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Eating pretty food for my birthday or getting my own back on snails with a vegetable mille-feuille with snails.
 


 

With the weather turning a tad hot hay cutting has started.
 


 Major broad bean picking and processing with lots of beans eaten and frozen. The raspberries and soft fruit are starting to ripen, yummy.

I managed to get a couple of photos of the piglets out in their enclosure, so cute these little piglets are growing very fast.


Wallows have been made and enjoyed, if I was a pig I would of spent 24 / 7 in mud cooling down, had to settle for a quick cool when entering the cold room in between processing a pig this week. As I am getting older I am finding I can no longer thrive in hot weather and seem to be turning into a wilting rose so when rain finally arrived Saturday evening it was very welcome for today was far more pleasant with a coffee in Najac where the Sunday market has just begun for the summer and a read in the garden.
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