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Sausage Bacon and Rambo

Chris — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:31:35 +0000

Our new cockerel Rambo

Well our two pigs finally arrived, Sausage and Bacon; seem to have settled in, we had a couple of escapes yesterday due to the electric fence tape being too high, a little adjustment and they are fine now, I didn’t realise how much they slept, I went out to feed them at 9 this morning and they were still asleep, didn’t get up till 10.15, eat their food and back to sleep.

Rambo our new cockerel arrived at the same time, we popped him in with the girls and they hoped out and left him to it, we finally got them settled down last night, they seem fine now and Rambo as finally come out of the hen house and had a mooch around, he is chilling in the shade ATM

This little piggy came to work.

Chris — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:44:48 +0000

Wilmer, our pot bellied pig

Ive had a lot of work to do the last few days, work on the internet I mean, so not done as much on the castle as i would have liked.

Wilmer our pot bellied pig who follows me everywhere came to work with me today, unfortunately she isn’t much help, she is content to lye on the bridge in the sun or sit and watch me working.

More pictures of the medieval castle inc panoramic

Chris — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:53:02 +0000

A panoramic view of the back of the castle, taken by Tom

A view from one of the upstairs windows, taken by Tom

The Moat

Chris — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:36:31 +0000

The moat is filled in at the front, we think this was partially due to the practice during the French revolution of knocking the tower down in to the moat and therefor breaching two defences at once, also over the years this as probably spread across the front to increase garden space, the original bridge is there at the front, with the two pillars that used to support the draw bridge, also if you look from the side you can see where the missing section of the bridge as been filled in. We intend to put this all back to original eventually, but the castle comes first.

There is also a smaller bridge that as been added to the back of the castle, this was of course added much later when hostilities had ceased.