CATASTROPHE!!

Bob arrived home and straight away worked through his list of jobs.......bless him, all finished by Sunday night we settled down in front of the tele, he had bought me a BIG fleecy dressing gown, raspberry in colour and I was all snuggled in when the wind seemed to get up, it was blowing from the west so was rattling our shutters I decided to close them for the night, Bob had his usual fag after supper stood at the back door watching molls, he remarked that the wind was getting worse...............back to our snuggle on the settee, the rain started. Within 10 minutes a figure loomed at the front door dripping wet.............it was our dutch neighbour " your petite stable has blown into my field"

HELLS BELLS!!! it was our little metal shed trying to escape, the doors had blown open and off it went. We retrieved it from the fence and tree that had stopped it going further and after lashing it to the pickup we could do no more it seemed like a mini hurricane, at some point I thought I had better check the horses they were looking over and were ready for flight but soon ambled back into the shelters to get out of the wind and rain. In the blink of an eye my snugly chill out evening had turned into a catastrophe!

TEE HEE

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid!

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, if deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh, and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.

WAITING FOR THE WEEKEND....

Bob home on Sunday hurray, His list of jobs is at 6 but they are all small so I hope the weather stays fine so he can enjoy his break it has been another beautiful day today. I still have some petunia's flowering their heads off which were bought at the end of June, they reminded me how lucky we are with the weather here and my thoughts went out to the people in Cumbria with the awful floods again, we lived in Penrith so know all too well how much it rains, it's such a beautiful part of the country but it never seems to have a summer. Last year every County/small agricultural show, two BHS events and Lowther driving trials were cancelled due to wet ground.........I hope none of that rain heads this way!!!!!

Anthony the farrier called today and it was a good exercise seeing how Nookie coped with Isla disappearing for 15 mins, Nks was first he was a good boy standing on my patio, Isla next.......Nks did his "I wish I was an arab" impersonation but soon calmed down and started grazing, job done........ Next was 2 two loads of washing I save it all up so it can go out on the line, then I had a mad couple of hours changing bedding and cleaning up it's funny but I was in the mood for cleaning.

DAYS

Lovely day today Just the right weather for doing something, started off frosty and foggy. As I was trudging round the field poo picking, the sun broke through so Nookie's breakfast snooze was disturbed with me showing him round the garden leading him up and down the drive and a good groom. It would have been a good opportunity to lunge but the ground is still too wet and I haven't really got anywhere only the front field which I don't want to trash yet.

After lunch I loaded up the pickup with bike and dog and off we went to RL again, it was peaceful and the only people we meet were a group looking for fungi...........well I think that was what they were doing!!!! they had baskets and were looking at the floor under the trees I cheerfully shouted bonjour as I whizzed by on the bike and they waved and shouted bonjour back.

Here is my day

MY PALS

ALL THINGS BRIGHT & BEAUTIFUL

Not done much today Great!!!! Decided to take Molly to Ruffiac Lake she loves it there and so do I it is so peaceful, walking through the fallen leaves looking across the lake I began to sing All things Bright and Beautiful it just seemed appropriate.

Arriving at the beach Molls decided to go for a swim then she wanted her ball, she chased it all over the sand and I ended up with a wet stinking sandy dog Bless her! It took us 2 hrs to walk round today and I was puffing a bit so I think I had better start doing a bit more or I will end up more of a hefferlump.

HAPPY TALK

Happy..... Happy...... happy...... happy talk

Talking about things you like to do.........

Surprise surprise I have pinched this idea from Trudi, start a post with a song relevant to your mood on the day, Good eh.

I had a fun day yesterday with Di at the boot fitting organised by the Horse Group, not that I am thinking of having boots on Nookie but I have an open mind and love to hear about everything, then I decide whether it's for me or not.

I really enjoyed the French girls talking English and the English talking French very surreal!!! But the best bit was.......... Pit Bull Clayton having a snap at a Canadian Mountie.............It was a Harry Hill moment........FIGHT!!!!! She handle herself brill and I was proud of her.

Friday: The sun has got his hat on hip hip hip hurray(I must stop this I need therapy) I left their rugs off today and watching Nookie grazing thought how well he was looking. I really must start doing something with him and as soon as Isla goes I will get going.........Hmmmmmmm

MUD

Oh my goodness me, it's not stopped raining for the last week, the front of the stables are thick sloppy mud, not much I can do about it .......It reminds me of Rochdale and Eileen's.

Had a nice drive over to Di's on Monday and a whizz round in her alternative transport, I thought it was good fun, liked her new cat Tiger............did I just say I liked a cat!!!!!

Not really done anything with Nookie only change wet rugs and give him a human groom, he likes a good scratch from me and wiggles his top lip trying to groom me back.

Moved a fence line today, it makes Nookie's field larger and there was some tasty new grass to be had, then he tested the the electric fence for me WHY!! it did crack and off he went bucking, farting and snorting then slipped on his arse more bucking , farting and snorting but in between all this some lovely elevated trot work, hmmmmm need to give him a zap before schooling :-)

Thought for the day!...............................Life is awesome and sometimes hard. How giddy am I

WEEKEND SUPRISE

Bob made a nice surprise visit on his way to Toulouse, he parked his truck at chalus and I picked him up Saturday morning, french law does not allow him to drive on Sundays so we had a lovely weekend and for once there was no immediate jobs to do so we just chilled, he had brought some goodies from the UK and we had egg and bacon butties on Warburtons thick toaster bread yummy!!! I don't really crave anything but they were just Soooo good and again on Sunday morning toast with loads of butter.

2nd rollo of hay delivered, moved it to the other side of the stables. Feeding two horses it has lasted me just 31 days and this one seems a bigger roll......at 20 euros I don't think that's bad.

Saturday night it started to rain and now its Monday night and it's pouring down, the fields are trashed especially at the front of the stables Hey Hoo another job for Bob.


MOLLY arrived at Bluebell House 1 week after I was conned into having her, John would not take any money, she was a present, he knew we would be moving to France soon and said I need a dog for company..............How right he was.... bless you John.

I was adament she would be an outside dog, we had a brick built shed at the bottom of the garden which made a super kennel, I had bought her the biggest bed with loads of playthings a big fluffy throw and a big teddy so she would be all snug. The first night on her own and she cried for about 30 mins I stayed near the kitchen door listening..........It absolutley pulled at the heartstrings and I was just about to go and rescue her when she stopped and she never cried again.

She seemed totally at home in the kennel and after about three weeks I did'nt need to put paper down, she was very easy to house train and to this day has only ever wee'd 3 times inside. It was July and we had good fun in the garden, she came upto the stables everyday with me travelling in the car was no problem and she soon became my dog .