Laowai

Every time Brian comes home late recently I’ve been glued to the TV watching Lambing Live on BBC. It’s a live show that follows the lambing season on a family farm in England. Brian can’t understand the fascination that I have developed… I guess I can’t explain it either. They basically show the ewes in the barn waiting to give birth and then giving birth – sometimes with the help of the farmer or the farmer’s wife. They talk in great detail about everything related to the process. From more detail than I probably needed related to all things breeding. To how they do scans to see if the sheep are having a single baby or twins or triplets. How they adopt a lamb to an ewe that has lost her baby. How they help along any lambs that are struggling. And how the ewes communicate with their lambs once out in the field. Maybe it’s because I’m pregnant and I feel a connection to all those birthing sheep mums. Or maybe it’s just the cute as a button little lambs. I’m thinking of asking Brian if we can start a sheep farm once this Switzerland adventure is over.