She doesn't like motorbikes.....

Put Sky in the front garden this afternoon for a bit of grass as the big boys have turned the field into a muddy mess. She was grazing away quite happily - until a very noisy motorbike went past when she was right by the gate, she shot across the garden, scrabbled over the patio and scared herself even more bashing the gate so she could get back to the field........perhaps some desensitisation with the Pan European is in order?

Considering wine and cheeky babies.....

On Friday, my friendly local restauranteur is coming to cook lunch here for me and some friends so today I went to buy some wine to go with the meal. As I rarely have more complicated requirements than "is it red and wet?" when choosing wine I decided to use the highly scientific method of selecting bottles with nice horses on the labels.

We'll see if this is a good way to go about it on Friday.......






This afternoon was sunny, if cold, so I let Skyfaxa have a graze on the front lawn. Éowyn decided she needed something extra so opened the door to give her an apple and I nearly ended up with a horse in the kitchen!

Boys will be boys.......

It was a bit cold this morning so the boys were playing to warm themselves up whilst I was warming up nicely cleaning out the disgusting mess they'd made in the box during the night......

At one point Maverick obviously felt he wasn't muddy enough so he stopped for a roll. I think he secretly always wanted to be a black horse........

We've been to see.....

......a potential new recruit:

almost 2 year old Breton filly (ONC), her mother was saved from the butcher by Equine Rescue France.

A new friend for Skyfaxa?

Something new.....

My girls have been great today, put Aliénor on Gandalf and got her to lead Skyfaxa around the courtyard, good as gold, both of them.

Escapee goats......

So I was just sitting down to my first cup of tea this morning after the usual hectic running around to get one daughter to school and the other to the childminder when there's a knock on the door. It's one of the commune's cantonniers, asking me if my goats have escaped..........I went to look and there they both were, outside the Mairie next door, peering in through the glass doors!

Eva, the brown one, is impossible to catch but luckily Sugar is fairly tame and immediately came over at the sight of a food bucket. I was able to get a lead on her and led her home with Eva trotting along behind......They escaped from my neighbour's paddock where they've been quite happily living all winter so now I'll have to go and check all the fences. In the meantime I've put them in the paddock here so now it contains 4 horses and 2 goats plus various assorted poultry. Needless to say, Maverick is NOT impressed with these funny little creatures!

Baby photos

Was showing a friend some of Sky's photos today, I'd forgotten how cute she was as a baby, she's growing so fast......

I even found a little video clip of her with mum.......