A couple of times a year. I have been letting the cadets from the Basingstoke area use my field as their base for orienteering camp. It was tempting to cancel this year thanks to the relentless rain but I would have missed out on a lot of fun. There's a little group of the cadets who love spending time with the horses and I am taken back to when I was 16 and not 61.
The Barn is like a hairdresser's salon but Rachel in the bottom photograph goes above and beyond, letting my horses into the additional grass in the mornings, and helping with the chores in the evening - sometimes helped by Keston or Alex. Both of them are Lance Corporals in the cadets now and used to taking on additional responsibilities. Rachel is studying Animal Husbandry.
