The Great Outdoors

Going to the dogs

N MY LAST COLUMN, you may have read my witterings about sheep – my childlike joy in bleating back at them. Sheep gave me good company as I walked our mainland coastline. On a handful of occasions, I rescued particularly adventurous specimens who’d got their chunky heads stuck in fences. One drizzly day in Gwynedd, one memorable ewe expressed her gratitude by ramming

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