"The Flock" gets rid of its leader.

There is a rival group amongst our flocks which calls themselves The Flock Party or TFP for short. Up till now their leader has been a young ram called Judd and his deputy Yulia has caused havoc not only within the group but also to his supporters in the AWU (Australian Woolgrovers Union) and many other groups.




We knew there was something going on the other day when we saw the Flock party pushing their leader to the front when the farmer came down to collect a ram for the “trip to you know where” ( we really don’t want to discuss this as we’ve heard horrible stories where that trip actually takes us). Obviously Judd was in a panic and tried to get back into the middle of the flock but too late, with a mighty push from Yulia and her closest friend who, for some reason is called the Swan saw “The Young Leader” being loaded onboard the old truck and taken away whilst the rest of the “gang” flocked around Yulia and, it seemed to us, they were actually quite obscene in their praise for her.

To our surprise Judd was returned by the farmer in the afternoon after “the one way journey” and we heard some muttering from the farmer like “ to thin, no meat etc.” so he’s back on pasture but outside the Flock, if you know what I mean.

Konrad, the sage in our group called us together and gave us some wise words. See how it goes if you don’t stick together eh? Let it be a lesson to you youngsters. I can assure you that Yulia in the Flock Party is only a Sheep-on-a-String at the moment and I can only emphasise the importance of being united behind a strong leader, as we are behind you. Here he turned and looked straight into the eyes of our strong leader, Antonius who, with a mighty Baaah made us all proud.

Australian election 2010 forecasted for 11 September.

On Tuesdays we have a “get-together” with the elders in the flock and this time it was Uncle Harold’s turn to talk to us. ( He got his name from an ancestor who went with the Vikings from Scandinavia to England and, according to Uncle Harold a later ancestor came out with the First Fleet in 1788 and again, according to uncle Harold and his Sheep Dreaming tales, this ancestor named Rurik's ancestors were a flock of tough merinos having spent over 50 years in South Africa. He was taken onboard at the Cape of Good Hope together with the rest of the flock and sailed to Sydney. At disembarkation in Sydney he managed to get loose and ran away,after many adventures he ended up in the Cunnamulla district.


Now, where was I? .

Uncle Harold has the gift of a seer and when he said, completely out of the blue that “ the Australian election will be held on 11 September:” we were gobsmacked. “How do you know, we all baa’d”.

“Easy” he said, “ this one is easy" . "I just passed the septic tank and there were 11 rams standing there asking for direction so, I read the signs; Sep(tic) ( short for September) and the 11 rams asking for direction. Direction what ? Direction how to vote of course! A sure thing, 11th September. I don’t want to tell you how to vote but it would be nice to support Baaar-naby, he’s a decent sort of bloke and need us now. I think he’s wearing the Bah-B-Q t shirt actually." Have you noticed?