Bonus points if anyone can tell me what’s being said. (How did the quarantine work? I thought you couldn’t re-export Western horses out of China…)
Category Archives: Clydesdales
Kelpies Rising from the Canal
From the 21st of April you can visit these magnificent semi-mythic Clydesdales at The Helix, between Falkirk and Grangemouth.
Here Comes the Cavalry!
Every year the Household Cavalry holidays in Norfolk, my home county. The annual paddle in the sea at Holkham is a press favourite, but not so many people know about the show they hold in Thetford. I went for the first time last Saturday with Mum and we enjoyed ourselves thoroughly, even if we were …
Save Money on Rubbish Collection – with Horses
From Anthony Dent’s Donkey: The Story of the Ass From East to West. Dent was born in 1915 in North Yorkshire, just to orient you. ‘When I was a child in a small coastal resort in the North-east the most senior employees of our local council were two old men and a donkey, who between …
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Maxi Cob
Bexley residents voted for this beautiful steel statue of a gypsy cob by Andy Scott to be installed on an industrial-estate roundabout. Here he is in a blaze of lights, and here you can see him under construction. The Belvedere Cob is a tribute to the local travelling community, which has deep roots. Andy Scott …