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Miles in a Day
I have a new phone – this in itself is not particularly interesting unless we need to go into the kicking and fighting I did trying not to have to succumb to another phone. I liked my old phone. However now I have a proper fancy phone and it has this very interesting button that…
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5 piglets +1 boar +3 carlottas
= A perfectly busy day. Poppy woke up mid morning (yesterday) rolled over and discovered that there were five little piglets in her room. She stood up and looked at them milling about her feet making half hearted jumps at her teats, then she looked at me and quite clearly said “What the hell is…
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Two perfect babies + three perfect babies
I am too tired to say much. I checked Poppy every couple of hours during the night. She was definitely not her self in the night and in some pain. Panting. But no pushing. No babies. She did pass a small bloody bag about midnight then after that everything settled back down and she went to…
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The last day before today
After such a long time waiting to have piglets I am still waiting. Do you remember trying to breed Sheila to no avail (she does not like man pigs preferring her own company) in fact as you will remember she did serious damage to a very expensive prize boar and was quite cut up herself…
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Two days to go!
Imagine a life where the mosquitoes were as big as mice. It could have happened you know. And right about now we are heaving with mosquitoes. So I am kind of grateful they are so small. They seldom actually bite me which is nice but no-0ne wants to stand next to me when we are picking…
The Kitchen's Garden 