Ted's Diary
written by Amen Ra (Ted) The Alpaca of Distinction

This is the story of the birth of Amen Ra, here-after known as "Ted"

The time of his birth - 11.45AM on the 31st August 2004

The day is August 31 YOTT1 (FIRST Year Of The Ted),

We bought our core herd from Rob in Wiltshire, and left them on livery with him while looked for suitable land to have our own Alpaca Farm.

Of course nothing stays still when you have animals! The alpacas we had purchased were giving birth at Rob's farm, and our herd size was doubling!

Then we had a phone call from Rob saying the birth was imminent from the last of our purchased alpacas! We had to get there quickly.

Cleo (short for Cleopatra) was about to give us another herd increase, we had our fingers crossed for a pure white breeding female. But fate stepped in and gave us our main character instead - this is how it all happened .....

Cleo strained, and a small head appeared. "Gosh that's great!" said Rob, "It looks like a white alpaca, they're the best!" he said.

"Ah! No - it's a black, great for breeding!" he corrected.

"Well that's unusual, he's grey as well! we appear to have a multi-coloured alpaca, - bound to have appeal as something different" he continued (Forever the optimist)

"Oh dear - it's a male. Shame that ... "

"Actually it looks a fair bit like that Father Ted on the TV. You know - the Irish comedy!" suggested Sue.

So that's how Ted got his name. He was registered as Amen-Ra, the sun god, but somehow he was never called that.

But he is a lovely alpaca, friendly, funny, and always the first to be noticed by visitors to the herd. So he became our Public Relations Alpaca! He was going nowhere!

(Not quite true - his favourite pastime is going out for a walk on his halter and meeting people)

- and then he started keeping his own Diary!

4.30PM and already thinking about food	Soaking up the "rays"	... got to keep my tan even!
Thinking about food again (soon to be a lifetime habit)	Well that was tiring!	OK, if I really have stand up to eat .
Hmm... Milkshake is on the menu today	When that's gone down, I think I'll do that again, and again, and again, and again,......	Me and my mummy