We’re in today’s La Montagne newspaper (Creuse edition)! There’s a nice little article about our llamas. We’re building up quite a collection of cuttings now. We’ve been in four different papers (and fairly regularly in one of those, L’Echo du Berry), on the radio and on two different TV channels.
It’s fun, but it’s a mixed [...]
Here are some photos of Elrond, our new arrival. (His father, a very fine stud alpaca from the Alpagas de la Tille herd, is Gandalf!) Fingers crossed for him please – he’s a little premature and not very strong, although starting to suckle well from Mum.
Georgina of Les Fragnes was born today – very quickly We’ve been checking mum Gabby several times an hour for a couple of weeks now, knowing that baby was due any day. But she sneakily gave birth in between our visits!
Anyway, Georgina is almost pure white, which is quite a surprise given that dad Bernard [...]
Several visitors to the farm have asked me what the ‘Fragnes’ in its name, ‘Les Fragnes’, stands for? And these visitors have been French! If they don’t know, then there’s not much hope for me. We had a theory that it might mean ‘hovel’ since there were two of them when we bought the place. [...]