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mysterymoniker · 09/01/2009 20:31

Suffolk Punch < < < pic

v pleased that suffolk punch trust recently got £250k grant to safeguard the breed

read about them here

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Pixel · 14/01/2009 20:02

I've just looked at 'my mumsnet' and clicked on 'photos'. There is a box under each one where you can choose 'visible to any mumsnetter', have you got that on yours?

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pamplemousse · 14/01/2009 20:16

Yes all visible to all mumsnetters, but when I look at my page it doesn't have that pamplemousses pictures clicky bit, weird?

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Pixel · 14/01/2009 21:11

Well you've got it now! Just looked at your lovely pics and seen that you are on the south coast, same as me!

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pamplemousse · 14/01/2009 21:35

Ah I'm obv a technical genius afterall Thx for your help pixel
Waves to pixel as prob not far away

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Nekabu · 15/01/2009 09:16

Pixel, aren't there ever any local shows that you could ride to? Alternatively, try putting an ad up for transport share in your local tack shops. There may well be someone going to the same sort of shows you'd fancy who'd appreciate some company and a bit of a contribution towards the petrol.

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mysterymoniker · 15/01/2009 10:01

too depressed to think of a horse for today

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kormachameleon · 15/01/2009 15:36

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mysterymoniker · 15/01/2009 16:01

aaaahhhhhhh beautiful! why can I never get such nice pics of my boy posing like that? he always hangs his head looking like he is waiting to be turned into glue!

(I was depressed about my flat tyre but it all came good in the end!)

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Pixel · 15/01/2009 18:29

Nekabu, there were loads of shows round here once upon a time, when I was a teenager we used to be able to hack to a different one every weekend in the summer holidays. Now there doesn't seem to be anything within hacking distance. There is a very nice new lady at our place who has unfortunately lost her husband and had to sell their welsh pony stud but she has kept 3 of the ponies. She says she wants to start showing her youngest filly this year and she has her own trailer so you never know!

Icelandic pony is a stunner .

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mysterymoniker · 15/01/2009 22:02

no no no no no no no!

I have a mutantly high withered brown thing of indeterminate breeding - love him though

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mysterymoniker · 16/01/2009 20:10

MY horse is horse of the day today

((((( Barney )))))

I love him

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Pixel · 16/01/2009 23:19

Let's see a pic of him then!

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mysterymoniker · 17/01/2009 10:20

there's a sweet one of him in the snow on my phone, but don't know where data cable is?

maybe if I tidied up a bit I would find it . . .

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mysterymoniker · 17/01/2009 10:24

today the akhal-teke, never heard of them before but how pretty is the first one!

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Uriel · 17/01/2009 10:25

I love the look of those horses, mm. I've wanted one since I was 7!

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Pixel · 17/01/2009 16:32

I used to love that one in the Observer book of horses and ponies, which I still have somewhere. Its coat looked like it was made of gold - beautiful!

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mysterymoniker · 22/01/2009 11:23

I have neglected this thread!

how about the new forest for today? am sad that they have been in the news so much lately for car related accidents but on the whole I don't really 'get' this breed, as in, I wouldn't know one unless it was pointed out to me

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LadyOfWaffle · 22/01/2009 15:26

Aww, missed the akhal teke!

I love New Forest ponies - I live (sort of) near so get to see them alot when we drive through. Nice to still see 'wild' horses about, but quite odd seeing them standing outside shops etc!

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mysterymoniker · 22/01/2009 15:37

I LOVED my hols in Hampshire for that very reason when I was little, you are so lucky!

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mysterymoniker · 23/01/2009 09:10

think we should have a highland today, what with all this Burns night haggis-a-go-go stuff on the boards at the moment

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LadyOfWaffle · 23/01/2009 13:07

Oh, the stables I went to bred highlands The only two I have ridden though were very hard work - one was in my BHS riding exam and I cried because he wouldn't move They are very lovely though - placid. Are you going through all the natives?

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mysterymoniker · 23/01/2009 15:18

I seem to keep coming back to them! Did you pass? I'm only just doing my stage 1 at the advanced age of nearly 38

I'd like a native though, maybe a Fell

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LadyOfWaffle · 23/01/2009 17:43

Yes, thank god we had to ride 2 different horses and the other one was OK Have you done it yet? It was very nerve wracking but really only the simply bits of horse husbandry etc. (theory part) I don't think I have ever seen a Fell, a friend had a Dales ... as far as I remember, may have been a Fell, I am not sure I could tell them apart!

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