MALE BONDING......

Bob and Nookie sharing a bonding moment after which Nookie followed him all over the field, I stood watching and wondering why my animals show no loyalty to me when a man is on the scene.

CHRISTMAS DAY

Was super...........Di and Jim came over for Christmas day and brought the turkey and a trifle with them how cool is that, It was a very stress free and enjoyable day loads of food, booze and sweeties and the sun was shinning.

Picked Bob up Christmas eve from the airport and was very glad to see him, I don't think he believed me about the amount of snow we have had so I showed him the pictures, walking round the rain sodden, muddy fields with no hint of snow I felt very silly explaining why I had felt so trapped last week......Typical!!!

HAD A WOBBLE........

After the lovely snow on Friday.......... I had a bit of a wobble on Sunday. I think it was just one of those days when nothing goes right but when you are unable to get anywhere even a walk down into the village was impossible, not knowing when the snow would clear, Christmas looming the thought that Bob might not get home, the water being frozen, logs getting wet, Molly seemed to be more demanding than normal, filling haynets with freezing hands, mole hills popping up everywhere, tele being crap, I was seriously thinking of............................................
running naked in the snow and screaming feck off.

I had plenty of food for horse, dog and myself, heat, computer, booze, so gave myself a slap..... poured a large vodka and coke got me hot water bottle settled down watched tele and I ate all the Christmas sweeties.

Been shopping today and bought anything I wanted!!!!

SNOW......

Its snowing here in the Dordogne...... I moved from Cumbria to get away from this, at least it's Christmas.

Molly's first snow she was poorly last year when it snowed and never got chance to experience it.

YEE HAW.....

It's happened............I got my arse on my ose and rode. It has been very cold the last few days and very windy but this morning it was calm, still cold but calm, Nookie seemed glad to see his tack and seemed a bit eager he jogged to the wall where I scrambled on board....... off we went to the gates Hmmmm.....I had not opened them so off I got, back up to the wall made it back to the gates, on to the road and away we went, past my dutch neighbours farm had a chat with anja, down the lane which is a bit stony but he coped fine, into the woods had a trot the ground not to hard in the woods then we came across some really rough stones so I got off and we picked our way through, found a big log pheeew scrambled back on again, past the apple farm down a lane that's all grass then back past anja's.......... home, out for about 40 mins. Apart from having a neck like emu and being as nosy as me! he seemed to really enjoy himself.

I enjoyed this morning but I was also so cold when we got back I will be thinking twice about going out tomorrow.

I'M BUSY DOING NOTHING......

XMAS LUNCH

Went to the horse groups Xmas lunch today with Di as mentioned on her blog the meal was a washout, being an eyes bigger than her belly sort of gal it didn't hit the mark! but as always we had a good laugh, discussed what we wanted from our horses or in my case do I even want one and generally took the psis...........I like days like this.

ONE WEEK ON..............

It has been nearly a week since Isla left and Nookie SEEMS fine I have been watching him closely. The weather has been horrible to say the least, grey and depressing with a lot of rain so I could hardly expect him to be whoop wooing around with a smile on his face. He has behaved no differently to when Isla was here: he greets me in a morning just the same, he waits at the gateway for his breakfast walks down to the shelter with me, he is eating his feed and hay, rolls in the same place, stands for his afternoon nap in the shelter, doesn't seem to have lost weight, he is doing nothing out of the ordinary............but he looks sad or is it me that's feeling sad for him? who knows!

Molly's story.............

The summer was nearly over and it was late September Molly was approaching 5 months old when I decided to go to the National Dressage Championships with a friend, she had a youngster at the Woodlander stud for grading and they were having a hospitality tent at the championships and she was invited for the Friday and Sunday, no problem with Molly John would look after her so off I went for a very posh horsey weekend.

I arrived home late Monday afternoon gave John a quick ring would it be ok if I picked Molls up Tuesday.....no problem.

She had been a good girl, slept in the stable with her brothers and had been a bit of a bully with Taz, my friend Steph had taken them all out for a 3 hr walk on the Sunday along with all the farm dogs, her own and boyfriends!..........7 in all, they even went swimming in the pond. Spent the whole morning telling her of my super weekend and she about how good all the dogs had been..............everything was good in the world!!

FAVORITE FILM

This is my favorite sequence in my favorite film made in the year I was born............. love the dress........the song...........and I think it has more sexual tension than any modern day film. well maybe the pottery bit in Ghost oh and the fridge bit in 9 1/2 weeks

FAREWELL.......

To Isla........she returned home today after another night of breaking the fence, she is obviously hungry and was leaving her hay to get to the tasty grass in my neighbours field. After feeding I drove straight to Debs and explained the situation and as luck would have it the horse box was in the yard delivering two old mares on their way to Germany...........by 2pm she was gone. I hope they find a good home for her it seems such a shame that she is surplus to requirements and I feel quite guilty that because it hasn't worked out here she is destined for who knows where.

Nookie watched and didn't seem to concerned then he had a little yee har moment, he has been calling her for the last hour, has stood in a torrential downpour we have just had and looks a little lost but at least he isn't galloping about.

RAIN RAIN RAIN

Go away............... come back some other day, says it all really.

Negatives:
Lost my hay supplier this week, Anja has bought more cattle so needs all his hay.......siht poo siht poo fcuk fcuk.

French lesson....... siht poo siht poo fcuk fcuk.

Kobnhaed mare broke my fence......... siht poo siht poo fcuk fcuk

Then to cap it all the cash machine gave me a 50 euro note!!! when I wanted 2x20 1x10

Positives:
New hay seems nicer and cheaper

Spent the 50 euros!!!

I now have two more reasons why the mare has to go.............. no hay and she broke the fence.

Hmmmmmmm........... feel better already.