lot xx