Another week...

...has whizzed by...Pickles and Snips have gone home, leaving George here for a few more weeks. He became very quickly reconciled to being on of the boys - in fact if anything I think he prefers his new status as one of the lads :-)

Charlie is now a regular fixture as our master's second horse, and is loving being taken around the country in the hunt lorry with hounds - he is absolutely convinced that he really should be her horse permanently (!).

Its peeing down here tonight, what a surprise - I much preferred the freeze in so many ways - and tonight the barn lights fused so I was scrabbling around in the dark for the last few minutes before finishing the horses...very dull! More when the lights go back on...

Seasons greetings!

This is what we look like this morning :-) Snow on Sunday, then again last night and more today. It thawed quickly on Sunday but will hang around today, I think, as its still not above freezing. No chance of riding out, as there is a layer of ice frozen solid on top of the tarmac! The arena will probably thaw out later this afternoon though, so I should be able to use that at least.

Charlie is very pleased with himself because he was the master's horse yesterday, and even better, he got to ride in the hunt lorry with hounds :-) I couldn't go, so dropped him off for a lovely day out while we all stayed here with our noses to the grindstone - lucky boy (!)

Dexter update!

Its about time for a Dexter update...

Although he has left Rockley, I still trim him so see him regularly, and Kelly is fantastic about letting me know how things are going.

She and Dex have done amazing thing since he went home - he has competed at both BSJA and dressage competitions, and has been regularly placed (clever boy!) - most recently, at the weekend, coming 4th in their first test, and then second :-)

Dex is looking fabulous, and I am really looking forward to seeing them out next season!

Bill - before and after...

Here are a couple of interesting photos. Unfortunately the light in the first one was bad, but you get the idea, I hope :-)

The bottom photo is of Bill when he arrived, still in shoes and with a very poor topline from being out of work and unsound for many months.

The top photo shows him as he is now, much more muscled up and feeling extremely well (!)...

We will try and get a direct comparison photo, with him standing square on, as that would give a clearer idea of how much his topline and musculature have changed.

Rocks

Barefootin' at Rockley

I can upload videos now that we are on broadband!

...maybe I spoke too soon...

...actually, no thaw has really set in after all...it froze again last night, good and proper, and hasn't defrostd all day (!). At least its been dry, so no problems with exercising, but still very much confined to the roads, yawn...