pentland view rest and retirement livery

24/02/2024

On Wednesday we lost Barney very suddenly and unexpectedly, the loss of any horse here hits us all very hard and it was doubly difficult this time as Barney came to us with Chester and seeing him so sad and grieve for Barney has been hard, thankfully he has settled with his old pal Zara. I always felt like Barney and Chester loved their life with their own field and stables, they loved lounging together in their favourite places in the field even in snow and blizzards Barney would lay down much to the concern of passing drivers who would come down and say they thought there was a sick horse in the field! Barney also had the most magnificent moustache! Being an ex RDA horse he gave much happiness to many many people especially his owners Rhona and Laura. We miss you Barney you were a joy to look after. ❤️

07/02/2024

“Yard work doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t make you anything. It reveals you.

There’s gym strong and then there’s yard strong. They’re mutually exclusive.

The toughest women you’ll ever meet spend their days on a yard.

There are more uses for twine than you can possibly imagine. You can tie up a hole in a slow feeder, fashion a tail strap for a horse’s blanket, mend a broken fence and use it as a belt.

“Well that certainly didn’t go as planned,” is one thing you’ll say quite a bit.

Control is a mere illusion. The thought that you have any, at any given time, is utterly false.

Sometimes sleep is a luxury. So are lunch and dinner. And brushing your hair.

If you’ve never felt your obliques contract, then you’ve never tried stopping an overly full wheelbarrow of horse manure from tipping over sideways. Trust me, you’ll find muscles that you never knew existed on the human skeleton to prevent this from happening.

When one of the animals is ill, you’ll go to heroic lengths to minimize their discomfort.
When you lose one of them, even though you know that day is inevitable, you still feel sadness, angst and emotional pain from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. And it’s a heaviness that lingers even though you must regroup and press on.

You’ll cry a lot. But you’ll never live more fully. You’ll remain present no matter what because you must. There is no other option.

You’ll ask for so many miracles and hold out hope until the very last.

You will, at least once, face-plant in the manure pile.

You’ll find yourself saying things like, “we have maybe twenty minutes of daylight left to git ‘er done” whilst gazing up at a nonspecific place in the sky.

You’ll become weirdly obsessive about the weather.

You’ll go out in public wearing filthy clothes and smelling of dirt, sweat and p**p. People will look at you sideways and krinkle their noses but you won’t care.

Your entire day can derail within ten seconds of the rising sun.

You can wash your coveralls. They won’t look any cleaner, but they will smell much nicer.

Yard work is difficult in its simplicity.

You’ll always notice just how beautiful sunrises and sunsets really are.

Should you ever have the opportunity to work on a yard, take the chance! You will never do anything more satisfying in your entire life.

Well, that about sums it up, folks!” - unknown author (I’ve changed farm to yard as it seemed so relevant)

24/12/2023

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas, thank you for all your support this year, you know who you are. 🌲❤️

03/12/2023

A bit of snow bathing for Barney this morning. ❄️🥶

15/09/2023

Hi everyone this is the time of year where I get a lot of enquiries for livery and I just want to do an update to say we are full with an extensive waiting list, so if you are looking for livery immediately then Im afraid we can't help but I am more than happy to add anybody to the list for any future spots. Spaces here rarely come up however for us that's a good thing as it means everyone is happy and healthy!
They all had a lovely summer and are very much settled in their small herds which is lovely to see.
Here's hoping for a crisp winter rather than a wet and windy one! ❤️

28/08/2023

When you are tired but food is life. Never change Will. ❤️🧡

03/06/2023

Sleepy heads. ❤️☀️

09/03/2023

“How much weight can a horse carry?

In my experience, a horse can carry an infinite amount.

They can carry the weight of broken hearts, broken homes, and broken bodies. Countless tears sometimes comb their tangled manes.

Moments when parents and friends cannot be there to help and hold a person, horses embrace and empower. They carry physical, mental, and emotional handicaps. They carry hopes and dreams; and they will carry the stress from your day when you can't carry it anymore.

They carry graduations, they carry new careers, they carry moves away from everything familiar, they carry marriages, they carry divorces, they carry funerals, they carry babys before they are born, and sometimes they carry the mothers who cannot carry their own baby. They carry mistakes, they carry joy, they carry the good and they carry the bad. They carry drugs and addictions, but they also carry the celebrations.

They will carry you to success when all you have felt is failure. They will carry you, never knowing the weight of your burdens and triumphs.

If you let them, they will carry you through life, and life is hard, life is heavy. But a horse will make you feel weightless under it all.”

~ by Sara Huffman

27/12/2022

Finally got round to seeing this....it was absolutely beautiful and perfect and spoke right to my soul after an utterly heartbreaking year. Thank you Charlie for creating something truly spectacular. ❤️

24/12/2022

Merry Christmas from all of us humans and horses at pentland view rest and retirement livery 🎄🎄❤️

12/12/2022

It might be pretty but it is COLD, temps as low as -12 make it very hard work with frozen taps. Good job I love these guys I'm going to have muscles like he-man from all the carrying of water containers. ❄️

20/11/2022

13/10/2022

This week our heart's were broken by the sudden passing of Paddy. I still can't really comprehend that he's no longer with us. I'm trying to take comfort in that I hope he his back with his best friend Feargal. I had a close bond with Paddy after spending lots of one on one time with him right at the start to get rid of a persistent abscess, he was the sweetest, cheekiest boy. Paddy and Feargal were show jumping ponies who were lucky enough to get a proper retirement after both having brilliant careers doing what they loved. Thank you to Shelley and family for allowing us to take care of them. ❤️💔🌈

24/09/2022

Autumn has been kind to us so far, we have had some beautiful sunny days, lovely to see the horses having some rug free days before the cold sets in. Here's hoping for a cold crisp winter when it arrives. 🍁🍂

17/09/2022

A very sad week for us here as we lost the absolutely wonderful Penny very unexpectedly. Although she had only been with us for five months she fitted in here like she had always been part of the family. We take comfort knowing that she had a very happy few months with her little pack and are just devastated for her owners Christine and Douglas and their daughter. Sleep well lovely you were an absolute joy to look after. ❤️💔

08/09/2022

A lovely lady with a passion for horses, rest well. ❤️