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Ode to The Horse by Ronald Duncan

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Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy or beauty without vanity? Here, where grace is laced with muscle, and strength by gentleness confined. He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity. There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent, there is nothing so quick, nothing more patient. England’s past has been borne on his back. All our history is his industry; we are his heirs; he  our inheritance. - Ronald Duncan  © Ronald Duncan Estate. Ode to The Horse by Ronald Duncan was written by request of  Colonel Sir Mike Ansell whilst he was director of the Horse of the Year Show and is now read each year at the close of the show. This is our 2nd Blogtober post on this blog, there are more on Eggsy's Ko-fi page  including another very famous horse poem: The Horses by Edwin Muir and Rescuers  a blog post about the very first cat I ever rescued. and International Coffee Day  Also we continue our Quote of the Day over on Ko-fi
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Blogtober

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  Are any of you taking part in "Blogtober"?  Do let us know if you are. If you haven't heard of Blogtober it's a sort of blogging challenge where bloggers from all over the world try to publish a post every day during the month of October. We thought we'd try and join in this year, though to be honest writing 31 blog posts in 31 days is probably going to be rather too much, everyday life often gets in the way of the best laid plans. So in an attempt to make the challenge achievable for ourselves we're aiming to write and publish 2 to 3 blog posts a week on here or on  Eggsy's Ko-fi   which is where we've been mostly blogging lately. And yes we are counting this as our first blog post of Blogtober! Hope you'll follow along with us and please, if you are blogging yourself, put a link in the comments so we can come and have a read.  See you soon x
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Eggsy Pony & Friends Weekend Reads Just For You

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 So last week at the end of this blog post   we mentioned that we were going to have a go at writing a daily blog post on Eggsy's Ko-fi page  9 blog posts later and we have a few weekend reads to entertain you with. Grab yourselves a cup of coffee, or other favourite beverage and have a relaxing read: A Flashback Friday post to when Eggsy appeared on a T Shirt A Chicken Post No idea how many or who we are feeding Blame St Swithun Cherry Plum Time Do you like butter? The Buttercup Post Miss Darcey Puffle and the Herring Gulls - It's started again The Big Butterfly Count  And lastly but not least an extract from The Eggsy Pony Diaries for those who have bought Eggsy a coffee or become a Share Care Member of his Ko-fi Here we go again - The Eggsy Pony Diaries  So there we have it just over a weeks worth of blog posts for you to hopefully enjoy, we do hope there's something of interest amongst that lot for all of you. Have a supa dupa weekend x About  Eggsy Pony:  Eggsy Pony wa
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Our quotation challenge Quote of the Day

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At the beginning of June we gave ourselves a challenge, to post a motivational quote on Ko-fi , along with a photograph, every day during the month of June. We're still doing it! It's proved to be a nice little discipline, to actually post everyday somewhere other than on Twitter. The quotes, many encouraging perseverance, have themselves kept us going with this. Here are 6 of our favourites: "When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself" - Isak Dinesen "The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work, second, stick-to-itiveness, third, common sense." - Thomas A. Edison "Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet." - Stephen Hawking "To reach a port we must set sail - Sail, not tie at anchor Sail, not drift." - Franklin D. Roosevelt "It's not what we do onc
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Seeking Share Care Friends

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During a conversation (via Ko-fi) about the frankly frightening rise in price of animal feed since Brexit / Covid Susan from Frugaldom mentioned that she was hoping to find some "Share-Care" families to help with the cost and physical care of the ponies she has rescued, (if you live in the Dumfries and Galloway area of Scotland and this appeals to you please get in touch with Susan .) She wondered if this was something that we might be able to adapt for Eggsy. Being on a livery yard it would be difficult to have lots of different people coming to care for Eggsy, and, although he has lots of friends from all over the world hardly any are local to us. Also we don't really need the physical help, the whole family mucks in if needed. It sounded like a great idea but probably not one that would work for us. But it's been hovering in the back of our minds for a few weeks now and suddenly we wondered if  a virtual share-care would work.  If you've been following his sto
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Eggsy's 2023 so far

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Hard to believe that it's mid-April already, that the first quarter of 2023 has been and gone and that despite good intentions this blog has been neglected since January. We left you in January with the news that we were starting a newsletter on Substack for Eggsy Pony and Friends. Four newsletters so far if you haven't seen them yet here are the links: January  New Year New Newsletter    February Your Valentine card from Eggsy Pony   March Happy St Patrick's Day from Eggsy Pony   April Your Easter card from Eggsy Pony   We'd love it if you'd subscribe , as we keep on saying we won't spam you and we're not trying to sell anything, it's just a way of staying in touch with friends. Talking of selling, in January Eggsy opened a little shop to try and raise some funds toward Eggsy's feed, like just about everything else these days the price keeps on going up!  The shop is on his Ko-fi page , there are some books in it and we've started adding a few
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Where do we go from here Eggsy Pony's Twitter Conundrum

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Twitter feels really precarious at the moment, but we don't need to tell you that, you already know and many of Eggsy's followers are making plans to leave or have already left.  Where do we go from here ?  What are we going to do to keep in touch with our Twitter friends ?   How will people know that we're here?  We've spent years getting to know one another, building a community of people who have much in common, kindness and a love of animals. Together we've helped saved lives, offered shoulders to cry on, virtual hugs and cheered each other on, but, now it feels as if our engagements are at the mercy of a CEO who controls who and what we see on our Twitter timeline , whether or not our Tweets are seen.  It's not just Twitter, Eggsy Pony is on Instagram too, but, we rarely get to see what those we follow are up to, we don't do FB but have heard it's the same there. What about all the sites people are suggesting we join? Should we be joining Mastodon,
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