It was once said years ago if America ever elected a black president 'pigs would fly' and sure enough 100 days later … 'swine flew.'
I think it is another dig from the powers-that-be to try to lower the cost of living by scare-mongering.
Personally I think it's time to ring Egton slaughter house to put a pig in the freezer, as it's always top quality meat.
We managed to get a field of grass seed drilled before the wet showers of rain started.
It has been in two weeks now and is just poking through the ground and what is really amazing is it has germinated before the weed seed, which I'm pretty sure will soon be there and trying to choke out the young grass.
We also managed to get the potatoes planted, we were halfway through when the rain started, the ground was in cracking condition for them, too much rain and the soil would have gone all claggy and sad.
We kept on even though we were absolutely soaked but with the depth of tilth the soil still kept turning up dry and didn't start sticking to the tractor wheels, so the two varieties Marfona and Victoria went in in good condition.
We started to turn out some of the young stock on to the poorer fields of grass, or at least the ones were we didn't fancy taking the tractor and mower in to make silage or hay.
All the field boundaries need checking and the holes fenced up with either post and rails or wire, as the young cattle don't need much encouragement to escape into the next field.
The first day out, the youngsters just tend to run round and round and can clatter straight into the hedgerow as if they hadn't seen it.
After a couple of hours they do calm down a bit.
The hens and ducks have been laying well since Christmas, with no sign of either fox or badger well until this week.
With the hens foraging anywhere up to two fields away from the hen house, it would be quite easy for either fox or badger to sneak up the hedgerow and take one without disturbing the rest.
We have just found piles of feathers and half carcasses.
It was Saturday, I think, when I noticed the keeper's pick-up parked at the top of the field I breathed a sigh of relief thinking nothing would turn up while anyone is walking around.
I was wrong – the fox must have been asleep in the back as 10 minutes later after the vehicle had gone here the fox is chasing ducks round the field and is still taking birds at his leisure as we can't find him.