Snugga
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Meet Snugga - a red dun bay, bay dun red, dun red bay, den rad bed, OK - so she's orangey coloured - filly. Currently she is 'one of my horses' but, as ever, that will be open to future negotiation between myself and SWMBO - she's quite the sensitive one (well they both are really) and I'm not best known for being able to get on with sensitive girlies.
Snugga is, of course, the offspring of Billy No Mates, Bob Marley - yes, the wild oats sown by Snuggur have come home to roost and bug dad. Apart from the similarity in names (although the two meanings are quite different) they are alike in the height and haircut departments - Snugga as a two year old is the height of her father.
So, how did I end up with Snuggur's mini-me?
In 2005 we visited Mic & Maria at Solva Icelandics and, as you do, took a turn around the fields to check out the neddies - in with the youngsters we saw a fine, tall filly, a bit on the shy side - Snugga. At Easter 2006 there was a Robert Course at Edda Hestar, SWMBO went along with Toots Tallulah and, in the course of a long evening, lubricated with beacoup ginger liqueur, a deal was struck. Meanwhile, a hundred and twenty miles away I was whooping it up with a solitary mug of cocoa after a hard days lazing unawares that I was about to get a surprise present a little different from the usual carpet slippers.
May 2006 we collected Snugga and flung her to the tender mercies of the others - after a few days of squealing, biting, scratching, pulling of pigtails and kicking, the girls had all sorted themselves out and Snugga was teamed up with Tinna the Thug and the twinning of the terrible twos began - a few months knocking about with Tinna will take the shyness out of anything.