This morning Chris and I took advantage of the sunshine and went for a cycle ride (as you do on good days); nothing unusual about that, you might think and you would be right. The unusual thing was seeing a horse coming along our cycle-track – well, why not?  All and sundry have taken to using our purpose-built cycle-track, so, by all means, bring on the horses. It’s so English here – very “fair play”.

Chris was still thinking like a car driver so he pulled in to the edge of the path by the fence, in order to let the horse pass by (without being scared out of his wits by a bicycle – the horse, not Chris, naturally). I stopped to take a photo of the rare sight of a horse on the cycle-track, and I sent it to Facebook, little realising that my niece’s husband, Zoli (in Australia) would see the funny side of it and turn Chris into the star of scene. So here it is, the odd sight of Chris on a motorbike going into a fence while a horse, as calm as you like, advances towards us… Thank you Zoltan. You are a true artist, which is why I shall not be offering to pay for the right to use your work on my blog!