Wonderwool

We had a great time at Wonderwool, the sun shone, No Bones Jones’s food was as good as ever, the customers came to see us, were very cheerful and spent [...]

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First Night

Best bib and tucker for the first night of my friend Hilary Bonner’s play at the Queens Theatre in Barnstaple. All very exciting as although Hilary has written 17 murder [...]

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Show Time

Last weekend was the first British Alpaca Society National Show since 2019. Some 600 alpacas rocked up along with so many breeders we hadn’t seen in ages. There was much [...]

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Twelve Hours and Counting

That’s the journey time to 1, Shore Cottages in Berriedale, Caithness, just 36 miles south of John O’ Groats where you fall into the sea at the end of Scotland. [...]

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Islington Stitch Festival

We re all horrified by the invasion of Ukraine. We have kept in touch with our friend Magda in Poland who buys white outsorts from us and turns them into [...]

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Fleece Grading

We were idly wondering whether we should take up mud skiing on our waterlogged fields. There has been so much rain and as we are on clay falling over is [...]

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Blue Skies, More Like Grey Skies

It has been a very grim week, with so much rain. Getting to work has been fun, think I needed paddles and a boat, not a car. I hope you [...]

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Knitting and Stitching Show Roundup

Very happy and extremely tired when we finally got home from the Knitting and Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace at around midnight on Sunday. All the sales at shows this [...]

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A day at the Ally Pally

This is the 30th year that the Knitting and Stitching Show has been staged at Alexandra Palace in London. A little smaller and more spaced out than usual because of [...]

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Spring

So fabulous to see all those beautiful green leaves suddenly emerging. Our fields are very flowery with bluebells advancing from the hedges, spikes of Early Purple orchids and plenty of [...]

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Cria

   Some of our cria lying around at mid day. We have    nineteen girls and seven boys on the ground with another twenty to go. One girl was born without [...]

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Beautiful Day

Such a beautiful day, I almost put the washing out it was so warm, it did take a while for the frost to disappear and I had to break the [...]

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