Talk To The Animals

I think it's safe to say that I've always been a horse crazy girl, since I first set my eyes on my Grandparent's Shetland Pony nearly nineteen years ago! I'd sit on a bucket and sing to her, groom her and sneak her a cheeky carrot so Tipsy was clearly to blame for the fact that 'A HORSE' was at the top of my christmas list every year. I started riding when I was about eleven and progressed pretty quickly to riding strong scopey hunters. 

Thanks to my mum, this was the year dreams came true, sorry about the cliche, but as I sit here typing, Milo my 16hh, four year old, Irish Draught x Welsh Cob is grazing away (and probably doing something he shouldn't be...) in the field. 

He's quite a looker and he knows it, posing at passers by with his ears pricked. He's only been here a week but it's clear he's quite cheeky... I've just looked out of the window to see his head over the fence with half of my grandmother's plants in his mouth... 'Oh No Milo' is a phrase we hear quite often! His character shall we call it makes him him and it's safe to say I love him already! 

'Oh No Milo! Not The Leeks!'

Anyway, enough about the big boy, now for you to meet the terrible twosome, my 'pet' sheep even though they act more like dogs! My partner and I rescued them as lambs from awful conditions under the care of a so called shepherd, cold stale milk, unclean bedding and highly infectious diseases floating around the air meant we just had to get them out and when four out of the six hand reared lambs died it was the final straw. Well enough of the morbid stuff, Little G and Dot are having the best life they could imagine. I understand they're only sheep but when you see the bond they have created due to the experiences that they have had it truly is incredible. They never stray more than five feet away from each other and run to their mummy whenever their scared. I spent about an hour just stroking them on bonfire night as they legged it up the field to me at the gate! Just call me Little Bo Peep! 

The dogs need a whole post to themselves! Keep checking out my blog for some country kitchen classic next time as I got busy making... there was flour everywhere but we'll keep that quiet! 

Anyway, bye for now, with