Rowallan

[Nic]

Went to Rowallan BSJA last night & came 2nd in the BN & Disco.

Well SJ is definately improving, just need to sort out stressage now

 

[helenandshadow]

well done!!!

 

[Noodlejaffa]

How can you afford all this competing???!! I'm so jealous!

I'm the person who longs for the lottery win so I can get a new lorry and compete with a string of horses full time....

Well done, though!

 

[lisan]

Well done, brill result!

noodlejaffa, know what you mean about the cost of competing, permanently skint, desperately want to do the ODE at Standish, but need to find £80 for entry, start fee, and day ticket!!!! Nightmare!

 

[Nic]

I can't hence why poor Tallulah is up for adoption

Mum & Dad pay some of the Diesel costs & I still live at home cos I'm too poor to move out!

but the £15 prize money helped

It's Blair this month that is going to cripple me, £200 in stabling & entry fees

Bl00dy expensive hobby!

Looks like we might be looking for a new home for the little pony too

 

[Nic]

At least at BSJA you have a chance of winning back your entry fees at BE you cant until novice level.

D is doing well BSJA, won over £80 this month. Been eventing (albeit badly!) since April & won a can of codlivine(sp)

But I must be nuts cos I'd still rather event

 

[Nic]

Oh & forgot to say I have no life outside horses(sad cow!)- no meals out not many new clothes & even then they are for work. 1 weeks holiday a year (well I need the rest for competing

)

Limited takeaways/ movies/ daytrips and no social life of any shape or form outside a bottle of wine at overnight events!

Ok I am a sad git & going to crawl under my stone now

 

[Noodlejaffa]

I'm worse than that. My husband and I haven't been on holiday for three years and I haven't seen a movie for 6 years (!). As he competes as well, we have to divide up the weekends. Only time we don't compete is Nov and Dec.

Saving for a new lorry isn't working very well at the moment, but at least I won back my entry fee for Burgie!

 

[lisan]

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Oh & forgot to say I have no life outside horses(sad cow!)- no meals out not many new clothes & even then they are for work. 1 weeks holiday a year (well I need the rest for competing

)

Limited takeaways/ movies/ daytrips and no social life of any shape or form outside a bottle of wine at overnight events!

Ok I am a sad git & going to crawl under my stone now

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I'm the same, very rarely go out, get weeky food parcels off mum and hardly every buy clothes, just get the odd thing off ebay! Can't remember last time I went to the piccies and had one takeaway in the last 3 mths!

Just need my lottery no's to come up, or a rich man!

 

[Nic]

Yay well done you.

Me and OH got our first holiday together this year managed to get a really good deal to Tenerife.

I have to confess we did get Pirates of the Caribean out on video(YES VIDEO

) on Friday.

It must be far harder when you have a house to pay for & everything that goes with it. I don't envy you. I would never manage to compete without the full support of my parents.

 

[Nic]

I have a man so I'll just need to settle for the lottery.

Isn't it a double rollover this week? MINE!

 

[Noodlejaffa]

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It must be far harder when you have a house to pay for & everything that goes with it. I don't envy you. I would never manage to compete without the full support of my parents.

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Not only do I have the mortgage to pay, but we're renovating our house (which was derilict when we moved into it a year ago) so have to scrape together funds to buy things like stairs, doors, kitchen, bathroom, etc. Yes, I am totally mad!!!! Isn't amazing what you'll put up with because of horses!

Incidentally, we have lovely plush stables for the horses who live in complete luxury compared to us!!

 

[Nic]

Same here the stables get painted before the house!

 

[lornaA]

On topic of being skint, I have 2 horses, one retired and one competing. I am a single parent of a 3 year old boy, I have a mortgage and all my bills to pay for myself and horses and my son. I work part time but every penny has to count. I manage to compete but its a struggle. I go out with friends once a week but beleive me i can make £5 go a long way! I wouldn't part with my horses though, I would starve before do that. I am lucky that my parents alow me to borrow their car to pull my trailer but the fuel bills involved in competing from where I live are crippling, I live 2 hours from Rowallan and it is now my nearest show center.