And from a number of inventive-sounding salads came one of refreshing string bean, celery root and tomato under a cap of sheepy Manchego.
But there are still artisanal producers in the land of Don Quixote, like the Parra family, whose handmade version has a grassy, fruity aroma and a mellow taste that is bolstered by a characteristically sheepy tang.
I can't get the feta to melt properly, and kefalotyri proves difficult to come by (Elisavet recommends substituting a mature cheddar), but pecorino, another aged ewe's milk cheese adds a salty, sheepy quality that's perfect with the lamb.
Soft, hard, goaty, sheepy, blue, crumbly or creamy, tangy or mild, or seriously smelly, rarely a day goes by without me squashing some on a piece of bread, scattering a handful into a sauce or over a gratin or salad, or simply grabbing a chunk and consuming it greedily on the hoof between kitchen and garden or desk.
The four acres she has up the road where she lives with her husband, TV director Ludo Graham, wouldn't accommodate these sheepy dreams, so they began asking around and found the working farm that we're now on.
The ræst is chewy like thick-cut pata negra ham, with a strong flavour only just the right side of "sheepy" for me.
In one supremely surreal sequence, our sheepy heroes collectively dress up as a pantomime horse into whose bottom a miscreant's head gets stuck – just writing that down is making me giggle.
My favorite Greek cheese is the creamy, sheepy manouri: delicately scented and almost spreadable, it's like a softer, pudgier feta.
The addition of sheepy Spanish cheese added zip to a sandwich of grilled portobello and shredded vegetables.
The exceptionally wet weather has caused chaos across the country from the banks of the river Yealm in the south-west to Sheepy Magna in Leicestershire and Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire.
