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The house is so quiet, my youngest child Lauren has gone up north to visit with her boyfriend this half term. How one so small, she’s only 5ft 1″, can make so much noise I don’t know, but it has to be her because she’s the only one missing :0))
Talking of missing, I’m not missing her roaring up and down the track on her motorbike and I have a whole week in which I don’t have to worry about her ...
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The alpaca birthing period is upon us, Ruby has entered her delivery dates, the watching and waiting game begins 🙂
Our birthing season on paper stretches right through until mid September, but that means nothing as Alpacas, as I’ve mentioned before can’t read and will have their young only when they are good and ready.
Luckily, well I hope it was luckily and the better weather holds, we have been fortunate that our cria are a bit later arriving this year.
I’d like ...
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Well it’s been a fairly good week weather wise and the paddocks were just starting to dry out nicely. The alpacas were enjoying their days back out on the grass, glad to see the back of the barn, I should imagine.
Then the weekend starts and we have had snow, some heavy rain and have been left with constant drizzle. How much more of this weather can the paddocks take, I don’t know, but I can guess at not much more.
I ...
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I’m really sorry, but there will be no blog today. We’ve received some very sad news, a dear friend’s mum has passed away and I can’t find it in me to write a happy blog, so I think it’s best that I write nothing at all.
Sorry
Be back on track soon x
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Neil had a day off today and spent the morning in Birmingham picking up a replacement hatch back for our eldest daughters Micra. Some nice person had driven into the back of her car when it was parked outside a friend’s house and drove off without leaving their insurance details, obviously an honest person, not!
A replacement back end collected and after some running around for me on the way home, Neil made it home with daylight hours still to spare.
So being ...
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Well there’s wind and there’s wind! and at the moment all though it’s been warm and dry the washing line is definitely out of action.
There’s not a hope in hell of my puny pegs holding my smalls on the line in this weather. Out of consideration for the village, who would undoubtedly be on the receiving end of my smalls blowing around on the wind I’ve been forced, honest Neil 🙂 to bring the tumble dryer back into work.
Will he ...
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Daisy our German Shepherd went to the dog groomers today, we have to tell her she’s going swimming otherwise our other dog, Alfie, cries all the time she’s gone.
Alfie had to go swimming twice a week up until the age of two as he has hip dysplasia and although it improved his condition he absolutely hated it. So the term going swimming works really well and we have a quite home while Daisy is away.
Daisy loves going swimming because she ...
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Yesterday on Rob’s @ Wellground’s Blog, some very sad news was published, John had lost his fight with cancer.
We were lucky enough to have met John and Lillian on a couple of occasions over the last few years and know from that, how much John will be sorely missed.
My sincere condolences Lillian if you happen to be reading this blog.
Lillian quite understandably has decided to free up some of her capital invested in alpacas and has released on to the ...
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The trouble with knitting is that it leaves your mind free to wander and wander mine has been doing, even more so than usual. This normally means trouble for some one and that poor some one is almost inevitably Neil:0))
The direction these thoughts are taking are of improvements that we can make to the farm, to make bad weather conditions here better. I don’t think this will be the last bad summer and winter we will see and so I ...
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The first swallow has arrived, are they late this year, or does it just feel that way? They didn’t look to impressed to find the horses still using their stables and on that point I’d have to agree. I can’t remember ever stabling the horses this far into April, hopefully that situation can be rectified in the next few days.
Charlie has finally woken up and been in communication with the other students on his degree and it seems he wasn’t ...
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