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Dear diary
This week has been mostly fun after a horrible time last week (you’ll have to read last weeks diary as I cannot even bring myself to discuss it again).
This week I have finally achieved the turbo charged status that I have wanted for so long. I now know how my beautiful fit mare used to kick my bottom in stubble field races – she drank nice tasting stuff before we went out! After my horrific experience last week I think mum and dad felt guilty because dad gave me this really yummy stuff to drink in two big tubs in my stable. Apparently it is called cordial. All I know is it tasted of apples and berries and it was really nice but best of all was the effect it had on my legs!!

On Saturday Dad took me round the big fields at the back of the yard and mum came up with the thing that barks to take pictures of me. Well we had a nice little walk and I noticed how much my legs wanted to run so when dad asked me to go a bit faster who was I to argue? Yeeeehhhaaaaa! I have never been able to run so fast! Dad was so excited too – he was squeaking with pleasure…….or maybe that was the air leaving his lungs as he tried to breathe against the G force? – I’m not sure. Dad and I did have a little disagreement about how far we should run but he came round to my way of thinking and we did 3 laps of the field at full tilt, cowabunga, feather flying warp speed. It was ACE!!
I am a little concerned that mum and dad didn’t share my view point as that night they took away the nice tasting stuff. It’s so unfair. For the first time I could whoop the bottom of anyone who wanted to challenge me to a race. I was going to change my name from “The Destroyer” to “The Feathery Flyer” (Do you like that? I thought it had a certain ring).
Alas when mum took me out the next day my legs didn’t want to run fast anymore? How does that work? I can still go fast for a big boy but I am no longer a blur streaking past at 1,000mph.
I have gone out on my own quite a bit this week with Dad as Mum has been away. We even went as far as the river bank all by ourselves (I have given up on trying to tell Dad we need a wing man as quite clearly he is mad). Whilst, as ever, I was a good brave boy I’m not happy with these new style puddles that seem to be all the rage at the minute. The ones that look like white hard stuff so you stand on them then they crack and you get wet feet. Personally I don’t think that’s sporting or funny. They could at least make the water in them warm rather than freezing cold.
I got all excited last week as mum and dad went to see a new brother who is YOUNGER than me. That would make my day as I’m fed up of being the little brother. Dad is apparently concerned he’s too young though and I swear he said he’s green. GREEN? I may be a bit thick but surely anything that’s green is more likely to be an alien? Either that or he’s got a seriously bad cold…….. Mum and dad are going to see a potential new brother at the weekend who’s a bit older than me but not by much so we’ll wait and see. I hope they find someone soon as I much prefer going out with someone else. It gives me someone to roll my eyes at when mum is singing.
Anyway I’ll let you know how they get on next week. In the meantime does anyone know where I can get 4 tennis rackets and some string – the white stuff is back………….
 
mum came up with the thing that barks to take pictures of me


Hahahaha Hovis you are SO the man! Don't worry, Mum & Dad might drink that nice stuff themselves sometimes, so if you have a few practices drinking out of their bottles when they leave them hear you, you can have super-toes again! Go Hovis!
 
Maybe you scared your dad with your 3 laps being Super-Horse!!! Go around like a Dobbin for the next month and they'll give you your cordial.
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I’m not happy with these new style puddles that seem to be all the rage at the minute. The ones that look like white hard stuff so you stand on them then they crack and you get wet feet. Personally I don’t think that’s sporting or funny. They could at least make the water in them warm rather than freezing cold.

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ahhh.... is that the big slidey white ones or the ones that look like just water in a rut and then turn into freezing mud as you stand on them?

Tom has has been showing me how to use my chin to break the hard water on the top of the field trough.... doesn't half make my head hurt when I drink it though!
 
Just wanted to say ‘Hi Hovis’ and introduce myself as my mum has also just started having lessons with the ‘Evil Army Man’ that I have heard mentioned in your some of your posts. The first lesson was quite a shock to the system I can tell you! I’ve only been with my new mum a couple of months and I thought I’d landed right on my hooves! (Bit like a holiday camp only for horses if you get my drift). Mum had been talking about needing a good kick up the @rse but I didn’t realise she meant me too! ‘EAM’ says horses like everything to be “black and white” but I was rather enjoying the wishy-washy-shades-of-grey mum was employing (she’s a bit of a soft touch, truth be told).

Commiserations about the antlers mate (saw the pic online) but at least your mum doesn’t make you wear BLING on your browband every day – has no one told her that us eventers just don’t ‘do’ bling?!

In my last lesson with ‘EAM’ during one of the ‘black and white’ lectures, mum was mumbling something about this is supposed to be ‘passive resistance’ – I genuinely misheard and thought she said ‘MASSIVE RESISTANCE’, so I duly obliged ; (Well, if she’s gonna put me in a blingy browband whilst she makes me do flatwork, she has to expect the odd dressage-diva type tantrum surely?!)

Anyway, mum is now panicking because EAM says he can’t fit us in for a lesson for another 2 and half weeks and she’s not sure the new B&W way of riding is consolidated yet. (Tee-hee, I can see the shades-of-grey may creep back in in his absence.)

Hope you get a cool new brother or sister soon. I have 2 new sisters at my new home, one’s called ‘Grot-Bag’ and the other ‘Angel’ (according to mum, but she sometimes calls me ‘Angel’ too so it gets a bit confusing…)

Regards, carrots and cordial if you are lucky, Sunny V.
 
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