ANIMAL behaviourist and adventuress Emma Massingale and her Shetland ponies Albert and Ernie will be making a special guest appearance at three Mole Valley Farmers stores in the run up to Christmas.

They will be in Bridgwater on Thursday, December 8, at the stores’ special late night shopping event, which run until 9pm each evening.

Emma will also be signing her award winning DVD The Island Project, which documents her solitary month spent living off the land on a remote Irish island, with just six Connemara ponies for company.

The ponies can also be seen on Emma’s TV Shetland Adventure, which is due to be screened on The One Show on Wednesday, December 9.

Ed McCullar, Mole Valley Farmers store manager said: “I’m sure many people will be very interested to come and meet Emma and the ponies, who Mole Valley Farmers has worked with for a couple of years now.

"We have been delighted with the response from the quirky short film she has made for us and as a result it will also appear before Christmas as an advert on Horse and Country TV. ”