Exit, pursued by a horse!

12 Feb, 2012
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Spinster's Rock, Dartmoor, 28.12.88. I'm using a pic with me in it partly to give the stones scale and partly to show the horse. We’d been there a while when the horse started ambling over; it was obviously used to being fed by visitors. We had nothing, but it didn’t seem to believe us; we started walking away, it followed us, getting closer and closer … we ended up legging it, me trying to avoid mud puddles – I’d had to buy those trainers only the day before, as my hiking boots had split. You can see how gleaming white they were - but not for much longer ...

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Severnside

Ha ha maybe the horse thought your white daps were two enourmous sugar lumps :D

13 Feb, 2012

Franl155

lol only cheapo trainers - trying to find a shoe shop that was open on December 27th in the villages around Dartmoor involved a longer trek than Star ever had!

but it was a case of "tapdance round the mudslicks" while hearing the "thunder" of hoofbeats getting ever louder and ever closer ...

13 Feb, 2012

Katarina

Lol.

14 Feb, 2012

Franl155

Wasn't brought up close to horses - well, you didn't tend to get many in the East End then, though there are riding stables etc now.

I got put off getting very close; was going to feed an apple to a horse when I was very young (we were staying near a farm); someone told me that the horse would bite my fingers off. Not "could" - *would*. Tended to keep me distance ever since!

14 Feb, 2012

Katarina

Still having all ten fingers after this journey?

14 Feb, 2012

Franl155

lol still got 'em all - didn't let it get that close!

14 Feb, 2012

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