My Shetland | Everything Shetland
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Run by joint business partners, Jo Tonkinson and Frances Taylor. Thordale Shetland Stud aims to breed standard up-to-height Shetland ponies with excellent breedlines.
My Shetland | Everything Shetland
12h ago
Farrier today. The big ones were brought up onto the track to wait politely. And little ones stayed in the container paddock. They all had hay and water but were bored. Tough. It’s not for very long, I told them. I ask very little. Albie spent his time chatting up Kolka. He was quite smitten. ..read more
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2d ago
We are not on mains drains and, every couple of years, a “scent bottle” (Mum’s name for it, not mine – she was similarly afflicted where she lived) comes to empty our septic tank. And today was the day. I did warn the accompanying gentlemen that there might be some “help” as they would have ..read more
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3d ago
I found these old videos today and they made me reminisce and think awwww and also cry. This was when Lambie was very young (April 2015 so just born). He is still dirty from his one day living with his mother and I hadn’t managed to clean the poop off his face. We are bonding ..read more
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4d ago
OH and I have been experimenting. Red lights are apparently the way forward for horse-stable lighting and there is a science in this, all of which I have read and not understood (says Michael Faraday’s 5th great niece!) Anyway, last night we rooted around the house looking for red material and I found OH’s orange ..read more
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5d ago
These days, twilight is around 19:00 and I like to set everything up for the night before total darkness descends. I recently bought four rechargeable lights that are magnetic, and so ideal for sticking on the container. I thought they could show the ponies where the containers were. But they are quite bright and now ..read more
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6d ago
Thursday afternoon and you will find me packing vegetables at Transition Turriefield ready to go to the shops. It’s what I do. Not a job – I volunteer. Anyway, we were all weighing, packing and labelling away, chatting as we went when someone appeared with binoculars and a casually slung camera saying he had just ..read more
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1w ago
I came back from Turriefield (my vegetable packing volunteering job) after a busy morning with a packet of little carrots that hadn’t sold. I was told they were for the sheep. So the dogs and I set off to find Gussie to give them to him. He has been such a good boy recently ..read more
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1w ago
It has been a lovely day – a slight breeze with endless lovely sunshine. I could feel everyone around me relax and breathe out. We all make the most of days like these. I’d like you to know I watched Tiddles bend over and nibble Waffle’s ear! I don’t know why Waffle had decided some ..read more
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1w ago
While everyone was eating their hay, I made the executive decision to open up a bit more of the track. It is pretty bare now, and I am swithering about whether to send the ponies to another nearby croft to go onto that hill park (field). Pros: Endless grass which would be good for them ..read more
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1w ago
It is very autumnal now, damn near winter really – temperatures are low with a strong and biting north wind. I might have to dig out my winter sweaters shortly. But the sun was shining when I took the dogs out armed with carrots for the Ancients and it was nice to see everyone. The ..read more