Welcome to blog! I started it in 2020 to chart my recovery from breaking my ankle (hence the name). I guess no-one saw a global pandemic coming. It's turned into a place where I can talk about the things happening in my life, my horse and my cats. Enjoy!
What a lovely day at Burnham Market Horse Trails. Caught up with so many people and watched some incredible combinations. Came away feeling very inspired, if a little wind burnt!
Burnham is one of my favourite events. Sadly we’ve lost so many events from the region. Thankfully this one is still in the eventing calendar. Long may that continue…
Well I have had a VERY productive day. Ticked soooo many things off my list. I won’t bore you with everything. It involved a lot of housework and gardening.
I charged up my iPod (shows my age right there). It’s got so many bangers on it. I was raving in the garden while I battled with the mower. Bopping while I was planting some veg. And wiggling while hanging out the laundry. So many tunes I haven’t heard for a long time.
Not sure I needed to burn extra calories dancing, but when you hear a tune, you just can’t help moving. Music is so uplifting.
At least tomorrow I won’t have a hangover, but I’m pretty sure I’ll be feeling it. Good job I won’t be doing much walking tomorrow, oh wait I’m off to Burnham Market to watch the eventing.
My front border has exploded into bloom. Seemingly overnight. Or maybe I just wasn’t paying attention.
Once more, there’s been a bit going on in my world. I wonder if I need to just accept that my life is chaotic and stop expecting it to be otherwise. But then I’d probably be bored if it was all plain sailing (says the woman who gets seasick on a millpond).
So this afternoon, I took time to actually look around me. And I mean REALLY look. There is so much beauty. So much to be grateful for. So much to appreciate.
These flowers don’t care about the state of things. They just bloom. A lesson to us all.
My front border has exploded into bloom. Seemingly overnight. Or maybe I just wasn’t paying attention.
Once more, there’s been a bit going on in my world. I wonder if I need to just accept that my life is chaotic and stop expecting it to be otherwise. But then I’d probably be bored if it was all plain sailing (says the woman who gets seasick on a millpond).
So this afternoon, I took time to actually look around me. And I mean REALLY look. There is so much beauty. So much to be grateful for. So much to appreciate.
These flowers don’t care about the state of things. They just bloom. A lesson to us all.
Just cause we didn’t get to be demo riders today, didn’t mean that I missed out on the learning. Headed over to Forest Edge to watch everyone in action.
It was a really interesting and insightful day. Came away with lots of tips, exercises and things to play with when Buddy is back in action.
It was lovely to catch up with everyone too. It’s been a long winter. Not long till our first camp. More healing vibes for Buddy please people.
We were meant to be having a night away. Buddy in a lovely stable. Me in the Buddymobile. Tomorrow we were meant to be demo riders at another CPD Day. Flatwork this time. But someone is off games.
I know flatwork isn’t your favourite, but going lame is a little extreme Buddy. My fab farrier was due today so perfect timing. No obvious signs of an abscess, so hoping a few days rest and a treatment from Auntie Sam will do the trick and we will be back to it.
Honestly, I’m not joking when I say I feel thwarted. I literally get the Buddymobile fixed and now Buddy’s out of action. You couldn’t make it up.
Still Buddy is happy in himself. He’s not hopping lame, but definitely uncomfortable. Hoping he’s just tweaked something dicking about in the field. On the other hand, I’ve had my toddler tantrum and stamped my foot ( I’ll probably be lame tomorrow too).
Sometimes it’s just not your week. All healing vibes gratefully received.
It’s been a rather random day. I spend 1.5 hours going nowhere on A47. There was an accident so I had to reschedule my meeting.
Sounds like a bad one. They closed both carriageways. So as soon as I could get off, I headed back home.
Given my plans had changed, I thought I’d take the old lino from the Buddymobile to a flooring shop to see if they had an offcut that would work. Thought I’d picked up both bits. Turns out I’d only picked up one. Didn’t matter as when I arrived, the shop was shut.
As I was getting back in the car, having wrestled the lino in the wind down the road and into the car, said wind caught my car door and closing it on my foot. Good job I was wearing my sturdy yard boots.
Good job I can laugh at my own ineptitude too. I’m blaming the eclipse.
The Buddymobile is back after having a lot of work done on it. One of the rear wheel arches needed replacing. Sounds like a simple job. Right?! This is me, so of course not!
It was bad. First I knew was when a bit fell off. Never a good thing!!
It seems that the wheel arch has been an issue for a while. Water had been coming into one of my side lockers, as well as hitting the living floor. As a result, there was a lot of rotten wood that needed to be replaced. Good job I didn’t go through it. Or my bed collapse overnight.
So I have a rebuilt wheel arch and new floor in the locker and living. Need to get some replacement lino to complete it.
It will need to go back at some point to have the other rear wheel arch done.
I did get an upgrade while it was being done. A new step to make getting in and out a bit easier. Made good use of that as I was giving it a deep clean this evening.
They say things come in threes, but today mine were all good.
First, I got laundry on the line. With the sunshine and high winds, it was dry rather quickly.
Second, Buddy had a naked day in the field. He was very pleased to see me
And finally, the Buddymobile is fixed. More on that tomorrow.
All in all a good day.
Back home after a fab horsey adventure. Emma and I talked non-stop. I’m so glad I decided to be spontaneous and go with her to the Champs this weekend.
We thought we were lucky when we arrived yesterday to be parked right next to the stables. Not so lucky when we had a horse calling and crashing during the night. Neither of us got the best night. At one point, I was debating getting up to check it wasn’t cast or collicking.
Bit of an early start to do the Arena Walk. As Emma and Panda were the first in their class, there wasn’t much point going back to the lorry.
It was so windy today. But really warm. It would have been a glorious day if the wind had dropped.
Everyone had the same issue though. And everyone did really well in rather challenging circumstances.
It was lovely watching people. One of my observations was how diverse the horses and riders were. From leggy warmbloods to hench highlands, and everything in between. The riders were all shapes, sizes and ages too.
Wonderful to see people enjoying being away with their horses. I enjoyed it too. I was very well fed and watered. Came home feeling inspired to get Buddy to another Championships.
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