Considering we live in a wet, hilly and fairly grassy land it's surprising we don't live on a diet of lamb.

Of all the traditional meats - chicken, beef, pork... lamb has to be the all around tastiest. It makes the best curries, stews, roasts ... you name it, lamb is the thing.

If you drive only a few miles outside of any major city in Britain, very soon the countryside becomes dotted with little mushroom shapes in the distance, on closer inspection these are of course sheep. The British landscape is infested with the things. We must produce so much lamb that every person in Britain could be eating it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. (Or breakfast, dinner and tea/supper depending on where you are from).

But in the shops lamb is really expensive. Even scabby stewing lamb costs more than rump steak. Something is seriously wrong.

Where is all our lamb going? Why are we importing so much beef when we are already producing something better here?

I can't afford to eat lamb as often as I would like but if I were richer I think this would be my meat of choice.

So today it was lamb - slow roasted leg. We had guests for dinner again and there was just enough for everyone. One poor person didn't eat meat so had to make do with a haggis type concoction, which seemed to go down well (I didn't get this in the photo as everyone was fighting over it while I was trying to take my snap). A tasty dinner and an excellent bottle of wine too. More sheep please, next time just bring me the whole thing though.