Month: June 2026
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Winning a Pony – Kathleen Mackenzie, Prize Pony
Here’s another in my series on winning a pony via the medium of pony books – because every pony-mad child who doesn’t have a pony dreams of getting one. And if you couldn’t afford to buy one, then winning one in a competition might just make your dream come true. The first competition tied to…
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The observation of horses
a guest post from Janet Rising Car journey boredom is not something from which I suffer, for there are always horses to see! As a young child, even before I swapped a shilling for I-Spy Horses & Ponies, my head would swivel from right to left on any car journey. I was, and still am, an equine-seeking missile.…
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An ambition achieved: the Julip shop
When you were a child, did you have a list of things you thought you’d do once you were a grown up? For me, one of those things was visiting the Julie Loughnan children’s shop in Beauchamp Place in London. Not that I was interested in their children’s clothes, it was what was in their…