Happy birthday George and Fred. Percy asked me when we were out in the garden on Thursday what he should post about today. I said "Fred and George of course." He came back a while later and said "Who are they?" That's the trouble with legends, I suppose. If nobody's telling the stories, people forget …
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V for Victor
Victor was born on February 20th 2008 and died on 29th May 2014. He was over six years old and that's very old for a guinea pig. Although Colman's older now. He was born in Auntie Vikki's house to a sow called Snowy, who was already pregnant when she went into the rescue. Vikki said …
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 …
Seven weeks went by
Seven weeks went by and we changed from end of summer to deep dark, damp winter. That's what it seems like anyway. It's a long time since Humphrey left us and Midge and Oscar came. It's an even longer time since Fred left the house, and Dougall and I weren't even alive then. Yesterday was …
Happy Adoption Day, Mummy!
Today is the seventh anniversary of the most important date in history - the day Mummy brought home her first guinea pigs, the legendary Fred and George (whom this blog is named after*). Seven years is a very long time, and Mummy says she can't really believe it's been that long, but then it does …