Letters to the Editor
May 25, 2022
2 minutes
Mark Hedges
Counting sheep
THE quiz of the week () gives ‘scouring’ as the term for cleaning sheep’s wool after shearing. In Australia, it is ‘skirting’, as a friend and I discovered in the 1970s when working as roustabouts in New South Wales. It was brutally hard work, but I got off lighter, working at a
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