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The secret language of horses

3 August 2024

9:00 AM

3 August 2024

9:00 AM

‘Horses – beautiful, noble, intelligent creatures,’ said the neighbour I was having tea with.

‘There speaks someone who has never had to deal with them,’ I said, for I had been run ragged by our four horses since the builder boyfriend had left me at the house in West Cork and had gone to London to do a job.

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