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Kanga was 7 months old in this pic. She isn't actually as big as Ruby but it's only a matter of time! I think she might be even bigger than Mummy when she's fully grown and she's got attitute in spades.
Unfortunately she takes after both Mummy and Daddy in her attitude and is extremely intelligent (or do all proud owners think that?).
Nah, Jack's a bit simple!
And this is her trying on her new rug. I don't think it's going to fit for very long.
I've never had a particularly high opinion of geldings. Compared to mares, they just don't seem to be very bright.
Take Ruby for example, she could undo her stable door and escape within days of coming to our yard (that's with it bolted top and bottom). Her door now has to be bolted and tied. And now Kanga's following in Mum's hoofprints. Last week, she watched while the drive gate was hooked back. Ten minutes later, the gate was swinging. She'd worked out how to unhook it. I can see this being a bit tiresome when you're sure you've left the gate open and, blow me, it's swung shut!
Apparently Jack's getting a bit canny as well. Every morning Em opens the barn door and Jack walks in and has his breakfast whilst she moves his rug. Until the day she was wearing a cream coat and cream shoes. Well, it didn't matter cos he just walked in on his own anyway.
That was, until Em had undone all the straps on his rug. Then he turned round and walked out again. And she couldn't follow him. So she hid and he came back in. Until he saw her, then off he went again. So she hid again but managed to swing the door shut behind him before he spotted her!
And they say animals don't have a sense of humour.
Of our new stand looks like this.......................
And some very sad saints look like this........
I just love Neil Best. He's almost Tiggerish in his badness! Although to be fair, he's not being bad here!
Kanga was 5 months old last week (17th) and she's abso-bloomin-lutely HUGE!She hasn't had as much handling as she might have done so is being a bit naughty but, after last week when she kept rearing and got her leg over the lead rope and scared herself, she's just done little rears and thrown her front legs about quite a bit.
And on an altogether different note, it was the first home game of the season last night and the official opening of the new stand. Now my seat isn't in the new stand, but I get a lovely view of it. And very impressive it looked too. It has 10,000 seats and all of them were occupied. I was concerned that moving the stand back from the pitch would dilute the cauldron-like atmosphere and I expect for people sitting there it's difficult to 'feel' part of the action, but the roar was immense (although the Crumbie did win noise-wise cheering the boys on during the warm-up)
This is my new Timbertop Thurmaston, purchased from Farnham on Saturday. I seriously thought the lady who was selling it wouldn't let me take it away unless I proved I could spin properly with it. She insisted on me having a go on it for about half an hour. ra had a go too. It's lovely and spins really beautifully, and it's in lovely condition. Made of Yew wood, it's marked as 89 (made in 1989) 1378 (Mr Williamson's 1378th wheel).
Since I got it home, I've spun and plied 2 skeins of brown Shetland and I'm just starting on some grey. It treadles beautifully but it's more highly geared than I'm used to, but I am slowly getting more control.
Em Txt me last night while I was on my way to Als' for dinner....
"Omg GB broke his leg in the stable and had to b shot last night. Poor jess! x."
Jess and GB had only just got together this summer, mainly for the Area Dressage. And done really well (the best of the intermediate team). GB was a gorgeous grey, owned by my old riding instructor. He was a beautiful horse, a former show hunter and one of Jack's mates, although they did try to nick food off each other. He and Jess got on really well.
Here are the Intermediate Dressage team. From the left we have: Bryn, Jack, GB and Shan. They pointedly refused to all look at the camera together but this was about the best we could get!
The good......
Their best dressage score yet! 34.(something).
The Bad.......
Still needs more work on the showjumping. Four fences down. He can jump, he just finds it all a bit of a lark....
and The Ugly
Jack says: "Oh, you wanted ME to jump it"Fortunately they were none the worse for it and managed to re-mount and finish the course. Just a muddy pair of Jodphurs, a lost shoe and a bit of dented pride!
Respect to Em for getting back on and having another go.
