Sport Llama

New Zealand is a bonkers place. Where else would they invent Sport Llama? Yes lifestyle blockers are growing bored of my little pony and turning to ‘performance Ilamas’. As in the snotty looking things with long necks  - not  the Buddhist monks.   Imagine showjumping minus a rider. With Llamas. There’s an article by Diana Balham in this week’s Listener about this growing craze. As she says, “trust the nation that turned sheep shearing into a sport to find a way of being competetive with Ilamas.”

Chelfyn suggested some north island Performance Llama team names: The Llama Farmers of Ramarama, and the Alpaca Hackers of Matamata.  The best thing is that when they are not showjumping some of the llamas work at Karma Llamas in West Auckland. I have to go for the name alone!