Don’t be allamaed (and all the other puns)

I am, no question, living the fantasy life for a middle-aged middle-class New Zealander. I have now swapped my adorable inner-city Edwardian cottage for a semi-rural lifestyle block, one hour away from the city. There’s about 5 acres of hillside paddock and 10 acres of regenerating native bush. I have a badly trained labradoodle puppy and a double garage under the house that is now My Workshop for all things art. And now … now I also have five alpaca to eat the grass. Alpaca are the easiest of all livestock for a novice farmleteer they say. We’ll see, but they are darn photogenic. This is Evie, the oldest, greediest and therefore most friendly of the girls.