Feeling a bit nostalgic!
Before replacing my pig passion with birdiness, and before Mathilda experienced her growth spurt, I purchased another little piglet – Vegemite – who happened to be Mathilda’s half-sister. This worked out beautifully because our dogs (two miniature – yes miniature – dachschunds) hated Mathilda, so she was a bit lonely. Mathilda and Vegemite adored each other.
However, it wasn’t long after the above picture was taken that both pigs became bored with simply nibbling grass and began to dig and I mean DIG! For those of you tempted to get a pet pig, let me tell you pigs dig; they dig with their snouts and they dig fast. In the space of a few seconds Mathilda and Vegemite would dig holes the size of small craters. I could have planted a forest if I had wanted to.
So, in the face of Husband’s and Son’s fury, I was forced to…
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jmgoyder 
Nostalgia is best taken with a fine port warmed under candlelight. It can be smelled, tasted, heard, seen and touched, either embodied in the flesh or washed in the spirit. Tears are optional, sometimes though, an unstoppable necessity.
And you are a port poet!!!
If you want new sod turned over and rocks brought to the surface, let the pigs in. No need for a roto-tiller.
You are right there – I now want a pond (a big one) and my little/big ‘diggers’ are gone!
🙂
I like nostalgia!
Me too!
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