Yup, Pauline, I reckon after seekeerz has read all this, crofter might find it a little uncomfortable riding cross-saddle with the East Kent or the Ashford Valley. Side-saddle might suit better and who, better, than seekeerz to educate him in that elegant art whilst he recuperates. (Not that unusual surprisingly, a man riding side-saddle, my wife's grandmother could remember a gent, having lost the bottom half of his right leg in the Great War, who hunted thus with the Ashford Valley).
Ooh, I am going to try to wake really early tomorrow to see the first edition of the Adelaide Post :-))))