carolwilts
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Post by carolwilts on Aug 5, 2005 10:42:36 GMT 1
Here's a new wakey wakey thread!
Don't know why we have wakey wakey 5 below, as we were on 21! I will email admin and see if they can put up 21 instead.....
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Post by rosemaryhannah on Aug 5, 2005 12:18:22 GMT 1
Well, I've made it across as well! I don't have any of my pictures on the web, which I need to do before getting myself an avatar - other boards I am on let you download one form your own 'puter, which is easier. Still I will find out how to use photobucket or similar. I can use HTML so it cannot be actually impossible, can it?
Not much to report here - my diet is not going well. I spent the morning in town finding out that the dentist has to wait till my crowns actually come out before re-attaching them, and I have havered so much over birthday presents that now not only do I not know what I want but I have confuddled my entire family. My origional idea was a side saddle riding lesson, but if I have to drive there it will cost more than the lesson (£25 to get car and me to mainland of course) However I still rather fancy this. I think it might help me decide if I want to go that path with Jacob - who does not object in principle as I've tried him in the yard that way with my ordinary saddle. The other thing I fancy is some nice wooden beads and earings to go with my outfit for Ruth's wedding - I got the most lovely wooden buttons from the special shop in Cardiff in the spring. But of course such things cannot be got on the island, so I would need to wait till children were on the mainland to shop.
Really, just writing for the sake of getting the thread up and running!
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Post by Ann NF on Aug 5, 2005 12:43:09 GMT 1
Just logging on to see if it works! The side saddle lesson sounds wonderful Rosemary. How far would you have to travel on the mainland? I have similar ideas about an assessment lesson with a Classical Riding instructor near Winchester. It is not SO far away but a bit of an effort. I WILL do it though.
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Post by aberlemno on Aug 5, 2005 13:33:45 GMT 1
Ha! I'm here too. This is fine - I was worried that the whole format would be so different and we would lose sight of everyone else's postings when writing our own! Haven't ridden yet as had to go into town this morning (Farmers' Market).
I love the sound of the Side Saddle lesson Rosemary. At the Hursley Pony Club Camp one year, we had a Side Saddle demonstration with Betty Skelton, who must have been in her 80's then, but a game old bird. She was tiny too - like a little Wren. She made it all look SO EASY . . . Hmmm! She soon had a likely horse tacked up - he was only 5, so she didn't put the balance strap on tight, but he really wasn't at all bothered and his owner was over the moon.
Beautiful, beautiful poetry - who is it by?
Ann NF - this is my lunch-time treat - I'm sat here eating my ploughman's in between typing. It's a bit blowy out so I should imagine Himself might be a bit lively in a moment. I think we shall go up the hill, which is always his favourite ride, and see how he does.
Carol - I doubt I'll ever get a photo on here as I'm a computer-degenerate! I think the W.W. 5 must be part of the archive of W.W. threads? HOpe so anyway.
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Post by carol on Aug 5, 2005 14:35:40 GMT 1
I managed to make the jump across as well, just put my legs on, wrapped a bit of mane round my fingers, shut my eyes and woooooosh, here I am cantering safely away. Marvellous!!!
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Post by aberlemno on Aug 5, 2005 20:15:25 GMT 1
Why did no-one ever tell me what it was like to have teenagers? And I thought having 3 under five was bad enough! Oh dear, it's like living in a war zone . . .
Well, Fahly and I had a lovely ride out today - sunny and breezy, but saw virtually no traffic at all until we heard something BIG coming towards us as we were walking quietly down the hill towards home. BIG wasn't in it - imagine a blue tractor the size of a small bungalow (I jest NOT) towing a yellow JCB on caterpillar tracks on a low-loader behind it. Fahly shut his eyes. I shut mine. We both quaked against the hedge as it edged very considerately past. Then blow me, if it didn't round the corner and block the road to unload. He backed up for me though so we could go past, and then down the hill again, we nearly got squashed flat by next door's big yellow tractor streaking along - his idea of slowing down following my frantic hand signals was not MY idea of slowing down. Just as well we managed to get into the pull-in. Riding along single track roads does have its downside.
I think he will be lame tomorrow though, as he came thundering down when I called him at tea-time, stopped dead, suddenly realised that the hose was by his back feet and leapt vertically backwards and sideways and has managed to catch his inner cannon bone with his shoe, so has been washed and purple sprayed now.
OK - you will probably think I am going completely bloomin' bonkers now - but my computer has meowed at me three times already tonight - I am NOT joking. WHY is it meowing? Has G brought one of her ghosts home with her and it's taken up residence in my computer and is doing animal impressions? Oh Lordy . . .
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Post by carol on Aug 5, 2005 20:57:12 GMT 1
Jenny, ours used to meow when some one signed on MSN, or a new message came in on Outlook. I nearly fell off the chair when it first happened, and it sent my dog into orbit. It's stopped now because OH did something clever with the 'putor....I quite miss it .
