Featured at Smorgasbord Posts from Your Archives – #PotLuck – Going west – Wales – wild things 2016

Posted on June 30, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from Sally Cronin’s Smorgasbord:

Welcome to the series of Posts from Your Archives, where bloggers put their trust in me. In this series, I dive into a blogger’s archives and select four posts to share here to my audience.

If you would like to know how it works here is the original post: https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2019/04/28/smorgasbord-posts-from-your-archives-newseries-pot-luck-and-do-you-trust-me/

This is the first post from the archives of a regular contributor to the series and wonderful supporter of us all, apart from challenging us each week with photo and Haiku prompts Sue Vincent wanders the land..in search of the ancient and modern to share with us. And this week I am sharing a wonderful example of her travels.

Going west – Wales – wild things 2016 by Sue Vincent

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As we walked towards Carn Llidi, we were surprised to see a little herd of Welsh ponies grazing on the hillside. These hardy and resilient ponies still live a semi-feral life here. They are beautiful creatures and very much a part of the land and its history, having ploughed its fields, carried its warriors and worked in its mines for centuries. It is known that there have been ponies here for well over three and a half thousand years…and who knows how much longer before that. At some point in their long history they were bred with Arabian horses and that bloodline too runs in their veins. I knew of the wild ponies of Snowdonia, a genetically unique group that was decimated in recent years by severe winter weather that wiped out almost half the population, but had not expected to see them at St David’s Head.

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About Sue Vincent

Sue Vincent was a Yorkshire born writer, esoteric teacher and a Director of The Silent Eye. She was immersed in the Mysteries all her life. Sue maintained a popular blog and is co-author of The Mystical Hexagram with Dr G.M.Vasey. Sue lived in Buckinghamshire, having been stranded there due to an accident with a blindfold, a pin and a map. She had a lasting love-affair with the landscape of Albion, the hidden country of the heart. Sue  passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.
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12 Responses to Featured at Smorgasbord Posts from Your Archives – #PotLuck – Going west – Wales – wild things 2016

  1. Jonathan Caswell's avatar Jonathan Caswell says:
    June 30, 2019 at 17:32

    AH, THOSE LOVELY MEMORIES!

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  2. Jonathan Caswell's avatar Jonathan Caswell says:
    June 30, 2019 at 17:33

    Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
    A RETROSPECTIVE OF HIGH QUALITY

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  3. philosophermouseofthehedge's avatar philosophermouseofthehedge says:
    June 30, 2019 at 23:23

    Ponies are tough guys. Groups around the world have survived hardships miraculously. Despite my pony infatuation days as a kid, I didn’t know about these.

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  4. Marilyn Armstrong's avatar Marilyn Armstrong says:
    July 1, 2019 at 01:10

    I can’t find the rest of the post. Clicking lands me on your resume, but not on the post.

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  5. Smorgasbord - Variety is the Spice of Life.'s avatar Smorgasbord - Variety is the Spice of Life. says:
    July 1, 2019 at 08:15

    Thanks again for letting me rifle through your archives Sue… a lovely experience..hugs ♥

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