One looks out of the window these dark, dank and dismal days and one is hard-pressed to know what season it is. Thank goodness then for the horses of the Blues and Royals.
One of the holidaying Blues & Royals' horses taking a dip in the sea off Holkham Beach. Birmingham Evening Mail 4th August 2009
These sensible creatures go on holiday the same week every year to the same place in Norfolk, as you’d expect for the Household Cavalry, not far from the Queen’s place at Sandringham.
So when you see pictures in the press of these horses with their riders on the beach or in the sea (yes, they are allowed to go too) you know that it is high summer, whatever the weather outside the window.
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