Sometimes when I hear myself explaining to someone - for the umpteenth time - that we started in April 2007 with just Mangal and Wurzel as pets and we now have a herd of 40 (ish) with 11 litters under our belts I find myself wondering where it all went wrong!!
Just kidding.
Anyway, there we were over the weekend at Heckington Show - for the 4th time - with Ginger's Little Spices (and the Bestest PigDog in all the world to keep them in order - and his mate Tony to keep us all in order!) being inundated with questions and "OOOhh"s and "AaAAahh"s and "Ar'n't they cute?"s from all quarters. It was more than exhausting......
The Spices were extremely well behaved: they loaded on to the trailer in the morning with no hint of hesitation, off-loaded like professionals at the other end: repeated that in reverse at the end of the Show (Much to the disappointment of the assembled hordes who were waiting for them to run riot) and totally mesmerised the children - young and old - throughout the two days.
We could not have wished for better ambassadors for the breed. Ginger would have been proud too.
It was fortunate that everything was running smoothly at Heckington since The Big Boss - never one to let the grass
grow under our feet - had arranged for the Pork Provisioner
(yours truly on this occasion) to attend the St James' Day Summer Fayre in a local town on the Sunday.
That meant he had to drop me and my wares off at Market at the crack of dawn (almost) before taking Himself back to the Show. Good job we're young, fit and fabulous! St James was on my side too: shady side of the street, a couple of passing rain showers to damp the dust and a fair footfall to purchase the Provisions.
Thanks to Gunner's Mate (See above) I was home from Market before the Boss returned with The Spices - so he found me relaxing on the terrace with a cool bottle of Pinot Grigio having checked, fed and watered all the livestock.
There followed a most relaxing evening watching the sun go down whilst recounting Tales of our Day...... Bliss.
Who could ask for more....................
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