Britain trip 50 animal and fiber related photos

We are back from our epic (to us) journey to the UK.  Here's the many farm animal and fiber related photos we took:

Shaun the sheep stuff in a shop window in York:

Ancient fiber related items including a reproduction Roman loom in York,
Roman whorls and spindles in Inverness,
Roman spinning and weaving tools in Bath,
and a 14th century tapestry in Coventry:

Northern Britain sheep photos:






Llamas in Britain:
Jacob sheep:
Sheep, pig and cows in Scotland:



Shetland animals:




Shetland lace shawl and ponies at crofthouse museum:


More Shetland sheep:








Machinery at Jamieson mill in Sandness, Shetland:



Sorry- more Shetland sheep photos:







Shaun the sheep at Aardman Features:
Jamieson yarn I could not resist buying:
Fair Isle sweater I bought for myself at Spider's Web shop in Lerwick, Shetland Islands:
We will try to get the rest of the photos posted on Kodak Easyshare later today.

So the downside to the epic journey is the toll it took on our animals in our absence.  On top of them missing us and our dog Josie escaping by fence jumping multiple times, we lost one of our bucks.  Mr. Mahogany died of a parasites while we were gone.  The liver copper level is still pending to see if that is the underlying cause since we had just wormed him with adequate does of oral ivermectin just before we left.  We also lost quite a few pheasant chicks to coccidiosis and our steer Leroy went lame with laminitis from the grass.  Here's a photo of our wonderful polled buck who died: