Village life
Oct. 10th, 2012 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cazmanian_minxOne of the slightly more bizarre features of Armadale is a large black pig who roams around the village. She belongs to Hazel and is supposed to live on the croft with the derelict house next to ours, but she discovered a couple of years ago that she could get out under the fence fairly easily and since then she's come and gone as she pleases despite a couple of attempts by Hazel and her mother to keep her in. Someone told the local newspaper about this pig and in August they sent a reporter up to do a story. Meet Amber:
http://www.northern-times.co.uk/News/Well-the-pigs-cheek-of-it-16082012.htm
Hazel was rather upset to find her pig described as 'abandoned' because everyone in the village knows it belongs to her, so she wrote in:
http://www.northern-times.co.uk/Opinion/Letters/Amber-is-not-dangerous-23082012.htm
Anyway, a couple of other Armadale residents are less than happy about Amber being on the loose and Mick was cornered in the canteen at work yesterday by one of them who said that she and her husband and her brother in law were all going to write to the Grazings Clerk and ask her to do something about Amber and would we write too as they'd raised it verbally a couple of times and been ignored. Mick diplomatically replied that since we got on well with Hazel and Amber seemed in good health we were going to remain strictly neutral unless the pig's welfare became an issue - so we're essentially Switzerland for the moment and are sitting back with the popcorn and waiting to see what happens.
Who needs the Archers?
http://www.northern-times.co.uk/News/Well-the-pigs-cheek-of-it-16082012.htm
Hazel was rather upset to find her pig described as 'abandoned' because everyone in the village knows it belongs to her, so she wrote in:
http://www.northern-times.co.uk/Opinion/Letters/Amber-is-not-dangerous-23082012.htm
Anyway, a couple of other Armadale residents are less than happy about Amber being on the loose and Mick was cornered in the canteen at work yesterday by one of them who said that she and her husband and her brother in law were all going to write to the Grazings Clerk and ask her to do something about Amber and would we write too as they'd raised it verbally a couple of times and been ignored. Mick diplomatically replied that since we got on well with Hazel and Amber seemed in good health we were going to remain strictly neutral unless the pig's welfare became an issue - so we're essentially Switzerland for the moment and are sitting back with the popcorn and waiting to see what happens.
Who needs the Archers?
