We're going to Fiona's, in Rassina just north of Arezzo, this morning, so its goodbye to "La Stalla" and off to meet Hilary for the journey. After a stop for capachino and pastries we arrive and set to the task, only five to do. All is going well four completed and two microchipped. The last alpaca is quite a large black suri, so with a little difficulty the alpaca is stretched out. At this point Hilary and Fiona were talking about Fiona's husband as we asked what the alpaca was called, "..it's Alan" we heard, oh well Alan the Alpaca has a nice ring to it, in a field with other females, must be a castrate. Having sheared the back leg and arround the tail without finding any testicles it was quite a shock not to find any male equipment on the underside! "wow thats taking castration a bit too far !", Hilary and Fiona are now looking a bit bemused, the alpaca apparently is a female call Nicola and Fiona's husband is Alan. All is confirmed when I shear the tail and check she is a lady underneath. When Nicola got to her feet, she walked straight over to the paddling pool and just cushed in middle of it, very cooling. We then have lunch with Alan the husband, not Alan the alpaca, then its off to the station for a train ride to Viareggio.
Arezzo to Florence takes about an hour, then change to the Viareggio train,another hour and were there. Martin meets us and its off to Stiava to shear some males before we eat. Another six completed and no superglue. A good days work, supper and bed. Lets hope the weather holds for another day.
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