Mrs Down's Diary

THERE is just no hiding the truth from children. Jessica, our granddaughter, who is staying with us over the holidays as her Mum is working and cannot get cover, is telling everyone who visits, my shortcomings as a shepherdess

By The Newsroom

Published 17th Apr 2007, 13:21 BST

Updated 8th Jun 2018, 04:10 BST

"You see Poppa told Mamma to look after the sheep and she was too busy washing up to go and look at them and one of the lambs was dead.

It was all her fault." If the death penalty was still in force I would have been for the gallows on her evidence alone with no chance of reprieve.

True I did get distracted by domestic chores whilst John took a well earned sleep after lunch, but on the either hand, I have saved at least two lambs this year from suffocation when they are born.

Unless the mucous or caul around and in their nostrils and mouth is cleared, the lambs cannot breath. It is a very dispiriting death to witness. To have got so far and then be unable to breath life giving oxygen just because no-one is immediately to hand.

You feel absolutely drained, depressed and downhearted. What a waste. And then your granddaughter never stops going on about it and does not let you forget.

For full story see West Sussex Gazette April 18

West Sussex Gazette