us when we were down on Romney Marsh – and he went for a drive with Maddy.
When he came home, he said to me: “Dad, is Mum all right?”
“Yes”, I replied “Why do you ask?”
“Well”, Jez replied “When we were driving across the Marsh and we came to some black sheep – Mum called them “rainbow “sheep.
I laughed
“Jez, Mum was just using the new politically correct term for black sheep.
We are not allowed to call them black sheep any more – we are meant to call them “rainbow” sheep
Somehow “Baa, baa, Rainbow sheep” doesn’t quite have the ring of the original rhyme