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Wilson the local mini horse Celebrity from Wynnum A place to come together and share the love of Wilson. Please feel free to share your photos and stories.

30/11/2024

An afternoon with Wilson conning his host, this little guy is so smooth that i have to step up to settle him down before he turns into a nuisance. 🐎❤🇦🇺

16/11/2024

Donna catching up with Wilson this morning, this Lady looks forward to seeing this little fella, and says it makes going to work on a Sunday so much better.
Thank you Donna for letting me take the photos to post. Have a great day. 🐎🇦🇺

09/11/2024

Wilson at the back of Iona College, having a early morning graze last Sunday morning.

01/11/2024

RAMBLINGS.
2nd November 2009 to 2nd November 2024.
15 years with an amazing little horse.

15 years ago this crazy, amazing little horse came into our lives, at first it was our family and friends that Wilson won over, then over time, people would see him grazing and stop to meet this little horse that was more interested in eating than anything else, so over the last 15 years most of Wynnum has been won over by this crazy little grass eating horse, and what a journey it has been, an amazing one at that. Who would have thought that an old fella, that had crazy idea to do something special for the grandchildren would turn out to be Wynnum's favourite little horse, and not only that, but my little God send. This little fella has made one hell of a beautiful difference, not only to my life, but a lot of other people, old and young, local and people visiting from other places. It definitely has been something very special to all of us, including Wilson, the local little horse that seems to bring joy where ever he goes.
On the Monday before Melbourne Cup day 2009, Wilson arrived at his new home and the rest is history.
HAPPY 15 TH ANNIVERSARY WILSON.

26/10/2024

Sunday morning outing with daughter, Deb's two dogs, Bonnie and Millie.
These two Lasses Love going out with Wilson and the old fella. ❤🐎🐕🐕

18/10/2024

The little fella grazing this morning near the creek on Ingham place before heading off home.

13/10/2024

No new photo's of Wilson this week so I thought I would share a photo of Wilson from May 2022, at the waterfront, on a Sunday morning at Sun rise.
This was taken by a passing cyclist who shared it with me.🐎

05/10/2024

The photo's this week are of our favorite little horse, Wilson, grazing at Iona college over the school holidays.

28/09/2024

Last Thursday afternoon, David brought his Grand daughter over to visit our little mate Wilson. This little Lass first met Wilson 2years ago, while visiting family with her mum, Anamika, and every time they visit, since that initial meeting, Sana asks her Grandfather if she can visit Wilson, before they headed back to Perth.
The photo's today are of Thursday afternoon's visit and the magic that unfolded between them.

20/09/2024

Ramblings
Smarter than the average little horse.

In times past, we would have an afternoon beer with our old mate Barry at least once a week, this would include Col, a long time neighbour, David another neighbour from a long time ago, Wilson and myself, and
who ever knew this old fella, that happened to call in on the occasion.
Now with this, our little mate Wilson had been on a learning curve.
He would graze for a while then make his presence known by looking through the glass door, with the most innocent look on his face, and it worked! Wilson would be treated with an apple or carrot, because our old mate Barry and his wife Shirley couldn't resist that sorrowful look on his face, and this would happen week after week.
They absolutely adored Wilson!

Since our old mate Barry passed away, David, Col, Wilson and the old fella still have a weekly get together, and still take the Mickey out of one another, while enjoying drink. At first we would meet at the park, sit around, while chatting, and meeting people that were having an afternoon walk with their family and dog, or just passing by.
Since being warned from the park, we catch up at Cols for our weekly catch up, and Wilson is still trying to con some one. Now this is magical to witness, and truely unbelievable. When we arrive the little fella starts to graze in the front yard and slowly working his way around to where we are, and innocently poking his head on the table ( hey guys anything here for me ) at which point David gets up and gives him some more apple and carrots as he puts him through the side gate and shuts it behind him, now this gives Wilson a treat as well as a new grazing area, as he has to work his way around to the front again and then slowly along to the back yard again ( this usually takes about 25minutes) where it goes into restart mode.
Once again David gets up and gives Wilson a treat (usually a biscuit by now) while reopening the gate, and it starts over again.

On this particular afternoon a few weeks ago, Wilson was doing his, hey guys I'm here for a treat! While making up to Col(as he was the closest) and looking at David, because he has the treats, and David got up and the ritual started all over again. Now this happened about 4 times before Wilson realises that he is the one being tricked.
Now just picture this, Wilson is in the back yard with the gate opened and David is on the other side of the gate with a delicious Digestive biscuit (Wilson's favorite) and the little guy refusing to step past the gate, with that David moves to the front yard showing the biscuit thinking Wilson might follow, but not on your life Harry, you've tricked me enough and I'm staying, you can come to me, which in the end happened. Now who said animals are dumb. We all were in fits of laughter and Wilson grazed in the back yard until it was time to go.
We hope you enjoyed this short story about our favourite little horse. ❤🐎
Take care and keep safe and well.
From the old fella.

15/09/2024

A word from our daughter, Deb.

Wilson's love within the community is massive with so many people passionate about this little horse. I too have a passion which is to ensure the safety of my community.

In preparation for the completion of my degree, I am conducting research in conjunction with the Griffith Criminology Institute - Community Matters. My team would love to hear your views. Please remember that your participation is voluntary. While I appreciate your help and support, it will not be possible for me to know whether you have participated, and I will not personally see your answers.

