We had moved the sheep shed away from the field for the winter, storing it behind the shipping container which we use for storage.   Today I raked up all the ground under the shed and filled a wheelbarrow twice with well-rotted sheep manure which will go in the polytunnel and on the garden.  It was a back breaking job after a winter of inactivity.  Time to get fit! 

The sheepskins have arrived back from the tanner in Tampere.  They are really beautiful, thick, long and woolly.  Some of them have a slightly frizzy curl to them, others are straighter.  In fact each one is slightly different.  So we have twelve of them and I am keeping one of the light brown ones for my office chair.  It has a small hole in one side, which must've happened at the abattoir, but the others are all perfect.  So one more brown one and the rest are black.