Grandparents are getting more demanding all the time - have you noticed? There was this story the other day on Onion News Worcestershire the other day - I expect you saw it!
We took them there once before, back in July last year. Sarah, Francis and the twins had only been back in the UK for a couple of months, after spending the previous 7 years in and around Perth, Western Australia, and the twins were still talking "Aussie", and wearing their "Aussie" sun-hats - remember?
flashback to July 2023 - our previous visit
to Alpaca Meadows with our daughter Sarah
and her 10-year-old "Aussie" twins, Lily and Jessica
Go on, admit it - don't be afraid! Nobody will think the less of you haha !!!!
Well, just wait for it, and hold your "awwwws" for a second - because there are even cuter sights on offer today. We find out that one of the alpacas gave birth to a little baby one earlier this very day, at 9:20 am, and she's called Bonnie - awwwwww (again) !!!!
Awwww!!! Is she real, or is she a stuffed toy???!!!
Yes, believe it or not, Bonnie is real, born this very day
to mother Griselda. Bonnie is now just 5 hours old,
and weighing "just" 16 lbs. Awwwww (again) !!!!!
Yes, Bonnie weighed 16lbs at birth - which is hugely more than the average human baby weighs - in my experience at least! Still, that doesn't stop it being cute, does it, and definitely looks a bit like a huge stuffed toy. Mother (Griselda) and baby (Bonnie) are both doing fine, a farm spokesman has reported, so that's nice.
There's a downside to coming to Alpaca Meadows today, however, because we think the farm has "blabbed" to the local press that there's a baby alpaca on site, and when we get into the farm's tea-room for a cup of tea and a slice of cake, we find it's absolutely "rammed", as young people say today.
We manage to get a table, but we soon find that we're wedged in by a huge party of 10 that's come down from the Midlands to see Baby Bonnie - the café has to get a bunch of extra chairs out of some sort of shed, to accommodate them. We despair that the café's poor waitress, who looks about 12, will ever get to us to take our order, so we escape to the quiet of one of the site's open-air "pods" and we do get served eventually, which is nice!
Lois and I have a cup of tea and a slice of cake
Sarah and the twins have "smoothies", whatever they are,
Lois and I aren't completely sure.....
Behind them can be seen the cafe's poor
overworked waitress, who looks about 12
- what madness!!!
16:00 All good clean fun, but when we all get home, Lois and I are definitely feeling our age, so we sneak upstairs and get into bed for a couple of hours, just to ease our poor creaking bodies - my goodness!
What we need is some WD40 we can spray on each other, but the smell isn't ideal - do they do a perfumed version nowadays? I think we should be told perhaps.
By coincidence when I check my smartphone and click to the "old codger" Facebook group "Born in the 1940's" that I subscribe to, what should I see but an old ad for WD40 from back in the day - 1964. Some wag from the group has put it up there today.
21:00 Sarah takes herself and the twins up to bed, and Lois and I are left to peruse today's local news. That's when we realise that the 'Bonnie the baby Alpaca' story was up there, hence all the crowds that were at Alpaca Meadows today. "Oh, so that's why!!!!", we murmur in unison.
As usual, apart from that, not much is going on, and most of the so-called "headlines" on Worcester News are disguised adverts for local businesses.
[Oh you know you want to - just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzz!!!!
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