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The good life

The re-opening of Melton Mowbray Market and one of their first pig sales of the year coincided with Brian, the shepherd at Burghley, taking a load of cull ewes to sell. He kindly offered to buy some pigs for me while he was there and as he set off, I imagined him returning with two or three smart little Gloucester Old Spot or a similar native breed piglets. When he arrived back at

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