Not the other livery, but her dim witted husband - he was generally just hang around being a pain in the ar$e pretending he knew better than every one. Thankfully I found my own private yard so I only had to put up with him for 4 months!
He would try to tell me what to feed my mare - fat little cob - and he suggested a competition mix, to give her more energy to run about and lose weight, then threatened to report me to the RSPCA because she was too fat - she was chunky, but not obese, unlike their fat old nag that constantly got Lami! When I came home from a hunter trial, having come 3rd and grinning ear to ear, all he could muster was to say "well there's no wonder it doesn't win, look at it".
He would tell me I was tacking her up wrong, that I was grooming her with the 'wrong brush', and told me I should use a body brush make her shiny, despite the fact she lives out naked most of the year.
He would brag about money, and how he was buying the newest of everything as soon as it came out, and he would constantly shout about how he was going to buy his wife a 'Win-TECKKK' saddle cos they're amazing and really expensive (??!) and how I should get one too because Stubben and Thorowgood (or Throo-god as he called it) like mine were rubbish. He told me he had been just been offered £3500 for his wifes 30 year old section B x with cushings!
And worst of all I bumped into them recently at a horsey car boot and he shouted - and I mean SHOUTED -
"AY, OI, do you still do cu'in'?"
Me - "what? Cutting? What do you mean?"
Him - "YA KNOWwww, cu'in' (*frantic arm waving*), wiv them cutter fings".
Me - "oh, you mean clipping? No." (I clip a few friends horses for them in exchange for a yard favour, or a lift to a show)
And I walked off'; everyone was staring and I was mortified! Couldn't stand it that everyone thought I was friends with this imbecile! AND how bad does it sound, shouting "do you still do cutting?" at someone - makes it sound like I self-harm! Oh dear!
They don't last very long at yards, they've moved this poor old pony 6 times in 2 years, because no one can stand him, and he makes everyones life a misery at the yard - people leave just because of him, its like musical yards. He even had the cheek to ask to come to my yard, despite the fact he'd been utterly foul to me the whole time I was at the same yard as them! Its a shame because his wife seems quite nice, if a bit down-trodden by her loud mouth stupid husband!
