Some things cannot be put off forever. So, courtesy of amazon, I managed to purchase, at too high a price, the product no-one else wanted, and persuaded Mrs K to have a go. In the dim and distant past we helped with the annual sheep shearing & fleece-rolling on the farm where we lived. So it's just like old times,

Apologies if the photo is upsetting. No desperate hirsute people were harmed in the making of this image.