The ponies can be very good at letting us know when they are hungry.  I got home the other day to find them waiting patiently for lunch.

Today being beautifully sunny and the ground drying up nicely I took the opportunity to give the ponies some extra grazing.  It is always good to make as much use of the grass as possible so I padlocked our gate (just so nobody could accidentally let the ponies out onto the road) and turned them out into the lane.

They certainly appreciated the grass and cantered off happily but they would keep coming back.  I had parked my car across the lane to keep them in but they climbed round it – it seemed that all they wanted was the grass just outside their own gate!