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Gloi said:
Thermometer said -10 first thing this morning 🥶. My lungs can't cope and close up. Fortunately I don't need to be outside in it much. The sooner it warms up the better even if it means rain. Just finished a week's steroids, don't want to need another lot.
Poor pony will have forgotten me, with the iced up roads and my bad breathing. So much for January plans. Makes paying for livery worth it though.
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I've been wearing a buff and pulling it up to cover my nose and mouth.

Im nowhere near as bad as you, so I find if I use my buff and then have a hot drink as soon as I get in, then I'm OK.

Hope you can get out and about again soon.
 
southerncomfort said:
I've been wearing a buff and pulling it up to cover my nose and mouth.

Im nowhere near as bad as you, so I find if I use my buff and then have a hot drink as soon as I get in, then I'm OK.

Hope you can get out and about again soon.
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Thank you. Yes , I've been all scarfed up as well. I can usually cope with a couple of degrees below zero but I'm just getting over a chest infection and have just finished steroids and antibiotics and my lungs are being ridiculously sensitive to cold air. I must have walked 20 yards in the outdoors between my warm car and warm house earlier and it took me 15 minutes and a few squirts of inhaler to get back to normal. It's crazy, I'm indoors now and apart from being a bit gunked up I'm fine, but one lungful of frost sets me off wheezing. Really frustrating as the countryside is beautiful to look at today through a window and I want to be outdoors.
 
Pearlsasinger said:
We have a leadrope to hold back the open door into the main stable building. It was frozen while there was something falling but even this morning when we have had a hard frost its reasonably flexible.
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We haven't had snow it was just the frost freezing it solid it was like tying a broom handle 😅
 
7 days and counting since pony was turned out in our part of the Pennines. I have managed to turn him out this morning for a buck, fart and a roll for 20 minutes whilst I did my jobs but that’s about it apart from walks inside the barn. He’s coping really well actually and I’m trying to keep him occupied. Hoping they can go back out on Monday 🤞
 
Petmurf said:
7 days and counting since pony was turned out in our part of the Pennines. I have managed to turn him out this morning for a buck, fart and a roll for 20 minutes whilst I did my jobs but that’s about it apart from walks inside the barn. He’s coping really well actually and I’m trying to keep him occupied. Hoping they can go back out on Monday 🤞
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Well done it’s not easy! Ours went out yesterday for a couple of hours for the first time all week, they do go on the walker once or twice a day and loose school for 20 mins in the evening. But the guilt is real!!!

Dreading getting back on next week 😬🚀
 
Slightly warmer air today was allowing me to breathe so I took a drive out to the stables. Roads were hairy in places once I got out into the country lanes but I crept along and got there.
Poor pony is still being held prisoner in his stable. There was a lot of snow , then it rained, then it froze, then snowed again and everywhere is covered in ice and frozen snow. They've had to chisel 2" of sheet ice away to open his stable door to get in and it would be lethal to get him out onto the ice rink of the yard. He seems happy enough, he's pretty chilled and tucking into his hay. Tomorrow hopefully the weather is changing and life can return to normal.
 
tda said:
Well just been out with the dog and ground still the same 🙄 maybe tomorrow
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It's definitely been thawing here and I think it still is. Horses have got their rugs back on overnight. They are living out and so far the water hasn't frozen, which is the 1st time in over a week. Just hoping it keeps the thaw up overnight.
 
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