Summary
The 150th Royal Highland Show is the perfect place for coveting cattle, doing deals or simply getting wellied in your wellies
'THIS is Johnny Depp," says Susan. "Don't you think he's handsome?" Johnny Depp, unmoved by the compliment, chews his straw with an expression somewhere between enigmatic and glaikit. He is, you see, a sheep; a Ryeland lamb, to be precise, reared by Susan Bryden, 50, and shown here at the Royal Highland Show. He is solidly built and has wool over the top half of his face, giving him the look of a masked Mexican wrestler. "He actually won a first prize earlier, so somebody else agrees that he's beautiful," says the breeder. "I have a Keira Knightley, too, but she's at home in Lockerbie."See the full content of this document
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Peter Ross at Large: Creature Comforts
The general public are unused to thinking of sheep as high- achieving individuals, celebrities of a sort. We tend to think of them en masse and in somewhat derogatory terms. But at the Royal Highland Show, Ingliston, there is a whole other mindset. Here, animals become stars. Each ewe has the potential to be a Lady Baa Baa.
First staged in 1822, the Royal Highland Show, which concludes today, used to move around Scotland, but this is i...See the full content of this document
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