Lovely walks and rides

Julie and Helen came last week and despite the weather not being brilliant every day, they had a great time and took loads of photos (well I think Julie takes the photos and Helen carries the gear)! Julie is sending them down so I should have some great ones to put on the blog. David and Carol stayed for the week and found plenty of different things to see and do.

We have a new addition to the family. He is called Sailor, is 16.1hh and is a flea bitten grey. So far, he seems to be very well mannered and has settled in very well. Derek and Lucy rode Paddy and Sailor up onto Robin Howe yesterday evening and had a lovely couple of hours watching the deer and enjoying the wonderful views.

Ron came up for the weekend and we went on the West Somerset Steam Railway. We took Soda and after her first encounter with a steam engine she settled down and spent a happy hour either on my lap or just sitting on the seat staring out of the window. All was OK until she saw a couple of pheasants out the window and she started to howl! Ron pretended he wasn't with us, Derek was getting more cross and embarrassed and telling me to stop her - the whole carriage was in disarray by the time we got to Bishops Lydeard! The journey home was a little more refined and funnily enough we had the carriage to ourselves (the moral of this tail(!) is if you want to get a carriage to yourselves - get a Jack Russell)!