This is JT rounding up some of the sheep to move them to a field with more grass. The lambs are quite uncontrollable but a joy to watch.

Cute eh?! I'm bottle feeding 3 babies at the moment: twins and a surviving single. Both mothers are alive, so they're not orphans, but have no milk. So that's me, 4 times a day, out to my Special Care Baby Ewenit. They're doing ok. Fingers crossed.

It's been hard. I've lost a number of lambs. JT says they would have died anyway and to think about all those that have survived with that little bit of extra help. I've just not hardened up enough yet.

But the good news is that the 3 I'm currently feeding are doing very well.

As I was tramping through sheep shit this morning in order to get to the mothers and babies who needed numbering before turning out, in my milk-impregnated fleece, with my shepherddess's crook and my mucky boots, my thoughts turned to the time when I won Best Dressed Teacher Award - 5 years running. Ho hum.

Awaiting the arrival of the new quad bike.

Fluffy's baby!

Fluffy was my first bottle-fed lamb 2 years ago - so-called because of her woolly coat. She became a pet and last year had her first lamb. This year she's had twins and I was there for the birth of the second one.

She's rather special and comes to the fence for a digestive biscuit. JT says she's the only sheep he knows who follows rather than has to be driven. That's my girl :)

This is my Special Care Baby Ewenit. In the pen in the corner is a mother with QUADS! Very unusual.

Been feeding them 4 x a day, tube feeding in the beginning.Unfortunately we lost one of them and though the remaining 3 are not big fat lambs, they are doing well. She's a fiercely protective ewe and I daren't turn my back on her. I know she's just waiting for the chance the butt me. The other girl on the right is so cool you'd think she'd just had a reefer.