Little Victorians

Hallo - are you my mummy?

Ooohhh - what's that out there?

They were due on Thursday according to the Oracle (aka Linda). But things being what they are here, rumours spread and porkies are told - often late at night over the ever empty dinner bowl - so Victoria was well aware of what the herd expected of her (piglets must be born on Linda's day off). Lazing in her wallow over the weekend she did a quick calculation - well, it took nearly two days, but that's pretty quick when there's no pressure & no stress - and she came to the conclusion that whether she wanted to or not she was just going to have to bring the little ones into the World in Linda's absence since there was no way she could hang on till Thursday. She delayed as long as she possibly could just in case there was a chance that things might drag on a bit but in the event the piglets popped out sometime between dusk on Monday and dawn on Tuesday......
So there we have it - to Black Banana & Victoria 5 squiggling piglets. We might call them The Ascots since today is the first day of the Royal Ascot meeting and, in view of their speedy birth and haste to get a look at the outside world, that could be an appropriate name. We shall see.