On my way to work yesterday, I met this freshly minted mini horse. How cool is that?
There’s actually near enough a dozen horses in the fields I walk through. Some of them have been abandoned; others are left there by their owners who are taking advantage of rights established over a thousand years ago with the principal of common land. This is something there’s quite a history of in Norfolk – in 1549, Robert Kett led a march of 20,000 people to win back common land. The Virtual Norfolk web site has more information on Kett’s Rebellion. That site runs on Cocoon, by the way 
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Yesterday, for the first time as an adult, I went back to the place I was born – the New Forest. It’s a fantastic place, you can smell the sea, and it’s all so green and vibrant. Plus there are wild horses and their “freshly minted” offspring wandering along the sides of the roads. It’s glorious, so long as you drive slowly