Week 12 – March 24th

Hooray! The warm weather has come back.New Mum says we have to make the most of it because it’s going to get cold again soon.

At least there don't seem to be many Huh-rabbits about. Here is a picture of one of them New Mum took last year, It was obviously deciding which plants to eat next.

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Week 11 – March 17th

It’s still very cold but at least this week has been quite dry.

New Mum has spent a lot of time in the woods with us. She is putting all the branches and stuff that blew down last week into a big pile. She says the two Petes will cut them into logs when they come down again. We don’t know what New Mum does with the logs. She takes them down to the stable where she lives and we don’t see them any more. Her stable must be full of logs.

The stables that people live in don’t look the least bit like our stables. Next time we manage to get through the electric fence we’re going to see if we can sneak into New Mum’s stable to see what it’s like.

Woofer has been very noisy just lately. New Mum says something must be bothering her. She thinks Woofer can hear noises she can’t. We can hear strange rumbly noises from the other side of one of the woods. That might be the noise that New Mum can’t hear.

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Week 10 – March 10th

Oh dear! Where has our lovely warm weather gone? This week has been getting colder and colder and we are having showers of very cold rain and some really chilly windy days. We are very glad that we haven’t lost our warm winter coats. The rain runs right off the tough long hair and stops the short fluffy warm hair underneath from getting wet. Even in the worst rain our skin is actually dry and warm.

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Week 9 – March 3rd

The weather is still nice and warm.

We’ve been watching New Mum working in her garden. She spends a lot of time digging up some plants and throwing them in a big black bin thing and then putting other plants in the places she’s just cleared. It seems an awful lot of work for nothing. Why doesn’t she just leave the other plants there?

New Mum says our friend Tommy is having terribly wet weather and hasn’t been at all warm.

Bella and Poppy are being ridden by Zoe and Hollie at the weekends. During the week it is too dark when they come home from school. We think it would be much better if they didn’t go to school and spent more time with the ponies.

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Our Diary. Week 8 February 25th.

We have been having some lovely warm weather. The grass has started to grow quite a lot and our skin is getting itchy from being too warm. New Mum keeps checking to see if we are moulting yet. She says if the weather stays like this we should start moulting soon.

New Mum says the weather has gone mad because it shouldn't be this warm in February. She keeps muttering 'I hope this isn’t the summer.'

We think this is silly because summer comes after the daffodils and bluebells have gone and when  all the trees have leaves on them. Our daffodils haven’t even got flowers on yet and the bluebells aren’t growing at all.

People sometimes have some very strange ideas!

This is a picture of what our daffodils look like in the Spring.

This is what it looks like now.

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The Percydale Ponies: Our Diary. Week 7 – February 18th

The Percydale Ponies: Our Diary. Week 7 – February 18th

Our Diary. Week 7 – February 18th

We had a very exciting time this week. We found out that the white ribbon stuff that bites when you touch it is called electric fencing. One day it wasn’t working so we were able to sneak our way through it into New Mum’s garden.

There was lots of fresh juicy grass there because nothing had been eating it ever, apart from the occasional Huh-rabbit. They don’t eat much because they are only little and they seem to like New Mum’s special plants better than grass.

New Mum was not pleased when she found us. We pretended that we didn’t know she was there and trotted off to parts of the garden which were furthest away from her. In the end she brought some tasty titbits into our field and waited until we couldn’t resist the tasty smells and went back into our field.

She spent ages working on the hedging on her side of the electric fence to stop us getting through again.

We waited until she disappeared then we went exploring until we found another place to get through. New Mum chased us all the way to the top of our field and was very cross so we decided to stay out of the way for a while. We didn’t know that she had a plan.

Next morning she put a new box down by the gate where the old box used to be then she went away.

When we tried to go into the garden again the electric fencing was working again and the white ribbon bit us when we touched it.

Oh well, getting into the garden was fun while it lasted.

New Mum is being nice again and gave us some carrots as a treat.

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