Here we are on our daily visit to Sandness to see Lilja and Fivla (plus the Minions and the Icelandic horse laydees) and we are always enthusiastically greeted by “Step-Mum” and her sort-of daughter.
There are two other Shetland ponies in the field – not mine, I hasten to add, but Fivla and Lilja are lodgers in this field for a few weeks while we are in the middle of weaning. Hetja is a few fields away and Lilja can’t see her but probably knows she is nearby, just by smell.
Liljs has changed. Suddenly she is a different shape. She still has the same donkey ears, though.
She was born with them.
Lilja has grown in the last few days – it is very difficult to show in the photo, which is an appalling angle however I took it. She is also losing her now-revolting winter fur.
She seems to have acquired long legs that go on forever and I expect her to probably mature at about 17hh. Little Fivla is about 36″ high – for scale.
I am pleased Lilja has Fivla. They are very fond of each other and that is perfect. Everyone should have a Fivvie. Essential kit.
Always good to have an Auntie to help you learn grand manners and such.
17 HH?!
Lilja is turning into a fine young lady. She is going to make a beautiful horse for some lucky person. I wonder if you will be keeping her – perhaps for yourself? And those ears, they are just adorable.
Can Islandic horses really reach 17 hands or were you just kidding?????
I was just kidding! x
Everyone indeed should have a Fivla. Our little boy takes his Fivla teddy (bought in Lerwick, complete with cardi) to bed every night and I read ‘Fivla stories’ from your blog to him. You should write kids books!
awwww, tell your wee lad that Fivla is a unicorn. That’s what she wants to be. One day when we were a riding school, we tacked her up, waited for her rider who never appeared, nipped into the house leaving her tacked up with just a saddle and tied up with headcollar (no bridle). We came back to find her sat on the floor with her saddle having a little bit of a sit and a snooze. She looked like a mother hen sitting on chicks – all her legs underneath her.
If all Shetland ponies were like Fivvie, no one would ever have a bad word to say about them. Fivla has, all her life, been nothing but perfection.
Awwwww I will tell him this story too 🙂
He especially likes that Fivla is friends with Lyra’s Mum!