Tag Archives: rocking horses
Knock-kneed Unicorns and Ravelling Rocking Horses
Found horses (and unicorns and donkeys) in the Mauerpark fleamarket today.
Toys for the Boys? (and Starbucks among us)
The Stevenson Brothers are makers of wonderful rocking horses. I just got sidetracked onto their site and discovered, among other treasures, their “Churchill’s Rocking Horse”: Sir Winston Churchill was in the 4th Hussars in the Abyssinia campaign in 1915. We found an illustration of his black Charger with its tiny white blaze. Made in English …
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Is it Knot Magick?
You go to fetch your horse or pony in from the field one morning and find, buried in its mane, a perfect plait. Where on earth did it come from? These mysterious plaits are a common enough phenomenon and have been reported all over the UK, causing much speculation. Up till now there have been …
Rocking Horse Winner
The Stevenson Brothers have made a rocking-horse replica of three-day eventer Headley Britannia which will be just one of the lots in a British Horse Society auction to aid their Drawing the Line campaign against irresponsible breeding. Sadly I couldn’t track down a photo, nor a shot of another famous rocker I read about – …