The Diary is considering emigrating.Hughie MacLachlan's sow, which has been in the field just along from The Ferry Stores and which Hughie thought was 'in pig', WAS in pig and is now no longer in pig because she's produced ten.
They were born between 8.00pm and midnight last night, each arriving, as Hughie put it, 'like a wee rocket'. Mum was very good - she didn't lie on top of any of them - and she's now doing fine, though she is a bit tired.
To make matters worse, two of Dave Cash's sows have recently produced no less than twenty-two piglets between them. That makes 32 piglets in the village which, as they grow up, will probably all be assigned fields in Ormsaigbeg to clear of bracken. It's going to be like a rising tide of pigs, swamping us.So The Diary is thinking of emigrating. In view of the current weather, which isn't too special, it would have to be somewhere warm. Now there are some nice villages on the Tanzania coast which have no pigs: their inhabitants are Moslems.
More pork chops! Better buy some more Apple sauce.
ReplyDeleteYou may be interested in this radio 4 programme about Woodhouses, a village near Oldham, that was once surrounded by 250,000 pigs.
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I often drive through on the way home from work, and was surprised to hear this story last week as it seems like such a quiet place (although not as quiet as Kilchoan!!).
I am about to set off from Manchester to Arisaig this evening. Looks like some nice stormy weather this weekend :)
Jon you could take a couple piglets with you if you do decide to move so that you wouldn't miss them
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