Home of the Arkadia herd of pedigree alpacas
Friday 26th June – our first cria was born to Electra. Orpheus came into the world jet black, fit & healthy.
What we thought would be ‘a little bit of tidying up’ in the woodland became a quite extensive operation – removing an ancient pheasant pen made of twisted mesh half buried in the mud and numerous fallen trees (33 to be precise). At least…
“…200 bricks and 2000 words a day” —Winston Churchill to Stanley Baldwin, 1928 Agonising, back-breaking but very therapeutic and ultimately rewarding. For a change, I’m not talking about wrestling to capture and organise disparate words to form a novel, but piecing more than 13000…