That combination of HUGE vehicles sounds awful, well done for staying cool!! And well done Fahly for staying put when it edged by, any of mine would have been in the county. Hope he's not lame. Trotted Rups up again this evening, I'd say he's now 95% sound, and a lot thinner than he was last week too, although he's never going to actually THIN, just a couple of girth sizes smaller. Which is how I feel at the moment after a combination of a morning poo-picking, and an afternoon metal detecting on my fields. Wonder if I'll ever be a size 12 again?? Good finds today, two more Roman coins, according to my metal detecting neighbour one is an Augustus and the other a Constantine, and a really exquisite gold charm shaped like a roman pitcher surrounded with laurel leaves, on a little chain. It might be a cloak clasp.
Dogs. My nutty friend with all her menagerie and children has moved back from Ireland, her pony is arriving at my place tomorrow morning. She's got a house sorted out, but has managed to irritate the neighbours beyond belief already and mostly to do with her dog, Timber. Being used to the wilds of Ireland, he roams the small estate she's living on, jumping into gardens and ending up in peopl'e kitchens, and has already caused about five near traffic accidents on the local main road. She's decided to get rid of him. He's coming to live with us for a week's trial period. We absolutely adore him, he's an enormous 1 year old three-quarters Inuit (like a wolf) a quarter German Shepherd dog. He's already the size of a full grown GS, white with grey splodges and wolf type mask. Eats paddling pools and sofas for breakfast. Howls pathetically if left alone for more than 10 seconds. Very affectionate. Very intelligent. Will we regret it? Probably !! Will we keep him forever? Definately!!
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Post by Ann NF on Aug 5, 2005 23:08:25 GMT 1
What a strange day this has been on the new DG. I am amazed at how many people bother to read WW and Scary Day. Scary indeed . I`m also amused by strange adverts in German ( will have to keep dictionary by computer) and ads for Dressage Horses to Suit my Needs and my Pocket, which I doubt very much LOL! I`ve just walked down the lane to post a letter and been followed back by two old grey mares who are special friends. They don`t forget their winter rations and often latch on to me and the dog if we are on the way home. I also saw Bobbin and Ginger`s big sister tonight. We had a mutual groom over the front gate. A bay mare who became extremely poor and thin after the winter. She had her first foal last year and has taken a year to recover, but thankfully she is sleek, glossy and well covered now. I have a water tub outside the gate in dry weather as it is a long way to the nearest pools in the valley. The Forest is full of good grass and vegetation and some of the ponies look almost too well. Carol - Rupert sounds to be improving. Did you phone the Laminitis Trust about steroid induced laminitis? Timber the "wolf" sounds beautiful, but a bit of a Project Dog?!
Fingers crossed that Fahly won`t be lame in the morning.
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Post by Nikki Italy on Aug 6, 2005 4:59:35 GMT 1
Well, I can't believe what I did yesterday on the Horse Chat bit, trying to be too cocky by half starting my own Wakey thread and then cocking it up big time!! I still don't know what happened, but as I was merrily clicking away on all these Smilie thingies it obviously just kept repeating and repeating! Ha, it'll show ME not to think I know ALL ABOUT NEW SITES So, when it says at the top of my 'puter, NikkiItaly 1 message, 1 new, what does that mean, and where do I go to go and get it if at all? (see what I mean? pathetic!!) Rosemary, I think the idea of having a Side-saddle lesson is excellent and what a chance. I can quite appreciate the problem of the driving costing more than the lesson itself, but it'll be worth it all I am sure, what an opportunity! As for wooden buttons, there's the most fantastic shop in Siena, about the size of my kitchen, whose walls are so high it gives you a crick just looking up into the gods of this beautifully lined room with pull-out shelves on which are laid out the most exquisit buttons of all different shapes, sizes, colours and materials...I can't tell you what an experience it is to go in there, but I am sorry I can't help you over this one! Ann, how sweet to be followed on your walk! Does that happen often? I wonder whether the Forest ponies suffer from foot-rot of some kind in the wet, hard months, with all the squelchy, peaty bogs they flounder around it...just thinking of my Lona, whether her feet are holding up Although, right now it will be hard and rocky, when she comes down in late November, the plains will already be soaking. I am glad we all 'made it over' safely, but where is Hazel? By for now, oh, by the way, how can I go about deleting that awful Wakey 22 on the Horse Chat place?!! And, how DOES one use the Smilies, and how did you, Rosemary, put that lovely bit of poetry on, and Carol your photo, oh, so many questions, from a complete dolt!
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Post by Nikki Italy on Aug 6, 2005 5:03:14 GMT 1
Gosh, do you think this site is 'self-moderating' or something, as those 2 words I put in at the beginning might have been a bit 'risque' or something, what do you think? From a completely 'flumaxed' person..
