Wonderwool Wales for me...

Spent Saturday and Sunday working with Kerry entertaining  the Yarnies, Darnies, Spinners, Felters and Dyers in a hall at the Royal Welsh Showground in Bulith Wells at Wonderwool Wales.

There I am for two days with two young boys a Suri and Huacaya entertaining hordes of creatives from all over the UK who have descended on this textile festival with a hunger to touch and feel the most colourful, creative and wonderful materials created in the UK.

 I have to say I had a ball.  The show is really well organised, the setting idyllic, the people are delightful, the food was very good indeed. Oscar the Suri  was the star of the show. Nearly all the crafters and creatives knew the fibre well but found it a real treat to meet the source of their luxury fibre munching hay and haughtily staring them down as only Suris can do. I had a blast.

Unfortunately as we set off at the crack of sparrowfart on Saturday  I left my I pad and phone at Toft by accident so  couldn't take any good pics. Maybe next time.

Ready when you are ladies....

Lavender Park Tulley and his mates are enjoying the dry readying for the off. If your breeding plan is veering toward Lavender Park Tullley then book early for he'll be a busy boy real soon. We are currently shuffling the females into their various groups for birthing and mating and on. May 1st we shall kick off making the next generation for 2016. 

Young Lordy and his Mum checking out the passenger accommodation ...

A brand new RTV 900 caused much excitement yesterday on our return from Amsterdam. We all checked it out and young Lordy needed two trips to satisfy his curiosity. Here he is checking out how well it carries poeple in the back as we check out the alpacas. The back of the truck seems to be his most favourite place at the moment. Will he feel the same when our old one returns fro the menders today? Who knows? Who cares we spent a good hour checking out the TOFT Alpaca herd yesterday. The pregnants are looking.... well pregnant!

Whoopy Daisy on a rare day off enjoying Amsterdam...

Great poeple, good food and fascinating city. Why wouldn't we want to spend a day rooting around the shops and canals? Fascinating boat trip and then we walked miles and only scratched the surface of this fascinating city... we'll be back. Thankyou Alpaka Association Benelux for giving us the opportunity to visit your lovely country again !

All done in Meppel,and the jobs a good un!

Whoopy Daisy done great as the happy organisers signify, congratulations to the organisers, thanks to the stewards and exhibitors for another great alpaca showcase. WD off to bed now as she is falling asleep in her ice cream...

And the winners were....

A very compact tidy fawn Huacaya intermediate male got Supreme and the reserve champion fawn  another intermediate male also took reserve show champion. The standard of alpacas at this show was very high and competition was stiff throughout.

The champion Suri was a white junior with a very fine and lustrous fleece showing good independence and layering.

A great alpaca day was had by all, over 1400 people attended and the weather was just dandy congratulations to the winner, commiserations to the losers and thankyou all for taking part.

Will you look who's here in Meppel selling his wares ?

We were sat there having a wee break in the alpaca judging at lunchtime, as you do, and who should strut into the ring but TOFT Ikrit as a participant in the stud service auction to raise funds for the event. 

I had a quick word and he told me he's settled in Holland ok, has serviced a few Dutch ladies already is busying himself with some young maidens and has many more in line... Mind you he finds the language a bit tricky but is taking classes in between donating his genetics. Keep it up old son and may your offspring do TOFT proud!