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Natural selection

EVERY YEAR, shepherds choose which lambs to keep and which to sell. We are all trying to breed the perfect sheep - only none of us quite agrees what this personification of sheep splendour is. It’s an old joke: three shepherds, four opinions.

It is sad, but wool has become a by-product of meat farming, and as a result wool quality has broadly diminished. For me, though, wool is crop on my

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