Hello Again

We've been very busy with two yarn shows in the last ten days, finishing up the fleece grading, fighting the weather, first continuous rain and now THE COLD. We took [...]

Read More

Weaning

It was our first weaning day yesterday and 12 females and 8 males said a fond farewell to their mums. The mums by the way seemed to know they were [...]

Read More

Office Warmth

Here is our new wood-burner, installed yesterday into the office. This should put an end to the days of typing in gloves, a scarf, coats, over-trousers, and in Chas's case [...]

Read More

Fighting for Life

We have had a pretty torrid time with a six week old, 17 kilo fawn cria who went down with an overwhelming infection - that's what the bloods said - [...]

Read More

Fly Strike

There is nothing quite like spending a Sunday afternoon spraying an alpaca with Crovect and watching the maggots hastily decamp and die in front of you. Did I anticipate this [...]

Read More

The Knitting & Stitching Show

We finally arrived home just before midnight last night after four days grafting for UK Alpaca at the Knitting & Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace. Couldn't believe that half our [...]

Read More

Fruits of the Hedgerow

Unfortunately, this year, not many of those with virtually no sloes in our hedges and the blackberries pretty pathetic too. I found enough yesterday to make a big crumble but [...]

Read More

Fleece Panic

Chas set off early this morning with five animals destined for Holland. Leo was meeting him at Reading services to take them over the Channel. Unfortunately the aged brain let [...]

Read More

Honiton Show

Delighted with our results at the Honiton show where two of our Dynamics progeny did well CME Orlando being Show Champion Huacaya and CME Agnes Champion Brown Female.  Our first [...]

Read More

Alice and the cat - the cat has the mouse, Alice fearful of being walloped by the cat, just watches. It is    boiling hot here, a bit of a change [...]

Read More

Wild Weather

Hurrah, we have made it back from the Dunster Show in Somerset. Things started off quite well with a few showers but nothing that serious. But and it is a [...]

Read More

Mid Devon Show

We were back into alpaca racing at the Mid Devon Show this year. This is a hoot and much loved by children who have a whale of a time racing [...]

Read More