1.   Britain is in the grip of a nationwide shortage... of sheep shearers.

2.   At my age, I was happy enough to settle for watching a sheep shearer shear a sheep.

3.   He had further stints as a sheep shearer and travel writer before moving to southern Spain and purchasing a ramshackle farm called El Valero.

4.   Like any other athlete, a sheep shearer needs to lift weights, maintain an aerobics program and avoid tobacco and alcohol.

5.   One former sheep shearer became a plant manager.

6.   Sheep shearers are shy folks.