Anyone else got daughters living in a bygone age?!

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My two are twelve and ten, and love Ruby Ferguson and all the Pullein Thompson books, and just long to live that kind of life! I confess I do all I can to encourage it
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My younger daughter spent half last winter trying to find real 'string gloves' to fit
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I think she has read 'I Carried the Horn' so many times she can jolly nearly recite it!
 
They've got good taste!!
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My daughter is 9 and loves all the wartime/evacuation dramas and books like The Secret Garden are her favourite...which was also her Grandmothers favourite book as a child!
Very refreshing!!
 
Yes we too have gone through a prolonged All Creatures Great and Small phase. My favourite too as a child so I am quite happy to revisist my youth alongside her on the sofa!!
 
Wow, someone else has read them. I'm 47 and I still dream of that life!!!!!!! Brings back my pony mad childhood a treat.

14 year old daughter does not approve, she even looks down her nose at Pony Magazine.
 
My daughter and me!! My mum last week kindy dropped off 2 boxes full of books, mainly Pullein Thompson and Ruby Ferguson) that were mine (as a child) and some that were hers before that!
Shall I invoke some nostalgia and list a few titles;-
A Pony to School
Stolen Ponies
We Hunted Hounds
Goodbye to Hounds
Prince Among Ponies
Cobbler's Dream
The First Rostte
A Horse Called Septeber
The Impossible Horse
The Open Gate

We are in for a mammoth reading session - there must be at least 70 books in total!!
 
Ive been rebuying them all up for years, my parents got rid of the originals when I left home, how unreasonable.

Have all the famous five, secret seven, jill books, pullein thompson, jackie etc etc. I find them the most relaxing and enjoyable reads even at 40! and like seeing how things have changed in riding practices and the countryside.

have no children but then looks like Ive never grown up, have the palomino pony too (well a Haflinger anyway), having semi retired the 17 hander!
 
ooh we've got most of those, but really want The Open Gate (that's the one that joins David and Pat to 'For Want of a Saddle' right?) - so if anyone has a swapsy!!
The Impossible Horse is my od's fave, the hunting trilogy, my yd's!
And I have bought them Chestnut Hill and the like, but they much prefer Jill and the PTs!
 
Wow, now I feel really nostalgic. I still have all of those books in the attic somewhere. I must have read them so many times growing up - the P-T's were a huge favourite, especially Josephine. I think "Six Ponies" is my favourite, and most-read book, of all time!
 
My personal favourite was "a pony for sale" which I have managed to acquire for 50p from Amazon - read that book till it fell apart when I was young and plan to read it again now I am 45!!!
 
Hope you're all familiar with Jane Badger Books - not advertising as don't know the woman from Adam, but great site, lots of info about all those long ago treasures.
Think I might ditch my children's P-T childhood clique and start one for over 40s still reading them LOL
 
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Hope you're all familiar with Jane Badger Books - not advertising as don't know the woman from Adam, but great site, lots of info about all those long ago treasures.
Think I might ditch my children's P-T childhood clique and start one for over 40s still reading them LOL

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I can recommend Jane Badger too - great seller! I'll definitely join your clique - my guilty secret is that I do still dip into these books occasionally!
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I love the Jill books!!! When i was a kid i read all those kind of books, my grandma used to buy them all for me from a second hand book shop. wierdly enought i was looking at some ruby ferguson books on ebay for my little girl the other day! I loved them so much, read them over and over again. Blackboy and rapide were her ponies i think?!
 
Phew. I'm not the only one.
Don't have any children but people look at me a little strangely when I talk about 'gleam-it soap flakes' and 'tails like spun silk'.
I finally realised I might be a little strange when I was telling someone at our yard who had entered a showing class about Jill's show which included a collected walk and rein back!!!
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