Hovis’ Friday diary: the grass is like glass and my snot is an icicle… but I have had snogs

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Hovis says the the tie up area outside the barn “has seen a fair bit of action” in the past week or so...
(Image credit: Karen Thompson)

Dear Diary,

Well in case any of us hadn’t noticed, it’s nearly Christmas, which makes us half-way through December, which is, apparently, in WINTER. Just in case any of us were at a similar of intellectual capability to the brainless big-boobed one, then Mother Nature has seen fit to educate us on this fact. For like the last billion days. By ensuring that the only thing lower than the temperature is mother’s IQ. Like seriously? It’s been cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey and let’s be frank, I am neither metallic nor primate so lord knows what would have happened to my baby makers if they hadn’t have been mercilessly mangled when I was a mere boy. As it is, my Hovis Hose is hiding (for its own safety) so far in its man cave that it would take SEAL Team Six to find it.

Hovis
The Destroyer

Hovis shared his weekly diary each Friday on the Horse & Hound website between 2008 and February 2025. Initially located on the popular H&H forum, he moved to the main website in February 2013. He published nine books, each to raise funds for his local equine welfare charity Bransby Horses. You can read all his diary entries below.  H&H also published a final tribute to our much-loved equine contributor.

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