So these pictures were a couple of weeks ago but I've just spotted a detail that I thought was worth sharing. Othello gets a bit bored while I'm trying to separate feather and velcro during the fitting of his boots and expresses it by picking his rope up then waving it around and by trying to grab my trousers, maybe with the intent of picking up my feet in return for me picking up his.
I apologise for the fact that the direction these were taken from is compromising to my dignity, although I'm glad they were taken on a day I was wearing my smart red pants and that I have a cute ass that justifies it's own photo sequence:

I'm putting a boot on Othello's foot. The white dot is a little scab on the side of his head that has been cleaned and then had a bit of Sudocream put on to protect it from flies.

Othello is doing his regular thing of trying to pick up my foot and generally being a menace. I'm kind of busy so it's quite hard to actually tell him not to if I ever want to get the boot on him.

And he's behaving again, peace is restored. But notice the redistribution of Sudocream on pony's head and my trousers.
Confounded beast.
One more picture because I like it:

We took down the fence separating ponies from the long grass at the end of the field. Ponies were happy.