I'm quite at loss with this sheep shearing. I know how it works in theory, and I even found two somewhat useful pages. (
Wikipedia, look under "blade shears" and
another.) I still think I lack the proper knowledge about medieval sheep-herding, sheep and sheep shearing to write a post about it...
So, I think I'll either write about Modtryth (though I must say the children are much more amusing) or try to find more information about the sheep things... If anyone has any knowledge about sheep, I'd be glad if s/he shared with us.