Guest Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Lesley, the piggies are GORGEOUS! I wonder if I could fit a couple in the back garden..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 How is the sale of the house going lesley - we've really started gathering estate agents details - I've found a nice place in Lincoln (2 acres) with a gorgeous farmhouse for £300K-trying to convince Joe to move 1hr from his parents and 6 from my mum before we up sticks for Scotland. Stratford COULD be a compromise though.....your garden was quite big wasn't it Lesley? Love the piggies by the way - one day....one day.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Lesley I'm so . Your animals and their fields and enclosures look fantastic..... and those gorgeous little piggies You and Carl are inspirational and have achieved so much in a relatively short time. Well done.... and do keep the updates and photos coming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted June 21, 2006 Author Share Posted June 21, 2006 Phew!! - I've only been away for the day........... Annie P - is it the Pig Paradise course? it is well worth going - a truly inspirational day The Herd123 - I'm glad you enjoyed the ups and downs of our dream - we still can't believe it has happened. Andrew - we are having quite a few viewings at the moment - haven't seen your name though - garden wasn't big enough for pigs though, so you'll probably have to keep looking We could do with the money from the sale so that we could have a load of skips and clear all the rubbish ClareT - yes please - could you collect some cream for me and I'll sort out with you on sunday?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted June 21, 2006 Author Share Posted June 21, 2006 I've posted a separate topic with the following info. ........... The F Word Starts again tonight - Channel4, 8.30pm Gordon Ramsey has had pigs from the same farm that we bought our two little Berkshires from. He has kept them in his back garden as he did with the Turkeys. Programme makers and the owners of the farm were taking bets on whether he would actually be able to go through with his plan for producing pork for his restaurant - I don't know whether he did or not. I don't know whether the farm and the vet are in tonights programme or next week just before the Royal Show is on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clare* Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Lesley you beat me to it Just came on to post about pigs on the F word Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Pleeeease could somebody with a dvd recording facility on their tv record it for me so I can watch it on my computer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted June 22, 2006 Author Share Posted June 22, 2006 I have got it on Sky Planner Annie (- along with Location Location ) I will get Carl to sort both out this morning and let you know if we can get them to work on different machines. I think we need to 'finalise' the disc but haven't had time to find out how. They showed the farm and the lovely people who own it, and his children all held tiny piglets. They've sectioned off a 7m x 10 m area in his garden to house them so I suppose next week they will show more. As for the rest of the programme - If I hadn't have been waiting for the pigs, I wouldn't have bothered watching it. What is the point of showing GR at 8.30 when every other word has to be bleeped Next week, it's on at 9pm There was a wonderful bit in the advert break - I presume it was a trailer for a later programme? - two men were discussing GR and his show and saying "you don't get Delia saying'here's a *%$%^&^&^%& sponge cake I made earlier' do you?" - best bit of the night! (apart from the pigs of course) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 I think Delia has been known to swear a bit in the shareholders' box of Norwich City Football club when she's had a sherry or two... and the Canaries are losing..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nicola H Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Lesley, the 2 guys in the break were Justin Lee and Alan Carr from the Friday Night Project they are very funny ..................... Alan Carr was on the Jonathon Ross show a couple of weeks ago and i was rolling on the floor laughing at him, he even had Jonathon lost for words................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted June 22, 2006 Author Share Posted June 22, 2006 Oooh! I'll have to look out for that then - the Delia trailer was soooo funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin B Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Sorry I've been away! Should I be appologizing? Anyway. I'm so glad everything is going so well on the farm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted June 24, 2006 Author Share Posted June 24, 2006 Electric Fence Training for the pigs - I have to say, the girls were quicker to work it out than the boys were Tomorrow we will extend the electric fence to make a temporary paddock for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen & co. Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 I bet the boys made a heck of a racket when their little snouts touched the fence karen x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted June 25, 2006 Author Share Posted June 25, 2006 Um....... it's not so much their snouts which touch the fence - and then they look at me as if it's my fault The two little girls have had their area extended but are not happy to venture beyond where the fence used to be - nothing would have stopped the boys if they wanted to get to their food Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 Look at the mud already! I'm not showing OH this picture! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffie Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 We've been to lesley and carl's today ..fan bloomin' tastic. They made us most welcome with Claret. It's lovely. All the piggies are so happy and well cared for. Given time and yes hard work it will reap the rewards! I look forward to our next visit...lovely people with the right values BBx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted June 26, 2006 Author Share Posted June 26, 2006 Thank you Buffie - it was lovely to see you all. Annie - it was only muddy because they were in a small area They now have the extended area and are out there now, contentedly eating all the grass. Outdoor, free range pigs root up the earth like little rotavators. The boys just dig up their patch with gay abandon - heaps of soil and deep holes everywhere. The girls are carefully grazing their area first (scoffing all the chocolate!) and then have a root around. I can't believe how different they are - there are only a few weeks between them and we collected the boys at the same age. The boys were friendly from the first day - the girls are timid and wary. The birth of more kittens is imminent - Willows sister is very round and her belly nearly drags on the floor. The third sister has disappeared and we think she may have gone off to have kittens somewhere. I have now secured some help with the cost of neutering, through the RSPCA but only because someone knows someone who knows someone else....... I am going to phone around the vets today to see if any are more helpful than the sister practice to the large animal practice which we are using for the pigs. They are very helpful with the pigs - perhaps because there is far more potential to make money from us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffie Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 Good luck with the kittens, I had a cat box in the car because we rescued a fledgling dove on saturday. That could have been very dangerous with the sound of meows all the way home I'd love one of willows sisters kittens ...... I wonder Buff xxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 I love having kitens in the house - they are soooo naughty, but you can't help laughing at them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffie Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 I wonder what my henry and maisie would make of it Clare, another baby. It's a good job we didn't have children I'd have been like old mother hubbard BBxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted June 26, 2006 Author Share Posted June 26, 2006 There may be another baby on the way - Carl's been very busy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 There may be another baby on the way - Carl's been very busy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 I shan't tell your secret Lesley But it'll cost you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
