[Gpdd] MISC Chaos at Piggyfriends

[Penny Charlesworth]

After a long delay ( this should have happened last year ) our builders are
coming tomorrow morning to demolish the old pig room. This is at the back
of our house and was added on years ago to a very substantial old Edwardian
house. This room used to be the village bakery and someone just built
around the bakery wall and ovens to create a conservatory ( plant room )
but they did not have the building skills of the original craftsmen. The
pig room has had a distinct lean for some time and we decided that, despite
the havoc that this would entail, it just had to be rebuilt.

It could have had a new roof, new windows and new walls. It needed a new
floor too so with all those problems it was better to have a new room
altogether.

So all the piggies have had to relocate to wherever they can be fitted in.
They are all in their own pens but not in the right order so some of them
have different neighbours to those whom they know.

As well as having to move all the furniture from the pig room, I now have a
large pen next to the sofa in the sitting room. I put a group of the most
outgoing piggies there, ones who will not mind the noise of the television
or stereo. Pushing back the big table in the dining room has given four
more piggies in two pens a temporary space and two other pens are in other
areas of this room. No room for humans at the dining table though!

This does not leave much room for cleaning out as I have to crawl between
the pens to carry this out.

Our garage is full of plants from the old pig room, which doubled as my
conservatory and there is no room left for my car, which is standing
outside.

Entrance to the kitchen is out of the dining room and through the old pig
room so trying to prepare meals is going to be "fun" as the kitchen will be
marooned. I foresee lots of eating out, which is good as I hate cooking.

So, all in all, there is utter chaos at Piggyfriends. I sincerely hope that
no piggies turn up on the doorstep looking for a home in the next six
weeks, which is as long as the builders reckon this work will take.

This is the first ever time that I wish my piggies lived in cages as they
could have been stacked but I like them to have the space that the pens
give them. I hope that the weather stays dry so that the work can progress
as expected. My sister in law asked why I haven't put the piggies on the
lawn. Can you imagine this? They live in wire mesh pens around 1ft. high
with cardboard boxes for hideys. Would they be really safe and dry out
there? You can tell that she is not a piggy person!

The Piggyfriends say that they don't care where they are as long as they
are indoors and the food keeps on coming. The three in the sitting room
"oink" at me whenever I go in there so they are sure to get fatter as I
cannot resist a piggy climbing up the wire and begging.

Love to all from Penny and the confused Piggyfriends.