Matchbox

Between the poxy Russians invading Ukraine and Lorenzo becoming a TikTok sensation it’s been quite a week. He’s so far up himself now, you can’t talk to him without an appointment. He thought the Ukraine was down at the Port in Cork, we had to explain to him it was next to Russia and then he wanted to know where Russia is, so at that point we gave up and Pamela Anderson enrolled him in Pony School, which was suspended during the Pandemic. He was supposed to get home schooling from Reginald Goatpony  but there was a breakdown in communication and Reginald thought Pamela Anderson was schooling him so in the end he got no schooling at all and it shows. He’s a most ignorant little bollix.

The Lady found out where we gapped it over the ditch into Rocketts and she and Nicola spent all of Thursday morning putting a fence across the top but they left a small gap which Diablo spotted so it was no bother to us to go in there again. Reginald said it wouldn’t be long before she spotted us so we should make the best of it but in the end we got 3 days out of it because the weather was so shite the Lady hardly came out of the house. ThMacen she stuck 3 pallets in the gap and so far we haven’t found another way out but we will.

We’ve raised nearly €3000 to buy the property. It’s been only 3 weeks since we started and the Lady is very pleased. Lorenzo held a raffle on Sunday and got €70.

We’re very upset thinking about the Ukraine and what’s happening to the animals people have to leave behind, what are they going to do with nowhere to sleep and noone to feed them. What about the poor horses at Chernobyl? It’s a worry.

The Lady is run off her feet now, making videos and posting them on TikTok and Facebook and Instagram. She says it has to be done because that’s the only way lots of people are going to know about our predicament and send us money. They mostly about Lorenzo but she says she’ll be making ones of all of us, I hope it be my turn soon, I’d like to be a TikTok star.

I’m a bit late with this week’s blog because we had not 1, not 2, not 3, but FOUR storms last week and I got blown out of it into next door’s, me and Diablo and Reginald and Al Caponey. A big gust of wind came and whoosh, up we went into the air and landed on the other side of the ditch. The Lady’s car was in the garage getting a new exhaust all week, well it didn’t actually take all week just our mechanic Ollie lost the Lady’s phone number so he couldn’t let her know it was ready last Saturday. It was a nuisance because it meant the Lady was at home all week watching us and we had to cancel our plans to go into the other next door’s for a feed of grass, there’s feck all grass here by this stage and we’re sick of hay.

The Lady made a separate track for Ernie and Sinbad and Pamela Anderson with no grass on it and they were so cross they went in the stable and wouldn’t come out for 2 whole days. The Lady gave them all a back massage, I wouldn’t have minded one meself but she said only if I let her lift up my feet and I wasn’t having that so I didn’t get a massage. It’s not fair.

MacDonald started his walk to raise money to buy our own place because our landlord wants to sell this one and feck us out of it, the miserable cur. Where does he think we’re going to go? Frances says she’ll put the Curse of the Burning Arsehole on him so he’ll have more important things to think about than selling the house. It’ll probably be on the 6 o’clock news.

Anyway MacDonald is going to walk all over Ireland to raise money, he’s got his own Facebook page now, it’s called Macdonald’s Magical Miles and he’s already walked 6.8km and this week he’s going to walk 10km. Lorenzo said he wanted to go with him but the Lady said no way because the last time she took him for a walk he bit her and stood up on his hind legs when they got to the cross and caused a traffic jam and the Lady was mortified.

He’s a TikTok star now. 27,000 people have watched him making an arse of himself getting stuck in a wheelbarrow, there’s no accounting for what people will watch on the internet.

Today Nicola came to help the Lady fence the ditch to stop us going into Rocketts. They’ve done a good job, we went to try it out once they were finished and we couldn’t find a way through but Diablo says there’s another place further up so we’ll give it a few days and then we’ll try there.

And the fucking Russians have invaded Ukraine, people are dying, as if there isn’t enough hardship in the world, what are they like?

Last Monday Lorenzo jumped on Frances and she fell over and when she got up and ran away he chased her all around the track until the Lady spotted him. She said, I’ve lost my patience with you now and when Lorenzo said he’d go look for it if she paid him a fiver I thought she was going to lose her temper, too.

