HERE'S how local man Gerald Creswick beat the petrol crisis ... he travelled to work on his horse, Bess.
And he enjoyed it so much, he says he will do it every day from now on! Mr. Creswick, who lives on St. Briavels Common, keeps his horse during the day at a farm near Llandogo where he works.
He is usually reliant on friends and family for transport but because of the fuel crisis the fuel in the family car was needed for visiting an elderly aunt in hospital so Gerald rode Bess home.
Bess stayed overnight in a field near the house and he then rode her to work the following day.
"I'm going to keep on doing this now. It is a lovely quiet ride along the bridlepath beside the River Wye, turning uphill on another bridlepath to St. Briavels. I only have to go on short stretches of road at either end of the journey. Bess and I enjoy it," he said.
Bess, an eight-year old Clydesdale X TB mare, is no stranger to travelling. Before joining up with Gerald she was part of a worldwide expedition led by James Greenwood, of Lydney. Bess took James from Dover through the streets of London and back to his home at Severn Bridge.