LAMBING
It’s lambing season. Everyone is very preoccupied with the lambing, visiting their flocks four, five times a day to check all the new arrivals and assist any ewes in distress. I went back to Nesting, where I was staying last time, to visit my previous landlord & lady (the Bradleys) and their gulmoket and katmoket Shetland sheep – one is brown with a cream belly and the other is cream with a brown belly. Very cute indeed. I also visited Vaila, a teacher from the school, who is nursing a three-day old lamb. It was tiny and shivering hard in the cold un-spring-like May air. It turns out Vaila is the owner of all the Shetland ponies I photographed many a time when driving along to Gletness last time. Having never been to Shetland before, I have never been able to appreciate how perfectly adapted these miniature ponies are for this harsh, windswept, landscape.
