Plastic shoes

23rd July 2010.

I hadn't seen her for a few days but then Lisa - the one who showed me the milk - came back so I went up to her and made her feel welcome in my stable.  Everyone's welcome as far as I'm concerned.  Later on she made me a cool pair of plastic shoes to go on my hind feet while I just took the opportunity for a doze. She did a tidy job, fair play, especially as she seemed to be chatting with Jenny the whole time at about 500 words per minute.  The shoes stopped me flopping down on my fetlocks, which, to be honest, I wasn't planning on carrying on doing for much longer anyway.  Still, it kept Lisa happy.

Legs

20th July 2010.

I started to get the hang of this standing up business pretty quickly, though I say so myself.  If you keep your feet wide apart, the whole thing is more stable.  It wasn't easy though, and I was quite happy when Harry picked me up and I could stop thinking about it for a while.  As you can see from these pictures, I'm chestnut with four white socks and a healthy splash of white all over my nose.  I may well have fallen into a giant tin of Dulux emulsion without even realising.  But it will make me easier to find in the dark.

Gravity

20th July 2010. 

I tried to get up off the ground but my legs were too wobbly and a strange force kept dragging me back down.  My Mum kept checking up on me and giving me a lick now and again.  People tried to help me too, which was nice.  There was Jenny and Dave and then Harry and Lisa.  The one called Lisa was smiling and laughing a lot (with me, not at me).  I'd go so far as to say she was even a bit emotional.  She helped me with my attempts at standing up on my incredibly long legs, and then showed me where I could find a lovely drink of milk.  I could taste the goodness.

A foal is born (in Ceredigion)

At around 10pm on Tuesday 20th July 2010, in a stable, on a farm, in the valley of the Aeron, near the village of Llwyn-y-groes, near Tregaron, in Ceredigion, in West Wales....I was born.  I'll be honest with you now: it was a bit of a shock; things were different.  I was nearly blinded by the light and nobody thought to offer me sunglasses.