As wool is the main material for my craft as a spinner, weaver and knitter, it is so good to witness the care, love and pride in their flock that the farmers, smallholders, families indeed shepherds young and old bestow upon their animals.
It is so important to keep these rare breeds going, they are our heritage and our the future.
The Champions of the Show
The show was in a perfect setting at the Weald and Downland Living Museum
It is the location for the BBC Series The Repair Shop
As a living museum there is so much to do and see, demonstrations of old crafts from blacksmithing to milling, baking to weaving.
Beautiful old buildings with gardens planted out in the life long traditional way, so as to be used to supply the home for food, herbs and medicines and natural dyes.
These gardens were alive with colour, wildlife, birds, bees, butterflies.
which can only be the best way to garden, happy, happy, happy.
