Magical Moments
Hey! How many magical moments have you enjoyed today? None? Surely not. I don’t believe that. Bear with me, but didn’t you see the peach...
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Anna
Sep 8, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20213 min read
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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