BravePig

After Hughie finally managed to take away the eight piglets (post here), he moved the electric fence so it ran along the road, with the result that we now look straight across the road into the sow's run.  For a few days she was obviously very lonely, and seemed to spend most of her time in this top corner so she could amuse herself watching everything we were doing.

Her loneliness didn't last long, as visitors began to stop and talk to her.  Some even went and scratched her behind the ear.  Cars began to stop, and people climbed out to take photographs.  A reporter arrived and took photographs.  Her fame spread.  Traffic jams built up.  We were waiting an ice cream van to arrive and for the first coach with 'Scottish Pig-spotting Safaris' written on the side.

The sow was beginning to enjoy herself - and then everything changed when Hughie put the boar into the run.  He, as you can see, is an absolute beauty, and gives the poor sow no peace as he follows her everywhere until she collapses with exhaustion.

And then Hughie disappeared.  The story was that he had gone to Spain on holiday, but The Diary has its suspicions.   Was it pure co-incidence that, at exactly the same time,  Alex Salmond was in Los Angeles for the opening night of the new cartoon feature 'Brave', a follow-on from 'Braveheart'?  Was it really necessary for the First Minister to be in Hollywood for four - yes, FOUR - days just to see one film?  No.  He was in the capital of film-making to negotiate a sequel which will further promote Scotland's position as the world's Number One tourist attraction.  The film, according to rumour, is a mediaeval blood-and-guts adventure story to be called 'BravePig', and the stars are going to be... Hughie's pigs.