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March 26, 2013

Comparing bellies

Piles of snow. Wonderful. All day yesterday it resolutely melted into the fields. Good snow. Of course now I am watching Charlotte like a hawk for any signs of pregnancy. Which belly do you think is the pregnant one. Charlotte is just over four weeks pregnant now. Maybe it is a little too early…

March 25, 2013

Can pigs get morning sickness?

Charlotte is doing a lot of heaving herself about, snapping at Sheila, hogging all the food and has taken to lying on her side taking up most of the bed. Sheila is being long suffering. Charlotte is unrepentant. As you would expect. I have chosen the site for this years summer pig palace but it…

March 24, 2013

We’re Back!!

Well we are back then. All well on the farmy and I am learning to type on a smaller keyboard. Apparently I am all thumbs! My big old laptop decided it had come to the end of the line. Just at springtime when our cash reserves are low aand with no growth in the fields…

March 22, 2013

These things are sent to try us

Well my laptop has finally spat the dummy (gone black – I shall call the computer man today!) without any warning, of course. Well this happens to everyone. I am surprised they have not named a syndrome for it. ‘Post computer failure stress syndrome’ or something. So I have had to move over to…

March 21, 2013

small child mobbed by wild lambies

Armed with his bottle and a layer of extra anti nibbling clothing our intrepid wee warrior climbed into the pen with the wild untamed lambies. Poor kid never stood a chance. The quads just LOVE him. And only two are bottle fed remember! Barely escaped with…

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