Sun, sales, snow, lambs……..what more can a girl want. After a few quiet months, interest in yurts has gone mad – and the visitors are particularly welcome as it can be quite lonesome here in the winter.
It’s time for school for last year’s crias (baby alpacas). They are left completely alone for the first six months, while they ‘learn to be alpacas’ and only now they have settled down after weaning are they starting lessons. Rather like horses they need to learn how to lead on a halter, pick their feet up and walk into a trailer. It is great fun – and usually remarkably quick – though anyone watching would think I’d gone bonkers since they calm down if you hum to them – so I flit between 6 babies humming away like a loonie. And yes, they do sometimes hum back!
And finally, our lovely lambs – bang on time we have started lambing – do come and meet them and as our sheep are ridiculously tame you can even have a cuddle. Still another 4 ewes to go and I am definitely starting to feel the effects of broken nights and 5.30 starts to the day……if you ring and I sound out of it, be sympathetic, please!
