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Post by sweetpea on Oct 25, 2020 22:51:05 GMT
Think I mentioned about going to get a load of stable manure and taking some apples and carrots for the horse. Well it yurned out to be a difficult job but I got it eventually and also made friends with a horse, two sheep a dog and a cat.
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Post by ladybird on Oct 26, 2020 3:01:11 GMT
A nice day out then sweetpea I have never been that close to a horse , or a sheep for that matter. Will you have to leave the manure lying for a time ?
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Post by grindle on Oct 26, 2020 4:05:57 GMT
a worthwhile trip then, lovely photo of the horse
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Post by SueA on Oct 26, 2020 8:32:00 GMT
Fair exchange there sweetpea, lovely trailer of manure for some apples & carrots! Love the photo (of the horse - not the manure!) ladybird have you never been into the countryside near you? I talk to every animal I see on a walk & pat any horse which puts it's head over a fence, we've even rescued a sheep with it's head stuck in a fence once, it had got it's head through to reach the tasty plants on the other side & got it's horns stuck!
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Post by roofgardener on Oct 26, 2020 8:46:46 GMT
I have a colleague at work who has a horse. There is an allotment very close to her pasture. She trades horse manure for carrots and root vegetables
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Post by Cherry on Oct 26, 2020 9:16:53 GMT
Very good photo sweetpea. The manure looks ‘tasty’, as my Scottish son would say.
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Post by ladybird on Oct 26, 2020 9:42:14 GMT
Fair exchange there sweetpea, lovely trailer of manure for some apples & carrots! Love the photo (of the horse - not the manure!) ladybird have you never been into the countryside near you? I talk to every animal I see on a walk & pat any horse which puts it's head over a fence, we've even rescued a sheep with it's head stuck in a fence once, it had got it's head through to reach the tasty plants on the other side & got it's horns stuck! I have always lived in estates Sue and although there are fields about here there are no animals within walking distance. sadly I have only seen cows, sheep and horses through a window on car journeys. I once knew a Jockey who took me to see his horse in a stable and he insisted I had a ride on her,it was terrifying she was so high. It was only afterwards he showed me the Hugh scar on his arm where the horse had bit him. Never again
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Post by Cherry on Oct 26, 2020 11:36:17 GMT
Very good photo sweetpea. The manure looks ‘tasty’, as my Scottish son would say.
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 26, 2020 13:59:49 GMT
A nice day out then sweetpea I have never been that close to a horse , or a sheep for that matter. Will you have to leave the manure lying for a time ?As soon as I get round to digging for the runner beans some will go in the trench. The rest will get used as and when.
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Post by SueA on Oct 27, 2020 8:48:57 GMT
The horse probably remembered the jockey whipping her ladybird & that's why she took a chunk out of him, you'd have been safe! I've always lived on estates too but we are lucky in that we have fields with horses just the other side of the motorway from us & we've always driven out to the countryside & done walks & hikes through some lovely places & when I was little our garden backed onto a field where a friend kept her pet sheep - it's all built on now & most of the farm which was next to it is a housing estate.
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Post by lesley on Oct 27, 2020 9:27:14 GMT
Lovely photo sweetpea, I've always had horses from a very early age but sadly not know, like you sue i always make a fuss of them we have some just down the road from us.
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 27, 2020 16:11:50 GMT
Lovely photo sweetpea, I've always had horses from a very early age but sadly not know, like you sue i always make a fuss of them we have some just down the road from us. Me too lesley or rather my dad. When my dad and uncle were demobbed at the end of the war they bought a string of ponies and horses and ran the pony rides on Ayr beach for years until the late '50s or early '60s so all my summers were working with the ponies, even lived in a stable at times. I've been trying to find some pics of the time but no luck so far.
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 27, 2020 16:18:05 GMT
Found this pic. Three of my younger brothers in the buggy (governess cart) circa 1950's The pony is Jenny How about that Cherry Taken outside the cottage we lived in some summers in Ayr
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Post by Eli on Oct 27, 2020 16:48:51 GMT
Found this pic. Three of my younger brothers in the buggy (governess cart) circa 1950's The pony is Jenny How about that Cherry Taken outside the cottage we lived in some summers in Ayr That looks idyllic sweetpea, must have been a happy time
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Post by SueA on Oct 28, 2020 8:48:09 GMT
That's a beautiful horse lesley was it one of yours? sweetpea that's a great photo, did you have the mass of blonde curls like your brothers? These are some of the horses near us:- These are in a field at the riding school here beside the motorway.
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