What would you do in my situation ?

Fantastic news!! Love Mums (my mum owns a leg of my new boy which enabled me to buy him).

Gosh Ted will have to mind his Ps & Qs now - she'll soon teach him some manners. Enjoy!!!! Very happy for you :D:D:D:D:D
 
I too, hadn't ridden for about 5 years and sold the foster boys because I just wasn't fit enough to do them justice (I'm a decade older than you too, lol!) but late last year I ended up with a mare who turned out not to be the one for me at all but it was, as you say, like putting on a pair of old slippers, as if I had never been away from the saddle; it was great, I so regret not having ridden in the interim.

Go for it and then you'll be fit enough to have fun with your youngsters plus your mare should be a great nanny for their first adventures too and even if you decide to sell her later she is still young enough to have a future herself.
 
Lol, just seen the last few answers (I purposely didn't peek to see what everyone was saying!)

Great news, do hope you have loads of fun with her and jammy devil, just in time for cubbing and the fun rides which are great for getting to know them! Lots of pics of the paragon please.
 
wooohoooo fanbloomntastic AA, :D so very pleased for you and looking forward to lots of 'what ted and martha did next' type of stories:D:D


ps, does you mum want to adopt me, she sounds very lovely;):D
 
Maesfen said:
Lol, just seen the last few answers (I purposely didn't peek to see what everyone was saying!)

Great news, do hope you have loads of fun with her and jammy devil, just in time for cubbing and the fun rides which are great for getting to know them! Lots of pics of the paragon please.
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I will when she is home. I will need a gradual build up in the saddle after such a length of time !. After I have got her bedroom ready I will search for my padded pants and the paracetomol.

I am still wondering how the first horse I looked at could be so perfect, it just doesn't happen like that. I have spent months looking for horses in the past.
 
AdorableAlice said:
I will when she is home. I will need a gradual build up in the saddle after such a length of time !. After I have got her bedroom ready I will search for my padded pants and the paracetomol.

I am still wondering how the first horse I looked at could be so perfect, it just doesn't happen like that. I have spent months looking for horses in the past.
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sometimes it does, I like to call it fate :D Pickles was the first pony I looked at, Ebony was the first horse I tried after returning to riding after a 3 yr break.
 
AA I have just read (most) of this thread and I'm so glad you've got her! She sounds perfect and in my experience horses like her are very few and far between and worth their weight in gold!!

At the start of the thread you were uncharacteristicly down :(

Then you started to pick up a bit with lots of encoragement :)

QUOTE=AdorableAlice;10884019]That's the easy bit.

The tricky bit is the OH. I have a plan though.

The mare has big white face and 4 white stockings, just like Little Ted.

I am going to put her into Ted's box, hide Ted in with the cows and tell OH, Ted has suddenly blossomed and put weight on with all the rain and grass growth. Easy peasy.[/QUOTE]

Then the real AA was back:D

Like everyone else can't wait to see the pictures!
 
OH just said he would come with me on Saturday to fetch her because he thinks I should not be on the motorway with a strange horse on my own !

Well, knock me down with a feather !, he didn't even baulk at the 6am leave. He never see's two 6 oclocks on the same day at the weekends.

I have just put the tin of beans back in the cupboard and got the book out to do him something nice for supper.

I have 2 months to get the hacking jacket done up.
 
AdorableAlice said:
I am struggling to see the keyboard through tears of happiness, the cob sailed through a 5 stage, vet said what a cracking cob and to top it all off, my mother bought her for my birthday.

I must get her bedroom ready, she comes home early Saturday.
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Fantastic news! Thrilled for you.
 
AdorableAlice said:
You get worse !!! I am looking at my Hugh Fearnley Wotsit book, it will be a stunning meal. Checked the medicine cupboard, plenty of rennies so we will be fine.
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lol i'm just jealous as i am a crap cook!!! hubs has given up smoking and the nurse told him that soon his taste buds will start to reawaken and he'll be able to taste things properly:eek: I have warned him that it wasn't the dead tastebuds making the food tasteless, just my cooking:o
 
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