km0214
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Our Sunday hack involves passing a lovely summer bench - fine. But if anyone dares to sit on the summer bench!! See you all later!
Things you would rather NOT meet when hacking...
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catdragon
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A dead tree trunk in the middle of a hedge, its surely a dragon in disguise .....
But will happily go past the bin lorry..
Joggers...people running, they are obviously running FROM something so she must join in.
But doesn't bat an eyelid at the combine harvester and following trailer with chain like attachment making infernal noise....
Pile of bricks, a slightly different colour to normal.
But will not even register the big pile of rubbish dumped in a hedge on the lane....
Little birdies in the hedge, terrifying..
But, wanders past the bison, the deer AND the herd of alpaca's without so much as a glance...
Always of course as long as she has a mate along she'll hack... solo hacking aopparently is a no no, we may well forget where we live so we have to run for home when "mum" least expects it...
Horses, you gotta love them, they do like to joke with you.... well I AM hoping its for fun !!!
But will happily go past the bin lorry..
Joggers...people running, they are obviously running FROM something so she must join in.
But doesn't bat an eyelid at the combine harvester and following trailer with chain like attachment making infernal noise....
Pile of bricks, a slightly different colour to normal.
But will not even register the big pile of rubbish dumped in a hedge on the lane....
Little birdies in the hedge, terrifying..
But, wanders past the bison, the deer AND the herd of alpaca's without so much as a glance...
Always of course as long as she has a mate along she'll hack... solo hacking aopparently is a no no, we may well forget where we live so we have to run for home when "mum" least expects it...
Horses, you gotta love them, they do like to joke with you.... well I AM hoping its for fun !!!
Flame_
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Flashers
Cars on fire
Helicopters
Pigs
Dogs that hide until you get up to them and then go ape
Tractors, lorries, actually on my horse, any motorized vehicles at all
Ditches
Rivers
Those snaky bits of plastic haylage wrapper that blow and flap about
Walkers with big backpacks
Steel floored bridges
Motorway bridges/tunnels
People walking with umbrellas
I'm rapidly going off hacking and I'm supposed to be doing endurance.
Flashers
Cars on fire
Helicopters
Pigs
Dogs that hide until you get up to them and then go ape
Tractors, lorries, actually on my horse, any motorized vehicles at all
Ditches
Rivers
Those snaky bits of plastic haylage wrapper that blow and flap about
Walkers with big backpacks
Steel floored bridges
Motorway bridges/tunnels
People walking with umbrellas
I'm rapidly going off hacking and I'm supposed to be doing endurance.
brighthair
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The worst reaction I ever had from a hore was over........
a black line across the road. No joke it was about 1/2 inch wide. He stopped, snorted and set off backwards. Not helped by the car that headed towards me at 40mph, obviously thinking I was going sideways across the road with a death wish. It took 45 MINUTES to get him across it but I wasn't getting off, or turning round. Eventually he snorted and walked over it
a black line across the road. No joke it was about 1/2 inch wide. He stopped, snorted and set off backwards. Not helped by the car that headed towards me at 40mph, obviously thinking I was going sideways across the road with a death wish. It took 45 MINUTES to get him across it but I wasn't getting off, or turning round. Eventually he snorted and walked over it
pepperandoran
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Ifor Williams livestock trailers - they must rattle more than others!
Also deer lurking in the woods, even although there are 3 that graze in his field most days!!
Also deer lurking in the woods, even although there are 3 that graze in his field most days!!
Fransurrey
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Henry simply tries to eat most things alien and has surprised more than one motorcyclist, brolly wielding walker (WHY???), lycra clad idiot-I-mean-cyclist, tractor driver...he laughs in the face of trailer drivers and actually tries to EAT hay if it rattles past him (I didn't know whether to laugh or curl up and die of embarrassment, as the guy was going ultra slow due to it being a single width lane and there was Henry munching on the hay, YEE HAAA style!).
Logs used to be a thing of his, but we've overcome that. The eating thing can be just as much a problem, though, trust me, lol!
Logs used to be a thing of his, but we've overcome that. The eating thing can be just as much a problem, though, trust me, lol!
HayleyandBob
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Riding along a by way in the woods to discover a car parked down the track with some strange people noises coming out of it
Bob couldnt understand where it was coming from
Slinkyunicorn
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Mmmmm..........lets see....
Coke cans in the verge
Signs that go up for 24 hours for the annual bike race
Mileage painted in the middle of the lanes for the annual 6 mile run - refreshed every year (have been here nearly 9!)
New tarmac patches in the lanes - horses might disappear into them if they tread on them
Runner beans on the allotments - they eat horses
Joggers - coblet MUST chase them.....
Scary Cottage at end of the lane - go past it at least once on most hacks - has a dog that hangs over the hedge, cats that jump around without warning, husband and wife have an allotment so are always gardening, washing line with washing, visiting grandchildren who want to say hellp to the nice horses which by now are snorting dragons piaffing across the lane to avoid the new patch of tarmac......
Coke cans in the verge
Signs that go up for 24 hours for the annual bike race
Mileage painted in the middle of the lanes for the annual 6 mile run - refreshed every year (have been here nearly 9!)
New tarmac patches in the lanes - horses might disappear into them if they tread on them
Runner beans on the allotments - they eat horses
Joggers - coblet MUST chase them.....
Scary Cottage at end of the lane - go past it at least once on most hacks - has a dog that hangs over the hedge, cats that jump around without warning, husband and wife have an allotment so are always gardening, washing line with washing, visiting grandchildren who want to say hellp to the nice horses which by now are snorting dragons piaffing across the lane to avoid the new patch of tarmac......
Spudlet
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I do so like the sound of coblet
wipeout
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Jasper and I met a STEAM ROLLER!!!!!
