Bonjour c’est Octobre, 6th!

Hello it’s me Hiccup…….hum, ok it has been a few months I know but we’ve been enjoying the summer and watching the youngsters growing and just doing alpacery things.

Toya is a mini-me of Cassis but with more colours, she has turned more brown on the outside now but has grey and black underneath and the obvious white bits. She is the last newby this year, born on 14 august, we all had to check her over, we do like a new arrival to our gang, but you’ve seen these pics last time I was on I think. We have had a lovely long summer, got very hot for a while………..

Sunbathing was the order of the day most days,here’s Lady Tyburn getting some rays,well we do need our vitamin D regularly, until it got too hot in the afternoons and then we had to rest in the shade of the trees………it’s a hard life!

My friend ‘Silkstream’, Sexy Sioux’s boy who was born a few weeks after me last year……..he’s nice isn’t he? he’s got his mum’s ‘sexy’ looks hasn’t he, corr, makes me waggle my tail he does!

Well, after all that hot sunshine all our grass had turned brown and crispy and we had eaten nearly all the leaves we could reach on the trees and worked our way into most of the greenery in the hedges so it has been a relief that the rain’s have finally come this last week and everywhere is suddenly turning green again, it changes so quickly, a couple of days is all it takes. Bless them but our staff started repairing and re-fencing the next paddock down from us as it still had a bit of grass in it as it is wetter down there being closer to the pond……….. you haven’t seen the pond have you? oh well, I had better get some pictures taken of it to show you next time, actually we could do a virtual tour around the farm so you can get a better idea of our layout……..I might have mentioned this before but I had probably forgotten to do it, too busy grazing I expect!

It’s very nearly straight……..not a bad effort by the old feller.

Ooh, a posh gate as well, he’s getting quite good at those now!……… it was noted at our annual ‘slave/workaway’ visit recently by Tony that a cross-brace was missing from said gate and was therefore of a sub-standard quality and not ‘fit for purpose’ and this gross omission would not have occurred if the gate had been fabricated by a qualified slave and not some amateur farming type person, consider yourself told Nigel!!

………anyway, good gate or not we have grass again and we are happy ‘pacas, although looking further down the fields………..

I spy…….. boys! They look interested……..I think I’ll just stand here at the fence and let them look at me, I’m not flirting, no I’m not…….well, maybe just a little but……..……

When the ‘slave’ Tony was here, apart from casting aspersions about certain gate building abilities of our staff he did do some work…… although there is very little photographic evidence to support this claim. You may be able to see the field shelter in the above picture, well he re-roofed that as it had collapsed in a few places due to the heat of the sun melting and distorting the fibre roof panels which did not have enough support beams beneath them…….. who roofed it originally I hear you ask?……….um, could have been the amateur gate builder again possibly…….. I feel I should say no more at this point!

Slave work at it’s best, a nice new field shelter taking shape in the new field heading down to the river,

It’s going to be nice and big by the looks of it, my only concern now is that slave Tony has departed, leaving a lovely framework to be clad and……….dare I say it, roofed. Who do we suspect will be doing this work? ………I’ll leave you to ponder the possibilities of the forthcoming catastrophies and disasters which are liable to befall the finishing of this latest project, I hope I can be in the field when he is doing it, it should be entertaining!

Oh look……… a slave engaged in…..err….. oh yes, Not working, and the usual cup of tea is missing, how bizzare!………moving swiftly on………….

This is Conker, one of the original boys bought back in the uk in 2008, he likes horses, always has. Here he is meeting up with two of our neighbours.

Ears are back now, not sure about Bert wiffling him this close!………they love you to Conks.

Talking about neighbours, a bit of excitement a couple of weeks ago…………..

Barn roof (seem to have a theme going about roofs!) but there shouldn’t be a gap in the middle normally……oops. On a calm sunny afternoon, a loud rumble and a cloud of dust billowing across the farmyard……………….

Oh bugger, that’s a mess, there are many items of machinery and tractory things buried under those timbers and tiles, not happy neighbours, luckily there was nobody in there at the time or any animals, what a relief but what a disaster. That’s going to take some clearing up. Well, I will finish now, more grazing calls and I may go and stand by my fence and just see if there are any boys in sight……..just out of interest of course. It will be getting dark soon anyway I expect, ta ta.