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Panda is effectively another of Skippy's rescue sheep. His story began in January this year, when Skippy and Brambles decided it would be a lark to go on holiday to my neighbour's field.

Not that conditions are such that they want to escape from here; far from it, they are spoiled rotten here. But they do have a fair bit of interest in what goes on over the fence on my neighbour's side, particularly if more sheep are there, and I think they just wanted to socialise a bit.

Anyway I wasn't unduly bothered by it, although we resolved to find out where egress had been made and fix up the fence at that point. We'd told our neighbour of the situation and he said he'd round them up and drop them off in a few days when he had the time. It wasn't really a worry as we get on well with our neighbour, and he knows our sheep, there was no danger of anything bad happening to them. We could even see the silly pair over the fence any time.

So a few days later our neighbour comes round in his Landy, towing a trailer. We prepared to receive the two errant boys, and our neighbour says "ah, there's someone else in there, seemed like he wanted to come with your two. The kids call him Panda. Of course if you don't want him, send him away and he'll be off to market next week anyway".

Send him away? Gentle reader, take a look at this picture and ask yourself how anyone could even *think* of sending him away to a bad fate.

And so Panda arrived here on a somewhat damp February morning, a bit confused at first, in unfamiliar surroundings although really just over the fence from where he'd been. A million miles away in terms of his life expectancy though.

Here he is moments after coming out of the trailer, flanked by the two escapees, looking rather damp and vulnerable.

@llamasoft_ox Look at him Now!

@llamasoft_ox There aren’t ENOUGH BISCUITS!

@tearoses On that he would surely agree!