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  Dave 8:53 pm on March 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: bbc (3), science, sheep, solarsystem, space, tv (3)   

  Sheep and the Solar System 

  

  I love the BBC. On BBC2 tonight there was part one of Wonders of the Solar System. A fact packed and fascinating documentary presented by Professor Brian Cox, who is brilliant at this kind of thing – having somebody there who not only understands the subject matter but is enthusiastic about it and wants to share that enthusiasm with us the viewer, draws you in to make the whole thing very enjoyable.

  

  Following Wonders of the Solar System was Lambing Live. An hour long programme broadcast every night of the week which is nicely slow paced. Interspersed with some pre-recorded reports about all sort of related subjects and very moving in places when problems arose resulting in the death of a new lamb.

  It’s hard to imagine any of these programs being made for any of the other UK channels these days – they’re both journeys in to worlds that are alien to most people. It’s also refreshing that neither of these programmes assume you have a nearly none existent attention span, don’t constantly repeat themselves or have long unnecessary recaps.

  We should be proud of the BBC and protect it from the attacks it gets from time to time – which, to my untrained eye, seem to originate from commercial competition who would never make programs like these anyway. 

   

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  Dave 7:26 am on April 5, 2009 Permalink
  Tags: animals (4), edwinstowe (2), fisheye (10), goat (2), rbst, sheep, sherwoodforest (2)   

  

  Sherwood Forest Farm Park opened up again for 2009 on Saturday. The weather was lovely as well – sunny and quite warm – this meant that some of the animals were enjoying it rather than curled up in balls in their various shelters.

  More photos in this Flickr set: Sherwood Forest Farm Park 04/09

   
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  Dave 1:27 pm on March 1, 2009 Permalink
  Tags: alpaca, nottinghamshire (22), retford (2), sheep, wetlands, yak   

  

  Last Sunday I went to Wetlands Animal Park and Waterfowl Reserve near Retford in Nottinghamshire. It was a pretty cold day and it kept threatening to rain,but it was a very nice place to wander around. It was good to see some animals I’d never seen before. Particularly the Yak pictured above.

  

  This nicely coloured sheep is actually a Cameroon Sheep.

  

  The Yak again – top notch nose and tongue – impressive control too!

  The Alpaca pictured below was funny. It was very interested in what I was doing, and after giving it some feed, it decided to follow me on it’s side of the fence while I was walking along the path on the other side. All the time though, it was looking directly at me instead of where it’s going – it was like it’s head was on rails! Very cute and very soft animal!

  

  There are some more shots in this Wetlands Animal Park and Waterfowl Reserve 02/09.

   
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  Dave 10:48 am on November 29, 2008 Permalink
  Tags: abduction, aliens, Games (7), sheep, xbox (5)   

  Flock 

  I’m glad modern technology is being used to make games like this :)

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    Rick Harrison 10:29 pm on November 30, 2008 Permalink | Reply

    Have you found anything to say when its coming out? It does indeed look fun :-)

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    Dave Wild 8:01 am on December 1, 2008 Permalink | Reply

    It was supposed to be before Christmas but the word on the, ahem, farm, is that it’s more likely to be January.

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  Dave 9:43 pm on September 30, 2008 Permalink
  Tags: masham, racing, sheep, yorkshire (24)   

  Masham Sheep Fair 

  

  I went to Masham on Sunday. It was the second day of their Sheep Fair. I had heard from a friend that there was sheep racing which was the thing that really piqued my interest! The day was great though, and not just because of the sheep racing. There were sheep everywhere, I learnt a lot about sheep and saw a number of them whist airborne travelling at impressive speed in the hurdle races – they really can move – especially when encouraged by food!

  It was quite difficult to get a shot of them during the races due to the combination of the sheer number of racing fans picking the best spots and the speed with which these babies thundered past. I don’t know what kind of food they had to tempt them to the finish line, but whatever it was, they really wanted it!

  

  

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    Diana L-S 2:13 am on October 3, 2008 Permalink | Reply

    Great pics and angles!

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  Dave 11:03 am on March 16, 2008 Permalink
  Tags: sheep   

  A friendly sheep 

  

  I had to post another photo to bump the last one down the screen!