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Post by carol on Aug 7, 2005 13:01:38 GMT 1
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Post by Whisper on Aug 7, 2005 15:05:45 GMT 1
Jay, Hi, you have lovely photo's too! and is that a lamb lying by the fire?!!!!! It is indeed, we saw her lying in a farmers field when we were out riding one day and the crows had pecked her tail off. Saw the farmer who said she was paralysed and he was leaving her to die. Asked if we could take her home with us, which we did, got some vitamin supplements off the vet and splinted and massaged her legs and she recovered and was able to walk again.
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carolwilts
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Post by carolwilts on Aug 7, 2005 15:44:44 GMT 1
GROAN!!
Sitting here drinking a glass of wine with my left forefinger finger stuffed in an ice pack. Its sort of flattened......
Took Mara down to burbage to ride with someone I met last weekend at our first EGB ride (people are so helpful!) ... lovely ride.. about 10 miles round the wiltshire countryside and then back to their house.
Part of the reason to go was to practise loading. Mara loaded fine this morning, but had a little hissy fit about loading to come back. Lots of patience and clicker work and she was standing nicely in my trailer, so I went to shut the partition, and she d=ecided to launch herself out again.. thereby crushing my finger between the partition and the trailer.. NOT GOOD.... words that will be censored on here..... my finger sort of look flattened and odd shaped.
Ice pack and head between knees... fortunately I had my horsey first aid kit in the car so gulped down Mara's Arnica and aconite 1M and stopped myself from being sick.
Had to drive back cursing... but got back OK ...maybe the immediate arnica has worked.. my finger no longer looks flat, but blue and puffy.. and as I can bend the joints I guess i havent done any lasting injury. But IT HURTS!
SULK where is that bottle of wine?
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Post by Nikki Italy on Aug 7, 2005 16:42:51 GMT 1
Goodness, Carol, that sounds extremely painful, poor you Are you going to have it x-rayed? Find that bottle of wine! and other Carol, Rups and Naughty Tess look delightful together, sussing out the view, how sweet!
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Post by rosemaryhannah on Aug 7, 2005 21:03:48 GMT 1
Well, they won't do anything tonight - the swelling needs to go down a bit, but I really do thing (and I speak as a medi-phobe) that you need to get the finger LOOKED AT tomorrow.
Gosh, Jay, that WAs good of you - what a lovely thing to do!
Love Rups - but I can see that he is full of character.
Not much advance with anything today except drove both Mace and Jonsey - who despite having gone to the beach in hand, approached it, driven, tonight very up on his toes. I was making the most of having Duncan with me - tomorrow is my birthday and I don't expect to do anything horsey, as I'm treating the kids to lunch (sadly all of them being even poorer than me!) and then in the evening I'm eating the meal Duncan will cook, with wine along to it, and watching a DVD - I've joined up to one of the postal services, but not in time to get what I want - so it will be from the very limited selection at the local hire shop!
Tuesday wiull be show preparation, Wednesday show, and Thursday, sob, gulp, duncan goes - a fully fledged child who will only return for short periods as a guest. Gulp.
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Post by Ann NF on Aug 7, 2005 22:05:36 GMT 1
You should get that finger looked at Carol. Poor thing, it sounds AWFUL ! Fingers and toes are hell because of all the nerves in them. Such a pity after your lovely ten mile ride.
I love Rups and Tess. They are as I had imagined them somehow. They look as if they are planning something...?
Well done Jay for giving the lamb a chance. My son and friends had a lamb staying in their Bristol flat for a couple of days ( don`t ask...) after one of the vet students found it abandoned on the Welsh hills, took it to the nearest farmer who promptly gave it to her because he couldn`t be bothered to look after it. Lamb is now a well loved pet somewhere in Sussex and I think they sorted its papers out eventually :0)
Rosemary. I`m pleased you have had a lovely day with Duncan and that he will be home for your birthday. I know just how you feel about the sad changes in the way the grown up children come and go . Of course we want them to be independent and live well, but it is so hard to see them at home, as in the old days when they were children and then to see them leave yet again, to return to where the real "action" of their lives is taking place.
I took Ginger for a ride up onto the heather this afternoon. OH came too "just in case" but he is not an instinctively horsy person and in the end Ginger and I were not relying on him at all. Ginger was so happy and relaxed up there in the sunshine. From the moor above our village you can see Bournemouth in the distance and the Purbeck Hills far across the bay further west. To the south, across the treetops, you can see the curving hilltops on the Isle of Wight with their patchwork of green and gold fields. It is a beautiful spot. The heather is in bloom now . Darker, taller purples on the edges but the fields of light purple stretching on into the near distance and up the nearest hills. There are pony tracks through the heather and we keep to those. Woodlark and other ground nesting birds are hidden away in there somewhere.
