Country Diary

I’ve been keeping and breeding pigs for about five years. At first, they seemed little more than a novelty. I bought two saddleback weaners from a neighbouring farm and treated them as a summer project. They’d be fat enough to kill by the autumn, by which time I thought I’d have had enough of them. But pigs are charming, funny characters and I found it very hard to be parted from them. We killed them in late