Hello from London

[Molly]

Hello,

I live in a house in London with 6 students (although some try to pretend that they've got real jobs). We are trying are hand at growing our own veg (carrots, letuce, tomatoes, radishes, butternut squash, courgette, peas.....) in our back garden, and trying to recyle as much as we can. We now have a compost heap, and our plant pots are made from old containers.

I want to get some alpaccas but our land lady said no.

Awesom site by the way.

Molleeeeeeeeeeeee

[Batfink]

I want to get some alpaccas but our land lady said no.

Well that's just damned inconsiderate of her!

Anyways, welcome!

[I wish I was a student again... ]

[hedgewitch]

Hello and welcome to the forum.


*Pssst! What's alpaccas?

[Millymollymandy]

Hi there Molly and welcome to the site. Lucky you having house-mates who are interested in growing veg. When I used to house share I was the only person who showed any interest in gardening whatsoever! Good luck with your garden.

[Shirley]

Hi Molly

Sounds like you are doing really well on the veggie front... fancy your LL not letting you have an alpaca... lol

Welcome to the forum

[Molly]

Alpacas (I think you can spell it Alpaccas as well - but I am dyslexic) are the best thing since sliced bread. They're basically a much improved version of sheep.

Part of the Camelid family (not actually related to sheep), they orginally come from Peru, and they look like tiny camels without humps. Very much like llamas, but they don't spit!

Just google alpaca and you can find out how awesom they are.

Apparently they are not inbred like sheep, so are much more disease resistant. They birth their one baby (pregnant for 11 months!) by themselves in the morning (between 10 and 2), not like sheep where you'd have to sit up all night with the vet.

Their wool is of much higher quality. It's really really soft. Like touching a cloud! Also, they because of the way their camelid toes, they don't mess up the ground in winter when it's all rainy and muddy.

Basically they are better than sheep in every way, and look much more interesting!

In fact, I'm going to start a new alpaca thread right now.

[Sharon]

Hello Molly and welcome

I like the sound of having alpacas. Will look at your thread and sigh as I'm sure we don't have room for them to live happily.

Good luck with the veg.

regards

Sharon

[ina]

Hi Molly, and welcome to the site!

Must put in a good word for our sheep, though... Alpacas are fine as pets, but if they were commercially viable, everybody in Britain would keep them! And we don't stay up all night with the vet when our sheep are lambing - nobody would have that sort of money...

[Molly]

You can't deny that sheep are fabulous. It's so cool going and feeding our neighbourghs lambs. They're so cute, bouncying around the farm.

[Millie]

Hi Molly, welcome to the forum

[Andy Hamilton]

hello Molly and welcome to the forum.

Nice to have a studen on the site, I still have an article half written on self sufficient ish students, I must finish it.

Has your landlady let you fit a water butt?

[Wombat]

G'Day Mollie and welcome to the site!

Nev

[Molly]

No, our landlady hasn't let us fit a water butt yet. She wont let me get a dog either.....

[Andy Hamilton]

No, our landlady hasn't let us fit a water butt yet. She wont let me get a dog either.....

RIght then off we go to mollys landlady's house to have words 8)