Pony Express....

I don't mind telling you that I'm scared of all things equine. They're just too big. Big legs. Big hooves. Big teeth!!!

But the lady who owns this little beauty told me I'm talking through a hole in my jodphurs and that they're as fluffy and friendly as kittens. She said you can tell how they're feeling by the way they prick their ears forwards or backwards. (I think she said forwards means 'happy', but I was so busy avoiding horse pooh that I may be wrong.)

So I was very brave and offered Delilah (yes, really) half an apple on my flattened hand, just as I had been shown. She seemed delighted with it....and once my hand recovered from her sinking her huge teeth into it, and holding on for what seemed like years, she let me take a photo.....

'She stood there laughing'....yeah, Tom Jones would get where I'm coming from......!