This weekend it is the BAS National Show at Newark. All our show animals are like dishcloths, wet, wet, wet. They are all going in to the barn tonight in the faint hope that they dry out before the long drive tomorrow, some hope! Once we get to the show, we’ll be training some big fans on them to try and keep them dry so that their fleece looks OK. The weather forecast is awful and if it is like last year, it will be cold up there as well. I will have to get the alpaca socks out again to keep warm.
I shot over to my brother’s farm in Somerset this morning to borrow his fiddler which is a device for sowing seed. It has a bow that you draw across to send the seeds flying out as you walk. We have to get some grass seed down at the new house to re-seed the areas where the digger has been working putting in drains, new septic tank etc. I came home with some gorgeous peonies as well and more asparagus, the latest offerings from his farm shop.
Beside the road near New Cross Fruit Farm were some red May trees out in full blossom. And it really is a red blossom, absolutely startling and rather more exotic that you expect in darkest Somerset.
Amazingly our alpaca video on You Tube is almost up to a hundred thousand hits. We have a new one now that Matt did of our orphan cria being fed.