Fun at the Farmers Market

Alice, "Cora Mummy", Cora and I had more fun at the Farmers Market this morning. Alice and I had shopped for an inordinate amount of rhubarb products (every stall seemed to have a yummier version than the previous) and had tasted as much ravioli and pesto as we could manage, so we decided to enter the baby animal enclosure rather than adopt Alice's usual pose of pressing her nose up against the fence, looking at the luckier kids.

From the start, Alice was in heaven, terrorising the ducks, the chicks and the sleeping piglet. However, she and one of the (other kind of) kids took a real shine to each other. I tried to keep her away from its hind legs but she kept hugging it and was very excited to feed it some grassy stuff. (No photos of these incidents because my hands were busy fussing around her).

Here she is with her chum


The other goats came in for a look and tried to nuzzle against her



You can't really see clearly, but she is covered in goat hair in this one - from all the hugging. She doesn't seem to share her mother's side's allergies to fur.



We exited stage left as the enclosure started to get really packed. I can't tell you how many pictures of other mothers' legs I ended up taking - they were all pushing and shoving to get Little Tarquin to the piglet/llama/calf and managed to get between Alice and I at crucial moments. "Cora Mummy", originally a farm girl, is sad that this is the only interaction that Alice and Cora have with farmyard animals, but Alice was delighted. Plus it's the price you pay for easy access to all those types of ravioli, I suppose.