Its Sunday, I never returned to yesterdays blog, I guess I was too preoccupied with my results to bother, so here I am today. First thing to do is to weigh in. 93.8 kilos, that’s 0.7 kilos down on last week. Not bad given the week I’ve had, so there are reasons to be cheerful. So while my partner cooks breakfast I drive down to the garage to sort the car, petrol and tyres. I collect the Sunday newspapers and return to breakfast when I take my meds plus the first dose of prophylactic paracetamol prior to tomorrows 28 day jab. The family amuses itself until we all panic at 1:30pm because we should be at the alpaca walk. They specifically said be there half an hour before you are due to go on your walk and we are not. I usher the family into the car and then demonstrate what a 2 litre sports car can do. We arrive 5 minutes before our session is due to begin. Hero. We get labelled and buy bags of alpaca food.
So a very chirpy woman introduced herself and gave us the prelim chat about bonding with an alpaca and the does and don’ts of alpaca etiquette. Basically it boiled down to “do what your alpaca tells you” or you end up, and I quote, “alpaca skiing”. Apparently they can get up to speeds of 30 miles an hour, hence the need to let go of the rope. We get introduced to our alpacas, mine is Illy, my partners was Bolt and my daughter’s was called Knowledge. Illy was sweet natured and sweet toothed as witnessed by his love of clover.
Illy is the only one of his type on the walk today. His coat is the major difference in that its hair is curl and falls like ringlets unlike the other type whose hair is more short and compact like a sheep. So I feel in tune with Illy as my hair also falls in ringlets. I found a brother. We walk our alpacas and of course there is a feeding stop when we try to take selfies and group photos.
Its a bit scary that my teeth are so Alpacaish except they only have teeth in their lower jaw at the front. Having walked our alpacas we took them to their field, took off their leads and turned them free into their home.
We return to the farm cafe and have a drink and a flapjack before heading off home, at a slower speed that we arrived at. On getting home its time for a drink and then I get on with making a pie for our tea.
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We eat pie for teas and we settle down to a programme about hippos and a travelogue of Ethiopia. Tomorrow I have my 28 day jab and a work meeting to keep me busy but with luck I will get time in my Shed with my newly arrived pen nib holders and I might get some gardening done.
