It gone on for weeks now. Freezing night and day, snow, ice, hoar frost , more ice, more snow...last night it was -12C at the sanctuary. Our ponies never cease to amaze me. Wrapped in their wonderful natural winter coats, fully insulated by summer fat and pulling off their reserves they are covered in frost early mornings, faces and backs and whiskers all encased in white rime frost. They seem to be very happy and not bothered by the intensity of the cold right now.
The roads are trecherous but thankfully we are now mobile once again with a Landrover Discovery coming to our rescue. Huge and grateful thanks go to Janet George and Saddle Up, Liz Jones and also to family members as well as our wonderful trustees for their huge support and help during this very difficult time. Everyone is pulling their weight and helping out.
Our volunteers are a hardy bunch. Turning up whatever the weather and getting out on the ground, cleaning the snow encrusted fields of hard to find dollops of horse poo regardless. We are still on top of things and hope to remain so.
The roads are trecherous but thankfully we are now mobile once again with a Landrover Discovery coming to our rescue. Huge and grateful thanks go to Janet George and Saddle Up, Liz Jones and also to family members as well as our wonderful trustees for their huge support and help during this very difficult time. Everyone is pulling their weight and helping out.
Our volunteers are a hardy bunch. Turning up whatever the weather and getting out on the ground, cleaning the snow encrusted fields of hard to find dollops of horse poo regardless. We are still on top of things and hope to remain so.
Because of the weather conditions and the approaching holiday season we have decided to delay the presentation of our petition to welfare ministers until early 2011.Your support has been and still is overwhelming, keep signing it and keep verifying those signatures. We'll update you with whats happening early in 2011.
This terrible harsh weather is bringing a huge increase in calls for help to EMW-UK. We have helped out where we can and where we have funds to do so but our priority has remain with the care of the charity owned horses at the sanctuary and their well being. In an ideal world space and funding would not be an issue, it's far from an ideal world right now..actually in an ideal world there would be no need at all for this charity... we are far from that option too.
This terrible harsh weather is bringing a huge increase in calls for help to EMW-UK. We have helped out where we can and where we have funds to do so but our priority has remain with the care of the charity owned horses at the sanctuary and their well being. In an ideal world space and funding would not be an issue, it's far from an ideal world right now..actually in an ideal world there would be no need at all for this charity... we are far from that option too.
If you can offer a little help towards our winter running costs and allow us to say yes to horses and ponies in deep trouble please donate via this LINK
WISHING A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OUR WONDERFUL SUPPORTERS FRIENDS, VOLUNTEERS AND PATRONS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR ONE AND ALL XX
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