Next time when you roam the countryside of a European Union country looking for sheep, make sure you are extra vigilant. Otherwise, Shepherds there may pull some wools over your eyes. And you may mistake some white objects on far away hills as sheep grazing calmly on remote grassland.
Recently I watched an old BBC television production. It tells the stories of many enduring characters' lives in a fictional Irish village, Ballykissangel.
In this particular episode, a young couple was about to be married. But the groom got cold feet after he almost got killed by a falling boulder from the roof of the parish church. Happily, the wedding would be on as planned. Among other alluring plots in this hour-long production, writer(s) for this episode showed us how enterprising and imaginative an otherwise harmless old farmer can be when the matter affects his pocket books.
It is not unlike what other countries do to help out their farmers. Under EU’s agricultural policy, farmers in European Union receive monetary subsidies based on the volume of what their farm had produced. To make up many invisible sheep this crafty Irish farmer had on the government's books, he dotted the green pasture on the hillsides with white wooden sheep he made in his barn. - Ayee
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