Name that pig!

Ginger would think there was something seriously wrong in the world if the paparrazi didn't turn up to photograph her offspring! Hence, she was visibly relieved when this nice young man turned up on Thursday, camera in hand. His brief was to photograph each of the piglets individually and to take one of Mum together with all the little ones.

Said young starlets were very energetic, darting to and fro in great excitement - whilst pretending to be just a little bit scared! Ginger regarded it all with a knowing look.....

"How will you know" I asked "when you have got a photo of each individual piglet?"

"Yes, well; I didn't realise" said he "that they were going to be quite so lively..." and some while later asked me to quickly look through the 130 he'd taken up to that point to check whether he'd got them all!

Some were easy to identify - like Dozey who always wears himself out quickly and collapses in a heap on the ground. Others were going to take a little longer to sort out.

As for the group photo - I think what the photographer had in mind was seven little piglets suckling (which is what they were doing when he arrived... and he disturbed them!) - but they were not particularly co-operative. Having run around merrily for almost an hour and climbing all over and around their mum, two or three obliged but the others just went on playing - apart from the 'king of the castle' for whom suddenly it was all too much and he just dozed off on top of her.

Was she bothered? Not a bit.

Why all the photos?

The reason is the "Name the Piglet" competition. This will run over the next 4 weeks in the local paper - first two weeks featuring pictures of the characters and inviting suggestions for names: second two weeks listing all the names suggested and asking readers to vote for the most appropriate one for each piglet.

The seven lucky winners will all receive £25 Vouchers for goods from our feed supplier.

No such thing as bad publicity.........