2008 - An Update

I'm afraid all the sheep spend most of their time now grazing out in the hills of Mid-Wales and beyond. So not much news to report I'm afraid! However some of the sheep have been up to a bit of mischief with each other, and as a result there's now some new lambs! Congratualations go out to Daz and Ez who had a baby boy in December 2007, Jean-Michel and Michelle who had a baby girl earlier this year, and also Duncan and Pip who had a baby girl in May 2008.

One of these days, the sheep will return!

2007 - Another sheep getting married

This February, join us in wishing Darren (picture on left) and Eryl all the best in their wedding.

I'm afriad that there is no sheep tour this year either. The sheep are currently out to pasture.

2006 - No sheep this year

Boo! I'm afraid there was no sheep-on-tour skiing outing this year. Maybe next year...

Skiing 2005 - The return to home

With the help of our sheep dogs Shep and Rex, all sheep are back in their home pens without injury. A very successful trip was had by all with plenty of skiing and boarding going on. Everyone is pretty knackered now.

A growing number of photos (120+) are now in the gallery - more will be added over the coming weeks. If you saw the sheep on the slopes of Livigno, please sign our guestbook.

Skiing 2005 - Biggest Flock Ever!

The flock are heading back to Livigno, Italy, between the 22nd and 29th January. There are sixteen of us going which makes this a record breaking year for the sheep! Most of us this year are skiing though we have a couple snow boarding and one just lazing about probably spending a most of time in Gallis pub!

So, if you're off to Livigno the same time as us you're going to see sheep everywhere you go! Red slopes, blue slopes, nursery slopes. And you never know - there may be the odd wolf around too!

The flock hope to see you there! You certainly won't miss us.

• View photos from our last trip to Livigno four years ago
• Watch out for new photos over the coming days & weeks...

Injured Sheep Return From Mayrhofen!

They're back! Rich broke his collar bone on the second day, and the others have various bruses and sprains.

• Have a look at our photo gallery.
• If you met any of the sheep, please sign our new guestbook.

NOTE: We've had to move to a new guestbook as our old one appears to be a bit elusive at present! If we can get the old one back then we will merge the two together.

Skiing 2004 - Mayrhofen, Austria.

After testing pastures new in Austria last year, and because we left it so late that we had to take what we could get, the flock are heading to Austria again, and to the resort of Mayrhofen. Quite a famous resort, popular with the Brits, so we'll just have to see how the sheep are received. The locals in Soll seemed to appreciate the joke, but there were only two of us!!!

The sheep will be venturing to this new pasture on the 7th February for one week. This year we have a flock of 5 this year, 4 regulars (Daz, Kev W, Rich and Paul) plus a new member (Chris Potts).

Skiing 2003 - The Söll Survivors!

PHOTO GALLARY

The two stray sheep have returned home to the hills of Wales from their week long tour of Söll, Austria. The rest of the flock welcomes them back.

Skiing 2003 - Austria
1st Feb 2003

And their off! This year, its a bit of a poor showing I'm afraid. Only two of the flock are going - and you can't really that a flock anyway! So spotting a sheep this year is going to be VERY hard (though they have promised the rest of us that the sheep will be out, sometime over the holiday).

This year breaks from the tradition of Italy to head out to Söll, Austria. The two sheep keeping up the tradition are Paul and Rich (aka "Fred") - good on them and shame on the rest of us! They are there for THIS WEEK only - 1st February to the 7th February. They are not alone though, as they have gone with 12 other lads so its certainly not going to be a quiet one.

The rest of the sheep are in quite a lot of distress that, due to various circumstances, only two of the flock have gone this year, but who knows - if a cheap skiing/boarding holiday presents itself in March...! Watch this space!

No doubt, the lads are having a great time out there whilst the rest of us are stuck here in rainy old Wales. Never mind - I'm sure some photos will be taken and put up on this site in the coming weeks. And if you happen to see a sheep on tour this year, let us know!!

