That'll be another weekend gone then.

I thought I would have so much more time to myself but as is often the case, you are actually busier when you don't go out to work full time.

Saturday was the Llangadog Carnival; a local event that we attended to raise awareness of the Trust on a local level. Doesn't that sound like I have worked in the modern world?



We couldn't take any ponies off site due to our strangles so we "borrowed " Corky and Suzie, two magnificent animals we have locally at loan homes and headed the procession right behind the Carnival queen. In the photo you can see the two horses, Suzie is in front with Bethan on board, Corky (all 17.3 hh of him) just behind. We walked through the village to the Rugby Club and stayed the afternoon manning the Lluest stall. Despite earlier rain it stayed fine all through and though we made no money at our stall, at least we made some more contacts.


A lot of our job is all about contacts and networking. You meet 25 people and hope that one of those will make a donation or perhaps know meet someone who knows someone else, someone who could help with fund raising or can spread the word about what we do. It's very hard work I have to say. On Saturday I met a woman from Arizona who is into rescuing the mustangs of the Western United States. Now that would be an interesting link to have, her rescuing mustangs and the Trust involved in rescuing Welsh Mountain ponies. I gave her a leaflet and hope that she contacts us when she gets home. You never know what could come out of that sort of contact. They probably have the same problems rescuing mustangs as we do apart from perhaps laminitis due to rich grass. There isn't a whole lot of rich grass in Arizona I should imagine, not that I have ever been there. I lived in Upstate New York which is about 2,000 miles from Arizona. Be nice to go on a fact finding mission though just to see what they do there. At least we would be guaranteed sunshine and no rain.