Our New Life in the Country: At last.....

Saturday, 23 April 2011

At last.....

At last all the pigs are in the right places.

First thing this morning while they were hungry enough to concentrate on following the feed bucket, I walked the last three of Liz's girls round to the paddock, they saw all the lush grass and didn't hesitate to go through the gate.

Leaving behind their little nursery, straw filled enclosure.

So now we have all the girls in the Paddock and all the boys including Jack the boar, and his current 'wife' Liz in the Orchard. Makes life so much simpler.

The highlight of all this moving is that Miss Piggy is now her Mum's best friend and they go everywhere together, they look like Little and Large, it's lovely to see such a close relationship.

They are all enjoying this sunshine and spend the day alternating between lying in the shade and basking in the sun in their mud-filled wallow.

Not a bad life eh!

Sue xx

4 comments:

Unknown23 April 2011 at 15:24
Thank you for another lovely post about your pigs Sue. I love reading them.

Sft x
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BadPenny23 April 2011 at 17:36
...a pretty " Good Life " I should say Sue !
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flowertotmum23 April 2011 at 20:08
Perfect..
love
sara,fern,iris
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Born & Bred Studio24 April 2011 at 11:06
Happy Easter! Looks stunning! Also a great giveaway over at Me Old China which ends on tuesday x
http://meoldchinablog.blogspot.com/2011/04/me-old-china-london-bunting-giveaway.html
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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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