George Shearing enjoys an international reputation as a pianist, arranger and composer. Equally at home on the concert stage as in jazz clubs, Shearing is recognized for inventive, orchestrated jazz.

A broken jaw playing country rugby league led farmer Ross Thompson to get serious about shearing sheep in the northern New South Wales town of Inverell. It was the 1990s when some 10,000 shearers ...

Max Telfer was halfway through his carpentry apprenticeship when he began thinking about how he could earn his hourly wage in just 10 minutes as a sheep shearer. He decided he didn't have much to lose ...

The rhythms of spring will soon be arriving this year, with daytime temps rising to the lower 40s this week. Chickadees are ...

BROWNSVILLE, Ore. — Sheep shearing, according to veteran shearer Mike Cowdrey, isn’t for everybody. “It’s the kind of job that you either like doing or you want nothing to do with it,” he said. The ...

This is not your average beauty school. Your clients can be pretty cranky. Sometimes they’ll even walk out mid-haircut. And you have to hold them down -- with only your legs -- while wielding an ...

When you see one of your shrubs growing a little too wild, your first thought might be to grab those hedge shears and give it a trim. However, choosing what you think is the fastest or simplest ...

Pianist and composer Sir George Shearing has died, at age 91. Born blind, Shearing was a self-taught musician, the youngest of nine children of a London coal man. In a career spent almost entirely in ...

A sheepdog rounds up sheep before they are taken to shearing in Usingen near Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, May 29, 2021. AP USINGEN, Germany — It’s time for the sheep in Germany’s Taunus Mountains to ...

Didling Farm’s flock manager, Matt Blyth, has seen a marked improvement in lamb weights and survival since he started shearing ewes before lambing five years ago. The indoor lambing flock of 1,050 ...