Bluehook's Diary

I started doing this diary in June. If you haven't been following have a look at the Cast of Characters which gives a quick low down on the essential day to day characters who are mentioned here...it will make more sense if you do.

Oh, everything has gone all crazy busy now all of a sudden. Fed the horses in the morning then went out and did shopping in town. The organics was shut so I had to buy a bit of fruit and veg in Pioneer - ack. The sun had come out by the time I got home and I went up the garden and took all the coverings that were laid down on the vegetable patches and got them off. Many small and large bits of carpet, corrugated metal, tarpaulins, black plastic etc, boards etc. This is to make way for the pigs who should be coming tomorrow. Once that was all done I phoned the man with the pig arc. Lisa had already asked him if we could borrow it so I was phoning to see if I could go get it and was lucky to catch him indoors. Despite the fact that the jacking wheel had come off the trailer I managed to get it hitched up by dragging it along the ground and then hauling it up onto the towbar. When we went to load up the pig arc (which was actually more like a pig triangle) he decided it was hardly worth my while bringing it back and he'd take a tenner for it which seemed like the easiest option. It was bigger than the trailer but we got it secured with the tow rope and it held on fine all the way home.

Once home I had to wait till there was enough people around to shift it out of there and down the garden but in the meantime there was a small repair I needed to do at the bottom of the door and I did that standing in the trailer while it was still secured. I had some indoor stuff to do then like eating and faxes and phone calls and agendas to get out and then it was time to shift the pig arc. It took four of us to shift it down to where they are going to be and we had to stop twice, but it does look very cute there under the trees. Lorna had been trying to borrow a sheep trailer from the farmer who sells us hay but she didn't have one so I set off on a quest for a suitable pig transporting trailer. I went up to see Kitty because I'd seen a trailer in their yard that looked the right size but she said that it didn't have a bottom in it so that was not very suitable but she did give me a couple of leads. I followed the nearest one and went up see a dairy farmer just up the road. He was in the middle of milking when I got there but came out into the yard to show me a trailer I could borrow. It didn't have a lid but was very high sided, no pig could get out of there, never mind a Vietnamese Pot-Bellied ones and I arranged to pick it up in the morning. Back home it was time to cook dinner and then eat. Lauren needed an old homework reprinted and we got a bit sidetracked into strengthening up the lines on her pictures which were scanned from her drawings in pencil - blunt pencil. Then I had time for a bath and to get the agendas and few other things into their envelopes before we had a bit of a household get together.


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