Resources:

• Söll, Austria - general info
• Stock pictures from Soll
• Snow report (looks good)
• Soll webcam

Following from Paul and KevV going to a gig on KBW's UK tour, the funny Aussie singer has visited sheep-on-tour and posted a message in the guest book.

Wondering who the fu*k is KBW? Visit his site.

Update: Damm... we lost that guestbook (thanks free.guestbook.com!) but believe me he did sign it!

Undercover: TT2002

Darren, Kevin and Aled attended the TT racing over the Jubilee bank holiday. None of us had cameras so there will be no photos (but see box-out bottom left!).
 

Llani Fancy Dress: July 5th

Bob the Builder, Red Devil, Firemen, St. Trinians were some of the costumes of the sheep in this years event. Llani fancy dress is often dubbed Wales' largest street party and is held in the town of Llanidloes near Newtown. It occurs on the first Friday of July and is a pretty wicked event to go to. There are people from far a field that come to it.

CLEETHORPES 2002

The annual Cleethorpes weekend was on the 26th-28th April. A lesser affair this year with no sheeping and only 12 of us, but still a good time was had.

Mad Sunday cocktail roulette in the Voodoo bar was done as usual, with some £100 spent at the bar in the matter of half an hour. No official competition this year though, but Kevin was the first pissed and Paula the first to chunder (though it was a TC).

Special mention has to be made for "Muddy Pond", a new drink made by Paula that consisted of vodka, whiskey, larger, coffee and many more items. However the worst tasting was the drink made with Jiff Lemon!

We may have some photos in the undercover section in the future.

Guest Sheep in London

14/Apr/02: In the busy metropolis of London there are still sheep to be found! This photo was sent in by one Rich (aka Fred), one of the regular sheep, who's friends Chris and Kristy dressed up as sheep for a bit of a party.

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Cervinia 2002

Sunday 13th, the sheep landed safely back in Birmingham airport. A successful and enjoyable holiday all round (with the minor inconvenience of one of the sheep [me - Aled] badly injuring his knee on the first day putting him out of action for the whole week!).

This time around we have promoted this web site more than ever. So please, if you met us on holiday sign our guest book now, letting us know who you are and where we saw you (just in case we were drunk and forgot!).

Also, if you have your own web-site with your holiday snaps on, tell us and we can link to it!

UPDATES

24/Jan: Over 60 photos from this year's tour are now available for viewing!

Skiing 2002 - Sheep return to Cervinia! 

The time had come! - in the early hours of Sunday 6th of January the sheep will have started their annual skiing outing.

This year we are heading back to Cervinia in the Italian/Switz alpes along side the Matterhorn. This is where the flock first made their outing. Eight of the flock are booked in. 

We are going to stay at the same hotel as last time, the Compagnoni which is ideally situated in the centre of the town within easy reach of everywhere. Lets see if they remember us and if old faces like Lucia and Patricia are still around!

So, watch out for the flock of sheep in the early hours of Sunday morning. Watch out for us in Birmingham airport (if it's open) heading out to Turin. And if you are heading out to Cervnia yourself, see you out there.

Watch out for details of our holiday on this web site in the following weeks.

> Information and Reviews on Cervinia
 

Skiing Tour 1999 - Cervinia
Skiing Tour 2000 - Sauze d'Oulx
Skiing Tour 2001 - Livigno
Skiing Tour 2002 - Cervinia

Photos from all our skiing trips are now available, including the boarding tour in Livigno (Italy) last year, and Cervina this year.

The sheep have been spotted around at various other locations, of which you can read a small synopsis about on the history page. If you wish to contact us, you may email the generic address or contact one of us directly - see the "Who the Flock Are You?" page.

Where it all began...

If you want to know how it all started, look at this page:

Australian Christmas Beach Party 1998

• Kev's Birthday Bash (April 2001)
• Shamrock Takes Flossy's Place (April 2001)
• How foot and mouth restrictions affected this site!