Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Day: 24 March 2022

  • “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep!”

    “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep!”

    Ah, warm sunshine and lambs gambolling in the fields. A sure sign that Spring is here. Everyone knows the nursery rhyme. Once said to have been a proletarian cry in the Middle Ages because the tremendous demand for wool meant that farming land had been turned into pasture for sheep. Thousands of farmhands were thrown…