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I still haven't got anywhere to live while I'm down in Newmarket because nobody ever replies to their fucking emails. Seriously. I'm not quite panicking yet since if push comes to shove I move down the day before I start work and just deal with it, but it might set in soon. I am meant to start on the 10th...
We finished watching Buffy as a flat last night. I'd forgotten how many of them die at the end, and I may have got a tad teary (why Anya????). In fact I'd forgotten most of the last series completely. I also really want to watch Firefly again now, courtesy of Nathan Fillion.
Took Willow to a jumping training morning yesterday which went pretty well. We did have a few refusals throughout but overall she was good and most were simply down to me not riding (especially the last couple where I was so hot I could barely breathe). There was one where she was genuinely looky at the filler. Luckily working hunter probably won't have scary zigzag fillers! And will also be several inches smaller...
The other two horses at the session were also a fair bit bigger than her. The first exercise was simply cantering between two poles and seeing how many strides you got to see how our canters were. Willow (the ickle 13.2hh pony) got three strides. Seb, the biggest, got five, and Drew (between them) got four. Apparently it was meant to be four pony strides.....oops.
I'm now riding Ranger as well in a couple of classes tomorrow :/ My sister is now not joining us (as far as I can gather she's being pissy about my parents not being thrilled with her plan of moving out without a job or going back to school...) but Ranger's already been entered. My mum's going to take him into a couple of classes but she doesn't want to jump him so I've got him for working hunter (luckily not the one Willow's in) and a 60cm jumping class (assuming it doesn't clash with any of Willow's classes). My mum will take him into unregistered M&M and family pony. Tbh he'll probably do better in family pony with her instead of me since she's not a hugely confident rider and it'll show that he can be ridden by all members of the family (yay!). This will, however, lead to some rapid clothing changes - my mum doesn't have a show jacket so she'll use mine (which is big enough for me to get a body protector under so should fit) and I'll use my sister's, except for working hunter where I'll probably use mine since it's tweed and my sister's is blue.
This would all be a lot easier if my sister stopped being an arse and just rode Ranger tomorrow of course...
I've also managed to come down with a cold, because of course this is the best possible time for it. Hopefully fresh air and exercise will help, and luckily tomorrow is due to be reasonably nice. I hate being ill in this weather - it's too hot to curl up in bed :(
We finished watching Buffy as a flat last night. I'd forgotten how many of them die at the end, and I may have got a tad teary (why Anya????). In fact I'd forgotten most of the last series completely. I also really want to watch Firefly again now, courtesy of Nathan Fillion.
Took Willow to a jumping training morning yesterday which went pretty well. We did have a few refusals throughout but overall she was good and most were simply down to me not riding (especially the last couple where I was so hot I could barely breathe). There was one where she was genuinely looky at the filler. Luckily working hunter probably won't have scary zigzag fillers! And will also be several inches smaller...
The other two horses at the session were also a fair bit bigger than her. The first exercise was simply cantering between two poles and seeing how many strides you got to see how our canters were. Willow (the ickle 13.2hh pony) got three strides. Seb, the biggest, got five, and Drew (between them) got four. Apparently it was meant to be four pony strides.....oops.
I'm now riding Ranger as well in a couple of classes tomorrow :/ My sister is now not joining us (as far as I can gather she's being pissy about my parents not being thrilled with her plan of moving out without a job or going back to school...) but Ranger's already been entered. My mum's going to take him into a couple of classes but she doesn't want to jump him so I've got him for working hunter (luckily not the one Willow's in) and a 60cm jumping class (assuming it doesn't clash with any of Willow's classes). My mum will take him into unregistered M&M and family pony. Tbh he'll probably do better in family pony with her instead of me since she's not a hugely confident rider and it'll show that he can be ridden by all members of the family (yay!). This will, however, lead to some rapid clothing changes - my mum doesn't have a show jacket so she'll use mine (which is big enough for me to get a body protector under so should fit) and I'll use my sister's, except for working hunter where I'll probably use mine since it's tweed and my sister's is blue.
This would all be a lot easier if my sister stopped being an arse and just rode Ranger tomorrow of course...
I've also managed to come down with a cold, because of course this is the best possible time for it. Hopefully fresh air and exercise will help, and luckily tomorrow is due to be reasonably nice. I hate being ill in this weather - it's too hot to curl up in bed :(