Jelly Babies

Jessica, my colleague, recently sought to pacify a sheep by offering it some jelly babies. Such is the racy real life rural world we work in. She should have been more careful as any damage to the beast could have compromised its increasing economic value for the upland farm (which shall remain nameless for her protection) where it lives. This article reveals that the “knit one, pearl one” agenda has made a new breakthrough in the “des res” world of interior designs and soft furnishing – heralding a potential windfall for those shepherds who across the years have stuck to their knitting. The article goes on to explain:

“Wool, at last, is starting to make a comeback from the doldrums of only a few years ago when farmers could barely give fleeces away.  This year, wool prices at auction have reached a 25-year high with some species of fleece fetching £1.46 a kilogram (two years ago the average price was less than £1 a kilogram). It’s good news for upland sheep farmers, who keep our countryside so beautifully, and as a sustainable, British and renewable material, it’s also one of the greenest.”