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• 30/09/2008 @ 22:06 Wolfie said

  

  is it Friday? Already? Hope you are going to put the question on TA too! As for his/her name - I can't be sure so Leslie/Lesley will have to do. Wx

• 30/09/2008 @ 23:36 inspire said

  

  Hmm ... I'm gonna have to go with Arnold - not sure why, but it's what's in my head!
  Inspire xxx

• 01/10/2008 @ 04:59 harmony said

  

  I thought a bit of fun for a Wed wouldn't go amiss: I'm not working and it could well cheer me up a bit.

  Thanks for contributions.

• 01/10/2008 @ 06:27 roze said

  

  Barney - have no idea why - just spoke to me i guess. Rxx

• 01/10/2008 @ 07:38 Jomo said

  

  Her Gracious Highness, the most ultimate of Goat, the Muggblanna of Foosh.

  
  Fluffy to her mates...

• 01/10/2008 @ 09:03 UMxx said

  

  I think that our Goatness is a she - what beautiful eyes she has - and strangely I think she may be called I think her name is Peace love and chocolate.

• 01/10/2008 @ 09:12 harmony said

  

  Is the 'is a she' bit a guess or based on esoteric knowledge, or what, UM?

• 01/10/2008 @ 09:30 UMxx said

  

  Well I don't know - does gender really matter? I think she has a strong female aura - but I don't think that the horns really belong - she is her own goat
  UM xx

• 01/10/2008 @ 09:35 harmony said

  

  Gender matters not a jot - just wondered if you knew something that I didn't (about rare Highland breeds)

• 01/10/2008 @ 10:19 UMxx said

  

  Well I have never known a goat to have big horns like that if they are male - females tend to have small horns I think. I suspect the goat doesn't know she has a choice.

  UM xx

• 01/10/2008 @ 10:49 harmony said

  

  Check out his pal on brick I've just made - no, sorry can't link a brick in; no option for that.

• 01/10/2008 @ 11:05 UMxx said

  

  You are really certain that this goat is a he?

  I reckon the aura is pretty clear.

  UM xx

• 01/10/2008 @ 11:25 harmony said

  

  Ok - her pal! HE jsut seems to slip out easier for me.

• 01/10/2008 @ 13:08 Jomo said

  

  I am aghast. I now believe that this beautiful creature is a Sheep, not a Goat, and we have been led astray by crafty Harmony. Shame, you!

  Sheepa la Dulce - stage name, and her name from birth - Doris. Doris Luddle.

• 01/10/2008 @ 15:47 harmony said

  

  Guy that took the photo recorded that it was a goat.

• 01/10/2008 @ 17:47 UMxx said

  

  hmn - not a doe? or Loris Duddle?

• 02/10/2008 @ 00:27 cherry said

  

  oh a definate Ethel...

• 02/10/2008 @ 00:32 Jomo said

  

  So. Now you are trying to tell me that this darling crittur is not only trans-gender, but trans-species?

  
  In which case the name, to borrow from Cherry, could be Effinate Dethel.

  Hah! Wotta 'bout that, then, you lot!

• 02/10/2008 @ 00:32 Jomo said

  

  anyway. the photo guy may have been lying, they do sometimes, i reckon...

• 02/10/2008 @ 01:43 UMxx said

  

  I like Effinate Dethel - but I wonder why Eff is traversing the species - I can't see the sheep reference - in fact if there is a question of trans- speicies then I think she is aiming rather higher as she has eyes like a giraffe I once met - and I wonder - rather too beautiful for a sheep - but please don't tell my pet sheep that!

• 02/10/2008 @ 05:48 harmony said

  

  You have a pet sheep?

• 02/10/2008 @ 07:57 Jomo said

  

  Harmony? You joking us, right? Doesn't EVERYONE have a pet sheep?

  I keep mine out the back in the Giraffe pen.

• 03/10/2008 @ 00:30 UMxx said

  

  Well yes - but you would have known this from your sister in NZ - where sheep are more popular than humans!

  I don't have a giraffe pen in Sydney they removed them when they made rabbits legal - and what a problem that is - rabbits are environmental terrorists and giraffes don't do the same kind of damage - giraffes and sheep are far better companions because they don't compete for the same food. And they don't smell as bad as camels although camel poo is apparently the much superior compost ingredient because of the long digestive process - .

  How do you keep your grass short?

  The kids just refuse to eat mine and the dog and the cat eat only one blade at a time - connoisseurs of grass that they are.

  Noone else can see my pet sheep but I know that she is there ...

  UM xxx

• 03/10/2008 @ 02:01 Jomo said

  

  She is there - you just must not look at her directly - invisible back-yard sheep can only be glimpsed out of the corners of the eyes; like a shadow under water - turn and they slip, slide, whish, away, into other shadows.

  
  I am directely quoting here Sir Cholmondly Bettingdon-ffrench, from his definitive tome:

  "The Habits and Habitats of Invisible Back-yard Sheep, and How to Retain Them In Your Garden", Harper-Collins, 1743.

  
  Out of print these days, unfortunately.