Helena and Charlene

So, our helpers over the winter have been Helena and Charlene, from Germany. They have been here since September, and will be leaving at the end of February (ah man, it is February already!) in order to apply for university. So, after spending the whole winter promising to take them exciting places, and then mainly getting rained on, we are finally managing to get a couple of good trips in before they go. Helena has been partnered up with the Cookie monster, and they seem to get on very well (it might be love), whilst Charlene is small enough to be very handy for riding the ponies, although of course, she prefers the big horses.