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arrgh.... I have had enough of this wind! I would rather have frozen everything rather than this. I am looking forward to my lovely neddy just enjoying his hay am, listening to birds sing and enjoy his morning hay without thunderous wind or rain. Not liking this climate change at all. Roll on spring 😀
 
Agree, awful weather. Came home from work to completely deranged horses, one having trashed his stable and the other bust through a gate and was doing circuits of the garden 😁
 
I'm sick of it just like everyone else :( the wind managed to knock over my 2s hay bin and then roll and hit the post and rail on the other side of my electric and it has 2 paving slabs in the bottom of it as Teds a hay burrower and moves it about. Had to push the metal feed shed back onto its foundations as well i think today was the last really horrible windy day for the week which is good but meant to chuck it down all this coming weekend so thats another weekend not being able to spend time with the fuzz balls :( roll on spring
 
sadly it looks like more coming across but at hopefully its not as bad as we are having at the moment. what started today as semi dry fields are now wet agan but not long to summer with the joys of ground like concrete. getting bitten by horseflies and of course the hosepipe bans due to no water :D
 
I can't wait for fly spray and sun creamed noses, at least I'll be able to go for a nice relaxed hack without dodging downpours and gales.
Had to wrestle an under rug onto the retired boy at the weekend, he has no stable and is in an exposed field, it was like a comedy sketch chasing his rugs round trying to get them strapped down before they blew away!
 
I'm sick to death of it. Yesterday I saw they were all charging around like lunatics at only 11.30 am. I brought them in by 12.30. The 17.1hh rising 4 year old was busy half rearing and throwing his substantial chest against the fence (which he had already broken in that manner only last week.) And I thought ****, I have to bring that ****** in! For safety I usually put his headcollar on over the gate, but yesterday he was just lunging at my hand with his teeth and it took an age to get it on him (his mouth is like a cavern when open. He could swallow my head). He needs work really but is currently being rested over winter after being backed in the summer. He's still very gangly and immature so I don't want to work him just yet. But boy, is he a handful in the wind!
 
I'm fed up too. Mostly with the constant rain. Come on summer! That being said, last summer I did a personal best and had (wait for it) 27!! Horse fly bites. I puffed up and looked like the dough boy. I was even sent to hospital because they were concerned with the amount of nasty stuff in my system as I started to feel a bit peculiar.
 
Its certainly much calmer here in Worcestershire today, sun is shining, birds are tweeting, local farm is having some work done with a giant hydraulic hammer!

Most of the UK looks a little less windy.

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breezy but not gale force here in the midlands :)

you cant win, because the wind dries the ground but its a pain is the ass blowing everything over..................feel for those of you with horses living out.

mine are fine in the fields in it,only 4yo Goof can be a bit hot coming down the walkway to come in, but i have been riding as normal, in the school and hacking and he is totally fine with it under saddle bless him.
 
It's hideous. Our house is on an exposed hillside on the west coast of Scotland, it's like Everest base camp up there! We moved in at the end of October and I don't think the rain or wind's let up since :(
 
I'm in Cheshire and it's a little breezy but looks quite pleasant actually. Unfortunately I'm at work and my weather app dutifully tells me that there's a 90% chance of rain at 6pm when I will get the to the yard. Ho hum.
 
I can't wait for spring. Have barely ridden since the start of December between Christmas, illness and work. And when I have wanted to ride we have had 50-70mph winds.

Which on a fresh young horse which has barely been ridden due to the other stuff has been no fun.

So am sat on the sofa nursing yet another cold and feeling sorry for myself. It could be worse, but I have never wanted to see the back of winter so much. I miss proper winter days and ice and snow!
 
This winter has to have been the worst possible for horses living out. One of mine is on a small yard, so stabled overnight, but my other one is out 24/7.

I'm counting the days when I can move him to the yard too (not too long.) I'm totally done with him living out all year. This winter has pushed me to the brink. Wind, rain, rain, mud, rain, wind (sun - nope, it's gone), mud. We're on a hill, so not as bad as others, but at my age I'm done with it all.
 
I'll probably get murderous looks from the rest of you but this is the best winter I've had at my current yard. My ridge and furrow fields are still ridge and furrow rather than ridge and rowing lake, we have grass everywhere like its springtime, I can even ride in the field which is unheard of for this time of year! Usually we are pumping water every evening. Somehow so far my little bit of the U.K. has had very little of the rain but most of the wind (so much it ripped my chimney apart on Sunday) so it's drying out really well. Admittedly exercising the pony is more like flying a kite at the moment!
 
Clip1clop1 said:
arrgh.... I have had enough of this wind! I would rather have frozen everything rather than this. I am looking forward to my lovely neddy just enjoying his hay am, listening to birds sing and enjoy his morning hay without thunderous wind or rain. Not liking this climate change at all. Roll on spring ��
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Come on own up who has been eating the baked beans!!! shame on you
 
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