Small world

Friday 26th April

The school run in the Todd household is much the same as most in the UK, except today there are two english shearers getting a lift and we have to stop for pizza for the girls lunch. Having collected said pizza we are delivered to the drop off point and Hillary whisks us away to the next location. Here we have 4 alpacas to shear with Fiona, a new owner who has only had alpacas for a couple of months. We were shown to the garden where the alpacas were kept and chose two trees to tie them between, set up the kit and we were ready. Shearing goes well and we are soon sitting down for lunch. Martin., our next lift,client and host joins us for lunch. During lunch we discover he came from Sherbourne close to Yeovil where I came from, at the point he said his grandfather started a garage and told me the name, my jaw dropped. My father worked in this garage as a young man and would have worked with Martin's father!
We travel a couple of hours to Martin's where 7 move customers await haircuts. Boys sheared, females put undercover out of the rain, a quick shower and we are off to Viareggio for pizza for supper.