Nope! I was walking a xc course at a be event a couple of years ago with a friend who was competing. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a horse land after the penultimate jump and peck badly. Automatically I said 'sit up!'
To William Fox Pitt
What was worse is his grooms/supporters were standing right next to me!
Mortified doesn't cover it
Great, I might learn something
I remember that, think I did the same!
Fiona - I think that's lovely that you can share a love of horses with your daughter. My mum would have loved the ginger boy
Honestly, she's terrible.
I might have told this story before so forgive me if I have
I fell off a horse at work and smashed my knee up half way up the gallops. Head girl phoned an ambulance and then everyone had to go and put their horses away because it was cold and snowy. So I thought, whilst I laid there in the snow waiting for the ambulance with my leg poking out at a funny angle, that I'd phone my mum and let her know I was going to hospital. So I called her up and the convo went roughly like this
me: hello
mumbles: have you fallen off?
me: umm yes, I'm lying in the snow waiting for the others to get back and the ambulance to arrive
mumbles: (grudgingly)do you want me to come and sit with you?
me: no, I'll be ok. come and meet me at the hospital with some dry clothes, mine are piss wet through from lying in the snow
mumbles: o good. Because I really need to finish the ironing. I'll see you in an hour or so.
I beat her to the hospital by bloody ages and was sat there by myself in A&E whilst I waited for her to turn up (in fairness I did go in the air ambulance but she most definitely did NOT rush to finish the ironing because our house is only 20 mins from the N&N and it took her a good hour to pitch up!)
She sounds just like me - that's exactly what I would do. Except that I never do any ironing...
(well I used to, when they weren't horse friendly) On one of the rides, at one of the gates we were really making good speed, and she fell off while trying to dismount... All I said was, Was that at Huntsman's close at Badminton - I certainly remember her having 2 near identical falls there
And just for Fiona
Was that at Huntsman's close at Badminton - I certainly remember her having 2 near identical falls there
And just for Fiona
My friend walks her youngest up to the church and back on LR and I take her next youngest for a fast hack, being on a pony I make her do the gates
'Get up, gate, gate, gate! Get on, go, go, go!!! we have to beat your mum, go, go, go!!'
She was 8
I really am a bad influence
D
Bless you though, that's a bit harsh
Funniest (now of course!) although I wasn't there at the time, was when an ambulance with lights and sirens came round the corner, and her horse turned and ran (I wouldn't say bolted, he's not the type, more likely briskly trotted!) and she fell off. Ended up with the ambulance picking her up, and following the horse back to the stables as it wasn't far away, and he was heading home!
I really was fine. I'm used to falling off and it isn't the first time I've had a damn good go at smashing myself up. She'd only have annoyed me if she'd come and sat with me (she'd have told me off, lol). It just made me laugh that I didn't have to say anything, she knew I could only be phoning for one reason. She knows me so well!
It does get better however because after I'd been in for a week and they'd finally worked out what I'd done and I'd been allowed home for a couple of days she had to drop me in for a day surgery ( I couldn't walk or drive or I'd have taken myself) which she duly did. So she kicked me out by the doors and told me she was going into town to buy some stalls for the breakfast bar but that she'd be back to pick me up. I had my surgery, came round from my GA and had to phone her to get her to come and pick me up because she'd wandered into Phase Eight and was busy merrily spending all her money and had lost track of the time! You can tell how concerned she was! Love her, she's hilarious. I'm glad she is unflappable about it, I think that is why I am too
What an absolute legend. That is seriously laid back!
Oh FFS! Oberon you started something then ran off to leave others to the fall out
She sounds absolutely great
My mother's more the panicky flappy sort - she's not horsey at all so she's less than useless during most horse related incidents anyway... She's a nice sort and has her uses, but I wouldn't trust her as far as I can throw her where the horses are concerned
I think this one is particularly pertinent at the moment
. Seriously, we need to get out more! 
