Jacob walked into our house at teatime and announced that he had just run over a horse. If it had been Josh he would probably have said in with such conviction that I would have believed him. Jacob is a much less good liar actor.

"Come and look," he said. So always willing to oblige, Jess and I went to look.

Then Jess brought in the horse.

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It seems that Jacob had won him on one of the sideshows at a hunter trial he had attended from college today as part of his Equine Studies course - it must have been fun bringing a horse home on the bus.

So Jess decided that she would find out how the new horse shaped up over jumps.

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Ooops! More schooling needed.

So she turned him out in the garden to eat the grass and get settled.
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Well, who am I to criticise: I spent the afternoon at work as Mrs Tiggy-Winkle - a hedgehog who is also a laundress!

By the way, I don't know what the new horse is going to be called, but his breeding is clearly by Sweated Labour out of Orange Velour

PS Jacob tells me - and of course I believe him - that the horse trotted behind the bus.