When we came home I spent half an hour doing groundwork and garden walking with Button. He had a turquoise flappy towel on his back again today and was much calmer about it this time. He does love to do a bit of "work" so I am looking forward to doing lots of bombproofing training with him,but it has to be a bit at a time as life is VERY terrifying...! I think he needs that before we do regular walks out in hand as he is seriously worried by almost everything he meets when outside the garden gates. Both his late mother, Muffin, and his best friend Ginger, were/are strong characters who make all the decisions. Button therefore doesn`t have much confidence of his own just yet :0(
Have just realised I have missed the Coast programme tonight. I shall have to go for a walk by the sea tomorrow instead.
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Post by carol on Aug 8, 2005 6:48:40 GMT 1
Another early one, I've got a much earlier morning tomorrow as my friend's pony is getting transported over from Ireland and being dropped off at 5am. and we've got to be there to meet her. The lorry is too big to get down the little lanes to the yard, so we're going to walk her there, at least the roads will be quiet. It's been a nightmare for my friend, she left Ireland over two weeks ago, with a firm promise from the transporters that pony would be picked and brought over here the next day. Pony never turned up, she's spent two weeks on the phone chasing up the guy with the lorry, who at one point was apparently seen staggering out of a Dublin nightclub at 4am, hasten to add pony at this point was still in the orchard where she was left to be collected. She's better be on that lorry tomorrow !! Ann, your ride on Ginger sounds so idyllic, makes me think of "We rode to the sea", who wrote that? Was it a Pullen-Thompson? I'm sure I've got a sad battered copy somewhere. Carol in Wilts, big big OUCH!! I expect it's "severe bruising", as they always say at A and E, which is no consolation at all when you've got a finger the size of a sausage. Probably worth getting checked it out though, if you can face a wait at your local hospital. Hope it feels better today. Rosemary, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU !!!!! Hope you have lovely day...... Nikki, the website for dog fattening up recipes is www.lowchensaustralia.com/health , there's a rather intriguing recipe there for Australian Satin Balls,no, really, I kid you not.... OH took Timber for a long walk yesterday along the canal towpath, which happened to be crammed with people out for a stroll in the sun, and scared every one witless when Timber spotted another dog and let out a huge woof. According to OH you could have heard it 10 miles away, and parents were clutching small children to themselves and looking terrified..
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Post by LynnG on Aug 8, 2005 7:29:02 GMT 1
Here I come..galloping through the wakey wakey gate..just had to say..Timber is LOVELY. Oh you are so lucky..as is he!
Rups is a very handsome boy and Tess is adorable..they look so content and happy together.
Also the pics of the lamb..lovely and what a lovely happy ending..also the xc pics are great!
Right galloping back to scary day now!!
LynnG x
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Post by Ann NF on Aug 8, 2005 10:17:03 GMT 1
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROSEMARY HANNAH !!
Annxx
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Post by carolwilts on Aug 8, 2005 17:59:28 GMT 1
You see my picture to the left with hand held up?
Hmmm thats how I am sitting now. My finger carried on swelling up and going blue. I had my horse back person here this morning and as well as equine touch he does mctimoney chiropracty. He had a quick look at my finger and pronounced it probably broken. SO, very reluctantly I trotted off to casulty (5th time associated with Mara!)
Indeed- broken finger... the broken bit has displaced itself to lie parallel to the original bit. Hmmmm. Novice doctor had a go at relocating it, but with no success, and then I got the senior bod. Only consolation.. he was tall, black and very handsome as well as very pleasant. He can apply traction to me any day!! He had a go at relocating my finger too. And we agreed that if it didnt work it was "tough "nuts"" as they would not operate for such a thing, as it wasnt involving the joint. NOw the anaesthtic has worn off its much sorer than it was before.... and my finger looks like a very badly stuffed going -off sausage.
I have opened another bottle of wine.......
Carol- your beautiful Timber looks very wolf like (if he was grey he certainly would). No wonder the general population looked a little worried when he woofed...I think he is VERY handsome....
Just realised I can't read beyond the first page of wakey wakey threads whilst posting a reply so I'm going to post this section and go back and read ( Oh and replenish my wine glass. Maybe i would make a good companion to Carol's best man!)
