On misheard songs, quite liked a song I heard on my car radio, "The Shower Grows" but Google search came up with nowt. Then used that Google tune identifier thing on my Google phone. Brill! It's "The shallower it grows" by Avener.
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Poor little sheepy. Wouldn't be so lonely if she'd been marooned on a Welsh beach.
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So lonely
Yes it's a sheep
Do sheep have accents?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-for-two-years
Marooned for two years at the foot of a Scottish Highlands cliff, the sorry-looking, bedraggled animal is now known as Britain’s loneliest sheep.
Jillian Turner first spotted the sheep two years ago while she was paddling along the coast of Sutherland with her kayak club. It was on a shingle beach at the foot of a steep cliff. She assumed the sheep would make it back to wherever home was by itself and thought no more of it.
When she took the same journey again recently she was horrified to see the same animal.
Recalling her first sighting of the sheep, Turner told the Northern Times: “About half a mile before turning into the Cromarty Firth we spotted a sheep on a shingle beach at the bottom of some steep, rocky coastline.
“She saw us coming and was calling to us along the length of the beach following our progress until she could go no further. She finally turned back, looking defeated.”
The sighting made an impression on Turner and she couldn’t quite believe it when she saw the same sheep on the recent trip.
“She called out on our approach and once again followed the group along the shore jumping from rock to rock, calling to us the whole way,” Turner said.
The sheep’s fleece was “huge” and touching the ground at the back, she said.
“It is heartrending. We honestly thought she might make her way back up that first year. The poor ewe has been on her own for at least two years. For a flock animal that has to be torture, and she seemed desperate to make contact with us on the two occasions we’ve gone past her.”
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