This little piggy at the Open Air Museum

Through this gateway lies a fairytale land of old houses to explore - each one carefully taken apart brick-by-brick and rebuilt at this Open Air Museum just outside Lyngby. 

For this expedition, I had to enrol the help of Anika and Toran Brown - and a couple of friendly horses -
for photos, because Jake was back at school and the deadline was looming.
If you look very hard, you can see one of my big brothers, Alex, with a beard standing at the back of the cart but his wife Clare is tucked out of sight. 

As soon as the driver got aboard, it was giddy up and we set off on a lovely horse-and-cart ride around the
enchanting site set in 12 acres of land to see what it had to offer. 

We passed quite a few of the over 100 quaint old houses...

...which had windows I want to paint (on canvas).

And when our tour by horse and cart was over, I walked back to try and find the sneaky pig I christened Trixie
whose phantom pregnancy had ensured her a cushy number in hog heaven.
I poked my head inside some houses to see the tools and baby equipment on display from centuries ago.

Handles at both end? For mum and dad, I guess - see who can push the strongest?

Many of the houses had notices like this one outside explaining who had
lived there and what they did for a living.

The horses passed me again and the driver smiled and said, yes, I was on the right road
to find the HUGE pig I'd seen from the cart earlier.

First I found a this little piggy in the market for some grub,

Then this little piggy who stayed home.
One spotty piggy who had roast beef
 and another dotty piggy who had none

Then finally I found this GIGANTIC HAPPY PIGGY who went grunt grunt grunt but
couldn't be bothered to even get up let alone run wee wee all the way home!

Even though home was just over there.

Luckily on the way back I passed the waterfall where just minutes before a
 whole horde of children had been playing so I'm not
contravening any privacy laws with this photo. It DID look fun.

AND OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS

We'll be posting more photos of the houses, animals and shop where we bought these cute egg cosies.

This weekend, we'll be making our own egg cosies out of some grey fleece that was once
intended to be an elephant costume for the Danish Faste Lavn celebrations
many years ago.
It's up in the loft. Probably hidden away in a trunk somewhere ;o)

so WATCH THIS SPACE!