Mostly we've been talking about real guinea pigs that Kevin and I know, or know about through family history or our underground network. A lot of the time they are also characters in our Mummy's books. She's Jemima Pett, and the books are the Princelings of the East series. And, surprisingly since there are so many …
Isle of Mull
I couldn't think of any of our friends and acquaintances with names beginning with I, so I asked Mummy and she said to post something else beginning with I. But not I as in me, although that is a fascinating subject that I'm sure you'd like more of. There are pictures of Fred, George, Victor …
Hugo, Humphrey and Hector
What a lot of Hs we have. Or did have. I only knew Humphrey and Hector. Hugo died not long after George. But he was Victor's friend and Victor was our Uncle piggy and looked after Dougall and me when we were tiny. So Victor told us about him. He was cheeky and wise and …
George
George. Where would we be without him? We wouldn't have this blog, or a facebook page, or the upstairs run, or strawberry juice power plants, probably not even the Princelings of the East, although that really is both him and Fred. Yesterday I told you that Fred was the natural philosopher, the thinker. Well, George …
Fred
Fred was the first piggy Mummy ever picked up. Doesn't that sound funny? She chose him and George from the group with their third brother, and said she'd have the one with the crest, and whichever of the others the rescue lady could catch. They were very fast runners, even faster than me. It's funny …
Elinor
Elinor is a lady piggy that I used to know. Well, I think I used to know her, I don't really remember. Colman used to know her, that's for sure. They were about the same age, I think. She lived on Jersey when we lived there. She was a very regal piggy. Mummy must have …