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Post by carolwilts on Aug 8, 2005 18:02:30 GMT 1
OY!!!!
Not only does this programme censor words such as Offa's dyke, but it actually replaces words.
I did not type "tough nuts" but "tough sh**" (there I will fool it hopefully). There is a little bit of me that now wants to see what it replaces other words with......
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Post by carolwilts on Aug 8, 2005 18:18:09 GMT 1
Happy Birthday to you rosemary....
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Post by carol on Aug 8, 2005 18:54:52 GMT 1
Carol in Wilts.....oh PLEASE come and be a companion to Best Man!!!!! It would take your mind off of your finger, you could come and help diminish the Lager Mountain in our living room.....
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Post by aberlemno on Aug 8, 2005 19:52:51 GMT 1
Hi everyone, great to see you all so cheerful. My family are taking up every spare moment right now - the weather was so nice today, we decided to have a serendipitous outing to the beach (Pendine again) and spent a relaxing couple of hours down there. The tide was WAY out, so even when I looked hard, I still couldn't see my 3 and D's friend Joe, so couldn't worry that they were too far out etc, and relaxed with a good book instead. The downside of this was that when I got home I still hadn't mucked out, so I've only just sat down to relax, and have persuaded (or at least, I HOPE I have) G to cook us a quick Spicy Tikka Masala with a cheat's ready-made sauce. I can't smell anything cooking because I've just brought in my home-grown Garlic from the garden and so my nostrils are contaminated! Just wait until OH smells the garlic in the kitchen - it smells like an Italian garlic merchant's right now!
Quick personals, starting with the birthday girl first. ROSEMARY - hope you are sharing our weather, and enjoying your birthday. I trust the meal with your offspring was enjoyable, even though you were in the chair when it came to passing round the hat at the end.
Since you had to work, you will have to award yourself a happy UNbirthday later in the week and enjoy yourself all over again, doing something special you wouldn't normally get to do.
What DVD did you get to watch in the end?
Carol in Wilts - I hope your poorly broken finger is on the mend again soon, but I bet it needs a good glug of that wine to anaesthetise the pain tonight. OUCH. You won't be doing one-finger typing with THAT pinky for a while will you? Are you able to ride, drive etc?
Carol - loved the photo of Tess and Rups (he is similar to Fahly, and like him doesn't have an exaggerated dish either. Who's he by?) I will look at Timber's photo in a moment but if I try and look now I shall lose all this posting.
I have "We Rode to the Sea" - was it Diana? Pullein-Thomson? It was definitely one of them anyway. We nearly rode to the sea when we were 13 and had an all-day ride in the New Forest from a stables at Fair Oak (Mrs Awde it was - looked about 22 but had 6 kids!) Unfortunately, we didn't start off near enough to the sea, so just had a lovely Forest ride instead . . .
Did the pony arrive safely after all that? I had a very vivid mental image of the transporter reeling out of the pub and falling in a ditch, having the drink taken . . .
Ann NF - your beautiful description of the Forest tugged at my heart strings. I always miss it so much when the heather is in bloom. It reminds me of outings with my mum and dad when I was little. I can almost smell the hot leather car seats of our Triumph Mayflower. I would be sat out there waiting for at least two hours before mum and dad were ready to leave! As I know the bit you are describing too, it makes it all the more clear in my mind's eye.
Button is getting very brave bless him. It's good that he enjoys learning too.
You mentioned Worth Matravers and the strip lynchetts the other day. I know it well - my friend Gay and I used to start the New Year off with a walk from the Square and Compass, and it has also been the scene of many a happy butterfly walk down to the Tilly Whim Caves and Dancing Ledges. Many, many happy memories, and I have made sure that I have taken the children there too, and they love it as much as me. I always wanted to live in that lovely old cottage in the middle of the fields just above the quarries, but it was for sale a few years back and the last time I passed it appeared to have been "done up". That spoilt it for me.
I'll post this and go and have a look at Timber now.
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Post by aberlemno on Aug 8, 2005 19:58:07 GMT 1
Carol - what a lovely boy he is. I can tell he will be a very loyal dog to you. Hope you can find the right balance of diet for him soon. Barney is currently working his way through half a rather large but sadly barren sow a neighbour took to the abbatoir recently. He couldn't fit all of her in his freezer, so we got a large black bin liner full of fat pig, which I am having to boil up regularly. It smells disgusting, but Barney loves it. J
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