Shared Past Event

A horse fell through the roof of my garage flattening my car, 25 years later I randomly met and became good friends with the owner of the horse without realising the connection. I come from Birmingham, in 1982 I went to University in Swansea to study zoology / psychology and in my third academic year I lived with a fellow student in a virtually derelict property called Llanerch Farm. The farm was set back a distance off the road and had stables associated with it where local kids kept horses. Because of a severe slope the stables were on 2 levels: I kept my mini in the lower stable using it as a garage while the horse feed was kept in the upper stable. After visiting home for a weekend in early 1985 I returned to find a hole in the roof of my garage and my car roof collapsed: a horse had wandered into the feed store fallen through the rotten floorboards and landed spread eagled on it. I thought nothing more of it, claimed on my insurance, graduated, moved back to Birmingham and then London. In 2009 I moved with my family to The Gower, a peninsular near Swansea. Here we live next to the Greyhound pub and I became close friends with one of my neighbours who recently moved out of Swansea to set up an accommodation and leisure complex. After a year we were propping up the bar and we got talking about why I decided to move down ..... and it transpired it was his horse, Tredegar, who fell through the roof and wrote my car off. I imagine the odds of this reunion are difficult to work out but will not be that long...... In