Pardon?

Our butcher's wife rang on Friday afternoon in a bit of a state.

"Have you seen the Boston Standard?" she exclaimed.

"Er.. No" said the Big Boss, slightly perplexed (hardly surprising as we're not in the right catchment area for that particular Weekly).

"Well, there's a story in it about the First Curly Coated pigs to be born in the County in 40 years" continued the good lady.

"That's a bit out of date" said the man "They were born nearly 18 months ago; I've heard that editors keep stories 'on the spike' in case they run out of news, but that's ridiculous".

"No" she said, getting agitated "You don't understand, these are new piglets born near Boston earlier in the week!"

We thought it must be a bit of a hoax but since we had to take Lancer to the osteopathic vet that afternoon and he's in that neck of the woods, we called in at the supermarket petrol station and purchased a copy of said local newspaper. And sure enough - there on the second page was the above story! All about a chap who has re-introduced Curly Coated Pigs back to Lincolnshire and intends to breed them and sell them and their products..............

So the Big Boss tried to contact this gentleman but so far to no avail and it seems not only the headline was wrong but probably the name and address referred to as well. Most peculiar.

Well, with the Spring Equinox and the new moon and the clocks going forward and 'old' news seemingly rehashed..... perhaps we're all just caught in a time warp....... but, then, that's often said about this part of the world... so who knows????