field has collapsed!is it monday again?????

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SaharaS

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Pointless..but needs to be aired...bare with me!

long story short my stables (the field pair not the stone barn indoor ones)have now got a basement. Badgers are pretty peeved and probably have a headache and my horses are going to have to learn to abseil...oh except the right box, that is about 4 ft high inside of freshly dug earth. I'd go back to bed..but thats upstairs(not in field) and thinking it may be wiser/safer not to...will really be quite funny to look back on tho not feeling that yet tho - horrible unbuilding task of precarious timber building ahead -thank god the horses were not in that field last night, does not bare to think about...

plan B...invest in some dwarf breeds so they don't bump their heads..but will need stannah equi stairs to get them out!

Whatever next;-/ If nothing else, i hope someone laughed and it cheered someone up...
 
oh crikey! thats not good! and badgers being mega protected means the stables have to move and not the badgers I guess. But your post did make me laugh a lot with visions of zip wires and cradles :-)
 
A word to the wise - you will find it almost impossible to discourage badgers without tarmac/concrete (fencing that works will be horrifically expensive) - and to disturb them without a licence is illegal (in fact I have nipped on here for a sanity break whilst finishing off a badger disturbance licence application!

Can you relocate the stables to another bit of the field (are they mobile shelters?!)...if not, you do indeed have a headache on your hands!

ETA: You have my sympathy - they are wretched, destructive creatures that get in all kinds of places they would be best off not being!
 
Ahh sorry I've just twigged that the badgers have done it, :o Your stables must be the des res in the area for them.
 
Sadly can't move the unit to ANYWHERE else..certainly not in a towable state..tho on the plus side, the angle its at (18%!!!!!)would be similar to the angle it would be on the hill fields...and have a grumpy old curmudgeon 'over looking' all the flat fields..ie he could over look them if he was on a roof ladder from his property but not from a window...but is a devious letter weilding oompa loompa so not worth the risk..hmmmm lucky badgers!am pleased to report I am now at the laughing at it stage, tho equally this could be mild hysteria..or wind. Luckily the main stable block is 400 odd yr old stone barn with jumbo flag stones so hopefully they have a flagstone aversion for their interiors..I'm not all that up on what's in atm in the badger world..also thanking lucky stars that it was set up as two stables and not a foaling box/nursery.that would have been beyond a nightmare..I think I'm going to gingerly open one eye very slowly in the morning, before making any rash decisions about getting up incase it still thinks its a monday!:o
 
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