….just before 2015 joined us, we got the welcome, long-delayed news that all our English embryos, tied up for almost two years, had finally arrived in the United States. So we can now hope that some “Little Norahs” will soon be capering around the pastures.  That’s “Big Norah” on the right and her breeder, Ivan Rowe of Goldings Farm in Cornwall.  Norah, Buttercup and Snowdrop had been quarantined thanks to a minute gnat that carried the Schmallenburg virus across the Channel. The virus can cause birth defects and even death in calves and, because it was something of a mystery to the experts, they closed down the export of all genetic material. …