Anyway, she took Frances away and put her with Ernie and Sinbad de Barra because they’re too crippled to jump on anyone. The Lady had their feet trimmed by a barefoot trimmer lady last Saturday so I hope their feet get better soon. I thought the trimmer lady’s feet would get very cold and I said it to Bon Bon but she said I was a fool so I kicked her.

They say the Laminitis has made their backs sore and Sinbad de Barra is very cross, he says he’s been trying to tell the Lady his back’s been at him for weeks and is her head up her arse or what? I tried to tell him she’s been very busy all of January getting ready for the big fundraiser which I can’t tell you about yet but he was having none of it. So I had a word and she’s massaging their backs 3 times a week now. They’ve had one go each and they say they feel better already. Laminitis is a terrible thing and you shouldn’t let your ponies get it.

At the end of the week Lorenzo got stuck in the pink wheelbarrow, and had to wait for the Lady to unstick him. After that he opened the front door and went down to the kitchen and got stuck in the passage and said if the Lady didn’t unstick him he’d lie down and roll so she had to take him into the kitchen to turn him around because he can’t reverse.

Fuckoffginger got out of her rug in the night and wrapped the straps around her front legs so she couldn’t move. Her proper name is Amanda and she’s 38 years old, she must be going senile. Luckily the Lady managed to untangle her without cutting the straps off which would have caused an almighty uproar because it was Frances’s Curse of the Burning Arsehole rug that she only had on loan while hers was in the wash. Even so, Frances had alot to say about it but I can’t say those rude words here because they on the forbidden list.

Our fishermen saw off the Russians so they’ve gone to cause trouble in the Black Sea now. What the fuck is wrong with them, why don’t they just go home and drink vodka and eat pirozhki and stop annoying the rest of the world, they’re like Al Caponey running around shitting on other ponies’ shit.

This week the Lady decided it was Spring and time to open up the track for us. I should explain that my herd consists of Lorenzo, Ayjay, Chrissie, Bon Bon and Al Caponey and we live in the top field beside Rocketts, which is an old pub that’s been derelict for years. It’s full of rats and Dog used to go in there to kill them and bring them home to the Lady before the Council boarded it up but that’s a story for another day.

Diablo lives in the bottom field with Reginald Goatpony and Sinbad and the ancient Minkeys.

And Pamela Anderson gets under fences and goes wherever she likes.

The Lady and Nicola spent all of Thursday morning putting up fencing and closing off our track and then the Lady let us onto it and all hell broke loose. First Al Caponey ran down to the fence where the two tracks meet and started swearing at Diablo and stamping his feet and thrreatening to rip his throat out and kill him. Diablo’s well sick of him by now so he started shouting back. “Fuck off you little toerag before I come in there and burst you.”

Then Pamela Anderson came into season and started flashing her twat all over the show which only infuriated them more. So the Lady decided to move her but oh no, didn’t she flash her twat at the Lady and gallop off down the track kicking and bucking and the Lady running behind her till Lorenzo ran up the hill and jumped off the other side and landed on her. The Lady, that is, not Pamela Anderson.

I decided to stay out of it and use the time to collect all the subscriptions to the pony retirement fund which were long overdue. They don’t understand why they have to pay when they’re not retired yet so its always a problem getting it out of them, I’m sick of it by now, I’m going to tell Pamela Anderson I’m not doing it any more. And there’s been some questions asked where does the money go especially since Pamela Anderson got a new mobile phone.

Lorenzo lost his wits which isn’t hard because he doesn’t have many wits to begin with, and jumped on Pamela Anderson and when she kicked him he jumped on Al Caponey and that didn’t end well either. So we all ran back up to the top and we haven’t been back down since. Diablo said if we come back down again he’ll kick us all to kingdom come wherever that is.

On Thursday Monkeyskin got adopted and his people came to fetch him, we were sad to see him go, he was a very nice pony. Lorenzo cried a bit.

The council found a dead man in a house in Dublin, he’d been dead for a year. They said the house was in a state of disrepair, what did they expect, him being dead and all, how was he spected to keep his house in good repair?