Our New Life in the Country: Visitors to the farm bearing gifts......

Friday 19 November 2010

Visitors to the farm bearing gifts......

When my Mum and Dad decided to visit us on the farm, I asked them if they had anything suitable for the Kune Kunes to play with, old footballs, lightweight containers they can throw around etc etc...... as they are only baby pigs they like to play, it keeps them out of mischief (well sometimes!).

They came bearing gifts......for piggies to play with! They couldn't find anything in Dad's stash of 'useful' saved oddities in the garage, so they stopped at a shop on the way and made a few purchases.

I did tell Mum they were baby piggies.....not just babies....honest!!

This is a storybook mitten....seemingly I have to sit in the arc reading them a bedtime story......what will Lovely Hubby say about that then!!

Sue xx

4 comments:

Jane and Chris19 November 2010 at 18:15
Just don't mention the "this little piggy went to market" part!!
Jane x
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foreveryoung19 November 2010 at 20:00
Please post us the pics of them reading to each other and playing with the toys! Aaah. Ann x
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BadPenny20 November 2010 at 09:47
Could your parents find me a similar bedtime mitten toy / book with chickens on ? My girls look so sad & folorn at bedtime - all cold & wet. Whoever thought that Chickens had diferent expressions... but they do !

Yes - photos please Sue !
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flowertotmum20 November 2010 at 11:01
Haha lovely..can't wait to see the look on their faces when you go to put them to bed...
sara
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It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, polytunnels and veggies with the occasional grass munching sheep thrown in for good measure.

Sue xx

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