The classic woolly hat goes by an assortment of local names. It turns out that in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Australia, the term "beanie" is normally applied to a wool knit hat and it’s interchangeable with a Tuque, Touque and Toque in Canada and parts of the US. Touque, Toque and Tuque is in fact the same wool hat as a Beanie with three distinct spellings. And last but not least in the southern states of America, Toboggan is the name for a wool knitted hat that is worn during the colder months.

Over the last few months we’ve been asked some really interesting questions about sheep and Scotland. So this is the first blog post in which we’ll try to answer the first of many questions. I’m Anita, nice to meet you and this is my first WELAN blog post.

If you are anything like me and can’t help but go all doe-eyed around sheep, Scotland is a country you never have to look far to see one or two sheep. In fact, it would seem sheep outnumber Scotland’s human population by over a million according to National Records of Scotland and the Scottish Government’s statistics on agriculture.