Walking along with the boys the other day, we passed a couple of fields. In one field is a solitary cow (or bull, I looked underneath but could see no clue, and I suspect that if it’s a cow it would probably be obvious, so for the remainder of this piece I will refer to it as a “him”. Don’t tell the boys because I spent 5 minutes trying to explain why all cows are “her”).
Any way, in the other field is a horse, and this one is definitely a girl.
We walked on and we joked about how, when no one is looking, they must go and chat to each other over the fence. It descended into a farce as we decided that they wouldn’t be able to understand each other, because one says “Moo” and one says “Neigh”. You can imagine the scene as the two boys got somewhat over excited doing their impressions of the conversation.
Later, I walked past the field on my own, only to see them right against the fence having the exact ‘conversation’ that we had joked about. In fact they were going further because I saw the bull lean over and give the horse what looked distinctly like a kiss from where I was stood.
By the time it occurred to me to get my camera out, they had spotted me and were trying to cover up. The horse was saying “this isn’t how it looks!” the bull said “she means nothing to me, I’ve been drinking, she was all over me and practically naked, I was confused and you haven’t exactly been forthcoming since the baby was born have you?”
Any way, in the other field is a horse, and this one is definitely a girl.
We walked on and we joked about how, when no one is looking, they must go and chat to each other over the fence. It descended into a farce as we decided that they wouldn’t be able to understand each other, because one says “Moo” and one says “Neigh”. You can imagine the scene as the two boys got somewhat over excited doing their impressions of the conversation.
Later, I walked past the field on my own, only to see them right against the fence having the exact ‘conversation’ that we had joked about. In fact they were going further because I saw the bull lean over and give the horse what looked distinctly like a kiss from where I was stood.
By the time it occurred to me to get my camera out, they had spotted me and were trying to cover up. The horse was saying “this isn’t how it looks!” the bull said “she means nothing to me, I’ve been drinking, she was all over me and practically naked, I was confused and you haven’t exactly been forthcoming since the baby was born have you?”
I assume that’s what they meant anyway, because the horse actually said “Neigh” and the bull said “Moo”. The moment made me laugh though, and I wished the boys could have seen it because the animals seemed really gutted that they had been caught together, it was the love that could never be. It was the animal equivalent of Romeo & Juliet. Excuse my photos by the way, the fact that my phone has a camera at all is amazing, you can’t expect it to be a good one.
Meanwhile, around the corner from the field is the farm building that I assume goes with it. In the courtyard is a professionally chalked sign that reads “Electronic surveillance systems operate on these premises”, I’m going to let you decide whether or not you believe them!
4 comments:
You are KILLING me today!! Please please guest blog for me someday??? I can NOT top this.
Honestly, couldn't you just have left them alone? The poor things.
Oh, and I think you'd better be careful at that farm, looks like they've got you on CCTV.
Katie - Thanks - wow , yes I'll guest blog happily.
Barbara - I know I apologized to them, but I think I'd ruined their moment. He lost his 'moojo' :-p
You're just as bad as the bloody paparazzi, how bad would you feel that while you were pursuing them taking photo's, they ran away to get some privacy and in doing so, were run over by a speeding tractor??
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