Our Horses

We had 5 horses, they were called, Freckles, Spotty and Twinkle. These three belonged to us children, we had silver wedding who belonged to my Mum and Chad who we bought when my brother Dick came to Convalesce after he was wounded during the war. When he got better and went back to the army, my Dad rode him.

Twinkle was a golden colour, and rather naughty and Piers remembers riding him. We also had a Mule called Georgina, who was risen by KT, a lady who lived with us.

We also had 2 other horses which were used for visitors to ride on Nimrod and Birru. Nimrod was rather annoying as he was slow and would only go at rather a slow pace and only at a trot which was rather uncomfortable. Birru on the other hand liked to go at rather and uncomfortable canter, he also stumbled a lot so you might be thrown over his head. I was riding him once when he stumbled and I fell and got thrown over his head, knocked my head on a stone and got knocked unconscious. 

We also had a few donkeys to carry the tents when we went camping, I only remember one called Micky Micky timbo, no so Rambo, am am Mochy, Gamma gamma goochy.