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Archive for 27/07/2009

Life on the Edge

A ewe nicknamed Aretha - after the singer Aretha Franklin - has been entertaining people by taking up a lonesome residence on a cliff’s edge near Whitby in North Yorkshire - an area made famous in Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstien’. 

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People are mystified as to how the independent sheep managed to find her way 220ft down the cliff face and she seems in no hurry to leave.  The sheep was first spotted by pleasure boat captain, Bryan Clarkson, who has been keeping watch on her ever since.  She’s been dubbed Aretha - as she sung the soul hit, ‘Rescue Me’.

So we have another odd antic involving a sheep - Mr Lamb would be most amused given his witty sense of humour.  Our interpretation is clear - has our wanton use of energy consuming machines without thought of the environmental consequences brought humanity to the edge?

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