Looking forward to seeing your boar at Hickstead soon - sounds very comical, but probably not much fun at the time!
I was thinking of the grand national, if only i can teach him to take a saddle!
Glad things went well for you, its good to keep busy. I know what its like having the OH in the police, my OH's married to the job. You feel so guilt when they've had a hard night and then come home to even more problems ie sick kids, mad pigs and escapee horses, thankful the OH was off today so has been doing the school run while i seem to have spent all day running after animals and rebuilding fencing!
Hope your little one's feeling better soon, as for the skulls I have no idea how to remove the brains, I'd boil them?? Mine are in to dinosaurs at the moment and spend most of their time in the garden digging for dinosaur bones, keeps them entertained for hours.