Rubber Horse to the Rescue
This article amused me.
But you can’t knock the fact that training is good for a difficult job.
A Coloured Police Horse
I was walking around the City of London last week and saw a coloured police horse. Coloured in the UK and Ireland includes both piebalds and skewbalds.
A Coloured Police Horse
It’s funny, but years ago you never saw big coloured horses, except for those with perhaps a lot of Shire in them. Now there are quite a few and I suppose it wasn’t surprising that one would be used by the Police. This report in Horse and Hound says that the City of London Police horse is called Ken and is a skewbald Irish Draught.
There is a link here to another horse in the Merseyside Police. Their horse came from Ireland and is actually tri-coloured. I’ve owned a tri-coloured English Setter, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a tri-coloured horse.
A Lonely Horse
Or perhaps what a silly place for a statue!
As you can see the building could never be described as an architectural gem, but what possible point was there putting the horse so far up in the air.
Perhaps, it can be seen from the Chairman’s office.
Sun in the Morning
It is a beautiful morning here today, even if other parts of my life are not so good. So I walked the stud and took a few pictures.
The horse in the overcoat is Vague Shot, who won the Hunt Cup at Royal Ascot in 1987.
View From My Window
My house sits above the Stour Valley and I can look out of my bedroom window and see for several miles across it.
View From My Window
In front you will notice my lawn, which like most of the land is in desperate need of some rain. We had a splash last night, but the basset was outside enjoying a lamb bone and didn’t even get wet!
Ragwort
To anybody who keeps horse or cattle, ragwort is a curse. It can kill, although there are various people, who say that it is not as dangerous as we think. That is an interesting attitiude, but what happens if an expensive horse, cow or other animal is poisoned and dies?
So I just don’t like it.
They’ve even got lots of it in Holland.
Ragwort in Holland
But as it says on the DEFRA web site.
Over 90% of complaints that Defra receives about injurious weeds concern ragwort.
To me there is only one thing to do. Make sure it isn’t there! We all need something to hate occassionally and ragwort is a good place to start!
The Anonymous Widower 