Our New Life in the Country: Giving me the runaround......

Tuesday 19 July 2011

Giving me the runaround......

Certain little piggies were giving me the runaround yesterday. Sophie, the Border Collie was in true 'Lassie' mode. Every time they got out of their enclosure she came in the house to tell me. They went back no trouble but in the end the fence that they were getting over was in no state to be fixed anymore, so it was decided after Lovely Hubby came home from work that we would move them to the Orchard.

We were going to do this at weekend because these Middle Whites are only four months old and new to the farm so we haven't had time to fully bucket train them, so we thought it might take a bit of time and a lot of persuading. But they showed us their intelligence last night when they followed and indeed, ran ahead, to their new home, straight to the only unoccupied pen and stood waiting expectantly by the food trough, all in under 10 minutes.

Clever little piggies. They certainly look happy enough to be giving me the runaround!

Sue xx

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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

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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