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--- Field Full of Ponies ------------------------------------------

Summer 2010
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I'm pretty sure the leasing agents said something along the lines
of this being an old farmhouse, with the farm itself no longer
being used, although some of the buildings and surrounding fields
were rented out to some kind of pony sanctuary run by two batty old
women.

So we had visions of our eldest befriending these mad old ladies
and being to help out looking after the ponies. Idyllic countryside
bliss, etc.

However, that wasn't really true.

The farm and surrounding fields were being rented out, and were
full of ponies, but rather than being a pony sanctuary it was more
like pony hell (although we didn't know that at the time). There
were no nice batty old ladies. Just an odd couple who were living
in the farm in caravans when they weren't meant to be doing so and
the landlord had been trying to get them evicted for ages.

He succeeded (they did a midnight runner - with a load of ponies!
Impressive) after a couple of months of us living there. And it was
odd to suddenly have empty fields, no ponies neighing, etc - it
kind of felt like we'd moved out to this dream countryside location
for no reason now.

It was then when we found out about mis-treatment to the ponies,
poor conditions, etc. I don't understand what or why they were
doing exactly, but suffice to say that they were large unpaid vet
bills left behind and RSPCA inspectors around, etc. 

Anyway, all this "setting the scene" is necessary, because with the
land around the house freed up, my wife saw her chance to live her
dream.


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