Pearlsasinger
Up in the clouds
We have been hacking for each of the 3 days this weekend. We have met and passed without turning a hair; tractors, bouncy castle with about 20 screaming children, vehicles with rattly trailers, buses, noisy motorbikes and almost silent cycles, sheep running at us, mares and foals running away from us, wheelie-bins and skips full of rubbish, water pouring out of walls and down roads, all manner of DIYers, barking dogs and even the driven cob pulling 2 different vehicles, which turns her companion to a gibbering wreck.
So what on earth was it that made her stop on yesterday's hack with her head sky high, looking fearfully at a garden hedge, and then when asked to go on, turn round, in front of a car?
Sister persuaded her mare to ignore the large bum which was blocking her way and gave us a lead. My mare immediately settled and neither sis nor I could see anything at all which might have scared her.
We would be grateful for any ideas.
So what on earth was it that made her stop on yesterday's hack with her head sky high, looking fearfully at a garden hedge, and then when asked to go on, turn round, in front of a car?
Sister persuaded her mare to ignore the large bum which was blocking her way and gave us a lead. My mare immediately settled and neither sis nor I could see anything at all which might have scared her.
We would be grateful for any ideas.