Wanderlust!

We always enjoy hearing news of our pigs from their new 'bosses'. The other day, on his return from holiday, Andrew Dennis (he of Woodlands Farm) was in touch. It seems that two or three days after our visit over there his two pigs took themselves off on a bit of an adventure. It was probably mid-week when things were a little on the quiet side!

Perhaps we shouldn't have mentioned the dyke and the orchard to them. Whether or not it was anything to do with what we'd said, they took themselves off - through the tall fence alongside their feed bin, along the dyke beyond that, through a tunnel under the road and up into the field on the other side. Such a gay time they must have had. I could just imagine that they planned it all out very carefully..........

Nobody knows how long they were 'gone'. But they were spotted! ("Good Lord! Do you think those pigs are supposed to be wandering around that field?" someone must have said in passing - and alerted young Mr Dennis!)

So they were - easily, we're told - enticed back to their own quarters with a bucket of pig-nuts. No doubt they were tired by then and in need of a bit of a siesta to mull over the experience!

Since when an electric fence has been erected around the inside of their pen! But I'm sure they'll work that out if it all gets a little too quiet.............................