Hello world. Where am I? I’m cold, hungry, and weak and all I want to do is lie down, but I must find food. Ah, there it is, nice warm milk. This must be mum. I like mum. Hey what is that? Looks like a mimi mum. I’m tired now so I’m going to have a sleep. It was hard being born.

Hello again. I’m a big boy now. I have made lots of friends with the things that look like mini mums and we like playing together. We chase each other around all day and play follow the leader. It’s a really fun game. 

Sometimes we like to nibble at the green stuff on the ground. Mum likes to eat it so it must be nice but it doesn’t taste very good to us. Her milk is much better but she doesn’t like us drinking that much because we bump her around a bit now that we’re older and stronger.

This morning something scary happened. A noisy thing came and chased us all out of the paddock. They followed us into a very small place and shut the gate on us. We are all trapped in here and I’ve lost mum. I don’t know if I’ll ever see her again. They are chasing us down a very small tube now. I have to turn off into a pen with all my friends and there are some scary things in here. Oh no they are picking me up now and shoving me down this thing which holds me still. I want to get free but I can’t. I’m trapped and now they are cutting my tail off with some hot things. It’s burning me and it hurts but I can’t get free. Oh thankfully they pulled me out of that horrible thing. My tail really hurts and I can’t find my mum. Where is she? All I want to do is lie down but everything hurts. What happened? Why did they hurt me? It happened to all my friends too. 

Everything is ok now. I found mum and we got put back in our paddock. I was horribly sore but I got better. So did my friends and we are playing together again. I am enjoying life and it’s fun being with my friends every day. We spend a lot of time together and our mums take turns watching us. Life is good.

The sun is shining and its a warm day today. I can hear that horrible noise again but it might be going somewhere else. Oh no its coming our way. It’s chasing us out of our paddock again and into that scary place. I have lost mum again but I think I’ll find her after last time. I hope we are not going to be hurt again. 

Now I’m in a pen with some of my friends. Where are all the girls? Maybe they got to go to another pen. 

We are getting chased up a tunnel onto a really big noisy thing. It smells really bad and my mum isn’t here. Where is she? 

The pens are really tiny and we are getting squished. It’s really hot and I’m having trouble breathing. 

Oh no this thing moves. Where are we going? I want my mum. It’s really scary and I don’t know what is happening. My friends are all scared too and none of our mums are here. 

What is happening to us? Finally, we are being let off this horrible thing. Wait a minute. This isn’t home. It’s noisy and I can hear screaming. What is happening. I think I’m dying.

This is it. My mum isn’t coming back. We are all here to die. Why? Why do we have to die? I don’t know what I did wrong. My life was happy and now this. I just want to see my mum again but I never will. I hope she isn’t worrying about me. 

We are all here to die and that is my life. It was so short and I don’t know why it has to end. I love all my friends and I love my mum as well. 

I was told there are people that like to eat us for Christmas Dinner. I hope they realise how much we paid so they can enjoy their feast. People, this cost our life. I hope I tasted good. 

Goodbye world. I don’t understand but I know my mum loves me since the day I was born on that cold Spring morning. I’ve enjoyed my time here and seen some interesting things. It’s so final and tragic but that’s the life I lived.

Your friend, The Christmas Lamb