skipper news

Eye excellent, but now shoe loose on front foot, so pensioned off to enjoy eating until farrier comes on Thursday to replace all shoes. Arm and leg will be required to meet cost of this visit, but no avoiding it. Yellow horse going to extreme lengths to get stupid hat off every day. Sometimes he looks like santa with it hanging round his chin, sometimes like a drunk with it suspended off one ear. I am persisting. He is being troubled by some horrible little blood sucking flies which hang in gangs off his tender, bald, personal bits and have to be brushed off. I'm going to pull a few off and put them in a jar (they may feature in a future photo) and get them identified. They are full of blood when squashed, though very small. That's what you get for having dangly bits!