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Post by rosemaryhannah on Aug 24, 2005 8:56:35 GMT 1
Of my wallet there is neither sign nor signal, hide nor hair. I know I had it in my hand at 8.15 on Monday morning to give George his school lunch money for the week. I was standing in the passage between the hall and the kitchen. Then I came in here, and went on the computer for a few moments, and then up to my bedroom. I know I did not have it in my pocket when I left the house at 9am to drive to my first customer (because I looked for it, but decided that going back would make me a little late, and I could manage without) I have tried everywhere. In the laundry basket, in the freezer (where I once found it!), in the shower room (where I expected it to be) in the utility room (heaven help me if I slipped it into the tool box) In the rabbit’s pen – I know I had got her food and water that morning, perhaps before perhaps after) You name it, I tried it. I nearly dismantled my bedroom, etc etc. Now, I can do no more. I am waiting and hoping – I’ll give it till Monday and start cancelling cards, etc. Carol you really do know some beautiful and stunning poetry. I have really not grown my poetry tastes at all in the last thirty years – I think that is perhaps one of the things I now need to see to. Love and love the photo of Mara … Hazel, I’m glad to hear the Alpha A hint – Jacob’s feet have not improved the way I had hoped. They are better, but not as I would hope for. I'm guted you lost that wonderful property. I really am. So much in society is so unfair, really wasteful. I know however, Cluttons think big country property sells as well without land these day - people want it for weekends, etc. That is why, even if it were wise, there is no chance of getting somewhere with a smaller house but land on the island - they sell all the Bute property, and it never has as much as an acre. Oh Kofi, what a bad boy he is! I’d be tempted to leave his shoes on, really I would, and see if treating them does not bring about an improvement. I really think the wind is too high at the moment for riding and driving, it is really grim. The forecast is for unbroken sun. We have a totally grey sky, high winds and driving rain. I’ll see if it improves. At the moment it is still difficult to ride n the roads in the middle of the day – ceaseless cars. Once we get to September, that will change and will have total peace in the days. Jacob was very very edgy when I took him down the lane last night – he was right, for half way down there was an almighty crack of thunder, and as soon as we turned round to come home, he relaxed totally. He plainly did NOT want to be heading into a thunderstorm. We both got soaked and I thanked heaven for a synthetic saddle and bridle – I wonder Jude if you might not be better with a little exercise cart for your wee lass? It does let you take up a passenger when you have the chance, and people do enjoy it. It would also be a lot cheaper – new exercise carts come in at about 300-400 delivered. Harness – I am VERY pleased with my Libby’s made to measure. Let’s see if I can find a photo I like! Actually, the cart does not tip back as it appears to do in the picture. Lad is Kenneth, D's partner, and I fear you can see how untidy my yard is.
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Post by Ann forgot to log in on Aug 24, 2005 11:56:55 GMT 1
Rosemary -what lovely photos of you and Kenneth with Jonesy in his exercise cart. Driving along a deserted lane in the sunshine looks idyllic!
I do hope that the wallet has turned up this morning. Such a horrible panicky feeling when you have to keep returning and looking yet again in the most unlikely places. I`m sure we have all "been there" and can sympathise.
Shall we begin WW24 soon?
I had a very good day at the Kay Humphries saddle course yesterday. Sarah, Patty and I car shared and were at Lynn Chapman`s farm near Winchester early, but we were made welcome with a cup of tea out in the sun . What a beautiful farmhouse and yard it is. Very old thatched barns, tiled barns, a traditional enclosed farmyard and a large Georgian (I think) house that seemed both grand and warm and homely at the same time. Good facilities for the horses and lush meadows climbing up the hills around the farmstead. All around, that flinted architecture where huge flints from the chalk land have been gathered together to build walls.
In the morning, Kay spoke to us about her life in the world of saddlery, things that have changed and not always for the better, and what we should be looking for in a saddle. Good discussions about the pros and cons of the huge range of saddles now available and a chance to see inner workings of the best and the worst. In the afternoon we did some practical saddle fitting on three very patient horses!
It was good to see lots of IH and DG people there. We had a superb lunch out on the grass . The drive home was in the gridlock rush hour of the M3 and M27 so not so pleasant, but we had had a lovely day and were soon back checking the ponies at Sarah`s before coming home here to pick up her van.
We should be having a Ginger training session today and we should be doing a long horse/ bike ride to take Sarah`s horse Petra home today, but we too have driving rain and gusting winds, so I can`t see it happening until tomorrow or Friday. Typical British summer weather - hot sunshine and blue skies one day followed by torrents and rattling roof tiles the next.
I must go and catch up with home economy after several days outside and totally ignoring dog hair on the carpets...... Ben the visiting collie returns this afternoon for a short holiday so the cats and their waywards claws will be confined to the games room for a while. They settle perfectly well in there and are happy to sleep most of the time anyway, so long as they have regular visits and plenty of food.
