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Ponies!

August 27th 2011 09:20

Well, six alpacas don't each much grass and with 12 acres (or roughly 5.5 hectares), in a temperate area with springs and creeks everywhere, we have a whole lot of the stuff.

The recent warm/wet/warm/wet weather we've been having has also meant it's coming up a lot earlier in the season than normal too so the ride-on mower has been getting a thorough workout around the house, trying to chew it down a bit - not great for either the ride-on or the grass, but what can you do

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Alpaca Pics

October 31st 2010 23:22

It's that time of year again, when the sales from my Cafepress store start to ramp up.

People are starting to get their alpaca calendars for next year, as well as buying Christmas ornaments and gifts

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Alpaca? or Camel!

July 11th 2010 21:10

There are a lot of similarities between alpacas and camels.

It is believed that they were once a single species residing up the the north of America. As they moved south, some of them moved across to Asia and Europe, evolving into camels while others continued down to South America and became the species we now know of as Camelids (alpaca, llama, guanaco and vicuna

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Ghost Alpaca

March 22nd 2010 23:23

I did a photography course recently, to find out more about the manual settings on my Canon SLR.

Previously I was a point and shoot photographer, using the automatic setting and while I usually got great results this way, I thought since there are so many buttons and options on the camera that it would be worthwhile to know what they're all about

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What Noises Do Alpacas Make?

November 11th 2009 21:24

So many people ask me about the weird noises that alpacas make that I thought it justifies another post on the subject.

People are taught animal sounds when they're growing up; cows moo, ducks quack and horses neigh etc. but until fairly recently, outside of South America, most people had never heard of alpacas, let alone heard the sounds they make

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Paddock Portraits 2

June 16th 2008 23:54

Here’s Magic. He’s now 4 months old but is already as big (or bigger) than a couple of the 6 month olds. Magic is from my beautiful girl Maralyn who is a lovely calm natured alpaca. Magic is a friendly little guy and he’s soooooo soft! He may well be stud potential, he’s already looking fantastic (and he knows it).

Alpaca - Magic

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Paddock Portraits 1

June 13th 2008 02:20

Just a few happy snaps for you today. Here’s Donald (D’Entrecasteaux).

Donald (D’Entrecasteaux)

Donald's coming up to 6 months of age. It’s hard to get a photo of him with his ears up, he usually flattens them as soon as he sees the camera pointed at him. He's a stunner though, a very handsome boy

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On alpaca meat and cannibalism

June 3rd 2008 00:48

I read a book a few years ago “The Last Tribes on Earth” by Paul Raffaele, in which he journeys deep into the jungles of Papua to meet the Korowai people. They have been living happily in the jungles for thousands of years and they have no qualms about eating humans.

The Last Tribes on Earth - Paul Raffaele

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The Bombay Call Centre

April 28th 2008 06:11

They've been on the boil pretty much non-stop today. I’ve got some work on which involves excel and word documents with lots of data and graphs etc all linked up to each other - yes, I know, the day’s already doomed when you’re dealing with anything microsoft.

Anyway, I got a few calls early on. People I simply could not understand, someone asking for the “gentleman owner please of the business’ (grrrrr) and a couple more who sounded like they were phoning from down a mine shaft

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Alpaca Notes Categories

April 18th 2008 01:02

I’ve been busy organising my posts into categories. I’ve got a few posts on here now, so I thought I should break them up so if you are looking for something particular about alpacas, you can find it more quickly.

I probably should break it down a bit more into sub-categories, but that will take some thinking about, and hell, it’s Friday, All I’m thinking about today is the weekend

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