HERE is a heart-warming little story for the greens among us. Occasionally, Hester Lacey tells us, she happens across some of the very few remaining horse-drawn travellers down the back lanes of Dorset in the rural south-west of England. These travellers, she says, live one of the greenest lifestyles available in the 21st century but they are evidently still able to take advantage of modern technology.
Recently she passed a traditional yellow-and-red painted wooden caravan drawn up on a wide grass verge. A shaggy brown horse was tethered to a post, dinner was simmering over an open…
