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May 2009 - Stolen Landrover, Pigs home, Bomb discovery
Oh for the quiet life in the countryside!
On the Saturday 2nd May we had our 19 year-old landrover stolen from our yard in the middle of the afternoon by four young men. They literally took it from under our noses. A police chase followed using helicopter and cars all across Salisbury plain. A stinger was deployed but didn't stop the men. Fortunately, no-one was hurt and eventually the men were caught. Sadly after being driven at such speed on rims the landrover is a write-off.
The pig moving has continued at great pace and thanks to a great deal of help from many people all out pigs were brought back from Hungerford to Bishops Cannings by 14th May. The first piglets for 18 years have been born on the farm. The pigs certainly look very happy in their new home.
By the afternoon of Thursday 14th May we heaved a sigh of satisfaction that all the pigs had been successfully moved. This was short-lived as a WW2 mortar bomb was rooted up by one of the sows. The police and bomb-disposal team were called but couldn't detonate it that evening. A police officer had to guard the bomb over night. By the morning sand-bags were packed around it and the pigs were moved as far away as possible and watched by assembled media it was safely detonated accompanied by jokes about bangers and flying pigs. On the April diary page I explained this field is called the Firing Range as that is what it was until after WW2. Mortars have been found before but not for about 20 years and the field is regularly ploughed. Our arable contractor may may decide to min-till this field in future.
Life is not boring here but we would quite like the field to return to being occupied by pigs, sky-larks, wheatears and hares instead of journalists, police and military personnel!
Email: Naughton@Farming.co.uk