Headline : The Lambing Field

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How a night spent with birthing ewes helped me find transcendence in the dark.

It’s midnight in the lambing field. In the darkness, we only see shapes; we notice the wind on our skin; slight noises assume importance. In the dark, our senses are heightened. In the dark, we are absorbed by the world around us. This world is two-dimensional, uncluttered by the nuance of color and depth. This is a world we are new to, but a world we have completely fallen in love with.

N, my partner, and I are helping a friend with lambing. We live on the edge of a city and have little knowledge of farm life. But he needed help, and we thought it might be fun. We packed up our campervan, drove to his farm and parked in the lambing field.

We are briefed, and then we’re off. I ride my friend’s bike and search the fields for signs of ewes in labor. When I find one, I call N. He arrives with a quad and trailer, and we take the newborn and mum back to the barn for post-birth care. N has been briefed to help with tricky births. I’m not sure I can, or to be truthful, want to. It’s messy, and I’m a two-shower-a-day, compulsive hand washer.

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