Life and Thoughts of The One Ocean

Singing sheep in demand

09:24 Wednesday 13th December 2006

A single featuring singing sheep is to be released for the second year in a row due to public demand.

The Baarmy Sheep's version of Jingle Bells appeared on the Cumbria Tourism website last year and received thousands of downloads.

This year, the website has been inundated with requests for the song from around the world.

A Cumbria Tourism spokesman told the BBC: "We really had no intention of releasing this single again and the plan had been to quietly retire the Baarmy Sheep for good.

"We have been amazed by the amount of people who have been in touch wanting to hear them, so we are making it available again absolutely free from our website.

"Clearly there is still an appetite for the Baarmy Sheep and if Slade can re-release Merry Christmas Everyone after 30 years we can do this."

posted by The One Ocean @ 12/13/2006 12:44:00 PM