Our New Life in the Country: Miss Piggy

Thursday, 11 August 2011

Miss Piggy

Born on the 6th January with seven brothers and sisters.

In February she started eating pig nuts with the rest of the family and relished the first steps of freedom.

In March she had great fun chasing Daddy around the orchard, luckily for them he didn't get cross and joined in the fun. They were a gang of little hooligans, never still for a minute.

In April she got cheeky and we fell in love with her, she was supposed to be sold with the rest of her sisters, but we hung on to her instead and she lived with her brothers for a while.

In May she moved to the Paddock to live with the 'big girls' and was reacquainted with Mum. An immediate bond was obvious.

Throughout June they went everywhere together and cuddled up at night in an ark just to themselves.

In July they moved back to the Orchard so Maud could prepare for her next litter of piglets to be born.

Maud got cross with her a day before the birth so she moved in with Auntie Martha and her cousins.

Tonight she leaves the farm, not for a happy end, unfortunately. But while she was here she had an interesting and funfilled life. By the way she is not called after the Muppet, but is named so because of her air of being a proper little Miss.

We loved having you Miss Piggy, and we hope you enjoyed your life with us.

Sue xx

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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, polytunnels and veggies with the occasional grass munching sheep thrown in for good measure.

Sue xx

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