Friday 28 February 2020

Hospital log #6 "Do what!?"


EVENING WEDNESDAY 19TH FEBRUARY

In the fifties Miss Doozer next door would have been called a Pocket Venus. 
However as her hobbies include horse riding and sword fighting “though she be but little she is fierce.”*

In a conversation about getting Ferretfingers washed at home I texted:-
How do you feel about hosing down a young man?
And got the following replies:-
“Well”
“Charlie horse gets hosed in summer”
“He doesn’t like it”
“And he tried to bite the sheath cleaner”
“But I think humans are different”
“Give me a hoof pick and a scrubbing brush and I’m pretty good too”
“I can get a nice shine on the hooves”

I asked:-
Do I want to know what a sheath cleaner is?
Replies:-
“It’s exactly what it says on the label.  Geldings have a bit more room ‘up there’ than usual and sometimes they need a bit of a clean”
“There is a person”
“That person is the sheath cleaner”
“Or the willy washer”
“If you’re being crude.”

I wondered, via text, whether they ever had one on What’s My Line.
“Now I know what game we are playing at the next Christmas night out at the barn.”


*that’s yer actual Shakespeare that is.

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