We are getting ready for Wonderwool this weekend which is a wool and fibre festival at the Royal Welsh Showground at Builth Wells. It is our first time there dso we are not sure what to expect but there is an ever expanding skyscraper of boxes filling the office. Hopefully my new baby alpaca silk tops will arrive in time and some of the new machine knit and hand knit yarn from the spinners in the north. We can’t wait to see it. And there is a load of yarn coming from the dyers and ballers as well. The farm will be awash with couriers tomorrow so Andrew will have to be on full alert whenever he hears the sound of a van coming in. We are off to the Isle of Wight for the day tomorrow delivering animals. I am hoping, probably foolishly, that the weather might be OK as Chas has never been there.
Our late cria seems to be doing OK. I was convinced he wasn’t suckling yesterday but eventually caught him at it – phew.
We were in full plasma production as well yesterday and used six of the newly sheared animals. Some of them are a right mess and look distinctly tatty but it is a lot easier to find the vein when they are sheared. We harvested 38 tubes of plasma so that should se us through the rest of this year.
The rain is absolutely horrendous, the drive has an enormous rut in it and another violent bout has just arrived. Did someone say there is a drought?