Gentle means and easy tasks

Last night we only had a short while to work with ponies getting to the yard around 6 with the dusk rapidly descending and, as I kind of expected after Thursday, Othello was an absolute gitmonkey. I was only asking him to pick his feet up but he was having none of it. Getting one's toes trodden on twice in two days by a heavy-set horse in iron shoes is close to ridiculous.

Today we were gifted with good weather once again and so we were able to do some good work with both ponies.
( What we did, illustrated edition )

Then we came home and watched Fellowship Of The Ring, which I'd not seen since The Two Towers came out. It's still great.