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As I went to collect Risby's white bandages from my garden (hanging on the tree to dry obviously!) I wondered whether my next door neighbours think I use some sort of re-usable, eco friendly toilet roll :D

Or what what they think when I'm cantering round the garden (on foot!) practising the timing of aids for flying changes...

And I love it when I open my boot to empty out the shopping and half a tackroom falls out around my feet! What must they think...

Anyone have other unusual equine related habits??!
 
As they were subjected to the music from shrek....... then billy elliot blasted rather loudly from the 4x4 in the middle of the field (which is surrounded by neighbours houses) yesterday........


....... probably that riding horses has suddenly gotten rather noisier than usual ;)
 
in winter when you take your wellies off by the door and half a stable & half a water bucket falls out... that used to make them look when I was younger!
 
I gave my neighbour a lift to railway station 4 weeks ago and forgot had smelly wet soggy tack and saddle cloths in car, oh they did pong and she never even wrinkled her nose!!!!!!!
 
Hacking up the road on VERY nappy pony, stopping and starting, with lots of verbal encouragement, drew an interested look from one neighbour, On our way back(considerably faster!) the entire family was on the front lawn waiting and dissolved into mass hilarity as we passed...
 
Our neighbours think that me and my OH enjoy dressing up in jodphurs and going out into the countryside. They swear that we don't actually own horses and just have some weird fetish!!
 
Slightly concerned that my neighbours think I dress like a bag lady. They never see me leaving for work at the crack of dawn looking all smart and polished, just see me coming home and at the weekends looking like i've been for a roll in the hay barn!
 
Not horsey, but my next door neighbour asked me to tidy up my back garden as she didn't like seeing OH's collection of mowers and various other bits of machinery when she looked out of her window. So I said fine, as long as she stopped sunbathing topless, as I didn't like her saggy bits. She's never spoken to me since....
 
our neighbours are also our landlords! They are v good as have never commented on the horsey hum that surrounds us, the rugs draped over our garden chairs to dry, and that around the front door lies boots and general yard detritis! When I leave in the morning I look like a badly dressed homeless person, I also very happily spend all weekend looking like this! I also make tack and the leather I have delivered doesn't even raise an eyebrow. Think they deserve a medal!
(lol mainpower, thats hilarious!)
 
That makes me think... what will OH's colleague think of him when they see the schooling whip and the lungeing whip, some chunky steel things (bits, etc.) in the backseat of his car?

The saddle is there, too, but that's hidden.

Poor OH, he is now so used to them, he doesn't even realise I forgot them there...
 
No so much my neighbours (who all conceed I am a nut job) but anyone who gets into my car.
"yep, shove that saddle over there, and chuck that grooming kit into the boot, that?.....ah now thats the chestnuts I peeled off the legs of one or another...."
 
mainpower said:
Not horsey, but my next door neighbour asked me to tidy up my back garden as she didn't like seeing OH's collection of mowers and various other bits of machinery when she looked out of her window. So I said fine, as long as she stopped sunbathing topless, as I didn't like her saggy bits. She's never spoken to me since....
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:D that is absolutely hilarious!!!!
 
mainpower said:
Not horsey, but my next door neighbour asked me to tidy up my back garden as she didn't like seeing OH's collection of mowers and various other bits of machinery when she looked out of her window. So I said fine, as long as she stopped sunbathing topless, as I didn't like her saggy bits. She's never spoken to me since....
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This made me giggle a lot!
 
Mine probably think i am nuts as for the last 8 weeks i have been trying to convince my pony that hacking alone isnt the scaryiest thing in the world.....so they have all heard me singing the likes of 10 greeen bottles sitting on the wall....or there is 10 in the bed and the little on said roll over!....and have then seen my pony going backwards past their windows when he would napp so i would make him walk backwards.....im probably known as the local loony!!!
 
I once went for a hack, and I had a rain sheet on, as it looked like it might rain. Half way round the sun was full blast and my poor horse was sweating. I was quite close to my house, so I hacked there, and rode into my (very small) front garden, stripped my horse down, saddled him back up without the sheet, and continued on my way, and as I looked up I could see the neighbors curtains twitching. :D
 
Think the neighbours think we are all a bit daft .....there are several saddles/bridles hanging up in the conservatory ( guarded by 2 big rotties:D) and frequently girths/numnahs/boots hanging off the washing line.

The horses are just down the road from the house....at the weekend I brought the pony home for his pre-show bath so he was tied up on the drive-way whilst I went at him with the hosepipe:D

There is usually a trail of straw floating down the drive after I have swept the Disco out.....

Mainpower.......excellent! Wish you were my neighbour, we could tolerate each others garden 'stuff' without any saggy bits whatsoever:D
 
I think ours have become used to saddles, bridles, rugs, boots, general gear, early mornings (my diesel Disco!).

I also think that the teenage lad next door is rather liking it - D1 wearing white breeches and a pair of riding chaps the other day... I thought his jaw was going to fall off (she was bending over to get something out of the car rofl). If she'd still had long black boots on I think the lad would have had a coronary! :o :D :D
 
I think mine are a bit bemused by it all. Clipping and bathing are done on the drive which causes lots of looks from passers-by, but my best one has to be when I decided to wash the rugs at home. They didn't fit in the machine so I decided that the bath would have to do. All was going well until I realised I couldn't get the thing downstairs because it was too heavy and wet.

The next option was to force it a bit at a time through the bathroom window, which only opens at the top, so a small space. God knows what that looked like, emerging dripping along with lots of expletives through the window!

Then there's the really sexy way I dress every day (mud and hay spattered Barbout jacket, strange arrays of waterproof hats and the aroma of stockholm tar wafting about.)

Or then there's the time you stop to talk to somebody after a really vigorous grooming session of filthy horse or cleaning out the hayshed only to look in the mirror when you get back in to realise you have a lovely dirty face and the outline of black snot round your nose.
 
MrsMozart said:
I think ours have become used to saddles, bridles, rugs, boots, general gear, early mornings (my diesel Disco!).

I also think that the teenage lad next door is rather liking it - D1 wearing white breeches and a pair of riding chaps the other day... I thought his jaw was going to fall off (she was bending over to get something out of the car rofl). If she'd still had long black boots on I think the lad would have had a coronary! :o :D :D
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If that's all she was wearing I don't blame him!
 
Mine involved the local police helicopter!!! :-o

I innocently left my high viz vest and numnah blowing on the washing line late into the evening when we heard a police helicopter going overhead - it was dark by then and looked out to spot the search light...........and then started to panic when it got closer and closer and homed in on my garden.........I ran out the back door into the very bright light with them hovering above!! Seems they had picked up the reflective gear during their search for whatever they were looking for and had comei n for a closer look!!!

I was soooooo embarrassed!!!! :-o
 
The neighnours on one side don't 'do' pets. Very nice people but clearly not animal lovers. My kids make me feel embaressed - their job is to tell me if the garden needs mucking out (doggy do's) so at the top of their voices 'MUMMMM, DOG POOOO' - ok ok, followed by 'CAN WE THROW IT OVER THERE - pointing at the hedge that seperates us! Can you imagin if I left them to their own devices - flying dog turd in the direction of nice, but not pet friendly people!! As for anything else, the neighbours have to put up with not only 'horse stuff' on the washing line but my big knickers too!! - Might make for an interesting conversation???
 
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