My last post was in no way saying we should not read grown-up books. Since it had to do with sheep, let's have an adult comment on sheep-ishness as well:
The big field was full of wary ewes and spanking new lambs. The lambs tiggered up close, bleeping like those crap Fiat Noddy cars, idiotically pleased to see me.---A couple of the mother sheep edged closer. They didn't quite trust me. Just as well for sheep they can't work out why the farmer's being so nice to them. (Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.)
~ Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
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I think D. Mitchell calls to mind Hornby and Hopkins at the same time.
Lovely book.
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And if all this sheep talk has put you in a smallholder mood, but you have no place to act out your gentleman/woman farmer impulses, try this: http://www.sheep.com/adopt-a-sheep.htm and this: http://www.sheep.com/sheep_sounds.cfm
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