Hurrah! Welcome to the friendly rural life site. Am certain you'll be finding lots of Absolute Unit fans already on here, plus enlightening and thus creating many more. :)
It has been such a long time...I remember visiting your hallowed halls as a small child. Awesome to see that the MERL is still around and also that y'all have a cracking sense of humour!
A ram built on very much the same lines was encountered by our weineraner on a Scottish track. Totally stood him down. I think the dug had nightmares about it forever. It should be noted that the Scottish variant is not well groomed and shampooed
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In Spain almost all the sheep are Merino. Guess how many sheepskin jackets they make, how many rugs, blankets, expensive superwash merino cardigans? Nada Zilch Nix. Not a one. They don't value the fleeces at all and sell them cheap to Northern Europe who convert them into things of value🤷♀️Sad!
thank you ChippyGirl, it's great to meet you! we're England's national museum of farming and the countryside. we built up a lot of followers on the other place and are planning to be here much more frequently moving forwards!
And I love the UK— most of my forebears come from your islands. We don’t really think about the UK being a collection of islands (do we? I don’t…). Sipping English Breakfast tea now and procrastinating at work…
(Still no sheep)
Looks like he needs a good shearing. Love an Exmoor Horn, I borrowed a super ram this autumn for my purebred EH ewes - looking forward to lambs in Jan/Feb and hoping for ewe lambs …
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I feel like the small huddled masses huddling in a safe place and suddenly the best people start showing up and they’ve been so missed and everyone is cry laughing.
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Twitter!
(tbh we were waiting for you and would have accepted any offering, but this is objectively a good one and we are much pleased)
(P FS PH1/K90651)
https://bsky.app/profile/themerl.bsky.social/post/3l7dt3m7arf2n
And that’s a mighty handsome chonk boi.
In Spain almost all the sheep are Merino. Guess how many sheepskin jackets they make, how many rugs, blankets, expensive superwash merino cardigans? Nada Zilch Nix. Not a one. They don't value the fleeces at all and sell them cheap to Northern Europe who convert them into things of value🤷♀️Sad!
(Very few sheep…)
(Still no sheep)
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017792388/
How is the real one even chonkier?
Thank you! X
Worming and dagging ram-lambs.
A grubby wrestling match, with electric fences.
We all got a dose.
*serves me right for living in mostly arable farming land.
It didn't end so well.
Bluesky friends, please meet the MERL! 👋 And look at this stunning absolute unit!
You're welcome.
The absolute Blunits, if you will.