Suzy & Mickey’s Blog – April 2025
Suzy Wood: I have been on holiday…
Monansunu: Yes. We noticed. And it is not even summer yet.
SW: …I have been on holiday and greatly enjoyed it. As much fun as all my Shovelstrode colleagues are, even Shaw’s Cross…
M: He has retired.
SW: Good for him. Has he taken up the traditional, nowadays, retirement job of dog walking?
M: No, he is foal wrangling. That one that lived in the barn in the winter. Fortunately that went back home, so I can go in the barn at night, with Flemen’s Tipple.
SW: Well, as long as you are accommodated to your satisfaction…
M: Agreed. What did you do on your holidays? Jet skiing? Xorbing? Culinary tours?
SW: Initially I just had a lie in every day. That was good, because I got to watch Paw Patrol.
M: I have heard good things about it. Did you enjoy it?
SW: I am going to say yes, but I would not say that the plot makes sense in every episode. And then someone decided that my leg was better, and I always seemed to be busy when Paw Patrol was on.
M: One thing that I have learned is that you can get a lot, and get out of a lot, with a timely limp. That’s why I get to spend nights in the barn. Did you know that it is haunted by the ghost of a dwarf horse?
SW: Are you sure it was not just the Shetland pony wandering about?
M: What Shetland?
SW. Rupert, the little old thing that just wanders around as if he owns the place.
M: That’s real? I thought it was an apparition that only I could see.
SW: Most mornings, after Paw Patrol, I watched Scooby-Doo. The lesson from that is that there are no ghosts. It is always something real in a disguise.
M: Did you watch Cheltenham too?
SW: Yes. Don’t know what the fuss is all about. Horses run around a place where it just so happens that a lap seems a bit further than most places. I can do that.
M: What about the cross country?
SW: I can do that too. I would just prefer not to. Did we get any post?
M: A letter addressed to both us. From a Mr S. Cross.
SW: What did it say?
M: It read “I would have gotten away with it, if it had not been for that pesky kid.”
SW: Anything else?
M: Don’t know. I showed it to Digger and he ate it.
SW: Sigh.