New Shoes

Just a quicky to say that the farrier no longer hates Penny.  Its days like today when I realise how far she has come in the 3 months I’ve had her.  The first time the farrier came out she alternated between trying to rear or fall on her knees and then tried to sit on [...]

Big Smiles!

This weekend has been fantastic.  I’m completely shattered and was quite late into work this morning (not that anybody noticed as I have turned into Invisible Woman apparently).
Thursday and Friday I ended up at the yard till about 10.30 so didn’t get home till 11 each night and ended up forgetting to eat!  On Friday [...]

Drama Drama Drama

So today I went up to the yard for my lesson together with Bas, also known as my handy sidekick and camera man   Firstly I figured I’d take a short video of the technique we have now settled on as to how we get the bridle on.  This seems to work pretty well [...]

The History of Sauerkraut

A bit of a random topic but it made us giggle.  Today me and Bas went for a wander round to the shops for some food and got a hot dog each, as you do.  Bas was complaining as they had no sauerkraut (or zuurkool in Dutch) and we ended up talking about who had [...]

Lunge Lessons

Well had my second lesson on Thursday and Arthur (with the ‘th’ pronounced as ‘t’ as its a Dutch name) had warned me we would be working on my position.  Within 5 minutes he had taken away my stirrups and reins and put me on the lunge!  Now I don’t think I’ve had a lunge [...]

Penny Update – Last Week

Well its been a fairly busy week on the Penny front.
Last Tuesday (the day after I got back from Edinburgh) the vet came out to take out her stitches.  She’d been really good with me being able to touch them and give them a bit of a poke so I was hoping she’d be OK.  [...]

Edinburgh!! Part 2

On the Saturday we headed into Edinburgh city for some more shopping etc.  The city has not changed at all and I’d forgotten how much I love it.  Went to all our usual haunts, Cabaret which the friendly guy who always dresses as a pirate was chatty as ever (got a new hoody covered in [...]

Edinburgh!! Part 1

I am now back in the country after a fantastic few days in Scotland.  Please bear with me as this post could be another of my epic ones.  I really should get into the habit of posting more often so that you don’t have walls of text to read.
 
So, on Thursday I spent the majority [...]