Kensmyth Alpaca Stud

01/10/2025

Alpaca everywhere at Kensmyth, Clay Meadow

22/09/2025

November at Kensmyth, Clay Meadow

14/09/2025

Happy Mothers Day in Isolation all over the world

Happy Mothers Day to my Mum and all Mums all over the world in isolation and scared for their own lives and lives of their loved ones. What could bring a smile to your face more than a Curly Coated Retriever enjoying itself.. and the knowledge it isn’t YOU who has to clear up the […]

06/09/2025

Welcome December – new everything at Kensmyth Alpacas, Clay Meadow

I asked my husband to clean the cooker. I have done it for the past 5 years. It takes a womans touch sorry but it does. He did a grand job, so grand it took out an element and all I then needed and wanted for Christmas was a ..new Cooker December we welcome you […]

28/08/2025

Services cracking on at Kensmyth, Clay Meadow

I don’t know about you but I am pretty fed up with endless rain obviously but I am also fed up with the dog drowning size crater like holes in the roads. What a great time for Thames Water to decide to install a new metre, sorry folks for the non working traffic lights outside […]

20/08/2025

Rain, Rain and more rain at Kensmyth, Clay Meadow

well there isn’t a lot to say about the weather is there? especially when you are out and about and see fields under water (not ours) like this:

12/08/2025

Welcome October my beautiful friend, Clay Meadow, Cirencester

what better way to welcome October than a colourful flower I saw recently on a cactus plant and had no idea what it is – do enlighten me – there IS beauty all around us if we just take a moment to look for it…

03/08/2025

Spring flower show at Kensmyth, Clay Meadow

May is really showing her true colours as the countryside bursts into vibrant displays of stunning beauty…

26/07/2025

Beauty all around at Kensmyth, Clay Meadow

I do not always know what they are but I can appreciate their beauty… note they are NOT in the paddocks!

18/07/2025

wash and brush up for photo shoots at Kensmyth, Clay Meadow

well we have been preparing the livestock (and the humans) for photoshoots with much hilarity… teasing out tangled manes from the wind and straw from the fleeces where the alpaca have been in… and there is always one who “photobombs” the picture… and this is what size 14.5 shoes look like ...

09/07/2025

wet, wet, wet at Kensmyth Alpaca, Clay Meadow

well it has been wet lately and the “Clay” of Clay Meadow gives a clue as to our ground make up LOL. Being on a hill helps a little but it doesn’t stop the Farmer getting wet… such a great look isn’t it? but hubby always comes up with the goods – bless – warming […]

01/07/2025

winter working sunrise to sunset

with the weather throwing thick frost and ice, hay is essential to all livestock and has to be taken out to the farthest flung corners of the farm… shorter days just mean you get to see fantastic sunsets and stars!