Mummy's writing a new story about me to go in a book of short stories for young readers for Christmas. The other story she wrote about me went in the last BookElves Anthology and this one will go in the next one. She hasn't told me what happens yet, except I meet a reindeer and …
Kevin interviews Auntie Dawn (part 2)
Auntie Dawn told me such lovely stories about her pigs last month that I saved some for this month. If you missed that you can read it here. So, Auntie Dawn: What favourite memories do you have of your guinea pigs? There are so many! I’ll confine myself to talking about how we got each …
My daily grind
I thought you might like to know what I do all day. I'm very busy, of course. A typical day at this time of year goes something like this. The sky gets lighter in the window above our heads and the sun comes up and we can see it's bright at theother end of the kitchen …
Mummy has two gardens
I always thought this was Mummy's garden, but she's got another one. She disappears to go there on Saturday mornings and sometimes other times too. This week she took all the nice little kale plants that were growing in pots with her. There was something else in pots too, broccoli, I think she said. We've …
The last of the six
Hector died on Thursday. He was the last of us who actually knew George, Fred and Hugo. To me they are all legends. Hector didn't say much about them, apart from Hugo. He was a big fan of Hugo. He taught him (Hector) most of what he knew, about how to get on with piggies …
Hector – May 2010 to 9th July 2015
Hector died in my arms today after a series of health problems. Hugo will be waiting for him at the Rainbow Bridge. Rest in peace, my loving but troubled boy. We'll be in mourning for the next seven weeks, as is the guinea pigs' custom.
