Everyone's At It!

So as if it's not enough the the humans are having foals it seems that some of our neighbourly Blue Tits are also busy with their foals right next to our bedrooms, no wonder there's been a lot of tweeting to disturb our sleep....

Always busy, busy, busy!

Flitting here and there, busy with caterpillars and worms they are a blur of blue and yellow, blink and you'll miss them.... especially if you blink as slowly as Roller.... but then why rush?!

We haven't met the new Blue Tit Foals yet - come on birdies, Human Foal came to say hi the day after she arrived, my tiny hooves are tapping!  In the meantime I really must talk to FH about doing some housework for these guys, their cobweb issues are appalling!

Summer at Mule HQ

Greetings muleteers!  The English summer is now in full swing, yes that's right we have had days of torrential rain and gales!  Gales are good for this Mini though, they blow away the midges and relieve my wheezy breathing as I'm allergic to pollen :-( So I've been enjoying the breeze and making the most of being able to shelter inside, I've also be making the most of sheltering behind my favourite hedge.

The only thing with this hedge is that the nettles have grown so high they are now taller than me!  This is not good... I have summoned FH and told her that she must cut down these nettles and when they've wilted I will gladly eat them for her.  If you look closely at the picture can you spot the odd one out?  Ro-Land's ears are sooooo small, much too small to be normal, blink and you'll miss them!

So apart from the torrential rain what else does summer bring to muleteer HQ?  Well lots of noisy neighbours trying to edge in on our territory.

Firstly look at this baby wren, it and its nest mates had very noisily set up home under the eaves and just when the sun shone they all came out of the nest and chirped very noisily to be fed, one of them even came and sat on my gate - hmmmm!

Then we have the swallows in residence again, I'm quite keen on them as FH says that they eat all the pesky midges so they can stay!  Here they are having a little rest....

Then it was time for them to leave and catch more pests - carry on friends I say!

Finally can you believe what I saw over the hedge???  Yes Muleteers that's right some pesky critters trying to muscle in on my FH..... now this I am not amused by.  Those silly bleating things called lambs, all I can hear at the moment is their calls saying - feed me, feed me, most annoying when a Mini is trying to sleep.

Well Muleteers as Summer is finally here it is time to master the art of eating in the rain.  It involves putting one's butt in to the rain, reversing one's ears so that no water gets in them and doing the very British thing of carrying on as normal.  

The British Marines have a saying, "There is no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing" - this Mini is fully prepared, maybe I could be a Commando Mule? Til next time muleteers I am off to dodge the rain again!

A Flying Visit to Muleteer HQ

Lovely snoozing in the sun!

Greetings Muleteers!  Roller Polar here today.  Well what a nice day I've been having, lots of snoozing in the sun, scratching with The Mini and a little snack attack of grass this afternoon, my perfect day!

I have to tell you about the excitement of the week; no it's not Dragon's mountaineering or The Mini's new fashionable attire.... It's much more exciting... we have a new member of the gang!  We have no idea how long he'll stay but we're always excited to meet new friends :-)  Our visitor arrived on Monday after a very bad storm on Sunday and has stayed all week so we are getting used to having him around.


Our latest member of Muleteer HQ is a pigeon!  FH tells us that this is not just any pigeon but he is an amazing athlete (just like me, remember I'm in training for the Shetland Pony Grand National.....), he's a racing pigeon!  FH thinks he was blown off course in the storm and he seems to have lost some of his magnificent tail feathers so he's not flying too well.... I can't imagine how awful it would be if someone trimmed my magnificent mane.






I'm so excited to have a new pal, he comes every day and sits on the roof of our stables and stays all day scratching around on the yard for all the fallen scraps from our straw.

Spot the pigeon!

Peck, peck, where's the barley?

When FH gets home she gives him the bits from the floor in the feed store as his favourite food is the barley grains that fall out of our straw, FH says he can definitely stay as we're not allowed to eat these bits but he loves them as you can see!

He seems very friendly and hangs around with the gang and even seems to have Catanian figured out, when I was philosophising for a while I watching her trying to stalk him - fat chance, he flew off every time.... hehehe sometimes she's not always the quickest! She's given up trying now and seems to just like watching him :-)

Our Granny visited earlier in the week and had to come and meet the new addition, we were a little jealous as normally she spends her time cooing over us 'big ones' but not then she was firmly fixed on pigeon and it seems she has named him.....  His new name is Pie!  Apparently Pie is a very apt name for a pigeon.  FH laughed a lot and said there was irony in that name, I need to think about this for a while......




So Pie is hopefully here to stay as long as he needs to, he is not our first racing pigeon resident, we once had a friend called Pat who recovered with us and then flew home to Ireland.  Maybe Pie will stay a while, we're happy to have him!  I just have one concern....

You see the straw has a habit of getting stuck in my beautiful mane and sometimes there are even bits of barley, I really hope Pie doesn't think that I am a walking Pigeon Diner, oh the indignity of it!

This is not a Pigeon Diner!

Good night muleteers!  Sweet Dreams and remember a bird in the hoof is worth two in the tree.... or something like that????

Pie wishes you sweet dreams, he is happy to have landed in the alternate universe that is Muleteer HQ!