A woolly merino sheep is feeling much lighter now after four years on the run in the Tekapo hills. Wallace chats to Gavin Loxton, the owner of Sawdon Station where Shrekapo now resides.
The Country s Best Bits 2020: Feel good favourites
10 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Best friends forever - Charles the dog and Graham the lamb. Photo / Gareth Richards
The Country
Last year was pretty hectic so it s not surprising that some stories slipped through the cracks of the Best Bits 2020 list.
Although there were some gems that may not have made it to the most read stories of the year, they did manage to catch the eye of The Country s online producer. Feel good was the inadvertent theme of this year s list, with animal friendships and farmer hobbies featuring - as well as a runaway sheep, a running dairy farm worker and a story that was actually about a gem.
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Waiuku College students Bailey Thorpe, Callum Julian and Luke Cathcart shared the title for the school s mullet of the week . In March, before the country went into lockdown the mullet made its comeback, and Auckland’s Waiuku College celebrated it. Drawing inspiration from All Black Jack Goodhue, it introduced “mullet of the week” on social media in the name of culture and charity. “The mullet has always been a popular hairstyle of choice among the young men of Waiuku, so we chose to create this weekly Facebook post as a fun way to highlight and celebrate this part of our local culture,” said Principal Tom Vanderlaan.