2011

Firstly a happy new year to everybody.

The last few weeks have been a constant round of feeding and watering - so here's to the delights of winter, the frozen water pipes ( still not thawed at the time of writing ), the diesel frozen in the tractors, gates frozen shut and our frozen faces. Everything taking three times longer than usual on top of rescuing neighbours on an almost daily basis from various snowdrifts. All in all enough to reduce a grown man to tears !

I have however had the pleasure of being called a divine gift by one neighbour when I gave her a lift on the quad bike after discovering her in the pitch dark walking the two hilly miles home on shot ice, pulling a sledge with her shopping on after abandoning her car on the main road !

The horses of course are thriving in the cold, bright and dry conditions.

There is other news to report, we have a new foal by Dollar Boy, more of him later. Also Kestrel attended a jumping clinic with International eventer JP.Sheffield who was extremely encouraging about his ability over jumps. Plans for Kestrel this year are to continue his showing, moving on from riding horse where he competed last season and into working hunter classes, also to start his showjumping which is a very exciting prospect for the coming year.