It is amazing to have blue skies and NO RAIN even if it is perishingly cold. The never ending rain has really hit our weanling alpacas and they have spent [...]

Last Sunday we took three of our intermediate white males, a load of socks and some fleeces to the rather grand market hall in the middle of South Molton. We [...]

Hello again after being AWOL for a fortnight. Things got a bit hairy after Devon County Council decided to close the main road to Tiverton and the M5 for five [...]

It is not all plain sailing in alpaca land as bad things do happen. This week it was flystrike that is very unusual in alpacas but almost certainly caused by [...]

Finally arrived home from the Knitting and Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace at midnight on Sunday. It was fun, met loads of cheerful knitters, sold 57 kilos of yarn, admired [...]

Home for a week before we set off for The Knitting and Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace in London. So, lots to do but you have to get your priorities [...]

September is always rather busy. First off was the Southern Wool Show at Newbury that was very successful but I also came back with a vague and persistent lurgy, not [...]

Goodness, I could not believe I had found a whole snakeskin when moving some troughs around. It is a big one at three foot, nine inches, so must be a [...]

Back home after four days at the NEC to a pile of work. Unfortunately Chas had a nasty summer cold/flu thing, now named the ‘Festival of Quilts Lurgy’. We thought [...]

This time of year is all about cria and many more have arrived since the last newsletter. We now have eighteen girls and nine boys on the ground, a great [...]

The pace of births is accelerating with nine girls and four boys born already. Two arrived on the Summer Solstice, both girls. We might have to name them Midsummer and [...]

Tuesday was shearing day, a success, with all 85 alpacas looking clean and lean now that their fleeces are off. The girls have started birthing too with eight cria on [...]