Honestly, this lot……. they have mooched around in their containers all day refusing to go outside, enjoy the relative calm before the storm (which arrives Friday) or even enjoy the rare sunshine.

Nope, they mooched instead trying to catch my eye every time I walked past.

So, after talking it over with my experts (Monika from Sandness Equine Services and Daisy), we decided that the ponies could now have access to their winter track. I know I said I wanted to wait until the temperature was in single figures but I gave in because their track is getting very muddy and they don’t want to be there.

I opened the gate. Tiddles went straight in, walking over the newly cleared and hopefully now packed down mud-free (yer, right!) gateway.

The rest followed, eventually.

Well, nobody needed asking twice and started to stuff their faces immediately.

I hope I have done the right thing and I tell myself the ponies won’t get laminitis here and hopefully the change of scenery will cheer them up and they will not get colic.  That will be the next thing. I don’t like ponies mooching and not eating.  So, yes, I caved and gave them their winter track.

I am hopeless but always with lots of excuses.