September 29, 2004
The lonely furrow
The ploughing championship is on this week in Carlow. Most of the ploughing competitions involve huge tractors and complicated machinery but there is also some traditional ploughing done with horses. I've actually tried ploughing with a horse, and a more soul-destroying exercise would be hard to find. The horse is going one way, the plough another, and neither in the direction intended. You spend most of your time roaring abuse at a horse's behind, and being met with the all the contempt that a pair of equine buttocks can muster. Mind you, I wasn't any good at it, either. And I was only ten at the time. The Carlow lads are probably a bit handier.
Posted by Monasette at September 29, 2004 09:50 PM