Here is Chas with our brown boy Prometheus who was Huacaya Show Champion at Devon County Show last weekend. Prometheus started to get fidgety and I watched with some trepidation as Chas tried to control the animal, hang on to the cup, chat to the President Elect and keep smiling. It was a god show for us with several championships and reserves and the winning fleece. The photo was taken on the only sunny day when the exhibitors had to start stripping off the millions of layers they had been wearing the previous two days to keep warm. Val, the judge, was freezing as every time you shook her hand it was like grasping an ice cube.
This week of course it is absolutely boiling. Chas and Andrew were shearing all yesterday whilst Joshua and I had a day off and went to Charmouth. It was really hot and we found eight ammonites, or rather Josh did as I almost stood on one of the best ones. Still so warm in the evening we awarded ourselves a barbecue and bellinis. On the way to the seaside we dropped in on the Somerset Cider Company at Burrow Hill to acquire a little something and then to my brother William for asparagus. All were hard at work grading and washing the stuff. My nephew David was in residence and is about to go to Liberia for a mining company to organise and be the interface with the local people. He is going to a very underdeveloped part of the country so that should be interesting.
Over one and a half tons of yarn is now sitting in the barn – got to find an effective way of storing it. A few hundred kilos os going for balling shortly and 600 more kilos are at the dyers. Phew, it is a lot of yarn. All I’ve got to do is sell it!