Of the sheep who thought he was a goat and other fables

Meet my mum's newest 'tenant' (it's actually her neighbour's sheep, he 'parks' them in my mother's paddocks sometimes): it's a sheep who thinks it's a goat! At least, I've never seen any other sheep climb up against the fence when he sees someone approaching. I was LOLing when I first saw him do it! It's a very tame sheep as well and he likes a pet on his head.





In other animal related news (less cute..), it's been so warm here lately, my worst nightmare has come flying into my room again: a cockchafer. I'm not afraid of most creepy crawly thing, he, I even worked with large tropical ticks during my research internship. But this beetle, almost 3 cm long, is just so big and noisy and clumsy, it flies into anything, including me! I have some in my room every spring when I have my windows open. I heroically caught this one by throwing a big towel over it and shaking that outside my window! (Then I closed all the windows and waited till my heart took to it's normal rhytm again...)