Apologies to the Fab Four for pinching one of their song titles. I took this picture of a New Forest pony while down in the Forest last summer for the wedding of a cousin's daughter. I was with another cousin who lives near Macca's home in Sussex, so it seemed to be a natural connexion. Or maybe a bit of a stretch...
For my American readers' benefit, the New Forest is nearly a thousand years old, planted after the Norman Conquest (1066) for the benefit of the king, so he had somewhere to hunt. You can be driving along what seems like an ordinary road, and suddenly everything comes to a standstill because a pony (or a cow, or a deer, or some other wildlife) has wandered into the middle of the road. Deer and ponies can wander into gardens, too. It's a beautiful (and very expensive) place to live.
The bride's brother manages the Ferrari and Maserati dealership in a town in the Forest. A Maserati Quattroporte was used as the wedding car, and next day we went for a spin a couple at a time - wow! 0-90 in what felt like half a second!
Sounds wonderful and this is the sweetest picture. :)
ReplyDeleteI love the New Forest and the smell of pine cones.... at night it's so magical and I imagine it being haunted.
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That is such a cute pony...thanks Val.
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