It's Still Life

A Few Days in The New Forest

22 October: I’m back from a few days of splashing around the New Forest (gosh, what a soggy storm that was the other night!), inhaling the fresh air, relishing no crowds, and a bit of exercise. I do love these ponies, who couldn’t care what we humans, hurried and rushing about, are up to or thinking. Walked along the Itchin Navigation in Winchester, and finished the day with a pub lunch with old friends at The Wykeham Arms. Living is good. Note: each image is clickable for the full-size version. They’re large, so loading might be slow.

Misky

Oct 22, 2021

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11 responses to “A Few Days in The New Forest”

Hobbo

Oct 22, 2021 at 9:26 am

Living is good – you heard it first on Plumb-Lines. How right you are, and those photos are stunning.

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1. Misky
  
  Oct 22, 2021 at 1:39 pm
  
  Thanks, Hobbo. Had my booster jab today, so I’m down right jolly today. 🥳
  
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  1. Hobbo
    
    Oct 22, 2021 at 2:49 pm
    
    👍 Me too, I feel like a proper little pincushion.
    
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abigfatcanofworms

Oct 22, 2021 at 9:42 am

Beautiful. We went to The New Forest in 2009. Had a lovely walk and saw a few ponies. The traffic on the way down there was awful so to get out of the jam (lol that feels like a pun), we stopped in Winchester for scones with clotted cream (oops more jam!). In Australia we call scones with jam and cream “Devonshire Tea”. Funny, isn’t it?

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1. Misky
  
  Oct 22, 2021 at 1:37 pm
  
  Haven’t heard the term “Devonshire” for ages; might be an archaic word nowadays. Was the clotted cream on the bottom and jam on top?
  
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  1. abigfatcanofworms
    
    Oct 23, 2021 at 2:26 am
    
    Where? In Winchester? I don’t recall. In Australia the jam and cream is served in little pots and you put it on the scones yourself. Jam first. 🙂
    
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    1. Misky
      
      Oct 23, 2021 at 8:35 pm
      
      Jam first is the Cornwall way. Clotted cream first is the Devon method. Fun, eh?
      
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      1. abigfatcanofworms
        
        Oct 23, 2021 at 9:23 pm
        
        😆
        
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Mister Bump UK

Oct 22, 2021 at 9:43 am

I had a pony chase me once. I was out on my bike. I never quite liked them as much since then. They’re big buggers up close and can hit, 25 mph in a sprint.

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1. Misky
  
  Oct 22, 2021 at 1:33 pm
  
  They are indeed big. Not at all like the Blackpool ponies. They’re like proper hands-high horses. That must’ve been darned frightening!
  
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  1. Mister Bump UK
    
    Oct 22, 2021 at 2:15 pm
    
    It was, I have no idea what spooked it but fortunately it gave up after a hundred yards.
    
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