Anyone north of the Midlands got a date for Philip to be passing by? I'm hoping he'll be coming my way to clip a batch of ours and show me how to hand-shear, but don't have a date - and of course now we're having proper summer weather, we're desperate to get all the girls' heavy coats off. (If he's not coming for a while, I think I'll have to arrange for a friendly hill farm to let me clip some of their sheep with Philip!)
He's a busy man at the moment of course, so hasn't been able to get back to me with an idea of date - for which I can hardly blame him, I couldn't give him any real guidance on when we'd need him - some years we start clipping around Easter-time, last year we clipped late July!