Put a positive spin on it

Well our cheeky little ponies may have attempted to demolish our Compost Bin of Best for the sweet scraps they could apparently smell inside, and they may have knocked some of the bales about so badly that i can no longer move the lid without everything falling apart; but that is not necessarily a bad thing. There is no question that we will need new bales to hold C.Bob together, but now with an excess of loose pea straw and an abundance of pony poo we have the perfect base for our new garden beds. Next week we will plot them out and then it will be time for planting.

Getting back to our cheeky ponies...Whilst they came rather eagerly to Dragonfly Downs they were not so pleased with my plan of putting them back in their yard. Bowie was not too much of a problem (although i feel he played up a little just to show off); he's old hack at being led and he knows who the boss is (that's me). The young colt Ziggy Stardust however, has only been led one time before and that was to get him onto the float that brought him home. He was less than happy with the prospect of having another lead hooked to him and if it wasn't for Hugo (whose smaller stature is far less threatening) I would never have got close enough hold him and get the rope on him. Hugo and I then had another challenge trying to get Ziggy to go where we led. I do believe that we made a good deal of progress with just a little bit of brute force and lot of positive reinforcement in the form of freshly sliced apple. I'm sure that we'll have him eating out of the palms of our hands soon enough. Figuratively speaking I mean... physically he already does eat out of our palms.