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I'm really pleased about you getting married! Well done re Ted, daisy outside my window as we speak staying as a permeant fixture.... Can Daisy be a brides maid too she saids...
 
Alice and I have a problem. My frock is ok as long as I breath in and don't want to sit down. Alice cannot not get her belly into her frock. Horse like owner !

Weight watchers here we come.



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Fab news and about time :D

Alice is on the dole, she can't help the weight! Her allowance doesn't cover gym membership :)
 
Have a wonderful wedding day, and lovely news that your energy levels are returning there is something very special about starting a summers day with an early morning hack!

Big horses do seem to take longer to mature, but small steps sounds good.
 
Life in Ted and Alice land has been very quiet in July, far too hot for me to be running around after work and every weekend has been filled with doing things for other people. The good news is the hospital has cleared me off for 12 months, woohooo for that.

Wedding plans are complete but Alice and I have a crisis. My frock is frightfully (forum wouldn't let me put in what I really mean) tight. I will be ok if I remain standing throughout, sitting down might be a splitting experience. Alice has the same problem, her baby blue outfit is a little clingy and shows off all of her spare tyres. It is too late for more shopping so we are both living in Ryvita paddock.

Alice is not happy at all, nothing to eat, dressed in a boob tube, legs that need shaving, not to mention the girl beard and furry ears. Yep we both will look a sight on the big day. Well the ceremony says for better or worse doesn't it !!, we are taking it literally.

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Ted remains a twit, an unhandled twit in fact. After much discussion I finally got a fly sheet and hat on him. The hat stayed put but the sheet lasted all of two days before his bum fell out. The splint has reached epic proportions and is right under his knee. He has grown another inch at least in the last month. Alice continues to grow sideways rather than upwards, I was hoping she would make a lightweight show cob but she looks too small.

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They both look fabulous! Ted looks about 17hh in that picture! I also need to go to the ryvita paddock........I may see you there ;) Whatever happens the wedding will be wonderful I am sure x
 
Oooh, Alice is scrummy looking - but she does have rather hairy legs- on a horse of her build (warning, ignorant question coming!) would you normally clip them or leave au-naturelle? Ted is looking huge :o
Congratulations on the wedding news and clearance from the hospital, fantastic news
 
chaps89 said:
Oooh, Alice is scrummy looking - but she does have rather hairy legs- on a horse of her build (warning, ignorant question coming!) would you normally clip them or leave au-naturelle? Ted is looking huge :o
Congratulations on the wedding news and clearance from the hospital, fantastic news
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Not an ignorant question at all, she will be left until she starts work and then tidied up. She follows her mum in hairy department. It is a good job her father, Amorous Archie, didn't see the old girl he might have been offended ! Alice came home on the back seat of my car in a sandwich box in a picnic cooler ! Here is the grand old girl.

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Just look at that, it's the size of a ruddy egg, he is only just 3. It will look even bigger with his legs clipped out.

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Alice's summer in the Ryvita paddock is paying off at long last, she is looking very svelte and sexy. Possibly a lightweight cob in the making. She is back in with Ted now and has told him she doesn't go for hairy blobs with lumpy legs.


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Ted certainly does nothing by half that is a good size, you may be lucky though the ground has been very hard this summer, it has here anyway making up for the wet winter, it could reabsorb over the next 12 months, or at least go down to something less egg like.

Alice should get into her dress now, looking very slim and well.
 
be positive said:
Ted certainly does nothing by half that is a good size, you may be lucky though the ground has been very hard this summer, it has here anyway making up for the wet winter, it could reabsorb over the next 12 months, or at least go down to something less egg like.

Alice should get into her dress now, looking very slim and well.
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Live in hope for Ted !, he still wants to go into the circus, Tesco has not been ruled out just yet.

Alice fits into her frock now which is more than can be said for me. I am hungry and grumpy, even the mare's breakfast of two pony nuts and an apple looked appetising this morning, she was lucky to keep it.

Panic not my friend says, as she lends me a pair of Trinny and Susanah control pants, with the instructions of 'do not trump in them'. Questioned why she tells me they are so tight the trump does not escape and causes an air bubble. I will remember that as I say my vows !!
 
AdorableAlice said:
Live in hope for Ted !, he still wants to go into the circus, Tesco has not been ruled out just yet.

Alice fits into her frock now which is more than can be said for me. I am hungry and grumpy, even the mare's breakfast of two pony nuts and an apple looked appetising this morning, she was lucky to keep it.

Panic not my friend says, as she lends me a pair of Trinny and Susanah control pants, with the instructions of 'do not trump in them'. Questioned why she tells me they are so tight the trump does not escape and causes an air bubble. I will remember that as I say my vows !!
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Either that or it squeezes out very slowly, making a high-pitched whine (like the noise you get with a balloon with itsmouth bit tightened) and end with a noise like a round of applause. ALWAYS during a very quiet bit!!!!
 
Nessa4 said:
Either that or it squeezes out very slowly, making a high-pitched whine (like the noise you get with a balloon with itsmouth bit tightened) and end with a noise like a round of applause. ALWAYS during a very quiet bit!!!!
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooo, just imagine that ! One of my male work friends reckons it will be like getting a condom on an elephant, cheeky wotsit, but he has a point !
 
AdorableAlice said:
I love an optimist !! I saw that advert too, what a cracker.

Ted is going nicely but since the forum has changed I cannot seem to post any pictures anymore ? any help gratefully received.

He is growing again, up and out, he is heading towards being a big horse. Temperament wise he is growing up and the Shire horse people who are helping me have passed on some very wise words and guidance which has gone a long way to stopping me worrying about how slowly Ted is progressing and the tiny steps we are doing his training in. I am guilty of ignoring him a little because as my health has improved and my strength is coming back I have been riding much more, 6am before work - I am impressed, never thought I would be doing that again. This time last year I was frightened, bald, poisoned and in bed

PS, Alice is getting terribly excited, she is out shopping for posh frocks and new shoes -I am getting married in August and she wants to be a bridesmaid. My wonderful non horsey OH has put up with 14 years of equine dramas, including mega highs and awful lows plus last years health crisis, and a few weeks ago said 'your hair has grown back, lets get married' romantic or what.
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That is my horses brother! My horse is by the same mother (shire) but different dad. He is super!
 
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