Life as it is...
Summer is drifting away, but autumn has yet to show its face. These shoulder months are delicious in their gentle fragrance and promise...
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Anna
- Jul 14
- 2 min
Summering...
A dear friend gave me a book for Christmas called, Wintering by Katherine May: the power of rest and retreat in difficult times. Turning...
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Anna
- Jul 5
- 1 min
The Cat's Back...
First, I must thank you for the kind and thoughtful comments and emails I’ve received since revealing that Lily had gone walkabout. I am...
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Anna
- Jul 3
- 3 min
The Cat Shack
We diverge from pigs this time… to cats and the Cat Shack. I mentioned briefly in the last blog we have adopted two alley cats, which are...
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Anna
- May 23
- 2 min
Thunder of Hooves
There have been a variety of excitements going on in our little self-sufficient smallholding in recent months. But nothing I felt...
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Anna
- Dec 13, 2021
- 2 min
The Piglets Have Landed...
Apologies for not keeping everyone up to speed during Sauce and Scoffer’s pregnancy but there has been little to tell that is different...
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Anna
- Oct 4, 2021
- 2 min
Inside Job...
They say Happiness is an inside job… and in the case of my pigs that comes from tummies filled with good food! And...they have been very...
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Anna
- Jul 26, 2021
- 2 min
Delicious Delights...
The trees are heavy with pears and the pigs are standing underneath them expectantly! Squawking at the top of their lungs the azure blue...
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Anna
- Jul 9, 2021
- 3 min
Pears and Piggie Piscinas...
Having enjoy a very pleasant June, not too hot and some fresh cool mornings, July temperatures are warming up and the piggies are...
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Anna
- Jun 26, 2021
- 2 min
Best We Have Ever Had
A June morning mist seeps across the land with moist droplets forming on the windows; the smell of wild pennyroyal and other aromatics...
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Anna
- Jun 19, 2021
- 2 min
Splish, Splash, Splosh...
Normally, this is strictly a piglet blog but… today we have some highlights from the animal, aquatic and reptile kingdom. Namely the...
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Anna
- Jun 5, 2021
- 2 min
Escapologists...
The little ones are now marching steadily into their sixth week on the planet and are growing chubbier and chubbier by the day! Sauce is...
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Anna
- May 30, 2021
- 2 min
Daily Delights...
Scoff-a Lot really is a delightful pig... She’s reached the grand age of 8 months old and yet is still such a playful teenager, playing...
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Anna
- May 16, 2021
- 2 min
Happiness...
Sauce is now a truly happy piggie! Having had enough of being cooped up with her babies I encouraged her to embark on a sortie out of the...
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Anna
- May 16, 2021
- 2 min
Babes in Arms...
After much languishing by the gate Sauce suddenly woke up to her impending mission. In a hysterical burst of movement she began rushing...
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Anna
- May 16, 2021
- 3 min
Separation but No Divorce...
The maternity wing has been prepared. The floor scrubbed, new hay strewn, special food for lactating mothers bought and an extra...
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