Then again, had I not moved on, I might have missed the initially unprepossessing California sheep head fish (their flattened black and white heads do indeed look like ewes), which, it turns out, are born and live as females until the age of 7 or 8, then become male.
About openings in general Hughes had this to say: "Either you run into people who want something from you--you see them coming across the room, like ewes through the long grass, with that look in their eye.
But be prepared to be whizzed through your dinner like ewes through a sheep-dip, to be served slightly tired and formulaic dishes by swishy French waiters, and to get a ghastly shock if you take your eye off the ball at the ordering stage.
I do quite like the ewes, especially when they're pregnant, and when you get that first bleat from the newborn lamb, it's pretty good".
Having previewed the full-cuss version, I can only conclude that the alternative soundtrack must sound like a ewe singing an aria.
"Objectively speaking," says Susie Gersten, wife of the victim, "I swear to God, she looked like a ewe in a blond wig".
It may be winter, but as the feverishly catchy theme song says, it feels like summer with ewe! Comments have been reopened to time with this film's Australian release.
Gravid ewes kneel to tug and chew at sparse fescues.
Shearing ewes before lambing reduces the number of ewes that are cast (i.e. unable to rise unassisted), and the number of lambs and ewes that are lost.
