As you may know I lost the GoPro on my hack around Sutton Park, I had contacted the Rangers but really had no hope of it being handed in. Four days later and it turns out I’m on of the luckiest humans alive……someone had found it and handed it in to the Rangers, the same Ranger I’d already spoken to, so he knew who it belonged to straight away!
So off we went back to Sutton this time with walking boots rather than Tissy, very very happily picked up the camera and explored the park on foot. Of course we had to go hunt down the Exmoor Pony herd and say ‘Hi’, anyone else with horses still get really excited about seeing horses? No? Just me?
Then it was time to prep the winter field, the brambles and hedges had got a bit out of hand, encroaching about 2m into the field in places. So Dan got to work cutting everything back, I cleared the water trough of nettles and scooped out the stagnant water. We knocked some wooden fence posts in to support the corners and gaits of the temporary electric fencing and popped all the electric fence up, which if I do say so myself, looks very professional, it’s all in the equal striding between poles and not letting the tape twist!
The whole livery usually moves onto winter fields when the clocks go back, so not long and the arabs can come off their now very muddy summer field and enjoy some autumn grass, and then not long after that I’m sure we’ll be putting out hay feeders and the winter fields will be very muddy too. Roll on the British winter!
Beth Endurance 