Our New Life in the Country: And a piggy came knocking.......

Thursday, 30 June 2011

And a piggy came knocking.......

Last night we had both had our baths are were just getting into bed when Rosy , the Jack Russell started barking, seriously barking, the reason.......there was a pig at the door!!

We don't know what had been going on in Kune Kune world, but Gypsey was outside the house letting us know in no uncertain terms that she wanted to go home.

We grabbed a bucket of pig nuts and led her up the track around the paddock to the gate at the far end and she trotted happily over to Tinka who was also on the wrong side of the electric fence, the only one in the right place was Tayla, patiently waiting for her sisters to join her and retire to bed.

After a bit of persuading (pigs don't like to cross even a lying down electric fence) we managed to get them all in the right place and switch the fence back on. What had happened to make two of them get to the wrong side of a live electric fence, and Gypsey to be able to get out of a fenced and gated field we'll never know.

But we do know we have a very clever little piggy who came to tell Mummy and Daddy when she wanted to go home.

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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