....Dougal!


Yes this France and France likes making rules and regulations, it likes making so many that most french people don't seem to be that bothered about breaking them. Especially road rules like speed limits and solid white lines or private property and no hunting/shooting/fishing signs. I'm with them on this, I hate rules and restrictions so I find it particularly galling that one of the rules that can't be bent if I wish to have Dougal registered with the Haras Nationaux  as Origine C...
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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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Hope you all have a very jolly time



with family and friends.



I hope Santa's reindeer remember where you live

 

and Santa



remembers what you wanted



and not what you didn't;




Hope you get to share lots of yummy food but don't make a pig of yourself,



I mean; a pig of yourself



Hope you have a few drinks, but not too many



Most of all we hope you get to have a lot of fun



with all your loved ones.






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Don't know what's been happening round your parts but “Oh my!” the sun has brought out everyone's loving round these parts. Turnip is always your man for a lick if you're after affection, trouble being his licks lead to nips, lead to bites,lead to full on head lock grabs. This bullock is soon to experience this delight but I left the photos here, it just gets ugly. Turnip tries to drag him through our very safe and sturdy garden boundary fence so we'll finish here, all sweetness and ligh...
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It's that time of year when hitting the beach is one of my favourite past times. Must be the weather for it!

I guess during the summer it's a drive too far and the days are too full of other more constructive activities. I do like the young horses to go to the beach a couple of times because they usually get to see a string or two of racehorses and they get to experience wide open nothingness which I guess surprises a lot of modern day domesticated horses so used to having close boundaries a...

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I just felt I ought to share this old fashioned wonder treatment in the hope someone else may find it handy and in an effort to remember it myself for the future.Copper Sulphate seems handy for a remarkable number of problems.

Copper sulphate for treatment of Thrush and seedy toe.

My farrier had recommended that I use a copper sulphate solution in the frog for years to help kill thrush but to be honest I found it totally non effective, at best it kept the surface thrush at bay. Roger w...

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Everyone here is hoping you are all enjoying a very jolly Christmas.
Rog is feeling a bit pooped, he had to stand in for Rudolph last night and help Santa so he's in today with his legs all bandaged with cool packs.It was pretty tough going in the deep snow apparently.

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So I have been sloppy and idle and off the ball in not posting in a very long time. Infact all the time I've had good stuff to talk about I haven't bothered!
It has been a long year in many parts, I feel exhausted from being here there and back here again, over and over.
BUT NOW I'M BACK HOME, HOSED AND VERY HAPPY.
Over the next few weeks I'm going to take a little while to catch up on the blogs, a little bit for you, if you are so kind as to be reading it- THANK YOU. A little bit for me, so I c...
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     As you can see from the photo we have been doing other handy stuff despite feeling sorry for ourselves. Pearl (rather late in the day) has become a lead rein pony, poor dear she hasn't been ridden more than a bareback hike from the field in more than ten years!
 
She finds it very puff making but she enjoys all the brushing and pats she gets from Corrine. Corrine has taken a shine, for the moment to riding or maybe she caught the bug. Poor old doughnut had to be a makeshift pony and do jum...
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Monty and I would like to say thank you for our Christmas and Birthday pressies.They might be a bit late but the pink rug and matching leg warmers more than make up for it. Just the right moment too as we're in for ANOTHER cold snap.
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Monty would like to wish everyone a happy and prosperous 2010.
He wears a gold crown from Gathemo bakers. A little french or maybe normand tradition where sweet breads and galettes or cakes are sold containing a hidden porcelain figure or disc, anyway a teeny gift. Whoever is lucky enough to break a tooth finding said treasure in their mouthful gets to wear the crown for the day,(the crown is complimentary).
Not sure what this tradition is all about but it seems to last for most of Jan.
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Roger and Blackjack get held up in daylight robbery as they help us get on with fixing up a new home for Monty to be weaned in.
Blackjack has been playing big brother too little Monty who's a bit upset since we took his mum away a couple of days ago.They took over Rog's house for a few nights but since the weather turned wet again Rog wants his house back.
So we've been rigging up a little shelter at the bottom beside him for the two boys to go into until Monty is settled enough to go back out ...
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Red says,"oh no" to more snow.
Thankfully it seems we might have reached the end of our snowy patch as poor Red has had enough of chilly feet.
He'd also like to wish everyone a very Happy Christmas with lots of scrummy, yummy stuff to eat.
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 Because we haven't got enough to do we thought we'd infill today teaching the horses to snowboard. Ned was pretty in to it, as you can see. We won't have the money to afford the real thing for a while so it was a wee taster, trudging up hills and bumping back down, grating over rocks and other debris!
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All of a sudden the weather has dropped to sub zero temperatures at night.Days are pretty chilly too, but at least they are sunny. I thought I ought to make sure Monty was nice and cosy so I made him a little under rug.
Looks like I should have taken some measurements first as he's bigger than I recalled!
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