Forthcoming attraction

 Sitting here watching the rain pouring down outside, it is difficult to believe that Spring has arrived and summer will be following. However, it was appropriately sunny for a brief interlude yesterday as Victoria's two weanlings - Albert and Alberto - were taken by The Big Boss to their summer home. They are to be one of the unmissable attractions at Elsham Hall this year and will carry the flag for curly coat pigs as their precedessors have each year for the past five.  They've been indoors with Truffle's weanlings for the past few weeks and were understandably delighted to feel the dirt under their trotters again

They'll have a couple of weeks to settle in before the visitor season proper opens at the Easter weekend. By then they'll be sporting new monikers because, as Pirjo - their very nice keeper-lady - said, two Alberts is "just two confusing"!
Whatever their names, their public will love them.......