Yeah, yeah we had the snow too!  Unlike some of you we actually had polar bears 'dans le coin' .
 To think some of you poor buggars still have snow now! Our snow only stopped us riding for four days (touch wood, there could well be more on the way) but while it was here I thought I should do something useful, so it seemed a cunning plan to break Peggy in, even if she is only two. There are some ponies in Peggy's background, we won't mention names, who weren't that cute to break so it seemed a...
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I don't know how it's been for you, but here it's been a pretty drab start. Grey, grisly wet and depressing.
Despite this or perhaps because of ? We've knuckled down to get some basics learnt, we've trucked Normany, ridden miles and hopefully got some foundations in place, or  we're on the road to being understood at the very least.
Visa has started jumping at Gavray



as has Cloud



Popeye has forded streams



as has Monty



And yes, that's the Mouse back in the saddle remembering how to ride ponies that ...
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Monty's been nagging, nagging and nagging at me, he wants to go and see the christmas lights at Montjoie up the road.
So I threw in a little new year's eve surprise for him and took him up in the trailer to see in the new year!



One minute we were there, then the next we're here;



Welcome 2013!

We had to take Popeye too;



'Cos he'd heard from Visa and Cloud on their coach tour last week that the lights were seriously cool;



So as you can see, all three of us and the camera man had a truly wicked time;



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