Recent content by southerncomfort

Snowing here now. I will say that even though its been wet, its been a fairly quiet period. No gales, no winter storms. Just a bit gloomy.

Oh no, poor Rocky (and you)! Hope he's feeling better this morning.

We've just swapped our Duster for a Volvo XC60. On paper, the Duster could tow my trailer and pony, but it was far too light. Their was a bit of juddering when pulling away and pony who'd always been a happy loader and traveller started not wanting to load. I wouldn't recommend it.

I currently have no lights on my yard. I'm assuming rain water has got in to one of them. If you try and turn them on all the electric trips. I need the kettle for making warm mashes so I'm doing everything by the light of a head torch now.

We're between Sheffield and Huddersfield. When we were looking we found land prices around Sheffield/Barnsley were very high so moved a bit further out to get what we wanted. Prices here have not come down much post-covid madness and I haven't seen anything with land under £700k. The only...

Her hands are horrible. Their is no give, no softness, fingers constantly closed tightly on the reins in an absolute death grip.

Some Lapwings arrived here today!

My hairy Fell pony has a rug on at the moment. Usually he's too hot even in just a rainsheet, but even he isnt coping now. He started with a dry cough a couple of days ago but is now coughing up nasty stuff. This is the second time this has happened at the back end of a particularly wet...

Welcome to the pony gang! Hope you have a lot of fun together.

If it helps, my trimmer says she hasn't seen any feet that have been particularly affected by the wet, muddy conditions so far, other than the odd bit of mild thrush.

Guess we're all coming to yours in 9 days time then! 😃

Same as you S, think we're going to have to invest heavily in mud control mats. Going to take pics at the weekend so I can remind myself where they're needed the most.

I would be happy if the this fog would lift! We've been shrouded in fog for days now. 🙁

Excited for you IHW! Ponies are the absolute best. After 6 weeks off, Mr SC chucked me on to my pony on Thursday so that I could record videos for the online winter TREC, having had no practice at all. 🙈 Bad enough, but the second obstacle was a gate. Suffice to say, not expecting good...

That they do actually like us. I know that sounds daft, but I always thought they were a bit like cats, happy to live with anyone provided their (extensive!) needs are met. I always thought that Bo was pretty indifferent to me and would happily disappear with someone else without so much as a...