Three little pigs.....

Firstly let me apologise to those of you who have been waiting by your computers for another simple update. It has been a while and for that I am sorry.

Lots has happened since last writing on here.

We had Mr P3 travel back with us at the beginning of June and Shabooboo broke down. We ended up with no car for a week or so and had to walk to the shops - 5hr trip, but it was a beautiful sunny day and the three of us managed to carry enough food back home after a lovely long walk. P3 also helped us with moving a whole lot of slate and tiles - so thank you very much for that Mr Three. But unfortunately he also broke his wrist after falling off my bike just down the hill from here! Not the best start to a 18 month tour of the world, sorry dude.

We've also been hard at work to prepare things for the oncoming Bob (mine and Gairy's "big day") - there will be pictures of the progress shortly.

Anyway, what I know you are mainly interested in is the fact that we've jut officially become pig farmers!

This morning me and g went to Edith's farm - a lovely lady not far from here, who very kindly sold us 3 of her lovely piglets! They are all females so that we don't get overrun with piglets. They didn't much like all the moving about (I now fully understand the phrase 'squeal like a pig') but now they are happily (if a little timid) in their new home (pig ark).

Here you can see how we made our pig ark.

This is the base we built in the workshop.

This is the ark with the ends on.



Here it is in place in the pig sty.



And with the bright red roof on. We also added a little ramp for them after this picture was taken.



And the little piggies themselves. Hanging out.



When they are young they are a bit scared of people but hopefully they will become our friends and like Edith's pigs let us scratch and tickle their bellies.



We also picked up a load of organic food for them which is good enough for us too (red lentils, pasta, quinoa and mixed grains).

Enjoying their water and food.



I'm sure there will be lots more pig pictures on here soon.

Other news:

We have been building a couple of bbq type pits for the big feast in August.

Below you can see the elusive "Monkey Boy", working the angle grinder on an old oil drum. He cut it in half and then we made a frame for each half to house the fire pits.



We've had an extremely hot and sunny week or so and the plants in the green houses are starting to look good.

The gerkins/cucumbers starting to flower and spread, we will build them a climbing frame in the next couple of days.



Here are a couple of lettuces. We have been enjoying our salads recently with home grown lettuce and rocket and radishes too. We've also been gorging ourselves on our home grown strawberries - sweeeeet.



While me and Gairy were in England at the end of May, Monkey Boy was hard at work not only cutting grasses and clearing space for the pigs arrival etc but he also designed and built a trebuchet! It works extremely well especially with eggs. Here's a not so great picture of it.



We've also made some elderflower cordial and have started the process to try and make elderflower champagne - we'll let you know how that goes.

All the flowers are just beautiful - check these ones out.



That will do for now.

Nighty night.

Nikki