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As soon as shearing’s due to begin, the temperature drops.

29ºC on Tuesday, 22º yesterday and we’ll be lucky to see 18º today.

It’s the “Schafskälte” – “literally “Sheeps’ Cold” – the cold snap that pops up around 11 June with a regularity of – get this – 89%!

There are a couple of meteorological old wives’ tales like this – the Frigid Saints in mid-May (Pankratius, Servatius, Bonifatius and the “Chilly Sophie) and “Siebenschläfer”, the equivalent of Groundhog Day.

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