Recent content by southerncomfort

Fantastic! Very happy for you!

Yesterday was grim. Spent 45 minutes moving fencing, during which time I endured rain, sleet, hail and snow, all accompanied by a bracing wind. Today was beautiful, The sun shone and the sky was full of lapwings. It was brutally cold though, and the river that's been flowing through my...

Dos no one believe in hard work and earning the things you want more? I know its human nature to dream of having more than you have now, but their are people who have no home, no food in their bellies...and we're supposed to feel sorry for wealthy people who don't want to spend their own money...

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.