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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 17h
Thanks Nicola - that was a fabulous morning that was!
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 17h
Tony Temple judging the old tups at Broughton mart #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"In you go, lad." Another of Anthony Hartley's tups entering the sale ring at Broughton mart #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trying to catch a glimpse of #SheepOfTheDay at Broughton tup sale
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Richard Ellwood with his owd tup, Broughton mart #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tony Temple and Laura Ward judging at Broughton tup sale t'other day #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Arnold Lancaster admiring his yow, female champion at Eskdale Show #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Arnold Lancaster taking no nonsense from the auctioneer at Broughton mart #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Joe Weir with the champion at Broughton tup sale yesterday, which sold for 3,000 gns #SheepOfTheDay
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Paul McGhee @pmcghee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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.
A coloured print of Dr Syntax Drawing After Nature by Thomas Rowlandson. 

The good doctor attempt to sketch his horse, Grizzle, and a variety of farmyard animals which confront him in a circle to observe, and variously deprecate, his attempts at art. 

A fashionable trio stand behind him and offer advice.
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"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
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thanks Geoff! Gotta love Eskdale show
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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
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Paul McGhee @pmcghee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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.
Dr Syntax peers myopically at a signpost in the foothills of the Lake District. Cows observe him from a distance
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Congratulations to Joe Weir and David Harrison, joint owners of the new World Champion Herdwick as decided at Eskdale Show today #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Eskdale Show tomorrow - come and see the crowning of the new World Champion Herdwick #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Edward's Rough Fell tups on their way to registration #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's also Rough Fell tup registration time, so the best of times twice over #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They still are Dawn. But I’ll refrain from posting a photo
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's that time of year again: Herdwick tup registration time. The best of times #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Make them stand out? Yeah, we can do that #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You could probably still get a job at the BBC
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
After marking it's bath time for #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Craig bringing a few yows in to Nook Farm, Borrowdale, late in the day #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Another view of #SheepOfTheDay heading down Sourmilk Gill to Seathwaite Farm
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Gathering the Herdwicks off Base Brown and taking them down to Seathwaite Farm #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Upside down benchmark, Cockermouth
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Herdwicks being Herdwicks, while the Ryelands stand patiently in line waiting to be led to the judge one by one #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
😎
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Rob Steadman judging the Rough Fells and Kevin Wrathall judging the Herdwicks @WcaShow yesterday, thanks to both. #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Congratulations to Brian Knowles, Rough Fell champion, and Ryan Capstick, reserve, at Westmorland County Show today joint #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Congratulations to Anthony Hartley, Herdwick champion, and Vicki Edgar, reserve, at Westmorland County Show today joint #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
*raises hands self-consciously* Tracing the pattern in the squirly carpet all the while
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Westmorland County Show tomorrow - a big'un for Rough Fells #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Tup inspection time for the Herdwicks #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hawkshead t’other week
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
You can't show Dutch Spotted sheep unless you're wearing Dutch Spotted socks, rules are rules #SheepOfTheDay
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I call my wife 'her indoors' because she looks like Jim Morrison.
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
There's always time to debate the finer points of a Herdwick tup, whatever the weather #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Thanks Katherine, that's very kind!
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Rough Fell sheep leaving Kentmere Show as the storm begins to clear #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Isaac Benson choosing the champion Herdwick at Kentmere, just as the thunder began #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Rough Fells got the worst of the weather at Kentmere Show on Sunday cos there were so many of them. Everyone else had finished judging by the time the rain arrived #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Last of the sun on Kentmere Show, just before the show started and the cloud closed in #SheepOfTheDay
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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thanks Sally - it was a pleasure to watch!
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