BBC 5Live's Pat Murphy hosts supper at our Bishopstone pub on June 24, 7.30pm. A regular Royal Oak performer, he'll be talking after supper about the possibly hapless Australians, who arrive next month, and the (until Sunday May 19) hapless English, who upto that point looked slightly worse than New Zealand! Expect opinions, predictions, laughter, disagreements and great food and drink. 4 courses are £40/head; book a table for 4 people or more, and it's £35/head. We have room for 50 of you, maximum.

Doping experts are not expected to be in Bishopstone for the annual pig racing day on June 2. Despite many suspicous looking 'owners' (ie sponsors), no tampering with the 10 week old beauties has so far been reported, and Clive Hill, head trainer, reports pigs happily feeding from his hand this morning as they prepare to face 500 people in Cues lane, who will, we estimate, wager as much as £2000 on two races.

The big day, for those of you who've been on Mars for the past month, is June 2; guaranteed to be a wet day; two races in Cues Lane, 3.30 and 4.45, we reckon, assuming the bookie Tom Green has sorted his admin and paid out to winners.

Names so far for pigs include Globetrotter, Crubeen, Posh Trotty, Spotty Botty, Pata Negra, Stich and Bitch (likely to change), Pinewood Porker....and er I've forgotten the last one! Owners/sponsors include Pinewood School, Los Gatos restuarnat in Swindon, the Cues Lane Motorcycle club, The trollopes, the becks, the huckers, the ecclestones and ....as usual, forgotten

Money raised goes to Riding for The Disabled; great food and drink inside and out, from midday onwards. Parking will be difficult, entertainment might be high

Pig Racing returns to Cues Lane, Bishopstone, on June 2. After last year's extraordinary performance by six surprised, but intelligent, pigs as they galloped along Cues lane for The Queen, we're doing it again.

8 pigs have beens selected, the council has closed the road and we're loooking for eight owners/sponsors. Three are snapped up – Posh Trotty, Pinewood Porker, and The Midget. All for £35. All this dosh to charity – Injured Jockeys Fund and Riding for Disabled is the plan. An afternoon of real hilarity, rain or shine – and great food inside and out, and beer if you want it.

Contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , book a table for lunch, own a pig, join the merriment. No pigs are hurt in the making of this production! on screen tote betting, vip enclosure. done properly, as you’d expect.

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Pie nights, and we mean proper pies, available for £10 per person at The Royal Oak, as a main course, Mondays and Tuesdays, without fail. This week seems to be veal--but truly, could be anything, any week--using our own livestock, could be beef, pork, lamb or veal. We're looking for some great organic chicken very locally too--it's too much of a gap in our menu

Yes, the bees have arrived! Doing our thing for this threatened precious flyer. Bee man David Pinchin found us through the Co-op's great bee keeper/suitable land available dating site, and this week the first 12,000 have arrived – if we get a good summer, there'll be 50,000 of them by July. With hundreds and thousands of great organic and extensive grassland to feed on, based at our remote farm settlement called starveall, at the south end of the farm, on the higher ground. We will keep you posted.

We are offering visits (one person at a time, full protective gear), and probably, we hope, some honey, mostly from our clover pollen.

almost everything we do on this farm and in this pub is faithfully, drolly, and occasionally facetiously spelt out on our facebook page helen browning's organic. well worth a look if you're bored or can't find what you want within these pages. We are also allowing ourselves freedom to entertain on trip advisor, which actually we loathe because of the abuse that it can generate from malicious souls--and there are some out there. The Royal Oak has two sites, one in bishopstone and one in swindon, for some reason, and for a feel of what people think of us, and occasionally what we thnk of them, have a look. TF