Spring's Arrived!

Apologies everyone for the delay in blogging again...we just don't know where the time goes!  We've been busy sending out newsletters, and thank you everyone who has written or phoned to say how much they liked it.  We've had some lovely feedback.  We had an email on Thursday from our MP Neil Parish thanking us for our hard work putting together our report about the illegal export of ponies (and the loophole in the law) and he wants to take this forward to Lord de Mauley and Defra for us.

We've missed having Peter today - he did some great work with Frodo last week and I think Frodo was a bit sad that his new friend didn't come today to give him a brush!

It definitely feels like spring and with the lovely warm sunshine most of the ponies are starting to lose their winter coats.  Topsy did brilliantly this afternoon - letting Faye brush her in the sunshine with no headcollar or lead rope needed, and again later in the pen.  So much hair was coming out!  We're looking forward to meeting Nicola on Monday and it'll be the first time she's seen Topsy in quite a while.

Beate has kindly donated a Strada saddle for us to sell to raise money for the ponies - we've given it a clean this week - one more to go and then hopefully we can put it on ebay so that it will find just the right home.

It was very exciting to meet Catherine's new dog Bertie today - a gorgeous young whippet from The Dog's Trust at Ilfracombe.  He is very friendly and not phased at all by the people, different surroundings and animals - Catherine only picked him up yesterday!  What a lucky dog he is.  He doesn't seem to like mud very much though so hopefully all this nice weather will help to dry it up!

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