Sun

The sun is out again and everything is melting. When TW arrived me and Bee were grazing. We still want the hay though obviously. I shared my net with that Polly over the fence again,  it will be good when she can come in with us I think. TW tried to give me a scratch today to get rid of some hairs but I was not keen. So she best get worrying about my guts i reckon. I know she has ordered some vits and stuff again so that should be interesting to see how she managed to feed us all. Ha! Tbh I don't think we will all get vitamins or she will be bankrupted. There is an endurance workshop clinic thing on at the weekend and I am not 100% sure if she is taking Jez or not....we shall see. Hopefully we will get a bleddy dry week now .

icicles

TW wanted a lie in today. She didn't get one as there was so much snow and she was so worried that she crawled up to the yard as soon as it was light or therabouts. I think the roads were very bad. Anyhoo, when she got to us we were all covered in icicles and Mikka was shivering and shaking. Polly was still munching on her hay net from yesterday. Gah!

So TW gave us loads and loads of hay. And then some more hay. She tried to put a fleece and a rug on Mikka who promptly told her to feck off. Repeatedly. Jezey was sad today as they were meant to be going off for a nice ride but it was cancelled. Then she shuffled off in the snow. Later on she came back and gave us another bale of hay to share . And then went home and ordered some food for us and some vitamin supplements as she says this weather has made us all rotten and manky.

Pink

It is fecking snowing again. And windy. And absolutely fecking baltic. TW did three trips before 12.- which was most impressive and for once it wasn't because the water was frozen. Nesh dogs, hungry herd and a therapy session = 1 shattered and frozen TW!

She did a good job with huge hay nets today. Must have full tummies to keep warm. I have no idea when we are ever going to start getting fit though. She's booked me on my first SE ride of 2018 though much to Jezeys disgust as it is a pink ride and she wanted to go. TW remembered she had promised that I would do SE rides though so tough! None of us have even been in the bleddy horsebox yet though fgs.

psycho

TW went psycho today. When she got to the yard, Jez, Mikka and Misty had left Polly and got themselves into the bottom paddock and were galloping up and down shouting. In the rain. TW moved Polly out of the way and tried to get me, Brack, Lyra and Dilly into the big field. It didn't work. Eventually TW went a bit nuts which resulted in us all ignoring her until she apologised. I think it's a combination of being hangry, pre-season temper and ALL THIS FECKING RAIN!!! There's no excuse for it though.

We did get some hay though and she was very sorry but tbh by that point we all just wanted to eat. There's a holistic vet lady coming this way in April and she is thinking of taking me to see her to discuss my guts and stuff as it's in the diary that we are going to do 20miles at Thoresby in the Autumn. This has been our goal for the last few years btw.

TW says this is the shittest period of horse-ownership ever. Mardy arse. Although to be fair, Mikka and Polly have abscesses, Dilly is all itchy, Brack is getting ready for sweet itch season , I have poorly teeth and we are all covered in mud. Apparently under all our fluff me and Dilly are getting skinny which also isn't so good. Things will get better soon.

ffs

So there is so much bleddy rain I really cba. That Polly is a cheeky beggar who has TW wrapped round her finger and then steals my hay from the other side of the fence. And Jezey is getting a bleddy thermatex. WTF?

Anyhoo TW says we ARE going to do 20miles at Thoresby Autumn ride and she had started losing weight so that is positive. And she has her eyes on a cannock chase ride too but not sure if I will get to go to that one? wr all have soggy boggy feet and tbh I really cba.

WTF

WTF is going on with this weather? This morning it was frozen solid every where and baltic. By tea time it was 10 degrees and pishing down with rain. TW only came early today. She didn't stop long but we got extra hay and it was a nice light morning. I reckon it's going to be a lovely summer to make up for this absolute shite winter. I can't remember being so wet for so long since we had the bleddy awful wet summer in Bradmore.

emergency!

The weather is shite again and the fields have all gone back to mush! TW was not impressed this morning as me, Brack, Mikka and Lyra were in the paddock with the hole in the fence pretending not to be able to get out. And we might have trashed it. Oops! Things got worse when she counted the hay bales and realised we were going to be struggling soon. So we called a state of emergency and made her email the new hay dude who promptly replied and said he will re-stock us on Sunday! Good work!

fresh as a daisy

So last night TW text the dentist lady and asked if I was allowed to be ridden. She said YES! Now ordinarily that wouldn't been much as TW is a lazy daisy but today the sun was shining and I was more than happy to get my tack on. I do need a change of girth though due to my excellent winter weightloss.

