Dearest Readers,
The overexcitement chez Sykes Towers is palpable: yesterday, Friday, a six-month-old foal arrived here. She’d left her mummie in Holland on Tuesday morning, and been travelling since then — the reason the relatively short journey to England takes so long is that when horses travel there are incredibly strict rules, as there should be — about how often the lorry must stop, how much rest the foals must get, where they will ‘overnight’ and so on. These babies are rightly treated like princesses. Her mum, whose name is Jyacinthe DVL, and her dad, Arrezzo VDL, are both Royal Dutch Sport Horses (aka KWPN) and I will be telling you more about them both later, but for now, this is all about Baby, whose name has yet to be decided.
Anyway, you should have seen her when she walked off the lorry! (which I filmed, obvs, below.)
