{"id":14045,"date":"2025-05-13T00:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14045"},"modified":"2025-05-14T23:46:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:46:50","slug":"sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14045","title":{"rendered":"Sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The farmer who lives below our house keeps sheep. They all have bells, and they make quite a racket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0715-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1638\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0715-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0715-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0715-300x192.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0715-1024x655.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0715-768x491.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0715-1536x983.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0715-2048x1311.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0715-469x300.jpeg 469w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sheep eat grass at a prodigious rate, so the farmer moves them from field to field every few days, and by the time they get back to their first field the grass has grown again. Lamb is very expensive here in Switzerland, so the animals are precious. Anyhow, after a day of torrential rain yesterday, it&#8217;s nice to see the livestock and the mountains again. There\u2019s been snow up at the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0405.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1463\" height=\"1023\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0405.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0405.jpeg 1463w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0405-300x210.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0405-1024x716.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0405-768x537.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0405-429x300.jpeg 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1463px) 100vw, 1463px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Better weather is forecast for the next few days. 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