Alison and I had a lovely 5 mile walk this morning taking us down new paths in the locality. We ended up near Mannington and had to follow the Horton Road for a little while to get into Slough Lane, not something we had planned for and not the nicest experience given the speed of the vehicles and bends in the road.
However, the remainder was lovely. We passed a farm where there were pigs roaming fields freely, the piglets tussling with one another, the adults rooting in the dark soil. It made for a bucolic sight, although we then saw a sign advertising the opportunities to purchase half a slaughtered pig. On the one hand, the reality of being reared for slaughter and consumption, on the other, the fact that these animals were at least granted lives which were free and more natural than those intensively reared in appalling conditions.
We also popped down to the allotment where I finished turning the compost and spreading the good stuff over the beds. The sun made it a real pleasure.
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