Yesterday, after brushing and photographing phones (how we suffer), I wanted to do something I’ve been meaning to do for ages……

To sit in the field with Lambie’s father, Puzzah to take photos.  Puzzah has been sold so this will be my last chance.

Puzzah is an awesome dude – a registered Shetland flockbook ram.

He is also very tame so I had a chat too.

I wish we could have Puzzah but I think Lambie would be appalled at this idea and anyway Puzzah is sold and destined to make more little brothers and sisters for Lambie.

I am looking at both of them to see if there is a family resemblance.

Definitely the eyes.  They both have beautiful eyes.

And perhaps the Winning Smile, though Puzzah should practice this more and Lambie should tell him that the world would be his with a Winning Smile.

But, and now I have the answer, they both have the same platypus tail!

I always wondered where Lambie’s tail came from and even wondered if he was (said in a whisper) abnormal.

Suddenly, it all makes perfect sense!

I am glad that mystery is solved.

Recently Daisy has been visiting the Minions to check everyone is ok and to spend time with her Lyra.

Yesterday, she reported back that we should go and brush them as Silver, especially, had witches knots and mats in his mane.

So, armed with two good brushes, mane and tail conditioner spray, 6 carrots and headcollars, Flossie and I drove over to do our magic.

They all came trotting up, very pleased to see us.

If Storm could put his own headcollar on, he would – he luffs his yellow headcollar.

After much brushing, we achieved various visions of beauty.

Silver’s mane can now be bouffant.  No more mats and tats.

Tails were brushed and cut so they won’t drag in the impending winter mud.

I love this photo – Waffle and Delia together.  There are 20 years between them.

Delia was on good form.  She is happily fat and will winter out losing weight as nature intended. If she begins to find it difficult, we can put a rug on her but, at the moment, she has her own layers (*** cough *** spare tyres) to keep her warm.

Obviously, it wasn’t all brushing.  There was hugging…..

…. as well as the usual tickling and chatting.

So Flossie and I gave them a good check over and cut goobie bits out of ears.  Everyone was now beautiful again.

While we were doing all this, of course a certain little Tiddles was going through my pocketses!

Why am I not surprised!

Albie, lunchtime!

Camus, where is Albie?

What have you done with him?

Ta da!  The very definition of enchantment.

Little Albie loves his milk bucket.

And so do others….. the vultures endlessly circle overhead.

I am so proud of little Albie.  He is already showing huge Minion potential.

Albie practises his new talent on a very regular basis and we are fairly confident that Albie will be accepted immediately as One of Us when he eventually joins the herd.

Along with his wonderful derp face!

Once Albie has said he has had enough of his milk, we let the vultures in.

And then Camus does what Camus always does.

Puts his head in the bucket and rolls!

I have no idea why.

Just checking, cataloguing and backing up the photos from the weekend.

There are a few.

10,091 on the last count which is about average for a weekend horse event.

The best photo was taken today by Flossie.

Darling Lambie was pleased to have his Muzzah home.  ‘Ster had shot into the hill to see his friends leaving Lambie by himself.  (OH hadn’t let the boys out into the hill all weekend in case they didn’t come home – I had threatened death if Lambie went feral).

Yes, yes, yes, we saw llamas.  I have never seen one up close.  I am in ❤ (must not get one, must not get one.  Llamas would hate Shetland and Lambie would be hurt and sulk forever).  But they are very pretty!

This is me taking the photos.  I had an umbrella stuck down my shirt to stop sunburn and I appear to have acquired two Rosebay Willowherbs for legs!

So, this is the beginning of the great photo trawl – to weed out the best and to put it all up on a Facebook page for the participants as fast as I can.

We need these photos to remember what a brilliant weekend we all had.

Best fun ever.

(I meant to put the blog up last night, while writing it on the boat, but the wifi vanished so I gave up.  Anywho here it is.)

We all did brilliantly.

We all had the best fun.

And we all learned a lot.

So, we are now on the boat, having had our supper, hoping it will be a calm crossing (so far it is).

Everyone competed and we are exhausted now.

Daisy and Bjorn competed against each other in V1, Four gait Sport A.

Bjorn – V1 – Four gait Sport A – 1st with a score of 5.90

Out of nowhere, Taktur discovered his fast tölt.  It was incredible.

Daisy came 2nd in V1 – Four gate Sport A with a scored of 5.85.  

It was very close!

The best part was when Daisy won the Tölt in Harmony on TAKTUR.

It was a big class – 14 horses and riders.  Kappi didn’t participate in Tölt in Harmony. He just did the V1 class (Four gate Sport A).

Best Hest Fest.  Can we do it again please next year?

Now to go through the 6679 photos, yes, you read correctly 6679 or “some” as I like to call it!