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Ambers Echo

Ambers Echo

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Arena Eventing training today... got up at crack of dawn for an early start time and got turned back by police when we were more than halfway there because of jack knifed lorries blocking the road ahead. I live in a hilly part of Derbyshire and it is the same every year - the roads are never the problem! It's the lorry drivers who block all the roads who cause the chaos!! Anyway the ponies had a very peculiar morning from their point of view: Up early, drive around for a couple of hours for no apparent reason then get out to find out we are still home! There is a SJ league event we can do tomorrow instead if we can get there. Fingers crossed. I have all this nervous energy and excitement and nothing to do with it.
 
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I hope that you manage to get out tomorrow but tbh, I wouldn't have risked taking a trailer out this morning. I know that if you are all ready to go first thing, it can be easy to just carry on when the weather conditions are poor but it really isn't sensible to go out unless it is essential. We had to miss an early class at Cheshire show one year because we had thick fog at home and weren't prepared to risk our horse on the M62. It was glorious weather at the show when we got there later in the day.
 
I do take your point Pearlasinger - I regretted setting off! But the forecast was for snow round us but light rain at the venue - and for no more snow after 6am. I had to drive North to the yard then South to the venue and the roads were fine, so I honestly expected it to be better as we got nearer. Unfortunately there was snow further South than predicted, it lasted longer and those roads had not been gritted. I find it so hard to decide what to do in poor weather as it is quite hard to judge a whole route from A to B.
 
Ambers Echo said:
I do take your point Pearlasinger - I regretted setting off! But the forecast was for snow round us but light rain at the venue - and for no more snow after 6am. I had to drive North to the yard then South to the venue and the roads were fine, so I honestly expected it to be better as we got nearer. Unfortunately there was snow further South than predicted, it lasted longer and those roads had not been gritted. I find it so hard to decide what to do in poor weather as it is quite hard to judge a whole route from A to B.
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I must admit that our snow yesterday was very unexpected.
Thank goodness you got home safely with your horse, today. The forecast for tomorrow sounds better.
 
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