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Where to? 50 miles down the road is probably going to be cheaper than 200!

Happy to lend an ear if you're still struggling. Hartlepool based!

Could you compress your hours and get a day/a half day off during the week to visit him?

That'd work too! Wasn't playing favorites, just amused by hearing the code pop up!

Weirdly the video I'm watching now has a promo for the riolinks. You get 5% off by entering Tina5, which every little helps I guess? 😆

A really good torch! So you can see around you if you need to or check on the horse in case of a loose shoe or whatever. A whiteboard - write your route and the time you left and leave it on your stable door or in the tack room, just in case.

Seven hours (in one direction?) is crazy. Is it the distance or other factors that are taking so long? I regularly drive from north Yorkshire to visit friends in the south east and it takes about that! If you can drive, consider hiring a car? It'd somewhere more private to sit at least!

One of the girls at the farm uses one and it's brilliant! I have cheap WiFi ones from Amazon, not sure if they'd run off a power bank though!

The grass round here is still struggling and after a weekend of biblical rain the mud is already starting. Just stocked up on sugar beet and grass nuts for my lad be the hay store at the farm is already looking pretty empty. Owners have a delivery coming next week thank god, but it's not the...

I don't ride in it so can't comment on how it'd be for that but I have a Lands' End long coat that has stood up to some seriously bad weather and kept me dry. I was out in it yesterday in biblical rain and was warm and dry under it.

Put the hooked side on the pad and see if it grabs.

I think pssm is a good shout and it would be worth trying a PSSM diet for him.

Mine has that rug too and I love it. Feels properly sturdy! Mine also loves a mystery swelling - he's usually bashed himself playing silly buggers and it never amounts to anything!

I'll pm you - I know of a nice 8yo who has been sympathetically brought on and is a good person.

Beg, borrow or steal one of these https://www.healthandcare.co.uk/aircast-range/aircast-shoulder-cold-therapy-cryocuff-with-cold-therapy-cryocuff-cooler-saver-pack.html It made a huge difference to how comfortable I was, as did a wide recliner to sleep on. It took me a good month to be able to...