This little piggy went to market...

... or at least hopefully both the little piggies will go to the abattoir on Wednesday morning (at 5am!!). Doug has been training them for many many weeks to get in to the trailer. It has only been in the last few days that it has looked like there is any chance of him getting them loaded - sadly I will be in London. At last they rush in when food comes, and were even seen taking a nap in there earlier today (out of the snow!)

This means that the big car is trapped at the moment as it is needed to stabilise the trailer - and with all the rain then snow the ground is so wet and muddy that we won't get the car up there again if we move it. The pigs have made a big mess of the path up in to the woods as we have had to keep them trapped there for the whole training time. We thought it would be days! It should recover come spring growth hopefully. Getting the car up there in the winter wet has made a mess of the track to the barn too. Fingers crossed that this is the last weekend I will see the pigs!