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Dear diary
Please can you arrange delivery of food rations and carrots to:
Casa del fido
In deep doo doo lane
Smacked Bottom
Ooopshire
HE2 3LP

The reason for this request is simple - I think I'm going to be staying there for a while....
I was doing so well this week, after accidentally flattening Dad and very nearly EAM at last weeks jumping clinic I have made such an effort to regain my halo.
On wednesday I didn't pass comment on being asked to do trotting poles for 30 minutes nor refuse to wind in and out of upturned buckets - although this did make me wonder once again about my mothers mental health?
Yesterday I cantered very nicely for mum whilst we worked on correct strike offs and using the corners of the school ensure we could execute good turns into jumps. I didn't even throw a hissy when mum put the pole we were cantering over in the wrong place so i had to execute a turn Darcey Bussell would have been proud of just to get there.
So all in all mum was happy with me, I was on bestest behaviour giving lots of cuddles and generally being my utterly adorable self.
Then this morning I let myself down - AGAIN. Dammit I wish i would learn but I just forget myself and then whoops i did it it again I'm back residing with the pooch.
We went out for a hack with Billy and Aunty C and had several nice trots down the country lanes in the sunshine saying hi to a few nice ladies and generally being Bad Boys out cruisng the hood. Then we cut back across stubble fields and mum and Aunty C decided to have a canter. Well I had been waiting for this like rudolf waits for christmas, I am feeling very well at the moment - i have lots of lovely grass, Dolly is fancying me, I have a new aerodynamic haircut, the sun is shing and all is right with the world. So its not my fault that when asked to step up a pace I leap forward to comply, put my head down (to achieve greater streamlinedness) and GO!!
Apparently mother doesn't see it that way and after I realised that we were no longer going in a straight line and the sound of the wind whistling past my ears was being interspersed by a voice yelling about my dodgy parentage I suspected all was not well. Admittedly it did take a while for any of this to register but when you are travelling at the speed of sound understanding what "whoa, you big fat, hair arsed little git" means is some what tricky. I did pull up enentually to see what the noise was about and to suggest to mother that her circling me was silly as mach 5 is only achievable in a straight line. Something I tried to demonstrate when we tried to carry on in trot across the rest of the field....
I then was trotted all the way home whilst being informed of the many ways mother was planning on introducing me to my maker. Top of the list was feeding me through one of the carrot sorting machines on the farm - apparently she thinks Hovis batons and Hovis and Swede could be the new thing on the sunday dinner table. Personally I think she may have got a bash on the head from one of her large girl saddle bags whilst we were running.....
Anyway the next cunning plan is to take me out for a canter on one of the tracks where they can wedge me behind Billy to force me to canter in an "appropriate manner" - AKA so slowly i look like a dressage Diva with a broom up my bum.
Whats wrong with warp speed? Mums being taking that confidence stuff, she likes going fast now so I was merely showing her where the turbo button is - I mean you don't own a ferrari because its fuel economic and ditto you don't have a Destroyer to ponce. If I wanted to go slowly enough to count the blades of grass I'd WALK.
So here I reside in the dog house, shunned because of my amazing speed and power, punished for being living proof big boys can run at any time (not just when there's a half price sale at Carrots 4 U) and outcast for failing to understand that high speed questioning of who Dad was is not mums idea of small talk.
Life SUCKS.

PS Will somone please send me a carrot in the post as i doubt I'll be getting any for a while?
PPS Does anyone who likes going v v v v v v v fast want to let me come and stay at thiers until mum calms down?
 
Oh hovis some ppl just expect too much :rolleyes: I've put a carrot in a envelope with a first class stamp on it so should reach you tomorrow (or this time nxt yr if my posties owt to go by)
 
Dear Hovis.

I have also been where you are, and it is not pleasant.... unfortunatly for me, I am a TB and have been trained to run very fast in straight lines, I think my mum can cope with this, I think it is the buck I threw in and the lack of breaking that was the issue. Not that I ran over everyone, but they did seem to get out of the way very quickly..... not sure if that is the fact I was steaming down on them or the fact that Mum was loudly yorping about no breaks......... however, I digress.

Right, why I have stolen mums laptop, is to say... Hang in there, and make lots of attempts of showing Mum affection, snuffle the pockets etc and do what ever "special trick" is your forte.... by that I mean in the cuteness stakes. I know that you are the Destroyer *swoon* but surely you are capable of weedling your way back into your humans affections.

Any way, much love,

Ru (short for Ruby)

P.S Hovis, have you any hints to keep my stupid neighbour ammused..... he is currently in isolation.. something about a manky foot, but he is driving me up the wall.
 
Harry says: Hovis mate, you need to get a nutter on you back like my bloke. We went to one of those 'loads of other horses running about' things 'fun ride' I think my bloke called it, at some posh place called Babblington or something. Anyway, they have this great big long up and down hill with jumps and grass bit and the bloke and I just went flat out for ages, it was great. Mind you, there was a lot of screaming coming from behind us, where my mate Fol and her rider were chasing us. Apparently, Fol's lady does NOT like galloping downhill flat out over paths and jumps....dunno what her problem is!

Anyway, you need to get to one of these fun ride things, cos we did another one, and when I saw the photographer I did my best canter handstand, you know, where you get up to speed, stick your head between your front legs and throw the biggest fly buck you can. My bloke just goes YEEHARR, and laughs madly calling me a silly blubber...or something like that.

I'd send you some of my carrots Hovis, but nom nom, they seem ,nom nom nom, to have disappeared???
 
Oh Hovis!! I am fairly new to your diary and have spent ages back tracking through the wealth of threads to find the older ones.

You, mate, are a card. Work that out for yourself.

Keep 'em coming, we all need a good chuckle, and tell your Ma that if she closes her eyes then she won't realise how fast you are going!
 
Harry says: Hovis mate, you need to get a nutter on you back like my bloke. We went to one of those 'loads of other horses running about' things 'fun ride' I think my bloke called it, at some posh place called Babblington or something. Anyway, they have this great big long up and down hill with jumps and grass bit and the bloke and I just went flat out for ages, it was great. Mind you, there was a lot of screaming coming from behind us, where my mate Fol and her rider were chasing us. Apparently, Fol's lady does NOT like galloping downhill flat out over paths and jumps....dunno what her problem is!

Anyway, you need to get to one of these fun ride things, cos we did another one, and when I saw the photographer I did my best canter handstand, you know, where you get up to speed, stick your head between your front legs and throw the biggest fly buck you can. My bloke just goes YEEHARR, and laughs madly calling me a silly blubber...or something like that.

I'd send you some of my carrots Hovis, but nom nom, they seem ,nom nom nom, to have disappeared???

Greedy Harry!!
 
Dear Hovis.

As a fellow "big boned" equine I would like to point out that you are unfortunately ruled by gravity and dynamics.

As I point out to my mum...once we "set sail" there's an awful lot of me to stop especially when going downhill... And shouting at me doesn't help either, I just think faster !!!

Hope you are soon out of the dog house... I'm slowly weedling myself back into the good books... as you may have read I made my mum "fly" not bad considering she wasn't even riding me at the time... didn't expect her to go splat in the menage like she did though... Whoops :O

Bonnie
 
oh hovis - be careful - when i used to do that - they put more metal & leather on me which somewhat rained on my parade:(
& now - they say i am too old for blasting - so never let me go above a steady canter - whats the fun in that????
& worse than that they make me go out with the silly baby horses to teach them to "canter nicely"
love Ruby
 
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