Here is a picture of Mrs Pig’s current accommodation – it is certainly spacious and airy, but the roof leaks somewhat. Given that she is expecting the patter of tiny trotters, it is time to sort something out. The only problem is that it needs to be cheap, and PIG-PROOF. Cheap is easy, but we know from experience that the pig-proof part will be tricky. So, here goes:

The joys of reinforcing steel – never a problem to get hold of rebar in Greece. At least we know that this is going to be earthquake proof

Having made a steel cage, and cemented it onto the floor, I cut a door out of one end. Instant pig-pen, but still no roof.

The finished article, with a plastic sheet spread over more reinforcing steel on the inside and some plywood to keep the drafts out. We will run the electric fence wire all along the bottom edge, so hopefully they won’t dig out underneath it.

And here is Mrs Pig (or Mrs Snuffles, as Lexi has now christened her) completely ignoring her new home. We fear change, apparently.

The night we finished it we had a huge storm, with 10 cm of rain in 24 hours. Mrs Snuffles resolutely stayed out all night, (it was still over 20 centigrade, so not really a problem), but when I fed her inside the next morning, she decided that a new bijou residence might actually be just her thing after all.