The past week has been absolutely amazing - temperatures up to 18C and incredible sunsets more reminiscent of August evenings than November. The animals have been basking in the sunshine, no doubt storing up extra vitamin D to keep them going through the winter - which will surely follow in the not too distant future! Mangal and his herd have been dirtier than ever as they transfer the extra heat from their now very woolly bodies to the pit of disgust which is their wallow. Lovely though it is to feed them apples straight from the orchard to their mouths, the pleasure rapidly fades as ones hands get increasingly muddied by their dirt encrusted mouths. Oh the charm of pigs!
And their charms are spreading. The original herd of 18 or so imported by Tony York are now dispersed across the country - even the aristocracy have succumbed to their charms; the public can see one at Chatsworth whilst other landed Gentry have acquired them for their personal pleasure! Meanwhile, our own Ginger has no hope at all of satisfying the demand built up locally - even if she throws record numbers of piglets for the next few years!
The net result is that Tony is off on another buying spree to Austria and Hungary early in the New Year to increase the numbers and, more importantly, the gene pool for the future.
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