Bill Robertson

Sheep inspected, paperwork done, that's Vic's tups registered #SheepOfTheDay

Edward with this year's Rough Fell tups #SheepOfTheDay

"Go on, lemme out, nobody will ever know?" #SheepOfTheDay

Robert Wilkinson's champion pen of yows at the mart on Friday #SheepOfTheDay

and thanks to Craig Fearon & David Harrison for judging their way through a lorra lorra tups

Congrats too to Andrew Nicholson, reserve with his shearling

Congratulations to Stanley Jackson, his two shear tup was champion at Mitchells pre-sale show of Herdwicks today #SheepOfTheDay

Congrats too to Anthony Hartley, reserve with his shearlings, and thanks to Geoff Edmondson & Leigh Whitaker for judging

Congratulations to Robert Wilkinson, champion at Mitchells pre-sale show today with his pen of yows #SheepOfTheDay

"Mind out of the way!" Herdwick in a hurry arriving at Broughton tup sale #SheepOfTheDay

Aw, thanks Martin - been getting some good sheepy opportunities recently

Broughton tup sale. Checking ear tags backstage at the mart #SheepOfTheDay

Congratulations too to Anthony Hartley, reserve with his shearling, and George Harryman, first prize two-shear

Congratulations to Robert Wilkinson, champion Herdwick at Broughton tup sale today with his owd tup #SheepOfTheDay

Broughton tup sale tomorrow - one of the highlights of the Herdwick year #SheepOfTheDay

Eskdale Show: open yow class judging bottom right, final local champion judging top left (oops - where I should have been, on the ground taking photos) #SheepOfTheDay

Congratulations to Patrick Fitzwilliam & family, Herdwick World Champion for the second year running at Eskdale today, and to Glenn Wilkinson, champion tup (and best cap), and Tom Postlethwaite, local champion #SheepOfTheDay

Eskdale Show tomorrow, where everybody loves their Herdwicks - world champion or not #SheepOfTheDay

Lazonby mart, Alston Moor sale #SheepOfTheDay

I fear I've done the same in the past, though figuratively rather than literally

Lazonby mart today, for the annual Alston Moor sale of mule gimmer lambs #SheepOfTheDay

Faded glory in Vic's sheep shed #SheepOfTheDay

Back to the Herdy tups - Tom Postlethwaite's, these - for #SheepOfTheDay

Inspecting Rough Fell tups #SheepOfTheDay

Checking the colour of Rough Fell tups: "Is this blue wool, or just blue skin, do you think?"
(we were on a wild rainswept fellside at the time, I know where I'd put my money) #SheepOfTheDay

Bit wet out #SheepOfTheDay

Arnold Lancaster, Broughton Show #SheepOfTheDay

Anthony Hartley, champion Herdwick, Westmorland County Show 2025 #SheepOfTheDay

Sounds just like the crab apple cider I made as a kid - apart from the filtering and the cleanliness (and the bank safe)

#SheepOfTheDay