Impetus

One thing that I have found difficult about life here on the farm is maintaining the impetus. Adrian and I have a great deal of that of course, we live here and as I mentioned once before, if it fails we have nowhere to go.

However it is still a difficult thing to do, for us to maintain all our energies and to carry on motivating others to do the same.

At the moment whilst in the pseudo quarantine of the equine flu, it is very easy for Adrian, Tabby and me to take it easy, rest a bit and become reclusive up here. It is such a beautiful place and it is easy to forget about the rest of the world, letting it slip past us un-noticed, only surfacing for grocery shopping. I have to admit we did try to get a supermarket delivery only to find we are 2 numbers out on the post code and as such they don't deliver. That would make it even more attractive to stay right here and potter about with few interruptions. To stay in the garden and enjoy the summer weather (what little we get up here) is a huge attraction believe me.

But being a small and not very well funded charity we can't do that. I had a long talk to myself last night, like you do just before you drop off to sleep, and find that I am concerned that we aren't covering enough bases even without being able to take ponies to events. If we aren't careful, we will be forgotten and I don't want that to happen.

The ideas we had the other day need to be consolidated and "got on with" if we are not to falter at the next fence. We have come so far, so very far, we have raised the awareness of the local population and are moving in the right direction. We cannot allow equine flu to be our undoing because we have lost our motivation. Nearly a year after being told by two other major charities we should close, we are still here. Ok, it's a bit dodgy but we are still here and we can remain here if we push on and never let up. But it needs to be all of us that are involved with the Trust, not just a few, we all need to pull together.

So any of you who read my blog and have ideas please get on with them. Things aren't going to happen by themselves, I have learned that you make your own luck to a certain degree and at the moment we definitely could do with some good luck.