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Rare breed pigs, jammy gems & fruity fripperies, home-reared and hand-made on Dartmoor. 🐷🍓🍋🍴#greedypigspantry

Friday evening musical adventures. As you can see,

Friday evening musical adventures. As you can see, we're not exactly up-to-speed with the hit parade. Ho hum. #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

Friday, at last! The weekend can't come soon enoug

Friday, at last! The weekend can't come soon enough - bring on the gin.🍸#seekingweekendrefuge #ginplease #bombaygin #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

After wasting a couple of hours watching rubbish S

After wasting a couple of hours watching rubbish Sunday evening TV, Ralph and I are agreed that listening to a bit of Hawkwind on limited edition blue vinyl is actually a far better use of our time. #ralphyknowsbest #regaturntable #hawkwind #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

Major upheavals down in Hentopia, with coops being

Major upheavals down in Hentopia, with coops being cleaned-out & rearranged and a tonne of fresh barley straw bedding going down. Fairly mucky work but the girls seem extremely happy with the results. #hentopia #pamperedpoultry #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

A slightly better day, weatherwise. An unexpected

A slightly better day, weatherwise. An unexpected benefit of all this torrential rain is the sudden reappearance at the garden gate of granite tramway rails, running down through the woods from Haytor quarry. History at our feet - literally. #granitetramway #haytorquarry #yarnerwood #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

Ye gods, this is some monumentally miserable weath

Ye gods, this is some monumentally miserable weather - will it never end? 🌧️🌧️ #wettestwinter #enoughalready #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

Recovering from an enforced post-Christmas return

Recovering from an enforced post-Christmas return to work. Okay, so it was only two days; however, cognac and plenty of John Martyn are still absolutely required items. #newyear #lotterywinplease #johnmartyn #cognac #weekend #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

First full moon of the year and it's a belter. Des

First full moon of the year and it's a belter. Despite the name, there's no obvious sign of wolves about the place - but there are plenty of owls piping-up in the woods tonight.

Happy New Year to Greedy Pigs everywhere! #auldlan

Happy New Year to Greedy Pigs everywhere! #auldlangsyne #grandfatherswatch #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

Heading home from our annual yuletide catch-up lun

Heading home from our annual yuletide catch-up lunch with good friends at the splendid Turtley Corn Mill and struggling to understand where the rain has gone. Also, what's that strange light in the sky all about? @turtleycornmill #wellfedandwatered #yuletidegluttony #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

A day of untangling the whys and wherefores of Fre

A day of untangling the whys and wherefores of Freesat versus Sky versus Virgin versus BT. All this satellite tv cobblers has given me a headache - time to unwind. #martinitime #shakennotstirred #stirifyoulike #eitherworks #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

Leftovers, apparently. Gad, Christmas is hell. #lu

Leftovers, apparently. Gad, Christmas is hell. #lunchtime #yuletidegluttony #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

Okay, so somebody's getting WAY too excited about

Okay, so somebody's getting WAY too excited about opening presents... #christmasdog #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Gav

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer.
Merry Christmas to all from Greedy Pig's Pantry HQ. #christmasgreetings #thomasnast #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

The Christmas poultry story is improving. A quick

The Christmas poultry story is improving. A quick lunchtime trip to the boozer yields results, in the shape of a five-bird pie. Useful contacts are everything. #pigeon #pheasant #duck #chicken #turkey #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

Nothing says 'Christmas' quite like scraping shit

Nothing says 'Christmas' quite like scraping shit off a chicken coop roof in the pouring rain. Season's greetings. #hentopia #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

Christmas is coming and it's not just the goose th

Christmas is coming and it's not just the goose that's getting fat... #yuletideprep #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

Oh hello, the sherry's out... must be Christmas. #

Oh hello, the sherry's out... must be Christmas. #gettingready #gluttonyandslothahoy #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

More than a little soggy down in Hentopia this mor

More than a little soggy down in Hentopia this morning; however, this miserable weather is doing nothing to dampen the girls' appetites. Breakfast devoured in seconds. #hentopia #happyhens #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

Bail and breakfast for the girls, with eggs alread

Bail and breakfast for the girls, with eggs already waiting in the nesting boxes. Apart from being delicious they also make rather splendid harndwarmers. #organicallyfed #happyhens #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

Someone's inordinately proud of having stolen the

Someone's inordinately proud of having stolen the antler from Mabel. No honour amongst thieves. #daylightrobbery #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

After a morning of working through power cuts, dog

After a morning of working through power cuts, dogs with upset stomachs and rather hefty & unanticipated vet's bills, the afternoon post brings a little light relief in the form of the winter edition of Practical Pigs. Simple pleasures. 😌 #anditsonlymonday #practicalpigs #greedypigspantry

The trials and tribulations of a country dog, forc

The trials and tribulations of a country dog, forced to crash around the wood all day before finally grabbing forty winks in the old man's office. Tough old gig. #springerspaniel #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

Cheeky birthday lunch at The Old Inn, Widecombe in

Cheeky birthday lunch at The Old Inn, Widecombe in the Moor. #birthdaytreat #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

Rather a gloomy day to be choosing a Christmas tre

Rather a gloomy day to be choosing a Christmas tree but nevertheless the deed is done. The yuletide is now officially picked, paid for and patiently awaiting us with a red ribbon around its neck on a hill outside Ashburton. #notlongnow #yuletideprep #ashburtonchristmastrees #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

Okay, so seemingly this is my world forever now -

Okay, so seemingly this is my world forever now - let dogs out, retrieve, hose-down, towel dry, repeat. #worldofmud #williteverstopraining #springerspaniel #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

Safe to say that the girls seem quite happy with t

Safe to say that the girls seem quite happy with the addition of a hefty threshold and a few bales of barley straw. Hentopia is Winter-ready. #hentopia #happyhens #winterready #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

Through torrential rain and Hound-of-the-Baskervil

Through torrential rain and Hound-of-the-Baskervilles-style pea-souper on a lunchtime stock-drop to the Dartmoor National Park visitor centre just up the road from us at Haytor. Looks like our Greedy Pig's Pantry preserves are doing well - they certainly got a thumbs-up from the lady looking after the shop today! #jammygems #fruitfripperies #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

We're here again. It's Sunday evening, there are b

We're here again. It's Sunday evening, there are belly-rumbling supper smells wafting through from the kitchen, a beaker full of the warm south on the go and we're reminiscing about the bands we've seen together over the years, whilst 'Wish You Were Here' trundles along on the stereo. Not the worst end to a weekend really.

Doesn't look like much but up until a couple of ho

Doesn't look like much but up until a couple of hours ago, this little corner of the garden was a complete jungle. Now it's all cut-back and raked over, we can finally see how well the apple and plum trees from @mark_diacono are coming along - maybe a first crop next autumn? Lopping some of the lower branches from our Trafalagar Square scale Norway Spruce also means that we no longer need a miner's helmet to negotiate our way around the snug. All in all, not a bad morning's work. #winterclearup #adrydayisagardeningday #devonshirequarrenden #howgatewonder #marjoriesseedling #dartmoor #greedypigspantry

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