A glorious sunset

No words are necessary…

Planting garlic

We’ve been busy with one of our last planting jobs of the year - sowing garlic.

Ideally, we would have planted the garlic in late October but weather was against us for the past two weekends or we were off collecting Graham the boar or I was busy during the week with other jobs.

And with a reasonably fine, if windy, day today, we seized the opportunity to get the garlic in.

Graham gets to work

He’s only been in with the girls for 24 hours, but we can report that Graham the boar is definitely up to the job and Doris has definitely had a couple of “seeing-tos” already.

Delilah, the in-pig gilt who’s also in with them, has also been quick to take advantage.

While Graham and Doris are off indulging themselves, Delilah has been quick to spot the opportunity to scoff all the pig feed!

Bonfire night

We went to a bonfire night party at a farm outside Inverurie last night with the boys in particular having a fantastic time.

They got to stay up late, eat as much food (including sweets) as they could fit in, romp around with other children their own age, stand near a huge bonfire and watch not only the farmer, Graham’s, fireworks but as we were on a hill they could watch fireworks all around the horizon.

Graham the farmer was quite amused to discover that our boar is also called Graham, not least because he also keeps pigs!