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 …

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 – …