I can now walk Flicka down the lane! Though the second time we went, an enormous tractor which filled the lane came by, then an enormous cement mixer on a lorry was making the cement for the sewer down over the fields, and she shot under the gate into another field. On the way back I had to let go of the lead to get her through the style and she took the opportunity to rush off and hunted the field out and refused to recall!! Thank heaven no one came as it would have spooked her and she would have run out onto the lane. My neighbour over the lane lives in the Old Rectory and it has a large garden which is dog proof, so twice she has been invited to run free there. She is confident in their garden and we were invited in for a coffee and she lay on the mat and was a very good girl! She is still nervous in the lane but at least I can get her out into it now.
