Of course you are right Joyce - brain must have been tired earlier, hopefully it won't let me down again. So do they herd flocks of sheep or do they only herd cattle? The tiny island pictured is Jethou and there is a private boat to take the owners and their staff to Guernsey. The island is not open to the public. A group of RSPB go there perhaps once a year.
Salty sheep - I don't eat meat but I imagine that would leave quite a taste in the mouth Fairy.
Seaweed eating sheep are on North Ronaldsay in the Orkney Isles and their meat is usually eaten as mutton rather than lamb. Prince Charles is said to be very keen on it. . . . . . .
Language confusion.. ... sheepdogs gather flocks of sheep. . . . . much the same as herding to me .
You have jogged my memory Joyce - the seaweed eating sheep did originate from the Orkney Isles - a lovely man lived on an island just off Guernsey and bought in the seaweed eating sheep - I think he then moved to Canada taking the sheep with him. The sheep were quite a novelty and obviously cheap to feed - they were always on beach munching the abundant seaweed.
There are free-ranging bullocks around our cottage in Scotland, which often seem to be grazing on the beach - and also love chomping wild flowers. Every year they "prune" the climbing rose on the front of the house... Apparently the meat tastes amazing and is sold at a premium.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
If that is the view from your window Liriodendron you are very lucky and with the sun going down on the other side of the water it is gorgeous, and yes the beef must taste a bit sweet with your rose flavouring the meat. Are the cattle left out untethered or perhaps fenced in?
They are untethered, GD, and can wander where they like along the roads and shoreline. Sometimes they are quite curious - it's a bit of a surprise when one peers in the window! One year they took a fancy to my rotary clothes drier and chewed its plastic clothes line, and on several occasions they've demolished a bit of my garden wall looking for tasty things to eat.
You're right about being lucky with the view. We've owned the cottage for 26 years and I never get tired of it... watching the changing tides and light on the mountains. I'm going there for most of November - can't wait!
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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GD - do the people on the small island have their own boat/boats to get across to Guernsey?
By the way : flock not herd of sheep. Hope you don't mind the correction
Of course you are right Joyce - brain must have been tired earlier, hopefully it won't let me down again. So do they herd flocks of sheep or do they only herd cattle? The tiny island pictured is Jethou and there is a private boat to take the owners and their staff to Guernsey. The island is not open to the public. A group of RSPB go there perhaps once a year.
Salty sheep - I don't eat meat but I imagine that would leave quite a taste in the mouth Fairy.
Seaweed eating sheep are on North Ronaldsay in the Orkney Isles and their meat is usually eaten as mutton rather than lamb. Prince Charles is said to be very keen on it. . . . . . .
Language confusion.. ... sheepdogs gather flocks of sheep. . . . . much the same as herding to me .
You have jogged my memory Joyce - the seaweed eating sheep did originate from the Orkney Isles - a lovely man lived on an island just off Guernsey and bought in the seaweed eating sheep - I think he then moved to Canada taking the sheep with him. The sheep were quite a novelty and obviously cheap to feed - they were always on beach munching the abundant seaweed.
There are free-ranging bullocks around our cottage in Scotland, which often seem to be grazing on the beach - and also love chomping wild flowers. Every year they "prune" the climbing rose on the front of the house... Apparently the meat tastes amazing and is sold at a premium.
If I've got the right photo, these are the beasties having a wander.
...well, one of them, anyway...
If that is the view from your window Liriodendron you are very lucky and with the sun going down on the other side of the water it is gorgeous, and yes the beef must taste a bit sweet with your rose flavouring the meat. Are the cattle left out untethered or perhaps fenced in?
They are untethered, GD, and can wander where they like along the roads and shoreline. Sometimes they are quite curious - it's a bit of a surprise when one peers in the window! One year they took a fancy to my rotary clothes drier and chewed its plastic clothes line, and on several occasions they've demolished a bit of my garden wall looking for tasty things to eat.
You're right about being lucky with the view. We've owned the cottage for 26 years and I never get tired of it... watching the changing tides and light on the mountains. I'm going there for most of November - can't wait!
enjoying a quiet autumn day by the river leven Cumbria.