Restless legs

Today farrier Richard over to give the horses a new set of shoes.

Rosie the black quarter horse is incredibly sensitive to flies and continuously stamps her front legs with enormous force on the concrete floor of the shed/shelter she hides in on sunny warm days. Not good for he shoes, not good for her ll´egs and not good for our nerves.

As I had to stand in today as fly swatter while Richard re-shoed her, I suddenly came up with the idea that just as the face cover she is wearing stops her throwing her head about, something on her legs would stop the stamping. Then remembered that I still had a pair of thrombosis stockings from one of my hospital visits and got them. Being so elastic, it wasn't too difficult to get them over the hoof and up the legs. In fact Rosie's legs are thinner than mine so no fear of cutting off blood supply.

And it worked a treat. She stood there quietly for the remaining time and in fact for the rest of the day, no crashing sounds of metal on concrete were heard. However by evening when she came out to spend the ndark fly free night on the field, the stockings were hanging around her ankles, a similar situation many humans who have worn these things in summer in hospital for several day can empathise with.

However a new idea that we need to perfect but hopefully I won't be required to go in to hospital regularly to source supplies.

Incidentally Angie's maiden name is "Horn". Some may remember the rather crazy appearance at the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest in Birmingham of a certain [url=https://youtu.be/yqJrAAAr0gk]Guild Horn[/url] and his band the "Orthopaedic Stockings". From memory the British public quite took to Guildo and he even managed 7th place and was responsible for making the ESC a cult event  again.