30th September

I AM BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I haven't actually been anywhere, well not anywhere unusual at least, but I mean my musings are back. Simon has been struggling to get the musings typed up, and then got distracted by making it all look different which got in the way for a bit. Anyway I like the new look, though it is only a look, in that it looks like grass but doesn't taste like grass! (luckily computers are wipe-clean).

There are some new faces at the farm since Bubbles departure. Ed the tall horse didn't stay long, and now Max has come to join us. Max looks a bit like Silver only much bigger. This can be confusing in a "Is that Silver, very close, or Max, far away?" kind of way. I will get Simon to add their pictures to "My Friends, and make sure he labels them!

See you tomorrow!

5th August.

Sunshine and showers again today! This is most agreeable weather...warm enough....and wet enough to stick the dust together. And I think we all know what you can do with dust that is stuck together...yes....ROLL IN IT! So I have been....quite a lot. I had a extra bath on Friday ready for the weekend and was briefly very clean, but I managed to be black all over again before Simon was ready for a trot out in the cart. Which meant a hose down before going out! I had a good trot round though so it was worth it!

26th July.

There have been a few problems this week with getting onto the thing Simon calls the "Web". It is working at the moment though. If is going to keep breaking I may have to catch one of the spiders that live in my stable, this will be a big help I am sure!

All of the hay is safely cut, dry, squashed into bales and stacked in the barn under a cover. And all before the heavy showers came.

Rain made all the dust sticky.....so I have rolled vigorously in it. As a result I am very very dirty. However it is Saturday tomorrow so  don't think it will last......I might get a bath. Last week I had to have one before I went out for a trot....Simon said I was too scruffy to be seen with in public! I have a feeling it might be a 2 bath situation again this week!

19th July

It is quite hot already. I am mostly sleeping in the shade. And drinking plenty of water.

The grass is cut for hay. Stuart did this yesterday with a big green tractor. Next he will come and turn it over and throw it about, maybe twice! Then he will come with more big machinery to pick it up, squash it into blocks and tie it up. Simon will then stack it in the barn. BUT then in the winter they hay comes out again, gets untied are shaken loose in the field for us to eat. A lot of work to ultimately put the grass back where it came from! However I am glad that they take the trouble otherwise we would be a bit hungry in the winter!

Oh... and to get the big machinery in Simon says we may need to pull up a couple of fence posts......I am the one for that job! Though Simon has said that he wants to be able to put them back in.....not usually possible after I have removed them apparently! (How many has he broken this year with farm machinery? More than I have playing with them I think!)

But anyway, to all persons making hay whilst the sun shines. THANKYOU from all of us horses!

11th July

It is cooler this morning. But going to get warmer.

Ed went out in the trailer last night and came back quite late. I don't go in the trailer...I only go to places I can trot to.

The hay looks like it might be ready to cut. If the weather stays like this we might see Stuart soon with all his tractors and bits of machine to make the bales of hay! Simon won't be looking forward to stacking it though!

10th July

Once again the sun is shining.

I have had a good roll in the dust. The effects of this are less spectacular than a roll in mud, but it is pleasant all the same! And if I do this enough today I may get a cold hose down again this afternoon...that would be nice!

In the meantime I have shade, water and a daft thing to keep the flies out of my eyes and the sun off the pink bit on my nose....so I have all I need! Sleep time I think.........

9th July

It is hot and sunny again.

Last night Simon hosed me down with cold water which was very nice...(though I am rather hoping for a walk down to the ford on Locks Lane for a paddle one evening whilst it is hot!)....I also had my mane shampooed and conditioned with pomegranate conditioner....now I was not sure what a pomegranate was but apparantly it is something you can eat....so why do you rub it on your hair? That said it has made my mane (which is very very short at the moment) very soft!