the great escape, just call me S. Mcqueen !!

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some of you know that i am a sad, desperate soul who lives in the wilderness because OH wanted to ' get away from it all ' yeh, well we did that all right, there's nobody here!!
except today there was.... today the hills had eyes ... and guns ... and tanks!
so there i am on Transitions Ally, this is where i pretend i can ride and Shadow asks me to just go back to clicking my tongue, i'm singing my head off really loudly , todays cringe making offering was 'the final countdown' i love the lalalala chorus, had paused for breath when i heard a cough and a snicker coming from my left, down i look and lo and behold there's a line of khaki clad camouflaged faces all peering at me from a ditch!
went pinker than my vis vest! what are you doing you daft loons, paint balling? i ask, no,no,no, seems i am stuck in the middle of a huge day out in the woods, army stealth, snipery exercise and i am surrounded! there was some sort of tank thing coming up behind so i thought no worries i'll cut up a side track and circuit round, khaki everywhere, soldiers shouting at me to go back, me shouting no thanks mate there's a big tank behind me ! kept going towards the empty( holiday homes) hamlet and when i got there there's soldiers hiding behind wheely bins and hedges, wood stacks and walls, i felt like shouting ' i can see you all, your'e bloody rubbish !!' stamped my way through and shot down a side track, god there's one in a tree!! and more in a ditch further on! finally, finally got back near home
and all was quiet.... not sure i want to go back in the woods again,,, sure got a big surprise!!!!
any surprises like this for you?!!!
 
At least it sounds like you're all in one piece. :-) I wouldn't want a tank coming up behind me while riding a horse, or people hiding in bushes for that matter! Shadow does sound like a fantastic horse, I love hearing your updates
 
Brilliant! :D Well done Shadow for keeping his cool with mutant khaki coloured humans hanging from trees and lurking behind bins and with a tank up his bum no less! :D
 
Art Nouveau said:
At least it sounds like you're all in one piece. :-) I wouldn't want a tank coming up behind me while riding a horse, or people hiding in bushes for that matter! Shadow does sound like a fantastic horse, I love hearing your updates
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ooh what a lovely thing to say! i say this in all honesty and not in a braggy my horse is wonderful way, i kiss his little pink blob every time i get home in one piece as i am not a very experienced rider.
 
Ooh my big lad would have loved a tank to play with, he's obsessed with the quad bikes round us. Men in un-high viz hiding in ditches though, probably not so much!

Your horse does sound lush
 
Fun story, made me chuckle. I love The Final Countdown too, will have to put that on my sing song list for Saturday's hack (can't do it tomorrow as I'm riding out with a friend and don't want to frighten her)! :)
 
Hahaa. The soldiers in the trench reminded me of the day I took a friend round a local hacking route she didn't know. Now I don't ride, but took my daughter's sturdy NF, he's pretty good so knew I'd be Ok at a walk. However I hadn't accounted for the men in a trench digging with an electric digger! Had to do a circuit of the roundabout while they switched off and he scuttled past snorting.
 
What is it with men hiding in hedges?! When I was a teenager a local girl went missing (sadly murdered), I was merrily hacking down the path, and a split second later I was in the middle of the main road, when the old boy leaped sideways after clocking a bunch of coppers sat in the hedge!
 
buddylove said:
What is it with men hiding in hedges?! When I was a teenager a local girl went missing (sadly murdered), I was merrily hacking down the path, and a split second later I was in the middle of the main road, when the old boy leaped sideways after clocking a bunch of coppers sat in the hedge!
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tell me about it! i come from Bristol and there is a massive area of green common land in the middle of it, friend of mine took a load of pics and one of them had a man in a hedge behind her with his willy out!!!
 
you should write a book, you have some good stories..

the only scary moment we've had was, riding along a tow path in my village, we were met by a tribe of people doing a re-enactment, they were coming towards me, marching and carrying loads of stuff, dressed up in medieval clothing! my mare isn't scared of much, thankfully! but this time she stopped in her tracks and refused to move, they all came past, luckily she didn't freak, and one lady stopped and said "I wish my horses would stand still like that" honestly she never would in another other situation, in fact she usually does everything at 100mph, so this was very unusual for her!
 
Fortunately we had just taken the horses in for their tea, when the weekend before the 'Grand Depart' from Yorkshire of the Tour de France, sis and I were checking the field and heard an incredibly loud roar, couldn't really work out what it was, turned round and came face to face with the Red Arrows, honestly they were so low I could have touched them, the ground shook!
They disappeared off towards Sheffield, we assumed that they were rehearsing but oddly enough we never saw them again!
The horses just carried on eating in their stables.
 
Ha ha, loved this story. Reminded me of the time I was hunting on Salisbury Plain, rode through a "village" with tanks etc. under camo netting, large chap in front of me calls out " Morning Bloggs" and a "bush" stood up and replied "Morning Sah!"
 
Pearlsacarolsinger said:
Fortunately we had just taken the horses in for their tea, when the weekend before the 'Grand Depart' from Yorkshire of the Tour de France, sis and I were checking the field and heard an incredibly loud roar, couldn't really work out what it was, turned round and came face to face with the Red Arrows, honestly they were so low I could have touched them, the ground shook!
They disappeared off towards Sheffield, we assumed that they were rehearsing but oddly enough we never saw them again!
The horses just carried on eating in their stables.
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We once had the Vulcan bomber flying low right above our field, it is MASSIVE and I've never heard noise like it. None of the horses even lifted their heads from eating though :-)
 
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