Special times included a harp concert in the garden, 3 days in France for Dan and a family week in Torquay.  We all enjoyed our tent and campfire suppers in the field like good guides and scouts!
Esther and Dan: Moments we get to do the same activity are rare but the animals like to see […]

My birthday turned out to be rather different to how I had planned, but it was a lovely day.  After a busy half term week of visitors, we had an empty day so had decided to go to the Brighton Aquarium – just the four of us.  We set off in the van and got […]

Our 4 Middle White pigs were taken away last Sunday, and now we have lots more pork in the freezer!  We now have 8 new Gloucester Old Spot weaners who are about Holly’s size.  It’s all very appropriate as 2007 is the Chinese Year of the Pig!  We kept them shut inside their barn for […]

We went to Jennah’s end of term ballet class where she received a medal for 3 years attendance.  The next day we went to her school play where she was a singing Elf.
Helly came on 9th and helped out with my Craft Club and on 10th we all went for a lovely day with Tory […]

At the beginning of November, we had a visit from 2 cellists from the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra who came to play to us.  This was organised through Anda’s godfather’s uncle (who we met in Yorkshire in April), who had heard about ‘Musicians on Call’ on Radio3 and had nominated us as people who would enjoy […]

I had a really brilliant day on my birthday. The weather was beautiful, a really warm sunny day. We started the day with the Baggotts here and mummy and I walked down the bridleway with them to buy a new goldfish from the nursery across the main road. Unfortunately it was closed but we had […]

Last Monday (17th July), I went to London with Sheryl and Daddy for a reception at the House of Commons. This was the launch of the RITE Report, to do with disabled young people’s views of moving into adulthood. I was involved in the early stages of this in 2004/5 which is why I was […]

Susan actually had 9 piglets! We only found this out when she finally brought her children out on Thursday. They are all very pink and clean compared to Lucy’s who all like to run around in the mud and dust.
The piglets are all growing extremely fastand are now 4x as big as they were at […]

On Tuesday, we got a phone call from Alex, the pig man to say he was coming to see if our four Saddleback pigs were ready to go to market. He came, decided they were, and took them away that evening. Very sad, but we were all very brave and tried not to think too […]