Our Diary – Week Six

It’s been another really cold week but we haven’t had any snow and hardly any rain so we don’t mind. It’s rather good really because New Mum gives us extra horse cubes which taste much nicer than hay. Every time she comes out we go to the gate and try to look as if we are starved and suffering but it doesn’t seem to work. She just comes over and scratches us in all our favourite places then goes off doing things with plants.

She says we must have hidden powers because when she gets outside she can’t see us anywhere and starts working. The next minute we have ‘materialised’ (whatever that is) and are standing there right in front of her when she turns round.

On Thursday she brought two big bags up to the wood to collect little sticks. She said they were ‘kindling’ but they were really just little sticks.

We went up to help her. It seemed very boring so we tried to make it more interesting by picking up the bags and tipping the little sticks out or running off over the field waving the bags in our teeth. She laughed and said we were little pests and put the bags where we couldn’t reach them.

This is our friend Tommy. He lives a long way away from us in Cumbria. New Mum says he is as naughty as we are but she loves us all.

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The Percydale Ponies’ Diary – Week Five

New Mum says this week was the second coldest on average for at least four years.

Every day she comes up to the wood to collect logs from the big pile the two Petes cut last year. One Pete is New Mum’s eldest son and the other Pete is her brother.

When they were cutting wood we tried to encourage them by nibbling their jackets and wtching the trees fall down but they chased us away. They said New Mum would be cross if a tree fell on us. In the end we wandered off to eat grass with the Huh-rabbits.

Here are two pictures of Zoe and Bella. Zoe’s Mum took the photographs. The first one is when Zoe first got into the saddle and the second one is when Bella was being ridden properly for the first time. Everyone was very impressed with how good she was.

Don’t forget to read about us at www.thepercydaleponies.co.uk or read some of the things New Mum has written at www.percydalehappyhorses.co.uk .