It was not the best morning today. Windy and rainy and very cold.

I couldn’t find the little ones anywhere until I looked in the containers.  Everyone was sheltering in there.  So, feeling generous, I gave them a couple of double haynets full of hay but I only counted four ponies – Silver, Tiddles, Waffle and Albie.

Where was the fifth – Newt?  I found him in “his” container alongside Pepper, who was also sheltering from the achingly cold north wind (it is -3℃ out there, apparently, and I can actually believe that).   At least it is not snowing….. yet, though it has been known.

Anyway, Newt and Pepper are very sweet together.

They are the best of friends and I don’t say this lightly, but I actually do trust Newt not to be nasty to Pepper.  He would be vile to anyone else – that’s his little way.

So while the rain shat down on all of us outside, Newt and Pepper remained cosy and happy in their container.

They were passing the time of day.

(You can see just how small Newt is – as Pepper is about the size of a large cat!)