Three cheers for all our intrepid team! despite the heavy snowfall over the last couple of days everyone has still arrived for work. This is no mean feat when there seems to have been some shortage of gritting and snow ploughs. Maddy abandoned her car yesterday along the drive and she slid to a grinding halt but was aided by Robbie and Mikey armed with grit and brute force. Robbie and Sue have had the worst journey each day, coming from Andover but nevertheless have made it and even full of good cheer. We did have a celebration a couple of days ago, because Sue, our Equine Welfare Manager has been here for two years, that together with Laura's birthday the day before brought a little cheer into all hard work that is needed when the weather is really bad.
After all the yard had been finished, everyone had a snow ball fight, Hettie coming off the worst as she was submerged into the biggest snowdrift in the yard. Nick and Alex (the farriers), joined in and even Greg our vet was treated to a barrage of flying snow.
The geese have been behaving rather strangely, we had to trek over a couple of fields yesterday to retrieve them. I think that they had forgotten where home was due to the blanket of snow.
We haven't been able to get the horses out, and they are becoming a bit grumpy now, but we couldn't possibly get them into the yard because it is about 2 foot deep in snow. We are lucky this morning because at least some of the water drinkers are working, which saves us having to cart loads of buckets of water around.
No-one from the office has made it in today...the schools are closed.
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