Is this meant to be fun? Yikes!

Paris1 said:
Looks like great fun! It hairy with the dunkings bit apart from the kid that jumped the gun and looked like he ran over his dunked friend, looks well organised and a great laugh. Seen worse dunkings at a local riding club xc for horses and riders.
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You see I just don't "DO" dunkings! I watch these things with my heart in my mouth because I am cowardly :D
I also know that I would always be the one to fall head first with my horse on top of me.
Previous experiences:
Aged 9 jumping a Dyke - my Thelwell pony tips me over his head and I end up dunked - pond weed included.
Aged 12 - My Dads farm, foot caught in baler twine - I go head first into the slurry. I felt like I was belching cow **** for weeks after.
Aged 13 - My horse tanks off with me to the end of the field and throws me head first into a stream. Pond skaters in my mouth and water snails in my boots.
Aged 17 - My TB has a wobbly in the local wood, my head hits branch and comedy style I tip off the back into.....a muddly puddle.

So please forgive me if anything involving wet/mud/**** does not appeal.
I am 37 now and have managed to stay water/wildlife/mud free (relatively) for 20 years!
 
Tinkerbee said:
Sure that's how we roll in Ireland. Half drown the horses, canter them home on tarmac roads and through fire and brimstone then give them a good thrashing with a blackthorn stick so they're good and perky for tomorrow. English pansies the lot of ye. :p

Although I'm pleased to learn the "proper" spelling of shuck!
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LOL What ya mean you dont know how to spell 'sheugh' :eek: you are from there (Norn Iron that is!) that is inexcusable!!! Seriously I learnt how to spell this through friends who hunt there. I was being told a story of someone who had eneded up in one and I had to ask a number of times before I fully understood what had actually happened ;)

I love your description of hunting in Ireland. You forgot the bit where after they have learned the ropes - they are packed off over here!
 
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