Two's Company

Well - there we are.... what more can we say? The sun's come out and warmed things up a bit so Precious has finally relented and let the little ones out to play.

Just the two of them - one 'red' and one 'white' - seriously precious little darlings! Enough goodness to go round a litter much larger all compressed into two little bodies!

Precious is still very protective of them and cautious about letting us in to 'play' with her babes but a few things we have observed: the white one is the boss and always out in front:

the white one has already lost all his stripes:

both have very upright ears (but perhaps they'll grow to be as woolly as Precious's in time:

and both are boys...

Names will be announced shortly!

Meanwhile, the Little Chefs sprung a bit of a surprise on Sunday.

We were out at a local dressage competition with the Paragon of Virtue (who was not quite PoV enough to win....). When the Big Boss returned home late in the afternoon to feed the Porcine population he was surprised to find the 7 Chefs all - apparently - fast asleep in their ark ("On such a lovely sunny afternoon!" as he later remarked...). That is to say, there was no sign of them in their paddock.

Well, there wouldn't be, would there?

They'd gone to pay a visit to Mum and Dad next door....... Nobody's admitting 'Who dunnit?' but a piglet sized hole had suddenly opened up in the fence and what were the little ones to do but visit the Grown-ups?

All very nice and cosy - and quiet - they were! Must have been having a very serious chat - probably, with it being Spring, about the birds 'n bees....

It wasn't exactly the easiest little job he's had to do in the past few weeks, but the Big Boss managed to get everyone back in their own home in - almost - next to no time and when Rocco and I arrived home all was sorted and everyone could collapse in peace for the rest of the evening..........