The local fete on Saturday had a small petting corner. So I homed in on the friendly and curious alpacas. Here they are:
Monday Portrait: A Couple of Alpacas
The local fete on Saturday had a small petting corner. So I homed in on the friendly and curious alpacas. Here they are:
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
awww
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Exactly.
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Such nice eyes they have!
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Don’t they just? And eyelashes …
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I love alpacas.
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They’re easy to love.
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We rented a cottage on an alpaca farm in Cornwall several years ago. There’s something transfixing about them. We watched them nor doing very much for hours.
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That sounds like the perfect holiday to me. Apart from not being able to read, if transfixed.
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I would kill for those eyelashes…
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I know!
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Beauties, but have you seen them after shearing?!!!
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Oh, often. We’re used to it round here.
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I always feel sorry for them. They look so shocked!
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Oh. That’s not occurred to me. These were happy chappies, looking for little strokes.
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I mean they look shocked just after shearing, whereas sheep mostly seen relieved!
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They are lovely!
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Thank you.
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They are so adorable 😀
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They are, aren’t they?
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I’m enjoying your black and white photos. Alpacas. Are they the ones that spit?
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Thanks. No, I think that’s llamas.
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Very cute! Such lovely big eyes.
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I know. So unfair …
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Alpacas are so cute! And their wool makes the warmest, softest socks and sweaters!
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I should have grabbed a handful when they weren’t looking 😉
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Yes, so soft. We have an alpaca wool festival in Wisconsin we went to one year. Such great socks!
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Handy now winter is coming on.
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They’re so well groomed. I’ve only seen dishevelled alpacas.
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Brian said that too. English-reared alpacas try to Set a Standard apparently.
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I defer to English style.
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😊
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They look really cute Margaret.
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They do, don’t they?
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Too neat looking than the ones around here
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Really? I always thought alpacas were quite good on personal grooming.
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Maybe they get shorn more often there
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Perhaps. Dunno.
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Margaret, have you ‘seen’ anything of Ruth lately? Jim was asking and I don’t recollect if she was taking time out? She usually comments at yours.
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I know. It’s been bothering me too. No idea. Let me know if you hear anything please.
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Will do. She’s quite a private person so I don’t like to be intrusive but I’ll try. On my way to meet Adam and ridiculously nervous xx
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Just left message on last blog in September xx
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Always good to pet an alpaca!
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Yes indeed. Why not?
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How sweet – I love alpacas!
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We all seem to!
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There’s something about alpacas, monumentally stupid or just very placid? My son and I have a theory that they have incredibly slow reaction times, 10 minutes after you have left they look startled by your presence.
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Love it! I’ve had so little interaction with alpacas, I couldn’t possibly comment. Sometimes my reaction times are a bit slow too… perhaps we’re related?
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Ah, me too Jo. Not just our Polish heritage then that we have in common 😉 ?
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Hopefully not! They have fierce weather and potential thunderstorms this morning, so I’m glad that we had a lovely day together yesterday.
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Do people comment on your lovely docile eyes and then take you for a very slow walk on a lead?
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Sadly no. Where am I going wrong, I wonder?
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Sadly, never! X
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I havn’t been enough of an alpaca observer to realise that Ruth. You’ve clearly studied them. Perhaps.
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We’ve taken them for walks a couple of times. Somewhere there are photos of us all with 8 eyes staring back looking blank
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🤣
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Awwww….those cute alpacas! Those eyes, those eyelashes!!
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I know! Jealous? I am.
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