Field buddies Rainbow and Zara

Saturday was such a cold day and this was the only day my fellow field buddy, her partner  and I could do the electric fencing for our horses' new paddock we are now renting. 

The horses don't know how lucky they are; there we were, 9am on a cold Saturday morning, ready to do some fencing! After an hour and half of planning, cold and stiff fingers, pole planting, tape unreeling, securing corner fencing, connecting the battery to the energiser and one electric shock, we were pretty pleased with our efforts. We had to pop in a nearby tea room to warm up and enjoy a full English breakfast and a pot of tea before we let our girls out to test their new field. The paddock 'test-graze' went well – both rolled on the ground in turn before proceeding to taste testing the grass. 

If you're wondering the odd-shaped fenced area, it's because we are saving the ground from getting totally bogged over the winter, so we are only letting the girls in a certain parts of the paddock at a time – hoping that in the summer the ground is dry and sturdy enough to withstand grazing within the whole area. Oh the joys of living in a wet England (2012 has been rather exceptional on that front)!