FfionWinnie
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No more music on vids due to Youtube cracking down and making it unwatchable on tablets/mobiles etc.
So instead, you get to listen to the nagging mother I'm afraid (me! How did that happen). I need to get "shorten your reins" on a loop, I am fed up saying it!
Anyway today we have ridden from 10am til 4pm incorporating a picnic lunch and a shottie for her friend who unfortunately managed to fall off seconds from home when her granddad wasn't holding onto Titchy tightly enough and a cow "sighed" Titchy jumped forward, she fell off, my daughter who was going to get him to lead him into the shed, got run over. I was in the shed tying up the other pony so I didn't see it but I heard the squawking! My daughter recovered from being run over, I sacked the child's grandad and chucked her back on, took her into the field and she had a go at bending and the jug game and eventually stopped crying and is coming for another go tomorrow so no harm done!!!
not Titchy's fault and I had already told grandad to hold the pony properly he just was lulled into a false sense of security as he doesn't normally do anything wrong at all and we had had an hour of saintly behaviour previously.
Quick tack change and daughter got on Titchy and I got on the 13.1. Rode out to where my neighbour has a really high end catering trailer and bought our picnic (I am no domestic goddess!!)
Ate that quite quickly as the flies were awful and the ponies were completely rubbish at eating grass with their bridles on having never been allowed before. Daughter took her usual hour to eat a single sandwich so ended up making her ride and eat as the rest of us were getting fed up. (She was on the lead rein at this point). Had a lovely hack, and we cantered! First time I've managed to get Titchy to canter on the lead rein as he normally just trots exceedingly fast and daughter did great then nearly noticed she wasn't holding the neck strap which made her almost fall off (the realisation not the lack of neck strap!) but managed to hing on thankfully.
We then went into anther wood (flies even worse, and the palo seems to attract more than her fair share, why?!) which is fairly safe for riding off the lead rein, ie, there is a self closing gate between us and the road, and its basically fenced round the boundary, the fact its about 200 acres is a mere thing I don't think about until daughter is trotting off with reins like washing lines and I am wondering if she can stop. Extremely nerve racking but she is coming on!
Far easier for her to rise on the 13.1 but I worry about how far it is to fall off her!
A wee vid, which should work for everyone, I put the beginning bit on to demonstrate what a trooper he is, so patient!
Oh and by the way, wisdom from daughter, she is able to canter now because she had "canterloup" melon for breakfast...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TIWmEK-w4
So instead, you get to listen to the nagging mother I'm afraid (me! How did that happen). I need to get "shorten your reins" on a loop, I am fed up saying it!
Anyway today we have ridden from 10am til 4pm incorporating a picnic lunch and a shottie for her friend who unfortunately managed to fall off seconds from home when her granddad wasn't holding onto Titchy tightly enough and a cow "sighed" Titchy jumped forward, she fell off, my daughter who was going to get him to lead him into the shed, got run over. I was in the shed tying up the other pony so I didn't see it but I heard the squawking! My daughter recovered from being run over, I sacked the child's grandad and chucked her back on, took her into the field and she had a go at bending and the jug game and eventually stopped crying and is coming for another go tomorrow so no harm done!!!
not Titchy's fault and I had already told grandad to hold the pony properly he just was lulled into a false sense of security as he doesn't normally do anything wrong at all and we had had an hour of saintly behaviour previously. Quick tack change and daughter got on Titchy and I got on the 13.1. Rode out to where my neighbour has a really high end catering trailer and bought our picnic (I am no domestic goddess!!)
Ate that quite quickly as the flies were awful and the ponies were completely rubbish at eating grass with their bridles on having never been allowed before. Daughter took her usual hour to eat a single sandwich so ended up making her ride and eat as the rest of us were getting fed up. (She was on the lead rein at this point). Had a lovely hack, and we cantered! First time I've managed to get Titchy to canter on the lead rein as he normally just trots exceedingly fast and daughter did great then nearly noticed she wasn't holding the neck strap which made her almost fall off (the realisation not the lack of neck strap!) but managed to hing on thankfully.
We then went into anther wood (flies even worse, and the palo seems to attract more than her fair share, why?!) which is fairly safe for riding off the lead rein, ie, there is a self closing gate between us and the road, and its basically fenced round the boundary, the fact its about 200 acres is a mere thing I don't think about until daughter is trotting off with reins like washing lines and I am wondering if she can stop. Extremely nerve racking but she is coming on!
Far easier for her to rise on the 13.1 but I worry about how far it is to fall off her!
A wee vid, which should work for everyone, I put the beginning bit on to demonstrate what a trooper he is, so patient!
Oh and by the way, wisdom from daughter, she is able to canter now because she had "canterloup" melon for breakfast...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TIWmEK-w4
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Didn't you have a gorgeous chestnut pony with lots of white markings?