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Post by carolwilts on Aug 6, 2005 7:43:20 GMT 1
Nikki: the 1 message, 1 new means someone has sent you a private message. If you click on the "1 message" you will get a separate board for your own personal/private messages! This board seems to be the same as another I am on- it will recognised risque words and replace them with symbols. The endurance GB board does this which is unfortunate for the regional group on the England/wales border.. Offa's Dyke (see if that is censored on here!) Not much to report from here - went on one of my favourite rides up to the ridgeway and over to Ashdown house. I'm going to try to see if i can fathom out how to post photos.. so here's a picture of the route from my village to the ridgeway. The valley is lovely - it is full of medaeival (sp?) or possibly celtic "strip Lynchets" which you can just see to the right of the clump of trees. then when I get up to the ridgeway i can follow a grassy track straight across and up to the top of the downs where the view go on for miles.. here's a view of the track which continues largely like this down to the band of trees in the middle distance. Ashdown house isa 17th C dutch style chateau which i think i've mentioned before.. and is the very small white blob in the band of trees in this picture. The route goes through the ashdown house estate (the clump of red buildings to the right and then up through the wood where right up the middle- cutting the wood into two is this amazing grassy ride which is always mown. its about a mile long and runs to the house (which is virtually invisible as a small blob at the end in this photo). the The route then goes up another grass track back to the ridgeway and along that for about 3 or 4 miles back home. here goes.. will it work?
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Post by aberlemno on Aug 6, 2005 7:55:24 GMT 1
It works by making me SICK with envy Carol Wilts. FABULOUS riding you have. Mind you, I have views to kill for, and the quietest of roads - so long as people aren't tractor racing - so I mustn't complain. I intend to go and explore a trackway (on foot) today, which I have long wanted to ride. It goes up a steep hillside for about a mile or so, linking our valley with the ridge. Tam and I will walk DOWN it. I want to see if it is overgrown or negotiable, and then I intend to box Fahly up to the start of it and ride home along it when his leg is better. (Very puffy this morning, so I'm off to turn him out any minute).
We also intend to take in a local auction this morning - haven't been for about two years, in which time the bottom has apparently fallen out of the antiques trade - though you wouldn't know it to see the prices some folk put on really quite junky stuff (furniture especially) at the local Antiques bazaar. We have a couple of pieces of big Victorian furniture to sell, and I would be gutted to find them worth next to nothing again.
Back later.
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Post by carolwilts on Aug 6, 2005 8:01:27 GMT 1
It worked!! OK.... technical bits..... to add an "avatar" - the picture under your name - click on "profile" on the top tool bar and then when your profile comes up you will see in the heading "members Bio- modify profile - bookmarks". click on "modify profile" and then you will have a page with lots of options to add pics, signatures etc.. have a play! You have to put your pics on a web site to link to them ..I use photobucket which is free, and has a huge advantage of giving you all the correct info to post pictures in the main body of the text. If you want to give yourself an avatar (The pic to the left is the "avatar") then post a pic no bigger than 100 x 100 pixels onto photbucket, and then just copy the URL in full into the box In the "modify profile" list which says "avatar URL". If your picture is not symettrical you have to play with the height and width settings to get it back to what its supposed to look like. You will see in photobucket that your pictures have three different things written underneath them.. URL, TAG and IMG. To post a picture into the main text, just copy the whole string in the IMG box and paste it into the text. i think to insert a smiley you just click on the appropriate button above the box on the post reply form.. I'll just have a go i think you can use the other buttons to change colours and fonts etc, but i havent played with them. if you want to read past posts whilst replying they are all below the post reply box if you scroll down.... Thats what I have found out so far. Can you tell I didnt do much work yesterday! OH was potting so I played with the DG! Edited to add.. Oh and when you have posted your reply and then want to add something, just click the "modify" button to the top right of your post. You can also "quote" other people's posts.... Oh and I have just noticed there is also a delete button so i assume you can delete posts completley (Nikki - try it with your other post?) i won't try with this one
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Post by Yann on Aug 6, 2005 9:12:35 GMT 1
I can't complain either Carolwilts, but those pictures are absolutely fantastic, what brilliant riding you have!
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Post by rosemaryhannah on Aug 6, 2005 11:33:26 GMT 1
Oh, I agree, sick with envy! Mind you I have quiet roads in the non-tourist season (busy in season during the middle of the day) and there is a couple of miles of beach.
Well, took Macey out today and what a star he was. Apart from being unfit you wwould think he had never been off, never been in the accidnet - he was just so good. Loads of scarey stuff, from potholes to make the cart jolt, down to loads os bonfire smoke, and he never twitched an eyelid - except at one stone by the road, which apparently was where the tiger was lurking. so so pleased with him. We went for a nice steady trot rather than speed, and he pretty much kept it up. Arrived back tried, calm, happy. So proud of him!
Hoping to drive Jonesy this evening - the roads not much fun in the middle of the day. Not that Jonsey minds traffic but it is a bit boring for us!
Geroge has persuaded me into a new bed for him - on the grounds that when he leaves home I can use it, and it is ture he needed on and mine is a total disgrace. The beadstead is a very basic unasembled pine one, and has come, so I want to get a wood dye or stain. I would really like to get a nice Arts and Crafts green, or failing that, blue, but am not sure such are available locally. I'm off to try my luck.
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