'I used to charge £1, it used to be the price of a haircut.'
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A man I know has shorn sheep for 30 years in a row now, but it’s faster he’s getting – ewe after ewe after ewe.
Both hands he works, down their back and around their head, carefully watching the milk veins, not leaving a thread behind.
Cheap labour, I think, at around €3/ewe – you wouldn’t get your own hair cut for that and the hairdressers don’t have to hunch down so low.
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“Thirty years ago I used to charge £1, it used to be the price of a haircut,” he told me. “Now I charge €3 and pay €20 to get rid of the hair on my head.”
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A man I know has shorn sheep for 30 years in a row now, but it’s faster he’s getting – ewe after ewe after ewe.
Both hands he works, down their back and around their head, carefully watching the milk veins, not leaving a thread behind.
Cheap labour, I think, at around €3/ewe – you wouldn’t get your own hair cut for that and the hairdressers don’t have to hunch down so low.
“Thirty years ago I used to charge £1, it used to be the price of a haircut,” he told me. “Now I charge €3 and pay €20 to get rid of the hair on my head.”
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