Well, we have sunshine, it is a glorious day and no sign of rain after a solid month of it. Andrew is off mowing like crazy and we are about to do some breedings. I am hoping it will be barbecue weather this evening and that we can sit around staring at the view reading the Saturday papers – you never know.
We had a television crew here yesterday shooting a segment for a country type programme that goes out on BBC Daytime in August. They were really good fun and arrived a mere two hours late. It turned out that the presenter Adam Henson’s sister is Libby Henson who runs the alpaca pedigree registry, small world as usual. They are doing the animal/fleece/yarn story that we can do quite well as one of our businesses is UK Alpaca that manufactures alpaca yarns. They had been filming with our co-directors John Arbon and Juliet Sensicle at Coldharbour Mill at Uffculme and then came on to us. They wanted Chas to shear an animal. Typically this older girl, fully halter trained, been in the show ring so you would expect her to be OK, took an instant dislike to the notion of being filmed and screamed and spat all through the shearing.
Alpaca World magazine’s summer issue is finished now and up at the printers, thank goodness, but I need to instantly start commissioning for the next one this being the holiday season.
It was Joshua’s last day at school yesterday that they celebrated with a Summer Ball. He looked very splendid in his dinner jacket and also got the biology prize at speech day. I am thrilled that school is finally over, I’ve been doing the school run for over twenty years and having to talk to headmasters. Hurrah, no more disapproving teachers castigating me for the sins of my children.