tonitot
Well-Known Member
Firstly, does anyone on here know if Lillico's in Aylesford sell straw? If not I'll have to give them a ring.
Second question is longer..
Before I started to drive I lived in a caravan on site at work and keep Ethel down the road from work, so would stay in the caravan through the week and come home on my weekends off and my friend would do her when I was home. Now I drive I am moving home (can't stand living in the caravan anymore) and work/where Ethel lives is about half an hour away. I'm trying to work out if it would be best to move her to a yard closer to home, yard in question is 10mins, if that, away from home. If I keep her where she is it means I can muck her out etc in my lunchtimes and sort her out after work easily, but on my weekends off/holiday I'd have to drive the half hour (down some horrid country lanes) to get to her and would have to do her all in one go as can't stay down the yard all day but then can't afford go backwards and forwards. I don't really like asking people to do her now I can drive and get myself there, so not too keen on still asking my friend to do her when I'm off. If I move her to the yard closer to home, I can easily do her on my days off but my work hours would make it difficult to do her, especially in winter. I start at 7 in winter and will be finished at around half 5. In summer we start at 6 and finish about 6 (longer lunch break). It would be impossible to see her on days in working, except before work very early or after work quite late.
Sorry if none of that makes sense, I'm trying to list the pro's and con's of each yard but I don't think it's come across very well
What would you do?
Second question is longer..
Before I started to drive I lived in a caravan on site at work and keep Ethel down the road from work, so would stay in the caravan through the week and come home on my weekends off and my friend would do her when I was home. Now I drive I am moving home (can't stand living in the caravan anymore) and work/where Ethel lives is about half an hour away. I'm trying to work out if it would be best to move her to a yard closer to home, yard in question is 10mins, if that, away from home. If I keep her where she is it means I can muck her out etc in my lunchtimes and sort her out after work easily, but on my weekends off/holiday I'd have to drive the half hour (down some horrid country lanes) to get to her and would have to do her all in one go as can't stay down the yard all day but then can't afford go backwards and forwards. I don't really like asking people to do her now I can drive and get myself there, so not too keen on still asking my friend to do her when I'm off. If I move her to the yard closer to home, I can easily do her on my days off but my work hours would make it difficult to do her, especially in winter. I start at 7 in winter and will be finished at around half 5. In summer we start at 6 and finish about 6 (longer lunch break). It would be impossible to see her on days in working, except before work very early or after work quite late.
Sorry if none of that makes sense, I'm trying to list the pro's and con's of each yard but I don't think it's come across very well
What would you do?
What you have said is what I have been thinking, I want to move her closer to home but I don't think it would work out. She's happy where she is so there's no other real issue other than I'd prefer to have her closer to home. Perhaps I'll wait until I have found another job closer to home (am looking but not getting very far!) and then move her, and continue asking my friend to do her on my days off, friend says she doesn't mind doing her (she actually seems to like it) but I feel bad 
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