the S-bend

up till now we have usually scattered poles everywhere... but seem to be getting the idea ... in the next 'level' I believe the S-bend is be done at the trot... yikes!! it might be a good while before we can get that!!

Re-posting to remember her by..

I was told recently that this lovely pony passed away late last year. I spent a lot of time with her over the few years before I bought Abbey.
original post said  """Katie likes a good roll in the mud so she's not often clean, I've just washed her and here is the evidence....underneath mud is a pretty pony!"""
"""here she is drying off in a new rug I've bought her, it 'wicks' so should help dry her and she can use it to travell in. next weekend we're off to do a course with Quantum Savvy, there's a link on my sidebar."""


I still have the burgundy striped cooler, its been used on many horses now.

awesome photograph

how awesome is this!! tilt your head.. there is no lake in the photograph!!
I wish I knew who took it to give them credit, but its off the internet.

I hope to remember this and if there is a downed tree I am going to try to take one like this.

its all a matter of learned perspective

Looking back at things and realising how it started, how it played, how it ended..... I ought to  remember articles like this one and realise whats happening at the time. People are always 'taking a loan' of me. I like to think people are honest and nice, unfortunately I am often dissapointed.

yes its easy enough to see things when you look back.

flowers to add cheer.....

Cheerful bulbs in a pot, sitting at the caravan doorstep. I though they might all get blown away today but they're fine!
Having 'moved' a lot of my activity on the internet to facebook I find that I can't really be 'me' on facebook, that it becomes a very public thing, people who come to where I work as customers, my boss and her family.
I find facebook a great way to keep in touch with a lot of people, my family included!! Its great for oraganising things and not getting missed out.
However I am returning to  my blog with any of my opinions, not so much that they are out of order but because not everybody needs to know them.
I practice smiling in front of a mirror.
and still today four different people who know me outside of the workplace came up to me and said I looked exhausted and  miserable. I apologised and said that wasn;t what I wanted to convey to people when I was at work.
but that was today, tired out and sad.

still practicing the curtain....

braver and braver. bless her.

ho ho ho

tis the season to be grumpy... tra la la la la

only seen Abbey in the dark all week, she decided now she is frightened of the torch... the same torch we have had for years... bless.

oh how I laugh... start at 8, an hour for lunch and finish at 5....... well three weeks into the new job all I can say is that I definitely start at 8 anyway.

a few friends have mentioned horses having a break and having the winter months off work, I'm  not sure how I feel about that but it currently seems to be happening.

and its cold... how acclimatised you are to central heating and double glazing... now I have neither.

the 'curtain'

this has been out latest thing to practice. I think Abbey is doing very well with it.

are we seeing the same thing..

reflections.. horses have monocular and binocular vision.. and blind spots... they will raise. lower and tilt their heads to focus on something...
and excellent hearing...
so those invisible monsters I can't see.. she can see and hear them, rushes to protect me from them by leaping sideways ... lol.. bless.

not kicking the bucket yet

I often open the stable door to find this.. sometimes she has both feet in... she split the sides of her last pink bucket, I think this one is half an inch wider so she might find it a better bucket to stand in... lol. I love my pony.

whoohooo, another day out

 a gathering of like minded souls.. the rain didn't stop us... just to have a friendly day and some fun with our horses

 my friends daughter with her lovely arab... doing the impossible with the hula hoop.... bless him

 obstacles to play with

we are all dressed up against the rain and cold... enjoying the time out.

big pony, wee pony

perspectives.. taken about five seconds apart.. big pony, wee pony...

clever chaos: art party: glitter bottles

clever chaos: art party: glitter bottles: Unshaken on the left, shaken on the right. Nothing is more fun than a glitter bottle! We've made many different kinds over the years...

couple of horsey days

 carriage horse at Coxhill Stables, Candie. took lots of photos this is the one I  like best.

 me and Hugo at Horse Agility training, on a loose hand hold, this is the third time I have played with him and he  just gets better and better.

very careful with his feet through the s-bend, doesn't knock the poles at all.

BEACH!!

 a short notice trip... would I like to go??

 oh yeh we love to go!! I was thrilled!!

 our first beach trip

 and our first time away out in a long time

 Abbey was very good, she has never been to the beach before

and she got her toes wet... but not any deeper... lol. bless.

pictures of the day.

a day out to watch some riders do western training, I took a load of photos and these are my two favourites.

sunny weather!!

the weather has been hot and dry enough for a good spell now. here's Abbey just had an all over wash.. which hasn't been done before as I never thought it was warm enough!! in four years!!
so she is now very clean and somewhat unimpressed. bless.

where i work

http://www.chiropractoringlasgow.co.uk/

social media

I find myself moving away from the 'blog' and towards more popular social media. its and instant access, lots of people on it, people you see in person every day are on it too...
has this blog become the social media of  my past?
theres a lot of happy memories on here.
opinions and photographs, what are they to me now?
I don't know.
the other social media becomes a great waste of time, accessing it several times a day seems to be the normal pattern. unfortunately I have a lot of time to waste at the moment so that's what I do.