My horse sculpture that many of you may have followed the painting of and that has spent a couple of months in the town centre of Cheltenham for the Cheltenham Horse Parade, is back home for me to work on before it goes to auction in November. It’s survived pretty well with just a bit of graffiti, which was obviously done by young ‘men’, lots of dirt and several scrapes. The horse is in our garage this time so I could give it a good clean this morning before starting any painting. Unfortunately, not all the scuffs and scrapes have cleaned off so I will have to repaint large areas but considering one of the horses in the Parade lost it’s tail, I feel mine got off pretty lightly. Here are some photos of some of the damage -
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But as I have realised and sadly known for a long time, some people just have no respect for other people’s property so some damage was to be expected. We also found out to our expense about people’s lack of respect this week as our house was broken in to whilst we were away visiting friends and family in Devon and dealing with family illness. Lucky for us and unlucky for the thieves, we own very little of value so they only took my work camera, which is insured, and an old laptop that we had been going to get rid of anyway but the thing we’re struggling to deal with at the moment is just the fact that someone invaded our personal space and made our home feel unsafe. I know that it will get easier to deal with in time but normal everyday actions are now overshadowed by the burglary and it will take time to get back to normal, whatever normal is! 