Researchers from Griffith University are recruiting participants aged 18 and over living in Australia to complete a survey about crime and safety in their suburb. To explore the diversity of views that exist in Australia we want to hear from you. All participants are eligible to win one of five $100 e-vouchers. This research is funded by the Griffith Criminology Institute. It has also received approval by the Griffith University Human Research Ethics Committee (GUHREC: 2024/507).
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13/09/2024

RAMBLINGS.
This week's post is not about Wynnum's favourite little horse, but an old photo from the past.

My Wife Dianne, was going through some old photo's today and found this old photo of Goldie and Jackson.
Goldie was a beautiful dog we had back then and Jackson was a King Fisher we rescued back then.
To explain this I'll have to go back to 1974 and what happened for us to end up with a King Fisher, every body has a dog, but a King Fisher?
One weekend back then we decided to go Lobbying, as in catching Lobbys. My wife Dianne, sister, Mim (Miriam)and I headed to an old Lobby hole near the railway lines at the old Doughboy railway station that I knew about as a young fella. While walking along beside the tracks we saw something fluttering, trying to get away from us approaching, rushing to grab it, we discovered it was a King Fisher with a mangled wing (obviously a not so near miss with a train) once we were home Di and Mim worked on him to remove the dried blood and feathers from what was left of his wing, before settling the little fella into a box to rest up, we tried to feed him some small pieces of meat which he wasn't interested in. ( probably due to the shock)
Next day I went down to the ponds to catch some mosquito fish ( some people call them guppys) to feed him, as I had no idea what they ate, and thought King Fishers must eat fish, so I put them in a desert bowl
and got the little fella out, at first he wouldn't eat, so I got one fish out of the water and fed it to him, which got him started, ( obviously he must have been hungry)
After first settling him in, I had to build him a cage of some sort, as we never had one, so with some scrap masonite,timber and chicken wire, he had a new home.
Over time this little guy got so at ease with us that he would sit on the table or the arm of the lounge or as in the photo with Goldie at the top of the front stairs, watching the world go by.
We had this little guy for a long time and the longer we had him the friendlier he got.
Sadly one morning we opened the door to his home made cage to find him dead.
We never knew what happened to Jackson, weather he was bitten by a spider, or ate a poisoned cockroach, but we missed that little King Fisher for quite a while after, as he had become part of the Family.
Finding this old photo brought back so many memories of the way we were way back then.

We hope you have enjoyed this short story of yesteryear. Have a great weekend.
Take care and keep safe and well.
From the old fella. 🐎

06/09/2024

A Friday afternoon catch up with guys, Oh how I look forward to this.🐎

31/08/2024

This afternoon's outing with Wilson and Bonnie.

24/08/2024

After a trip along Lindum road, yesterday morning, our little mate, Wilson, decided to stop for a snack on the way home. ❤🐎
He never let's an opportunity go by.😄😂

17/08/2024

An old photo of Wilson, Sally and the old fella waiting to cross Bay terrace, on their way to the water front, back in 2019.
Have a great day. 🐎🐕

10/08/2024

Wilson having Sunday morning breakfast at the back of Iona, this morning.

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Wilson grazing at Lindum railway station car park while a double header coal train with 40 empty coal carriages heads back through Lindum Station. This was at 3:55 in the morning on the 8th of January, if you look closely Bonnie legs are visible on the opposite side of Wilson. This little guy is amazing.

This is an old video I took back in 2017, of Wilson grazing at the park. Oh how time flys. We hope you have had a great weekend.

No new photo's of Wilson this week so I thought I would share this old video. Wilson having an afternoon roll before going for his afternoon walk and graze. I think this was back in 2017.

Ramblings. First day of 2023. This morning's outing with Wilson, was to the water front ( I couldn't think of a better way to start the New Year ) we arrived at the Esplanade a little later than normal, which set the sequence to meet people that we normally would have missed, the first lady that approached us had met Wilson, but that was a couple of years ago, possibly before Covid, we chatted for a while and she asked if it was OK to take a couple of photo's to show family and friends, so I talked her into getting into the cart and I took the photos of her with Wilson, we chatted for a bit longer before heading off on our separate ways. Wilson and i continued along the Esplanade waving to the occasional friendly person who was going for their early Sunday morning walk, when we got to Wynnum Creek I met a chap who had seen Wilson and the old fella on our last outing to the water front, and he remarked about how good it was to see us getting about, while he was asking about Wilson, the little fella put his head up to him ( this is something he very seldom does) I asked if he had horses and he said no, but had a lot to do with them while growing up, we chatted for a while longer and then parted company. After crossing Fox street bridge it was off to Greene park where we ran into Sarah and Steve, first of all I didn't realise who I was talking to as it had been a long time ago that we last talked, we chatted for a long time, catching up with all that has been going on, and again parted ways. As I needed a rest stop I left Wilson to graze while I was gone, and when I returned there was this lady admiring our little horse. You can pat him if you want to was my greeting remark, he's a friendly little fella, I can't believe it was the reply, can I take a photo of Wilson she asked, better still I said, you hop in the cart and I will take your photo. Really was the reply. I took a couple of photo's and asked her if she wanted to drive Wilson back

Wilson heading for greener pastures.

Our little mate back in 2017 .

Wilson excited to be heading out.

This is a short video of our favorite little horse having a roll in the yard before heading out for an afternoon graze with the old fella, back in 2017/18.

Christmas with Wilson.

CHRISTMAS 2021 TO ALL, WE WISH YOU A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. FROM WILSON AND FAMILY.

Bonnie Sundays outing.

Only 5 more days, then I have to go home, I love going out with my sister, Sally, Wilson and the old fella. This is on the way back this morning. I love visiting Grandma and Pop. Love Bonnie.

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