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Post by rosemaryhannah on Aug 24, 2005 22:19:19 GMT 1
I've found my wallet! - oh, fully ten mins ago! It was in the shower room all the time, it was inside the portable gas fire next to the canister - perfectly intact. Huge, huge relief. It must have pinged out of my pocket. Great pity it did not turn up before the ECG - after waiting for an hour I fear the results will register total panic!
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Post by kofihorse on Aug 24, 2005 22:26:06 GMT 1
I'm just posting a line or two to see if I have been able to follow Carol's instructions re avatar............
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Post by kofihorse on Aug 24, 2005 22:26:36 GMT 1
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Post by kofihorse on Aug 24, 2005 22:33:07 GMT 1
...much grinding of teeth and yanking of hair going on here. Can't even follow simple instructions and am VERY cross with myself. Carol, please forgive me for being such a fool but I can't get photobucket and IHDG to be both open simultaneously as windows. Every time I try to minimise one and call up the other,the first one disappears. Is ther a special way of doing it with Internet pages? I can do it when just using Word or whatever. But I therefore can't copy and paste, can I?
I'll give it another try.
Just put your lives on hold, everyone, ha ha ha.......
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Post by kofihorse on Aug 24, 2005 22:36:01 GMT 1
If this doesn't work, I'm off to bed in a huff - which everyone knows is a small, two wheeled vehicle........
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Post by kofihorse on Aug 24, 2005 22:37:54 GMT 1
Omigod, it worked!!! More coming up!!!
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Post by rosemaryhannah on Aug 24, 2005 23:14:48 GMT 1
As you now realise, when you copy, what you copy does onto your clip board, which any of your programmes can access. so you don't need both windows open at once. Photobucket very kindly has the instructions you need in more than one 'language' for different places!
Lovely lovely pictures!
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Post by Ann NF on Aug 24, 2005 23:46:49 GMT 1
Oh, isn`t Kofi beautiful, and don`t you look SO happy on him? Lovely photos!
Rosemary, I am SO pleased about your dratted wallet. I wonder how many times you had walked past or rummaged near to it before you found it? Now you can go for your ECG in a calm, collected manner and not have agitated palpitations !
It has poured with rain all day so Petra, Sarah`s horse, is still with us until tomorrow. We also have visiting collie dog Ben settling in . He`s flat out on the rug alongside our two BC`s, one of whom is his uncle.
I got a lot done today and the kitchen floor has had a birthday......
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Post by hazelhorse on Aug 25, 2005 8:34:26 GMT 1
Kofi is absolutely stunning, the pair of you look so happy, really enjoying life. ;D I souldn't worry about not following computer instructions, I struggle with the basis, and give up on new stuff at least twice, beofre finding that it was actually really simple- like me!LOL Kirsten despairs when she sees me struggling with word, when I am trying to produce special effects, but I persevere and I think I am getting better. We are having an unhorsey week this week, and home economy is getting a look in, with reluctance though. Rhona is learning to ride her bike without stabilisers, so it is much more fun running round the garden with her than cleaning windows! She has almost cracked it, and we have only had two tumbles large enough to warrant tears so far. She hopes that by the time she can show OH tomorrow she will be able to do a full circuit of the garden. We have all told him she is finding it really hard and he should just sound encouraging when she manages to get both feet on the pedals! Cruel, but the girls think it is great to tease him. Rosemary, so glad you have found your wallet, I can almost feel the sigh of released tension here.
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Post by rosemaryhannah on Aug 25, 2005 8:34:45 GMT 1
Sadly I went for my ECG before it turned up - blooming annoying, as my pulse rate is right down this morning. I now have three weeks before I can get to my gp! I presume he is a popular one. I fear that there are one of two I don't like to go to - not personal bad experiences, but having had trusted friends having had really bad experiences. I do understand they are under great pressure, and I don't like to bother them (wouldn't be going now if I hadn't had to!) but for a rather nervous person, hearing of them shouting out nice polite people really really puts me off.
I had searched that area especially carefully, and even looked in the gas fire before, but did not find it.
They are wonderful pictures, really they are. He and you look the real biz, Kofi!
I'd like to hear more of the saddle fitting/tack day. I wish I lived near enough to do such things without a day travelling before and after.
I've been getting Jacob out, and he has recovered from his over hyped up response to a two week holiday, thank goodness. I'm getting worried aobut finishing my suit. I've had so many distractions.
I have been pondering how on earth I will cope if my birds are ordered under cover. It would be necessary to have a really big cull - there are too many to go comfortably into the only barn I have available. I can't help thinking I would be more at risk form all the birds in the garden.
