Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
Horses need a bigger area than your garden I think plus expensive to run, there's always something up with them.

What about tortoises? You'd need a fair few of them but they're pretty much plug and play.
But tortoises are sneaky buggers, as good at escaping as goats. They move so slowly (when watched) that people underestimate them. As a kid I was always losing my tortoise.

The horse idea might just be sustainable, after all you've got about one and a half football pitches worth of garden there, and so might be your 'safest' option - it'll also provide alternative transport without the need for tax/MOT/insurance, no fuelling costs, and if it doesn't work out, all is not lost - just look up "local boucheries chevalines" in le yellow pages