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Mr Flowers comes out for a walk
And he is still out with his girls this morning AND I slept in a bit. Which is unusual but happens sometimes. I wake at 5AM but this morning I went straight back to sleep. And now it is 6.27AM! So I am writing to you as fast as iIcan so I can get out…
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Happy chick
Molly and Tahiti are hard to get a decent photo of at the moment- they are so grateful to be back that they are at my heels the whole time I am in there with them. They are big girls now and I have a sneaking suspicion that Manu (the gentle Hereford Boar) bred at least…
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Is that you?
Do you ever look in the mirror and get a fright? Just a little fright. Just a small startle really. A widening of the eyes. Then you look again at the person in the mirror and think, Oh Yes! There you are. It is you after all. Because in your mind you thought you looked…
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Pig Swap
Yesterday we took Poppy across the way to Manu and retrieved the twins – Molly and Tahiti bringing them back to the Home Farm. But before we did this, as usual, we had to take two steps back before we took the one step forward. So the girls and I repaired all the fences Poppy…
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Roaming Pigs
Poppy the Hereford sow is travelling again – being the escape artist going under the fences. She is due to come back into heat this weekend. Last night I went to check the cows and found Poppy the pig sleeping in the corner of the barn with them. They don’t seem to mind. I don’t mind…
The Kitchen's Garden 