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Post by kofihorse on Aug 25, 2005 11:15:21 GMT 1
Thank you for all the nice comments about Kofi - he is the love of my life and his arrival 5 years ago was what got me out of the pit of depression I'd been in for quite a while and back into the human race. He is what I get up for in the mornings and what makes everything worth while. The photos are professional ones (like carol and Mara's - lovely, by the way carol,I'm only smiling because we saw the photographer in time - usually I'm scowling, swearing or smoking a fag)(oops, that'll be censored out and replaced with something PC) and I have them framed and up on the wall to remind me that all the hassle and heartache are worth it for those few hours when we are together,up in the hills or on the beach,and life is sweet.
On a lighter note, as my mum says, you gotta look the part even if you're not actually achieving much in terms of competition!!
re the sheep foot rot stuff and Virkon - can you use them on a shod horse? If so, how long and how often would I soak his feet? I have used CleanTrax in the past,successfully,for his frogs and associated contraction but that can only be used on unshod feet.
rosemary hannah - you have no idea how often I lose stuff, it is the single most frustrating bit of life. Often,backtracking (once I've calmed down) produces the offending article but if it has gone into an alternative dimension (like down the back of something or under something etc) only a chance encounter produces it. The plus side is that I once found £100 folded up in an ornament in a cupboard and had absolutely no idea why it was there - there weren't any unpaid bills lurking around so I figure that I'd saved it carefully for something and then had forgotten all about it and paid the something some other way.
I love all the poetry,I used to be really into it until I was in my twenties but have not read much stuff written since then - think I should start again. I went through a Roger McGough phase, I remember. Somewhere I have a book of peotry to be read aloud - all good old stuff like "The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God" - once saw that performed by two blokes,with actions - very funny.
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Post by kofihorse on Aug 25, 2005 11:19:13 GMT 1
..........or even "poetry".........."peotry" being something practised by desperate women doing long distance riding in the woods.............
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Post by carolwilts on Aug 25, 2005 12:42:08 GMT 1
Ha!!! I nearly had peotry this morning when Mara decided the sedate canter across a stubble field wasn't fast enough.... two hooley bucks and a gallop and I lost a stirrup in the process..... Holy ****! She was supposed to be on light work given her recovery from her cough, but seems she wasn't listening. Lovely pictures Kofi.. what a beautiful horse you have.. and you do definitely look the picture. And lovely scenery as well. I would give the sheep foot rot stuff (zinc sulphate) a go, despite the shoes.. I'm sure it will seep around the shoes anyway. Since it only costs about 10p a litre (made up yourself) its not like using cleantrax (cost wise).. and since NAF sell it for horses (Hoof and Sole) I guess its fine for shod horses. You can get the basic zinc sulphate from agric. merchants (but have to buy a large bag) and you dilute it to make a 10% solution, and add a little squeeze of washing up liquid (surfactant). The stuff I have is called Golden Hoof (see www.shepfair.co.uk/Goldenhoof.htm ) Virkon.. same thing applies.. no harm to give it ago. I checked with the makers of Virkon that it was safe to soak feet in.. yes fine (they used to market it as a mud fever treatment). Recommended to wash it off afterwards (but I confess that I don't) The only drawback is that it turns the periople pink (not quite a good, in designer hoof terms, as the purple hooves I got from soaking in NAF hoof and sole.. zinc sulphate with purple colouring! All I needed was some glitter) The other alternative would be borax, which some people recommend .. you can get this from Boots (in the washing ingredients section apparently). Not sure of the dilution. I soak for 15 mins or so with zinc sulphate. The sheep foot rot people say its effective (in sheep) with a 2-3 min soak., but better with longer (they recommended 10-15 mins) . I will occasionally also just brush on the solution when i have picked out her feet. It doesn't go off once you have made it up, so you could put it in a spray bottle or something. When Mara's white line disease was at its worst I was soaking her for short periods every time I brought her in (ie soaking whilst she ate her supper). Now i do it as a preventative about once a fortnight.. or once a week if I detect any hint of white line separation. I guess you sorted the problem re. posting pics.. Re the avatar, just copy the appropriate line underneath the pic (In this case, not the IMG line, but the top one.. the URL) and it goes on your clip board. Then open IHDG and go to edit profile and paste in the address into the "avatar" bit. Rosemary.. phew...what a relief to have found your wallet. Shame you didn't find it before your ECG though! mind you it probably wouldn't have made a huge difference as I guess they will be looking at the shape of the heart sounds .. not just the frequency! Your exercise cart looks just lovely.. I have a growing yen to have a go at driving.. must go on a course one day soon. Ann NF.. so what should we be looking for in a saddle? I have a balance saddle.. but know that some people think they are too wide. Mara's seems to fit her very well without much padding.
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