Anyhoo, TW said we would ride in the field while the others nommed the hay and I was mostly obliging. TW was worried about my mouth so tried to ride with a nice long relaxed rein so I took advantage a bit and did some sprightly walking about . I didn't nap though and TW said I was a good lad. I maybe tried to bog off back to the others a wee bit but I don't think that counts. I think she was pleased with me. She's booked me onto the physio workshop thing and the endurance clinic too and maybe I will get out for a pre-op ride or two, just the short ones. I think I'm getting some equidgel too even though TW isn't sure about the alfalfa.

After I had been ridden, Jezey had a turn and she was a very good girl! Gah! That Polly-pocket has her eye on being ridden too. Bleddy girls!

sicknote

FFS I can't believe it! While the weather has been bad TW has been looking for rides and clinics and stuff for us to do. She had found an endurance training day for me and a physio day for both of us and decided that we were going to aim for a 20miler. Boblet is sorting out the tyre issue on the box and then we would be good to go.

So today the vet dentist lady visited. I had seen my dentist 2 weeks ago but she referred me to this new lady who was hopefully going to sort out my poorly fractured toothypegs. I kicked up a bit of a fuss when TW tried to catch me as I was nomming hay but eventually I came in for a big jab of dopey drugs. Nice. The lady had a good look at my teeth. She said that the fractures were not good and that she couldn't fix them. TW was sad. The vet lady explained that some horses just have wee holes in their teeth which make them prone to fracturing and sometimes the fractures are easy to sort. Mine are not. She suggested that I go to horsepital and see a visiting specialist who will do the operation for me and get my teeth better. My heart sank. TW agreed and gave me lots of cuddles. So did Boblet.

Afterwards I shuffled outside and went back to sleep while the lady did Polly arabs teeth. Then I shuffled down to the field and stood by the gate feeling sorry for myself. TW gave me some nice kisses and Boblet gave me some more scratches. It feels very unfair.

Seriously?

TW says she is fecking knackered from dragging water tubs to the yard. Well quite frankly we are all fecking thirsty. The yard tap better defrost soon or we are all going to shrivel and die and TW is going to turn into the incredible hulk with super strong muscles.

Anyhoo I've decided that I'm off out with SE gain this year so made it my job to push Jezey out the way at every opportunity and to give TW kisses. TW said I'm a nob as Jezey is going out with EGB anyway. That horse box best not let us down then or there will be big trouble. And TW best not lose weight and get Polly-pocket out this year or there will be real fisticuffs I reckon.

The best thing about today was that the rain never came. Although that might at least give us something to drink.

Drink

I cannot believe that it is still so fricking cold!! TW was in a right state today, taps still frozen, walking down through snow drifts, getting her car stuck in the snow. So I decided to make everything better by letting her know I was really thirsty and suggesting that a lack of water might lead to a wee bit of colic. So 6 hours later and three visits later we had all drank enough to last us til tomorrow!

The hay we have at the moment is really wierd. Nice but inconsistent. Very odd. But tbh as long as we can keep eating it doesn't really matter. It's a big old full moon tonight so we are going to manifest some warm weather for the rest of the month to save TW's poor old red face!

shut down

Snow keeps falling, everywhere is pure white. Today the wind got going too, pure baltic. We managed to get 6 bales of hay out of TW today. I don't remember it ever being this cold, Brack-man says it's been a long time. All we can do is just eat hay and huddle together. When TW visited for the second time today I was stood with my bum to the wind asleep. TW says it looks like I am shutting down and just surviving. There's no spare energy for owt else. Me, Jez and Brack were remembering when we had hotel barn to go in when the weather was bad. That was lush. I reckon we need a new hotel barn but one that we can come and go as we please. Boblet drove TW both times today as the roads are apparently really bad. She's not sure what will happen tomorrow as we need water bringing up as the taps still frozen. She keeps saying it will be better soon but I'm not sure she believes it at the moment.