Toux Omar
We have all had hair cuts this week including Toux Omar and myself all with a No6! He looks quite hansom now with his hog mane. This is all in preparation for the Breed Show of the weekend 9th September. So three horses and 4 ‘grooms’ are going down. Lorry is getting serviced this next week and tested in preparation. 
Omar has a fair tale to tell. He is a younger full brother to Caerba Legacy. Unfortunately he was a surviving twin and was born with misshapen legs. Thanks to Ardene House vets he survived to become quite a character. He is very easy going but determined as a youngster to go where he wanted to go and was prepared to drag anyone along with him. Thankfully he has grown out of that now. He is always playing boys games who ever he shares a field with and never stands still for very long and soon comes up to greet you and follow you where ever you go. Omar enjoys a hack and is only really spooked by roe deer that suddenly appear and jump up in the forest or near the tramlines. Being a working farm vehicles are not a problem to him.
This week we had one more sortie to pull the remaining ragwort that was missed earlier on. It seems this year it has sprounted in places it has never been seen before. One plant in a shelter belt between some parks was exceptionally big. Such that the roe deer have been thrashing their antlers on its!!
See the lighter coloured stem towards the bottom. Well at least that is one chore out of the way until next year.
Looking around the countryside there are still many fields with tansies in and horses. A friend on the west coast had field full of ragwort and the deer used to come down and graze the field and it looked a real eyesore. It took him about 4 years of spraying and pulling of the plants to really get on top of it, but it certainly looks much better now. So it is possible to crack the problem without too much grief and we hope in time more people will do something about their ragwort.
14th August