The good old days

[Booboos]

I'm reading a book of fiction that has a couple of chapters devoted to a very detailed hunting scene and discusses horses. Two of the characters have a good old moan: no one understands horses any more, any little problem and they want rid, they don't understand that horses need time to come right, all the emphasis is on examinations to make sure they are buying the perfect horse but they are silly to think there is such a thing as the perfect horse. A nice little rant about how good the good old days used to be and how people have moved away from real horsey knowledge.

The book? "Can you forgive her?" by Anthony Trollope, first published in 1864/5...it seems that any time but now is always the good old time

 

[Wigglypigs]

I guess things never change lol

I hate it when people get a new horse and dont give it time to settle in , expecting it to be the same as it was in a previous home.....grrrrr
And i bet they were hunting foxes too.........*sigh*

 

[skint1]

I think fox hunting will make a return, maybe even in the London parks!

 

[MiJodsR2BlinkinTite]

Talking about the "good old days", does anyone remember an author who went under the pen name "Golden Gorse"; it was a very old book even when I was a child in the 1960's, and had some wonderful photos of people with the good old fashioned sit-back hunting seat. She raved about Exmoor ponies I remember!

Does anyone else remember this author? There was a super section on it all about hunting; and I can remember curling up with this book for hours on end.

 

[Doris68]

Plus ca change - plus c'est la meme chose!

 

[help1]

Talking about the "good old days", does anyone remember an author who went under the pen name "Golden Gorse"; it was a very old book even when I was a child in the 1960's, and had some wonderful photos of people with the good old fashioned sit-back hunting seat. She raved about Exmoor ponies I remember!

Does anyone else remember this author? There was a super section on it all about hunting; and I can remember curling up with this book for hours on end.

Oooh yes - My dad used to read them to me. Moorland Mousie and Older Mousie beautifully written and the most amazing plates drawn by Lionel Edwards - I have them both, kept from my childhood, sat on my bookshelf. I though I was the only person to remember them!! Lovely books written from the ponies point of view - wonderful stories..... I did however go off Exmoors for quite a while, when I had one as a child, who was quite the evil witch!!