[Brucklay]

Lovely pics Violetspirit - nice to see someone else has a nutty 'I'll follow you anywhere' cat - oh and one each ear for goat tags but as said not electronic yet!!

[Lesley Silvester]

  That's if the sight of me walking two collies, a hound pup, and five piglets in the pasture every morning, or herding the lambs into the sheep pens with two collies and five piglets, hasn't already convinced them... 

Haven't they watched the film 'Babe' then?

Castlemilk Moorits have lovely fleeces.

I am very glad to hear another spinner say that - a neighbour who spins has booked herself some fleece when I get some, but reading up about Bradford Counts and Staple Lengths I was beginning to think I was mistaken about it.

I have been told it's not the best fleece for a novice spinner, so I expect I'll have to be doing swapsies for a year or several until I gain some competence!

I've not spun it myself as I was a weaver who could spin but my ex-OH, who was a spinner who could weave, loved it.  You could always card it with another longer stapled wool to make it easier to spin. 

[SallyintNorth]

Castlemilk Moorits have lovely fleeces.

I am very glad to hear another spinner say that - a neighbour who spins has booked herself some fleece when I get some, but reading up about Bradford Counts and Staple Lengths I was beginning to think I was mistaken about it.

I have been told it's not the best fleece for a novice spinner, so I expect I'll have to be doing swapsies for a year or several until I gain some competence!

I've not spun it myself as I was a weaver who could spin but my ex-OH, who was a spinner who could weave, loved it.  You could always card it with another longer stapled wool to make it easier to spin. 

Yes, I think that's what people do.  It's all greek to me at the mo, but I'm looking forward to learning...