Alan Skeoch

Month: August 2018

  • HORSES AT FRITH MANOR (including BEANIE)

    HORSES AT FRITH MANOR ON A  SUMMER  DAY  IN 2018

    (If you love horses, you will love these pics and  stories)
    FOUR STORIES … INCOMPLETE  STORIES
    alan  Skeoch
    August 2018
    Our granddaughter Nolan  Skeoch  is a  horsewoman.  Proven  by the great swaths of time she  spends at Frith Manor grooming, riding,  jumping, bedding, wheeling  carts of  horse  manure, talking to horses (and occasionally  people).

  • “HORSES NEED SHOES”” Story of Josh Twomey, Farrier

    HORSES NEED SHOES  JUST LIKE  YOU DO
    (Josh Twomey…FARRIER)
    alan skeoch
    august 2018
    No good reason why a city bred  person would  want to read  this story.  Unless the reader is curious and likes to see and read  something extraordinary.
    This  is  a  story about Josh  Twomey…a  farrier.   Josh spends his days  motoring from horse stable to horse stable across Southern  England in his truck which is  loaded  with brand  new shoes  for horses.  And  he has  a tub full of  cast off  horseshoes  which  he gives to kids  who watch him.  Blacksmith are supposed to be older men with big  beards and  tobacco  stained  teeth, gnarled  hands, perhaps  bad  limps.  Limping  caused a kick from a horse who did not like nails  pounded  into his or her foot.    Surprise.  Josh is  24 years old  and has been shoeing  horses since he was sixteen.  He has a smile that goes from ear to ear.  And  the confidence that horses understand.   He does  not limp.
    On a hot July afternoon, we  watched Josh  at  work as  he shod Nolan Skeoch’s  horse , Mello.
    Josh Twomeys…Farrier   (Blacksmith)

  • THERE’S A HOLEIN THE FENCE.” Graveyard … Strangest wilderness ever St. Pancras…

    “THERE’S  A HOLE IN THE FENCE…”

    STRANGEST GRAVEYARD I HAVE EVER SEEN

    (Worth a read.  Really.  Strangest place in North London with a history going back to the Roman Emperor Diocletian )
    alan skeoch
    August 2018
    “LOOK, there’s a hole  in the fence.”
    “Seems creepy.”
    “Come on, see  where it leads.”
    “Gravestones covered in Ivy.”
    “It’s  a  graveyard…a forgotten  graveyard.”
    “Creepy, Alan, a place where  weirdo’s could hide.”
    “No sign of a  living person.”

  • HOW TO MAKE GUM…FIRST INVEST $200,000 IN A GOOD COMBINE HARVESTER

    RECIPE: HOW  TO MAKE  GUM

    (First, buy a  $200,000 combine harvester  then read my instructions below)
    alan skeoch
    August 2, 2018
    “Want of  make your own gum, Marjorie?”
    “Better things to do with my time…like  cleaning house.”
    “Sit down, I’ll show you how to make good gum.”
    “Sometimes I wonder about your  sanity,  Alan.”
    ‘Best gum is  home made gum.”
    “Gum?”
    “Just pay attention…this is a lost art…something that every farm girl  and boy new how to do  years ago….making their own Gum.  Do not lose this historic moment.