You know how I like to cheer you up

[Lorraine L]

Well today was quite amusing . Take no notice that it was the 13th

It's not often that I treat myself to a haircut, but lady was good enough to fit me in at 5.15 today.

All afternoon at work, I kept thinking....as long as I can keep relatively clean doing Sunny, I should be able to get everything done with the journey in the available 45 mins.

So: arrive 4.05.. Sunny happily mooching in paddock. 4.15 eating his dinner in paddock while I get mucked out. 4.30 a little bit tricky trying to avoid the wet and stinky water while I hang and rinse the hay ( but still looking ok ) manage to have the hosepipe do a snake charm on me and into my face..... But, hey, it's only water and I am still presentable.

4.40 Bring sunny into stable and switch rugs....ok, I am a bit dusty from the day rug.
4.45 pick feet and decide not to do the trek to empty the wheelbarrow ( just in case )
4.50 quick chat with sunny and do a quick dash to make up the morning feed, and I am ready to grab the car keys and off.....

My sister calls out to me ( who is suffering from sciatica ) "Lorraine, can you just top up the girls field water with just 1/2 bucket "? ... Er...yes ok, but gotta dash straight after.

By now its pitch black. I open the field gate and try to walk straight towards the trough. Deep, deep mud. Then, horror strikes as my left boot gets stuck in the mud and I try to save either the water in the bucket, or my footing. Disaster as my right foot stops deep down as well and I manage this really dramatic ' Lean ' that Michael Jackson would have been proud of. ;D. Still hanging onto the bucket, gravity took over, and in I went Face first.

It was pathetic. I was laying there in the dark muddy field, with a mouthful of slop muttering " I only wanted to get my haircut " .....what a plonker.

[ladyndibs]

I'm so sorry but I really laughed, far better than when I slipped in the mud and went backside first in a huge water bucket in the middle of winter, it had to be huge to fit my behind in but someone somewhere loved me that day, it was the bucket with very little water in and I came out dry ;D

Are you pleased with your haircut?

[Vanessa Witchy Weild]

Love it Lorraine! have you ever tried the one where you are walking in very deep mud and yes you have those damn wellies on, you go to take a step and there you are with one leg waving around doing a Hokey Cokey that anyone would be proud of.
Question do you
1) take a good aim and try and get offending leg back in wellie?
2) Except the inevitable?
3) hope no one up the yard is looking?

I hope your hairdresser had a good sense of humour LOL..............

[mrsfields]

oh god! that is typical!! poor you!! (am howling here!!)

i hate it when wellies get stuck in mud - that happened to me the other day - i was out on the muddy track with the buckets, calling the ponies in for their evening feed, and they decided to come running full pelt! i thought uh oh - i'm going to get splattered, and tried to run/stagger thru ankle deep mud with feed buckets, with cantering ponies in the distance but getting closer and closer - then i left a welly behind but was moving so fast i put my socked foot down in squelchy wet mud but managed to grab onto the fence so i didn't fall - it was horrible, i wanted to cry lol! had to act in a flash as the hungry ponies were getting closer, and so i decided it would be best to whip off my wet muddy sock and put my bare foot back in my welly - and legged it over to the barn just in time before the lads came charging in... then the next day, after the morning feed, i mooched back up the track with the boys, with Reggie walking lovely and mellow beside me, and i literally got stuck again, both feet this time, and keeled over at Reggie's feet! bless him, he stopped and stood stock still and nudged me with his long nose looking down at me as if to say "what you doing down there?" - got up and was so put out i texted the hub to tell him i'd fallen over in the mud lol - the things we have to go thru eh!

[Lorraine L]

Well I am glad that I am not the only one to suffer from the blasted mud ! I feel for each of you with the indignity of ' that look ' !

What actually made it worse was arriving at the hairdresser who said ' oh Lorraine, ...are you ok,where have you been "?

I was completely thrown because I hadn't even told the story yet. My sister had thrown some spare clothes at me before I left and I had managed to hurriedly wash and, I thought, got cleaned up.

I looked in the hairdressers mirrors for tell tale signs of the incident, but there was nothing that I could see.
Eventually I was so intrigued that I said to her " yes, why " ?
"Oh " she said. " I just wondered why you were dressed up all girlie ..... I thought you had been somewhere ".
Well, if that didn't add insult to injury, nothing would !
Yes, my hair cut was great thank you and I am laughing about it all now x

[jen1]

ha ha, poor you, so did you get your hair do or what, i hade mine done today, huge triumph as i dont get mine done much either

[Lorraine L]

Yes I did thanks Jen. Did you get yours done because you are the owner of famous feed bag horses now !xx

[mandal]

I'm afraid I laughed but have been there 'bog snorkling' as they call it here, myself. ;D Hope you're pleased with your hair btw.

[Lorraine L]

Lol Mandal, I love the Bog Snorkelling !! Yes hair turned out fine thank you. It made me chuckle tonight when I got back to my sisters tonight and there was a little bag of clean laundry all waiting for me to collect. Hope her siatica improves soon and she doesn't ask any other favours !?

[bertie666]

hahahahahahahah that made me giggle

I bog snorkelled in style last year - had to fetch the cows in at one of the farms I worked at, one decided to nip round and sod off back to the field, I went marching after it really not best amused as I was late starting and was going out etc (its always when we are time pressured!!!)

Got about 5 steps in and one leg vanished to above the knee I was going at such speed I couldnt stop quickly enough, that leg came out of the welly and went down in knee deep mud my top half kept going so I got my hands down and ended up doing a handstand frantically trying to keep my face out o f the liquid slurry/mud!

Did the walk of shame back across the yard where all the lads were howling at me, had slurry in my hair, nails and up yo both knees. Emptied my wellies out and hosed them out and milking in running shorts I had in the back of the car!!! Have never lived that down

[Kelly Marks]

LOL I remember once winning a race on a wet day and hurriedly getting ready to drink champagne with the owners straight afterwards. It was only that evening and looked and saw my ears were seeminlgy packed with mud - yuk!

[Lulu]

mrsfield, I thought you were going to tell me that when you got stuck in mud and grabbed the fence to steady yourself, and then reveal it was an electric fence, that would be funnier LOL I try not to let the mud get too bad, if it gets bad, I switch them over to different paddock or fence off muddy spots, so I don't end up sinking in the quagmoires

[mrsfields]

Lulu, it was an electric fence and i was soooo relieved i'd actually turned the box off hahaha ;D (i usually turn it off when i go on track to check/feed the lads just in case i need to adjust any fencing that's come loose, but now it's so muddy and slippy, i switch it off for personal safety reasons too!! LOL)

[kafee]

Glad I'm not the only one to literally fall foul of this weather.

I'm strip grazing mine, (there's a busy public footpath through the field and I've found it's the only way to be in some sort of control of how much the ponies get to eat, even now that the fences have now stopped being moved to give them more).

There is a wide dip running down the field next to the hedge, which I walk across to move the fence every night. It's not defined enough to call it a ditch, it has only an inch or two of water in it, and the bottom is fairly firm. During the week, in the dark, I did this as usual, but on the way back I suddenly went in up to my knee! It was a bit of a shock, but fortunately I was wearing so much leg wear, leggings under jeans, no water went down my boot. It's never happened before, I can only think I'd stepped into a rabbit hole! I've been more cautious since and only stepped where there are plants growing.