Equine Walk

Stumbled across a field today not usually host to many horses; not so today.  The large team decided to follow us, with one horse kicking out both feet a few metres away from us. Unfortunately the dogs froze and Felix (the darker dog) scrambled under a barbed wire fence bordering the River Greet. Thankfully a couple of runners shooed the horses away and helped me with the dogs.

A couple of paddocks later the very unthreatening horse pictured above spooked the dogs (because of earlier), scrambling through the fence. I tied them up to walk to the stile a few feet away rather than scramble over the fence. Enzo is the white long haired Jack Russell (from France); Felix is a rescue dog from Romania.

The dogs have been getting more confident with farm animals, such that Felix mustered a bark to a mounted throughbred walking down the lane earlier.

I did however have quite a few amusing and informative chats with fellow villagers on the way round.

My wife is working her second shift on the national test and trace system, outsourced to Serco, this afternoon.  Centrallised, costing billions of pounds and highly inefffective, it's a national disgrace - a fact supported by her experience so far.