Hovis' Friday Diary

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Dear diary
I have pondered for some time my mother’s cruelty and ability to think up cunning new ways to embarrass me. But this time she has reached heights that I could not even contemplate…. More on that in a moment.
This week has mainly seen us sweating our whatsits off and dying of heat exhaustion. My evil mother made me work in the evenings at the early part of this week and by the time we’d finished we both looked like we’d fallen in the river. It was not funny. Even the girls are wilting in the heat and no one is interested in playing or even going hacking – although there has been a large amount of activity of the tractors of terror lately so perhaps the others have heard about an imminent attack?
On Weds Boss Lady Sarah looked after me as mum was away with work but in the evening Dad came down and produced IT. Apparently mum had been informed that we were all moving fields and that the grass is very lush and had a lot of that stuff on it that makes it grow. Hurrah thought I! Alas I fear my mother has either had a knock on the head or one too many shandies as she has decided that this is bad for me. BAD for me? How is actually getting something to eat instead of my normal meagre rations Bad for me? She apparently posted a picture of me last week playing football (and yes ladies I am that talented) on my face book page. Go look at it and see how thin I am. How pathetic and undernourished I look. Then the woman wants to stop me eating when there’s grass available? Even Dad who normally defends mother’s insanity apologised as he fitted the torture device. I look like Hannibal Lector. What do they think I’m going to do? Eat small children? I’ve told them before I couldn’t eat a whole one so they’re aright………..
So yesterday Boss Lady Sarah moved me to my new field. OMG. It’s GREEN! With GRASS in it! Yum Yum Yum. But no. I had to wear my new thing and thus my grass eating experience was ruined. Its like celery – its taking more effort to get any grass than the grass is worth. I demand a campaign. Nice Horse and Hound people please use your magazine, your face book pages, your tweeting thing and inform the world about the cruelty of my mother. She must be stopped. I tried all sorts this morning – the big doe eyes that I know melt hearts at a thousand yards, it didn’t work , the “I hate you evil woman” stare, it didn’t work, the “cuddling” whilst trying to rub off said mask thing on her back , it didn’t work, the pathetic “look how little I can eat” demonstration, it didn’t work. I am DOOMED. Apparently once I have got the grass down a bit and the goodness has come out of it I can have the thing off and she did say she was sorry about 100 times in the space of a minute but her resolve didn’t waver. Apparently she loves me so much that me getting some thing called Lammi doesn’t bear thinking about. I tell you what else doesn’t bear thinking about? Me dying of starvation……….
The other side effect of my new menacing “don’t leave me alone with small children or I might eat them” look is that all hope of pulling has gone. The only pulling that will be happening around here is when her evilness has another go at my mane. I could hear Frilly and Dolly sniggering from two fields away and somehow I don’t think they’d both just thought of a funny joke. My life is over. No grass and the girls thinking I starred in the Silence of the Lambs. I could make a remake called the Hush of the Hay or the Stillness of the shoots. My life is over. My mother has turned into a nut job, I can’t eat, I can’t pull the ladies and I have drool stuck to a big box thing on my nose. If anyone wants me I’m the big starving, dejected feather ball in the corner attempting to remove the fire guard off my nose. I hate my life……….
 
Darling Hovis

Come and stay with Stinky and me, we have a nice green field but the grass is not too long so we are free from looking like Hannibal Lecter.

If you were round this weekend, Stinky and I are coming up to Arena UK in Grantham which is your neck of the woods and would love to meet you or your mum.

We then have a nice week at home and are off again to something called Equifest.

Mummy has spent all her money on buying a nice big trailer so I can now come out and play at the shows with Stinky which is nice of her.

I still think you are sexy no matter what your mum puts on you.

Farray Clydesdale xxxx
 
Poor Hovis, are you out on your own? The standard way of removing these objects of torture is to get your field companion to pull it off over your ears with their teeth.

Hope this helps

The Broomy Ponies xx
 
Darling Hovis

Come and stay with Stinky and me, we have a nice green field but the grass is not too long so we are free from looking like Hannibal Lecter.

If you were round this weekend, Stinky and I are coming up to Arena UK in Grantham which is your neck of the woods and would love to meet you or your mum.

We then have a nice week at home and are off again to something called Equifest.

Mummy has spent all her money on buying a nice big trailer so I can now come out and play at the shows with Stinky which is nice of her.

I still think you are sexy no matter what your mum puts on you.

Farray Clydesdale xxxx

Hi farra.
Please come and rescue me. I just read that you weigh 730kg in another post. That means your mum lets you EAT! I am not allowed past 600KG on the weigh tape and I am a 16.2HH Clydie cross. My mother is pure evilness.
Alas mum and dad are away this weekend so can't come and see you but mum might pop down to this equi thing and see you in action. Then she said if its not too difficult i might have a go next year. I don't know why shes making plans - I'll only be allowed in the TB classes next year - i'll be thin enough to pass for one........
 
Poor Hovis, are you out on your own? The standard way of removing these objects of torture is to get your field companion to pull it off over your ears with their teeth.

Hope this helps

The Broomy Ponies xx

Her royal evilness has thought of this. We each have our own field and i have a biting fence between me and the Hot Stepper to stop him helping me. i WILL think of something though.......
 
