We froze and went jumping anyway! Got there to find loads of kids so spent the first half hour doing leg ups, stirrups and girths plus holding ponies while kids run to the loo. The more time I spend around the yard, I'm obviously becoming part of the scenery and as such can safely be approached by small, normally shy children...
Bit of a sticky clear round in the 80, and then an annoying pole at an upright in the jump off. Think we got a bit too close and he clipped it. That left us out the placings.
The 90 looked huge for some reason, and he looked at fence one which had been fence one in the previous two rounds and propped, so he got growled or and we flew round the rest including a one stride double that had been worrying me.
I was last to go in the jump off, we had a slight difference of opinion on fence one. I wanted him to jump as close to the left wing as possible, to set up a very quick turn - he was the perfect schoolmaster and said 'excuse me, mum, we jump in the middle of the fence,' and promptly corrected his course. That left us on a not great line, and we had to jump fence two from 2 strides but he flew it.
Next few were fine, but he took a flyer a the second last and I lost both stirrups and one rein and we almost missed our left turn, ended up with his nose in the gallery and turning in walk but we didn't cross our tracks! Picked up canter and managed the last still without stirrups.
It went down as a double clear, so we got third. I have a horrible feeling there was someone videoing as well...