Chilliness and Silliness, Camelids and Kindles

It’s been like March or November most of this week – cold and wet. But I girded my loins and went for quick dip in the pool today. I can’t bear to not use it since we’re so lucky to have our own pool, and it’s useable for such a relatively short time, late May [...]

Bertie the Baby Llama

So – our first male llama has been born at Les Fragnes. Bertie arrived about 11.30am on Saturday 28th May. He’s the fourth cria in a row to be born on a Saturday. All our three 2010 babies – Victoria and Georgina the llamas, and Elrond the alpaca – came on that day of the [...]

Monday Méli-Mélo (mish-mash)

(In other words, manhandling llamas, meetings, more blogging and magazine organising.)
Well, we got the rest of the herd dealt with today, which was a nice surprise. Plunkett didn’t like having his nails cut at all, but he didn’t even think about spitting at us. Llamas and alpacas will spit merrily at each other all day, [...]

Knitting in Rhyme

A shorter than planned blog for today as I was waylaid by a migraine on Thursday, when I should have been busy blogging. Annoyingly I’m a headachey person, but I live in hopes of growing out of them one day!
So, I will just follow the knitting blog week guidelines for today which ask for something [...]