Feet and remarkable bruising

Well this really has been a bit of a week!  On Saturday we went Winchester way to collect my new draft Welsh ewes.  Sam's boss kindly lent us his trailer as it would have been a bit of a squash with ours for 30 ewes.  They need to be fairly close together so they don't fall but I don't like to see them all squashed too tight.  I had a message the day before to say one had a slight limp but had been sprayed and sheep do tend to have a knack of limping so I wasn't too worried.  They went into the trailer easily with limper amongst them and when we got back I had a close look at her.  Poor girl had obviously been bitten by a dog and had a nasty infected ankle so was given antibiotics and put in a pen under cover with lots of 'treats'  They are all pretty wild so I am not sure she appreciated her treats much!  Her ankle still has not properly mended despite me squeezing vast quantities of puss out of it so tomorrow I am going to try a turmeric poultice and see if I can get more infection out.  Despite this, she is very perky and has now decided she loves ivy and sheep nuts.  Any sheep who is off colour gets ivy and willow - ivy seems too get them eating and appears to have some sort of healing properties for sheep.  Willow, I think, has some sort of pain killer action - they certainly like it!
I was a bit worried about handling the rest of the Welshies as they are a bit wild and I thought I would struggle to get them all penned or moved on my own.  Once we got them off the trailer and gave them all their quarantine wormers etc I didn't think I would be getting them in very easily, even with Carl, Sam and Kristy. BUT they are the most easy sheep ever! Despite being wild they flock at the drop of a hat and once flocked they do not break out! Amazing as even without a dog you get behind them and shoo them and they go into the pen no bother with no one trying to split out - we did it twice to check it wasn't a fluke!  Sorry for the quality of the picture.

Some of the Welshies meeting Alf the ram

After all that excitement I hoped for a quiet week as I have lots of knitting to finish but I then had a bit of a disaster which I put down to my age.  Rushing out to the car I tripped on the top step, head butted the car and landed heavily on my knees and (any gentlemen readers may wish to skip to the last paragraph (- but do not fear, there are no photos!) landed heavily on my right 'bumper' (I can think of no more delicate way of putting it)  It is now remarkably bruised - in fact it is black and red - a quite breath taking sight!

Italian classes are a little hard going and I am struggling a bit with a message I received from my Italian friend which reads "Ê già passato un anno Nana Malefica! Auguri Nilde "orecchi a patatina" "
which appears to be something about a malevolent troll with potato ears!!