Christmas lights and alpaca

November is galloping by in a whirr of hay rack cleaning, field rotation, mucking out and dare I say it … sticky clay mud. Well it is Clay Meadow after all but it seems only a few minutes ago we were seeing cracks in the ground due to the dry weather and now it is sticky mud.

To emphasise this fact, one of the Alpaca decided to demonstrate this admirably earlier in the rain today for me…

and I have finally bought my first Christmas present. Regular Blog readers will know I am usually very organised but alas not this year.

But I did see some very nice original cards in Cirencester Market…

but when do we put the Christmas lights up?