E-bay Fantastic

OK, Russell has been buying riding school equipment on ebay.  When kids and adults come to the school for riding lessons we can give them a nice pair of boots, a back protector and a hat to wear.  Last night we unpacked it all (felt like Christmas), marked it all up so that Russell can give feedback to the sellers on e bay and put it all way neatly in the shed.  If we weren't setting up a busines you'd think we have that awfully sad hoarding illness.  Anyway, we now have riding boots in every size, lots of hunter welllies (I've decided only hunter wellies will do for sloshiong aound in our mud and muck), body protectors and hats for all our clients.  Friends have also donated their old wellies and boots for our collection - thank you very much.

When we moved to the country seven years ago, Russell and I didn't even own any wellies. I remember Russell bought himself a lovely green pair of wellies, which he proudly put by the back door.  I used to joke  over the years that these wellies were never even worn, let alone saw any mud.  How things have changed.  We each have several pairs and I wear nothing else these days.

This is how we got the sheep tame - by feeding them from buckets every other day and sitting in the grass with them whilst they eat.

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