I have been remiss and just caught up, so pleased this is still going thanks AA and Ted☺️
I am amazed anyone still remembers the furry fool and all his friends. We are all still plodding on and enjoying or should that be enduring the odd world of 2020 we are living in.
Alice went off the yard in the lorry for the first time this year last week to go and do some clear round showjumping. Her excitement was embarrassing, she had a disco on the lorry there and back, we were bopping, banging and swaying our way around the lanes. Three attempts to hurl the tack on her, note to self - tack up on lorry next time, at the practice fence she let out a huge squeal but no buck thankfully. Quite how an 80cm course produced so much dancing and prancing is beyond me, but she had fun and was certainly happy to be out of lock down.
Ted is having a bit of an argument with himself at the moment. He is living on the slimming world paddock and gets very excited when he sees me move the electric fence to allow more grazing. So excited that he then refuses to let me catch him to move him. He is not allowed to run feral unless I am totally out of time to play games with him or so annoyed that I might slap him (if I can get near enough !). There is no point in temper loss with him but at times I could throttle him.
So we stand in the field, socially distanced and have a conversation. 'Put your head in this and you can go in there', it is not ruddy rocket science, you have had 8 years of training, effort, money, love, care and loyalty, what part of that can't you understand ! Anyway, prices are at an all time high now, he must be worth a fortune, 17.2h weight carrier, handsome, schooled, travels, 100% in traffic etc. I shall advertise him, with the caveat of - bring your binoculars to view him.