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OVER THE WALL by Gloria Morgan I moved to Kimberley at the end of 1986, so I have lived here for thirty-four happy years. Before that, I was leading the sophisticated life down south – commuting daily into central London to work; travelling round on the tube; shopping in the West End; seeing the latest shows at the theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue; going to the proms at the Royal Albert Hall. The other day I was at home, sitting on the lawn reading my book in the warm sunshine. It was perfectly quiet and peaceful. The spring blossom was out. Everything smelled sweet and fresh. one of the ‘volunteers’ drafted in by George to help with the manoeuvre. He remembers that the sow weighed a ton, and she fought and kicked frantically as the chaps tried to lift her up. Eventually, in a heroic effort, they managed to hoist her up above head height, and heave her over the wall. What he remembers most of all is the racket she made – squealing and shrieking at the top of her voice as she squirmed and struggled. He said the din must have been heard all over Kimberley. And she kept it up throughout the whole undignified procedure until she was at last deposited back on her trotters. The next day, on the way back from my daily dog walk, I bumped into an old friend I hadn’t seen for a while. He belongs to an old-established Kimberley family. His grandfather built my house, in 1875. My friend hadn’t met my dog before so there was a mutually enthusiastic introduction. Then we got to talking about making a garden suitably secure for a dog. I pointed out that I have the original 6ft high brick wall at the end of my garden (which is now topped with a 2ft fence). My friend laughed and launched into a story about George Topley, a former resident of my house. George kept pigs. I had always associated the piggeries in my garden with the original owners of the house in the 19th century. Shades of Thomas Hardy’s “Jude the Obscure” (published in 1895) always came to mind with that graphically gruesome description of slaughtering the pig. But George and his pig handlers were not living in the 19th century. We’re talking about 60 years ago. It amuses and amazes me to think that my friend can remember when there were actually pigs in residence here in my garden, stinking the place out, producing litters, and being manhandled noisily over 6ft walls. The distance between London and Kimberley in the 1960’s was not measured only in miles. My house was bought in 1986 as “cottage with piggeries”. My garden shed and greenhouse and a bigger out-building were all originally pigsties. My friend could remember the occasion when George had a pregnant sow that needed to be got out of the garden. For reasons best known to George, it was decided that the preferred method was to lift her over the back wall where, presumably, there was a vehicle waiting to transport her. As he was a fit and healthy young man, my friend was tailored for dyslexic readers titles suitable for adults and children including short stories, autobiography, World War I and World War II, historical adventure, picture story-books for younger readers. Available from... www.dayglobooks.co.uk 72 Please mention ngmagazines when responding to adverts
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