Are you an adult recovering from a deprived, pony-mad but ponyless childhood? Did you always enter Win a Pony competitions and somehow never win even though you spent weeks swotting for the quiz answers? Does it still rankle? Did you gallop around the garden jumping over fences made from bamboo canes and flowerpots? Or eat …
Tag Archives: Imaginary horses
The Horseless Horse Show
Thank you to Karen for sending me this Wall Street Journal film of a horseless horse show: imaginary horse showjumping! What I would have given for those showjumps to replace my bamboo canes and flower pots! Wahnsinn!
Whole Heap of Little Horse Links
Carol sent me a blogpost about a herd of Arizona horses who have been reclassified from “wild” to “feral” and now face a round up, which some suspect will result in their eventual slaughter. The leader of the band, Champ, was an internet hit last year when he was pictured rescuing a filly from the …
If Wishes Were Horses: The Horse That Only I Could Ride
Well, this was a rum chapter. I really wasn’t anticipating that imaginary horses would end up linked to human ponies, but it turned out that they are, you could say, the same thing. The links for anything concerning ponyplay (the practice of dressing up in PVC horse outfits) are obviously for those over the age …
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The Girl with Seven Horses
Thanks to Roo for this beautiful photo essay about a girl with invisible – and absolutely not imaginary – horses.
I Always Knew She Was One of Us
‘I had a music lesson with Miss P. I hate her, she is so fussy. I ran in the wind and played be a horse, and had a lovely time in the woods with Anna and Lizzie.’ September 1843. Diary of Louisa M Alcott (aged 10 and 5/6), later author of Little Women.
Reining Monarch
The Daily Mail has a piece on the Queen’s history with horses, as build up to the Derby in June – the Queen owns the current favourite, Carlton House. It includes some lovely photos of her as a girl on a pony or two, and this anecdote: The Archbishop of Canterbury was expecting one of …
Gen-u-wine Paint Horses
A San Bernardino County woman was sentenced to 41 months in prison and ordered to pay $273,000 in restitution for defrauding people who sought to buy horses from her. Trina Lee Kenney, 32, of Wrightwood, painted horses to make them a different color and drugged the animals to make them appear more docile, prosecutors said. …
The Answer to My Childhood Dreams?
JJ’s Junior Jumping make pukkah little show jumps for you to erect in your back garden and leap over with your imaginary horses – stripey poles, plain stands and even a filler to make them more formidable. As a purist I’m a little torn – partly because the eight-year-old me would have wanted proper wings, …
Pick a Pony
When I was little I had a vast stable of imaginary horses to choose from, and burned up happy hours daydreaming about this or that pretend Arabian or Hanoverian and winning races and Olympic gold medals etc etc. Lately I’ve realised that that was a far better use of my thoughts than fretting about US …