It was like a fire breathing dragon shaking the ground. I was terrified!
Jasper stood like an angel in a gateway on the narrow lane while it chugged past but didn't like the water droplets in the air caused by the steam!
It was like a fire breathing dragon shaking the ground. I was terrified!
Jasper stood like an angel in a gateway on the narrow lane while it chugged past but didn't like the water droplets in the air caused by the steam!
3BayGeldings
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oh that reminds me - the spray a car sends up when it's raining! My lad doesn't like the sound let alone the actual water
Dubsie
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Oh yes donkeys and shetlands!
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Not on a hack, and then I don't think you'd see toy ones out on the road even though it has optional wheels: daughters instructor had her baby daughter with her, so I got my daughter's old rocking donkey out of the shed, and set it up by the arena for her daughter to sit on (but she wasn't impressed!).
No1 Little Grey Welshie completely didn't see this donkey for about half an hour of the lesson, then suddenly spotted it and did a leap in the air sidewards for about 3 ft!
She never spooks at spooky things that make me jump!
Oh yes donkeys and shetlands!
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Not on a hack, and then I don't think you'd see toy ones out on the road even though it has optional wheels: daughters instructor had her baby daughter with her, so I got my daughter's old rocking donkey out of the shed, and set it up by the arena for her daughter to sit on (but she wasn't impressed!).
No1 Little Grey Welshie completely didn't see this donkey for about half an hour of the lesson, then suddenly spotted it and did a leap in the air sidewards for about 3 ft!
She never spooks at spooky things that make me jump!
cbmcts
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Is it only in Essex we have sabre toothed squirrels?
Very, very similar to your average grey but only silly welshies can see the difference....they eat horses you know, leaving only the mane, tail and hooves so if you meet one a horse MUST spin into traffic (they only live in road side trees) which has the added bonus of randomly checking that all cars have good brakes. Then to put off the STS a horse needs to pogo and reverse and point blank refuse to go past the hazard. If he can knock into a wheelie bin, frighten a driver into sounding his horn due to the very large behind heading for his bonnet or demolish the barriers around roadworks that helps scare away the STS. He ended up in someones garden pond once, obviously they don't cross water *sigh*
Mind you, he is the horse that finds something new to spook at everytime but at least he is so dim he can't remember what scared him the last time. Makes hacking interesting, you never know what today's scary will be
Very, very similar to your average grey but only silly welshies can see the difference....they eat horses you know, leaving only the mane, tail and hooves so if you meet one a horse MUST spin into traffic (they only live in road side trees) which has the added bonus of randomly checking that all cars have good brakes. Then to put off the STS a horse needs to pogo and reverse and point blank refuse to go past the hazard. If he can knock into a wheelie bin, frighten a driver into sounding his horn due to the very large behind heading for his bonnet or demolish the barriers around roadworks that helps scare away the STS. He ended up in someones garden pond once, obviously they don't cross water *sigh*
Mind you, he is the horse that finds something new to spook at everytime but at least he is so dim he can't remember what scared him the last time. Makes hacking interesting, you never know what today's scary will be
Cobbysmum
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Irrigators either working or not! Great excuse to visit the neighbours, disappearing down their yard at a rate of knots, but the brakes didn't work to stop for a cup of tea!
Nickijem
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Well tractors, lorries, motorbikes and packs of cyclists aren't a problem BUT as for those horse-eating squirrels, well we have a battle to get past the hazel bush where they are often found everytime we go down the lane!
Kites too - not the bird, but the type children like to play with down the bridleway where we ride!
Kites too - not the bird, but the type children like to play with down the bridleway where we ride!
Wobblywibble
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We don't have a problem with squirrels, think she has had immersion therapy as we see hundreds of them in the forest, performing all sorts of antics including launching themselves kamikaze style in front of us. What we really don't like is the narrow wooden bridge we have to cross to get anywhere decent. Those ducks that flew up from underneath 5 years ago are obviously still there, just waiting to frighten her again.
Oh and shetland ponies, they are the spawn of the devil and a selection of tree stumps - most of them are fine but the odd one or two obviously have teeth!
i used to ride a horse really close to home and a bridlepath went up the side of B & Q. Horses really were not designed to see shopping trolleys full of kitchen units!
Oh and shetland ponies, they are the spawn of the devil and a selection of tree stumps - most of them are fine but the odd one or two obviously have teeth!
i used to ride a horse really close to home and a bridlepath went up the side of B & Q. Horses really were not designed to see shopping trolleys full of kitchen units!
trendybraincell
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I'm pretty lucky with my boy, he's fairly brave in most circumstances!
Today we went past a full demolition site...60ft green houses being demolished, with a man on the roof smashing the glass into a skip below, a very large digger picking up scrap metal & dumping it into a skip & a large fire...all not worth getting worried about...but the small farm machinery going past us at 1 mile an hour was terrifying!!
Shadow tends to just inflate himself to stallion like proportions, snort and proceed to piaffe & passgae past offending item, which is quite comical!!
Today we went past a full demolition site...60ft green houses being demolished, with a man on the roof smashing the glass into a skip below, a very large digger picking up scrap metal & dumping it into a skip & a large fire...all not worth getting worried about...but the small farm machinery going past us at 1 mile an hour was terrifying!!
Shadow tends to just inflate himself to stallion like proportions, snort and proceed to piaffe & passgae past offending item, which is quite comical!!
MochaDun
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Blue chalk/powder circles, arrows and other shapes put down on the bridleway for a local harriers running group to orient by...think horse thought they were signs from Close Encounters of the Third Kind and an alien mothership was about to descend from above. Then we met the harriers themselves when we were almost home, about 30 of them all strung out along the path...never mind, horse's antics encouraged them to keep running just when they were starting to flag!