THERE I was, casually lounging in a heap on the sofa in front of the fire after a long day at the yard, cup of tea and a bit of a social media scroll. My two six-month-old colts love to wreck a feed bucket. I have the usual problem of whether to give them flat rubber buckets that they kick over or the plastic trugs that are apparently infinitely crushable. First world problems, but still, I needed to stock up on more.

Amid my state of relaxation, my eyes lit up when I saw a stack of said plastic trugs for sale on a local equestrian Facebook site. Nice profile of a woman and her child, very low-key “tack room clear-out” post with a handful of used items for sale: the feed buckets, a poo picker, some hay nets and a couple of other bits and pieces. I thought nothing of it, messaged the woman and she got back to me in a very casual friendly manner and, within a few minutes, I’d paid for my buckets and a poo picker and agreed the £8 postage fee. £28 in total, no big outlay, nice lady, postage confirmation received, done and dusted.