My diary in photographs
I owe this one to Tamara, who spotted the pink one clambering in to get its spot. It pushed its way in forcibly, no timorous beastie, and settled in.
Timorous beastie – from a line from the Robert Burns’ poem: To a Mouse: on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough.
Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi’ bickerin brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee
Wi’ murd’ring pattle!
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What sort of piglets are these David? Their colouration reminds me of the Giant Slugs I see here every now and again… :/)
From the boards that Tamara photographed, they were ‘Oxford Sandy and Black’ and ‘Middle White’. 🙂
Ah, so they are two different breeds then? That makes more sense of what I was seeing; )
And that’s what was so cute, the way the white one just muscled its way in. I could help but think of children in the playground and the different personalities – some who would hold back and some who would just get into the middle of things.
Piglets make me laugh. They’re such playful, gregarious little creatures 🙂
Love your most apt title!
Ah, “Rabbie” Burns and that stellar poem of his and his sympathy for the poor, little mouse: Such an admirable humanist he was.
Yes, and a figure that the Scots look up to today. Says something about the people, yes?
So cute! And I love that Burns poem. What interesting coloring the piglets have, all from one litter.
You know, I am not sure they are from one litter, but you may be right. Interesting thought.
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