British Alpaca Futurity

Entries have closed now and the halter classes have a whopping 442 alpacas entered. This will give Chas a serious headache with the penning plans as we will have to use more of the hall and therefore get clobbered by the NEC for even more money. On the other hand it is absolutely fantastic that so many breeders are showing, well over 60 of them. Competition is going to be fierce, roll on the walk of shame! If that is, ours consent to walk. Oddly the ones who are already halter trained and have been shown several times before are the most arsey. I am taking them for long walks and hoping they will calm down, stand quietly and preferably NOT kick the judge, one of the girls has an amazing extended kick that she lets fly with when standing apparently calmly!

Jean Field and I have managed to get weavers, spinners, knitters, crochet people – is it crocheters? – I don’t know – to come along and demonstrate in the Alpaca Fibre Arts Village during the event. This will augment the demos that the people who have booked all the craft tables will put on. I shall have a car loaded with tops, raw fleece and yarn for them  and you to play with. I am looking forward to this as I am hoping to sit around telling bad jokes with these groups as I’m sure they are really good fun. And we can eat Fair Trade chocolate alpacas too, hurrah. That should make up for the walk of shame.