Her royal evilness has thought of this. We each have our own field and i have a biting fence between me and the Hot Stepper to stop him helping me. i WILL think of something though.......

The next step needs to be jumping out then. Just think how impressed your Mum will be when you've made it over 4ft of electric fencing! Failing that we recommend a flat out gallop through the fence, it only tickles for a second and then you will be free and in with the ladies :D
 
Hovis you are missing the perfect opportunity - tell the ladezes you were in Hannibal Lector and this is the famous mask maybe then they'll want to get close(they must have been closing their eyes at that point because they were so scared) - so you're not just a famous superstar author but also a film star!
 
Dear Hovis,

I think you need to come visit me. I can show you how to get these things off, all different kinds of them, or at least to shift them so that you can eat properly. She called me "Darth Spooky Pony" when she did this to me, last year or the year before. I don't know what it means, but it didn't sound very nice. I tried to protest very hard, and then she got a different one, which I managed to shift to beside my mouth.

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This was the Carrot Lady's latest effort, this Spring:

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This was a few hours later:

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So it can be done! Keep trying; we'll all be your support group!

Carrots,
the Spooky Pony
 
Hovis,
I have many tips and tricks for removing grazing muzzles the minute mum disappears from field-view. However, I cannot disclose them on the forum as she may read them. Keep trying to remove the muzzle, you can do it!
Oh but be warned, since I am THE master of getting everything off I was told by a lady who massaged my back that I was a total fatty and needed to lose weight. As a result i'm in a field with NO GRASS. none. not a blade. it's been like this a few months now :( all i get is a manger load of soaked hay!
where is the justice?
Meg, the podgy welsh cob :D
 
But just think how the laydeez will swoon over the svelte and sleek version of you, Hovis. And anything is better than being confined to a hot and stuffy stable with no hay, apart from a few meagre handfuls that have been soaked for ages. You're just going to have to be a brave soldier for a while.
 
But I'm NOT fat! Its in case I get fat. Even the vet tells mum I am a sleek machine. Mum says its more to stop me overeating this new rich grass and getting lammi. Someone tell her she's wrong?
 
Dear Hovis,

I understand your pain and embarrasssment. I also had to look like Horrible Lector a few years ago, I hated it and managed to get the thing off, lots of times, even with a headcollar over the top - (Don't ask why - it's a trade secret and if your mother finds out then she will tell my mother and then all hell will break loose)

However, and here is the sad news - because I kept on taking the thing off I got ill with this lammi stuff - OMG I nearly died - I got it so bad in all four feet I could hardly move - I ended up in my stable for years (well a couple of months but it seemed like years). I was prodded and poked and injected (with a harpoon it felt like) over and over again. My mum cried because the vet said I may not make it :( And it was all my fault - I took it off and wouldn't let my mum catch me when she found out - I am so sorry now.

So Hovis, yes it may make you look like Hannibal the Cannibal but at least you will not get the dreaded Lammi trust me you don't want to get it. If anything is it is a mark of how much your mother loves you. Now when I have to wear it I still protest but I know it is for a very good reason.

Love and kisses

Tilly
 
Dear hovis,

this is the first of your diary entries that i have read and it was fab. i am very lucky my dad doesn't starve me, but he does work me very hard and we are doing a sponsered ride in september which is 50 miles over 2 days!!!! :eek: i look forward to next weeks diary entry.

jack (the slightly podgey cob) :D
 
Dear hovis,

this is the first of your diary entries that i have read and it was fab. i am very lucky my dad doesn't starve me, but he does work me very hard and we are doing a sponsered ride in september which is 50 miles over 2 days!!!! :eek: i look forward to next weeks diary entry.

jack (the slightly podgey cob) :D

Where have you been hiding not to have read Hovis' diary before! He's a legend - well worth buying his book so you can catch up on Hovis exploits from the beginning (just becareful where you read it as it causes uncontrollable laughter and the occasional tears!):o
 
Keep trying Hovis..it will come off!! Perhaps if you try your lying down trick tomorrow morning with it on, and not move then she might take it off, queue jump up and rip it out of her hands and gallop off!!
 
Hovis,

Dont despair, even though there is a mean biting fence between you hot stepper should still be able to get the dreaded device off. I managed to get my friends dreaded fly mask off over one of these fences and flung it to the middle of my field. I was very proud of myself but my mum and aunty d were NOT HAPPY! I don't see why as it was no easy task, but it can be done. Don't despair hovis!

Mattie (moo pants - this is mums name for me and it does my tb street cred no good at all)
 
Hi Hovis, Connie cob x here,

I've never replied on your thread, always felt a little starstruck really, you're just so damn gorgeous (although I'm old enough to be your grandmother!)

I just had to reply on this one though, my mother demanded I wear one of those mask things (although I think mine is a different make to yours) after I had a bout of concussive lami last year - believe me its really not good - I was stuck in my stable on meagre rations for weeks - There was absolutely no one to flirt with! plus it hurt like hell for a while.

Embrace the change - I'm sure you still look fantastic - I think I rock the look fairly well (although I did have words about the colour - what does mother think I am - a barbie horse?!! her reply was that she'd be able to see it more easily if it comes off in the field!)

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