All Good Gifts Around Us

Along with seemingly everyone else, MrsB and I stepped out tonight during a brief spell of sunshine for our daily Lockdown Perambulation and Vitamin D dose. We headed out of town and then along the poetically named Swain’s Walk, over to Over Tabley (in the wonderfully named Parish of Tabley Superior no less).

I don’t know why it should be so, but Over Tabley currently seems to be the Bermuda Triangle of Heavy Horse in foal. In this one walk, in different fields, we encountered a perfect storm of 6 dray horses, with 4 of them with a foal each.

I don’t know many breeds at all, other than the Shire Horse, but a cursory check online pointed me to the Knutsford Shire Horses Facebook page. So presumably we live indeed at this equine epicentre.

Perhaps not too surprising as this coming Saturday would have been the Knutsford Royal Mayday parade. Am imagining many of these gentle giants would have featured in this in decorative harness, pulling either float or dray. Like all public gatherings though, the parade and associated fair has sadly been cancelled. Starting in 1864, I am not sure how many of these parades might have been cancelled over the years, but not many I would guess. Maybe the odd one or two during either of the World Wars perhaps.

Anyway, as we looped around past Mere and cut back along Moss Lane to head for home, we came across some wonderfully ploughed fields, and so this photo seemed fitting.