Baa aaa aaah baa aaa aaah – in lamb, this roughly translates to ‘Hang on a minute, Mum – I’m hungry’.

An ‘ickle lambo’ is sitting in the long grass sheltering from filthy weather. He’s a bit sleepy and keeps nodding off – it’s hard work doing all this gambolling and suckling from Mum and playing with his friends. It’s been a busy day.

Mum ambles about, munching on the lush new grass growing after a long winter of eating dried bracken and gorse. Mum never takes her eye of her offspring though, not for a single moment. Mum makes sure he is safe and sound. She’s a good Mum.

This is a place where lambs and ewes mingle with people with no fences or boundaries, other than the non-physical, emotional boundaries of good behaviour that says ‘don’t scare the lambs or their Mums’ and ‘don’t under any circumstances let your dog go near these little woolly families’.

On my way back across the moor from a trip to the farm shop, I happened(!!??!!) to have my 10d in my handbag……no wonder it’s so knackered – it’s carted around in my handbag unprotected most days. I decided to stop, get out and shoot a few pics and very obligingly this little chap decided he was hungry at exactly the right moment and Mum didn’t seem to mind too much. They’re much more obliging about photo opportunities when Rosie and Archie aren’t with me.

This is a place where road users take second place to sheep, cows and ponies, who all have right of way and exercise their rights routinely.

As a driver, you’re OK if the animals have their heads down and are eating, they’re probably not going to leap into the road. If though, there is a sheep looking up, you can be pretty sure they are about to launch across the road in a strange gait that starts with a run, then kind of peters out to a slow walk at around the half-way point. When the sheep is more than half way over – that’s actually the danger point at this time of year, because that’s the time that a dozy lamb will suddenly realise Mum has gone over the road and will leap up in a daze and scamper across to join Mum…….much to the surprise and consternation of the drivers!

I’m looking forward to showing my little sister’s boys the delights of the moors next weekend….I think they will love sights like this.

I was talking about sex as a bargaining tool last year.....and because of that my pic got loads of hits!!!