Bill Robertson

Didn't make it to Buttermere shepherds meet, so here's Joe & Natalie Weir with last year's champion and reserve #SheepOfTheDay

Buttermere Shepherds Meet tomorrow, 11 am start. Indoors, fortunately - assuming Storm Boelo allows you to get there #SheepOfTheDay

Heading in to Kirkby Stephen Swaledale tup sale early this morning #SheepOfTheDay

Early start tomorrow for Kirkby Stephen Swaledale tup sale #SheepOfTheDay

Owd tup, Borrowdale Shepherds Meet #SheepOfTheDay

Early arrivals at Borrowdale Shepherds Meet yesterday, where frost lingered until the sun cleared the trees #SheepOfTheDay

Congratulations to Jonny Bland & family of Yew Tree Farm, they took both champion and reserve at Borrowdale Shepherds Meet today #SheepOfTheDay

Pipe break time at Broughton mart #SheepOfTheDay

That time of year

Broughton yow sale: luck money being passed across the mart, from the seller just out of the ring to the buyer in the office #SheepOfTheDay

Heading into the sale ring at Broughton mart #SheepOfTheDay

Congratulations to Anthony Hartley, his shearlings were reserve champions at Ladies Day at Broughton yesterday; thanks to Ian Grisedale for judging #SheepOfTheDay

Want some of these? Come to Broughton yow sale tomorrow... #SheepOfTheDay

No Wasdale Head shepherds meet yesterday, sadly, so here's Paul & Craig Naylor with their champion last year #SheepOfTheDay

Stillness - Lake District Observations 📷Pentax 17 🎞️Ilford FP4 - DD-X #believeinfilm #lakedistrict #landscape

Wasdale Head shepherds meet cancelled in today's bad weather, so here's a couple from the Duddon valley on the way home. No #SheepOfTheDay 😢

Wasdale Head shepherds meet tomorrow. Can't promise the same weather as last year though #SheepOfTheDay

Tony Temple judging the old tups at Broughton mart #SheepOfTheDay

"In you go, lad." Another of Anthony Hartley's tups entering the sale ring at Broughton mart #SheepOfTheDay

Trying to catch a glimpse of #SheepOfTheDay at Broughton tup sale

Richard Ellwood with his owd tup, Broughton mart #SheepOfTheDay

Tony Temple and Laura Ward judging at Broughton tup sale t'other day #SheepOfTheDay

Arnold Lancaster admiring his yow, female champion at Eskdale Show #SheepOfTheDay

Arnold Lancaster taking no nonsense from the auctioneer at Broughton mart #SheepOfTheDay

Congratulations to Cameron Bland, first prize Young Herdwick Breeder at Eskdale Show. Cam was so surprised, he let go of his sheep and it ran off - which should really have disqualified him from the award... #SheepOfTheDay

Joe Weir with the champion at Broughton tup sale yesterday, which sold for 3,000 gns #SheepOfTheDay

Dr Syntax, continuing his tour of the Northern counties,has discovered that sketching the life of the countryside is not easy. Some fellow travelers suggest that he might concentrate on sheep, which are generally less alarming.

Congratulations to Joe Weir, champion at Broughton tup sale today with his shearling. Graham Lightfoot's 2-shear was reserve; Richard Ellwood had the best owd tup #SheepOfTheDay

"I don't care how you get here / Just get here if you can" It's Broughton tup sale tomorrow, huge day in the Herdwick calendar #SheepOfTheDay

Thanks to @herdyuk.bsky.social for sponsoring the Herdwick World Championship yesterday at Eskdale Show. Congratulations too to Arnold Lancaster, his yow was female champion, and to Roger Brown, who seemed somewhat surprised to win the local championship #SheepOfTheDay

Returned now, like Dr Syntax, from my Tour In Search of the Picturesque I hope you will indulge me in a new series of ramblings.

Congratulations to Joe Weir and David Harrison, joint owners of the new World Champion Herdwick as decided at Eskdale Show today #SheepOfTheDay

Eskdale Show tomorrow - come and see the crowning of the new World Champion Herdwick #SheepOfTheDay

Edward's Rough Fell tups on their way to registration #SheepOfTheDay

It's also Rough Fell tup registration time, so the best of times twice over #SheepOfTheDay

It's that time of year again: Herdwick tup registration time. The best of times #SheepOfTheDay

Make them stand out? Yeah, we can do that #SheepOfTheDay

After marking it's bath time for #SheepOfTheDay

Jonny and Nathan Bland marking Herdwick yows in Borrowdale. "We want the shearlings to be easy to spot so they don't get tupped by mistake" #SheepOfTheDay

Craig bringing a few yows in to Nook Farm, Borrowdale, late in the day #SheepOfTheDay

Another view of #SheepOfTheDay heading down Sourmilk Gill to Seathwaite Farm

Gathering the Herdwicks off Base Brown and taking them down to Seathwaite Farm #SheepOfTheDay

Upside down benchmark, Cockermouth

Herdwicks being Herdwicks, while the Ryelands stand patiently in line waiting to be led to the judge one by one #SheepOfTheDay

Rob Steadman judging the Rough Fells and Kevin Wrathall judging the Herdwicks @WcaShow yesterday, thanks to both. #SheepOfTheDay