29th June 2011

We had a very busy weekend at Sutton Mawr. On Friday we were joined by Bernice Wills and her 93 year old mother. Bernice's mother used to live in Barry.  During the second world war, she met her husband who was an american navel officer.  They both returned to the states after the war.  They travelled over on the Queen Mary 2.  They have meet up with relatives and can not believe how much the area has changed.

We had a family from Watford and another from Singapore. They collected eggs each morning.  I lost a few of them on Saturday morning as it was pelting down with rain.  Sunday was lovely.

This one of our guests doing some commodity trading! I don't think the mud was too appealing.

Today we moved the piglets about. Aunt Nell is leaving us tomorrow so we are worried that the piglets will start fighting. So we put 6 in one woodland paddock and  6 in the other. This sound easy but we ended up with 8 piglets running around the field.

 They loved playing on the muck heap. After 4 hours we manged to get them in to their new paddocks with a bit of help from some tasty food.  Daisy our youngest breeding sow is just about to give birth for the first time. I am checking everyday for milk production as this indicates that labour is only a few hours away.

Tomorrow we have to seperate the rams from the eves otherwise will will have lambs for xmas!