Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

The politics of horse muck

The BB and I were summoned on the WhatsApp group to poo-pick 50 acres

‘The dominant mare among the crazy horse-owning women doesn’t like the look of poo’ [Somogyvari] 
issue 21 May 2022

‘You coming to help us poo pick?’ said my friend Terry, in a desperate sounding voice message.

The builder boyfriend and I were lying in the garden having a well-earned sunbathe on Sunday, his only day off.

Meanwhile, as we full well knew, the builder b’s fellow livery customers were hard at work shovelling horse muck out of the fields at the country estate where he has been grazing his two cobs until we can move them to be with my two horses at the new stable yard we have just taken a lease on.

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