Helping hand

No surprise what happened when the snow melted ably assisted by 150mm of torrential rain, floods. Massive amounts of water drained off the bonsai mountain onto the runway and into the stables and as the equines are stupid enough to pooh on the new drain it was blocked thus compounding the problem.

Which is why yours truly and broken left elbow was outside trying to prevent the water getting inside.

Probably not the best activity to be involved in while waiting for bones to knit together but in the absence of a life raft the horses needed help.

Lucky for me the apprentice came along to find out where his father had got to, the last he had heard was "I'm going outside I may be some time", he thinking yours truly was safe in the games room was surprised to find me up to my knees in watery horse doings brandishing a rake.

The two of us cleared the drain and within minutes the horses were no longer swimming, just damp.