Molly has had eight piglets. All alive and well and eating and sleeping like little piglets.
And that is all I know. John and his son are in charge and probably getting bored with my info-txt bombardments.
I am still lolly-gagging about in New Zealand for another few days.
Here are a few photos for you.
Windy Wellington.
Evidently the benchmark for the worlds cleanest or dirtiest air is Wellington, New Zealand. A new fact I have discovered.
I hope you have a lovely day. 
Love celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
58 responses to “EIGHT PIGLETS”
Beautiful photos! And way to go, Molly!
Molly is a great wee mum – but the first 48 hours are where we all hold our breath.
Oh Lordie – dare I surmise those two handsome fellows on their last photo actually share blood with you 🙂 ? So lovely to see you in our mild winter ‘warmth’ ! Molly: delightful news, but, then, you will be ‘back there’ soon enough!! Enjoy Wellington, wind and all: ’tis such on our side of the Trench also . . . .
Lots of wind and rain here too
Eight little porkies…congratulations Molly pig…. The pics of Wellington are very nice but somehow very sad…but things will brighten up when you get home.l am sure John and son are managing ok…not very well..but ok..men can never do things as well as you can…
Hope all problems fixed Love BG
Wellingtonians must be laughing about the ‘very sad’ comment: Just how on earth does anything coming out of that tremendous city deserve that particular comment . . . ?
We don’t laugh at each other’s comments here. All may speak as they do. I understand where Patrecia is coming from.
. . . . fair enough . . . . I happen to love Wellington where we had one of our factories . . . .
What a beautiful place. And the 2 littles look lovely. Exciting about Molly! Glad you are enjoying your time.
I love to come home. We are surrounded in children here!
Oh, a Wellington winter! Clean, cold, clear, soft grey and damp. Such a change from the heat and dryness you’ve been having. I’m not surprised you love to come home. Apart from the people you love, there is this: kua hono koe ki tenei whenua.
Yes – lots of lovely people to love
Winter in the Southern Hemisphere is very different but beautiful in its own way.
Yes. So it is- in fact it has been a number of years since i was here in the winter
The last photo of the two children is so beautiful…happy about the pigs. And strange as it may sound, pictures of recycling bins always make me happy, pretty or not. Hope the remainder of your stay is full of family and positive progress. x
I agree about the photo of the children–peaceful too. If they were my babies (or grandbabies as the case may be) in this picture, it is lovely enough that it might become art on my wall.
I also smile at the recycling bin photo. Wish there were more of these around here. I helped host an event on Saturday and when I was cleaning up I collected all the plastic cups I could find to bring home to our recycling bin here since the park didn’t have one, but there were a whole host of them already in the trash that I couldn’t dig out (though I did contemplate it for a minute) and feel a bit guilty for sending to the landfill.
It was not too long ago that we never even used disposable cups. I look forward to going back to those days.
Of course Molly had the piglets while you are away 🐽
Ah, August winds… we can rely on it!
Yes – I knew she would – though hoped she would hold on.
Congratulations Molly! It’s a good time to have piglets when it’s warm.
I just read that there are now more pigs in Spain than people!
Oh my! Really! Do they have lots of indoor hog houses like America?
I can’t say for certain, I’m sure there are a lot of intensively farmed landrace pigs (like everywhere else in Europe), but you’d think it would be too hot to keep them indoors. Outside of cities most people used to keep their own pig (outdoors), which would be slaughtered at the end of October to feed the family. The indigenous Iberian black pig is the one that produces the very best quality ham and in order to do that, it has to graze outdoors on acorns.
I think so. I don’t think intensively farmed pigs go outside.
Beautiful photos, you deserve to lolly-gag! If Wellington is the factor in deciding cleanliness, then we’re on a good course. I wonder where those plastic pollution photos are, and maybe that should be a better factor? Ah well, it’s those “they/them” folk at work I suppose.
Yes. As soon as we are all pulling in the same direction with the intention of not polluting the planet then it can only get better.
Oh worries…. I know you didn’t want her to do that while you were away. Prayers that all continues well.
Is Wellington the area you grew up? It looks lovely. Thank you for the momentary visual vacation for me this morning!
No. I grew up in Hawkes Bay. But the Wellington bay roads are always interesting and often quite wild
Yay
Yes.
Great news about Molly, and beautiful photos. I love to see images of cities around the world along the water. Winter or not, it looks like a lovely city!
I have always found Wellington a bit of a challenge weather wise.
Glad all is well on the farm and in NZ. I don’t think I realized that there was so much black sand even though you have shared pictures before. Gorgeous! I wish we had nice, tidy, labelled recycling bins here. Wishful thinking but maybe more would use them…
I like the idea of the recycling bins too but I honestly think we need to jump back a step and try not to use so much that needs recycling. I am just not sure how to do that when I am Away.
Yes indeed. The “three Rs…” REDUCE, ReUse & Recycle. Sadly, most only think about the “Recycle”:/