Stockshill Strawberry Shortcake AKA Lovely Lola

06/12/2024

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22/03/2023

https://consult.forestryengland.uk/corporate-and-forestry-support/forestry-england-horse-riding-permits-survey/consultation/intro/

Horse riding Humans, please complete this survey like my mum did?! Why should my mum have to have a permit to ride me in the forests when silly men on bicycles wearing silly clothes don't have to have one?🧐

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06/07/2022

Has anyone seen my Mum??!! I'm really worried cos I haven't seen her since last week and normally she'd have been bothering me with brushes, hoof picks, etc, putting that huge saddle on me, heaving herself on board and taking me out for a nice ride or two. However SOMEONE ELSE has turned up recently, giving me my hay, picking up my poo and yesterday she told me my Mum was having a lovely time on her riding holiday in Spain. WHAT. THE. FLYING. FERRETS???!!!!! HOW DARE SHE???!!! I tell you what, when she gets back and wears those fancy new jodhpurs of hers smelling of some other horse, I shall make sure to bite her very hard just where it hurts. I am very, very cross so she'd better watch out!

19/06/2022

My human mum took us out for a hack today. It was perfect weather, not raining, a light breeze and not too hot. There were hardly any humans about which always pleases my mum cos she's a bit of a miss ant rope (or at least that's what it sounded like when she said it). However two naughty men rode up behind me very fast on bicycles without telling me or mum that they were passing so I shot sideways and turned my bum out quickly so the second man had to squeak to a halt and nearly fell off. Oh how I laughed! My mum didn't though. She told them they were lucky they didn't get kicked and then lectured them both for five minutes on how they should pass a horse correctly in the future. I think their ears were hurting by the end - she does go on sometimes! Anyway, after this excitement we continued on our way and then I saw a very strange sight! It was an animal rustling about in the grass, quite big, bigger than the hares which often run through my field but it had very short legs and it was a funny silvery grey colour with a black and white striped face!! Mum got very excited and made me stand still while we watched this thing sniffing about in the grass. Then it disappeared behind a bush and I was allowed to move on. Mum said it was a badger but what it was doing out and about in the middle of the day she doesn't know.