Hello everyone!
I hope you all had a great Easter, and you are remembering to bring any left over chocolate and leave it outside my stable door. I’m not even picky about what kind, but all Cadbury donations are much appreciated.
We all got called into the office this week for a very important meeting with Gemma and Natalie. Even the gingers came, which was a surprise, as they usually have private meetings because they are much too important to sit with us hairies. Gemma went on about something called ‘business rates’ going up, which we all snoozed through, but I elbowed Pablo as soon as she mentioned that we eat too much! The choice was simple: either we drop our evening feed or lesson prices have to go up. We all thought long and hard (well, we pretended to) and I’m afraid to tell you that we made the very difficult decision that lesson prices would just have to go up…
Natalie held the first pairs day in forever last week. We used to do this horrific thing called parent and child day, but thankfully they’ve turned it into any pair as I can’t even begin to tell you how competitive parent and child combinations are. We all have a good laugh over the fence at them doing silly things like a three legged race – Lucky snorted with laughter until snot came out of his nose. The worst thing about a pair day is that us horses get paired up, and I always get a rubbish pair! Pablo always thinks its funny to refuse to move in games, LC always goes too fast and gets into a race with Lucky and then JD likes to do this silly squeeling noise.
Apparently we have another equine ‘celebrity’ coming to the yard. It’s all hush hush at the moment, and even us cobs aren’t allowed to know but Vicki promises it’ll be great. I can’t imagine it’s going to be that much fun – last time, everyone got a bit too big for their boots and started discussing contact and bend in their lessons. I would love to see everyone try and get some bend through me when I have a gallop to the back of the ride. Of course, Granville was in high demand after that dressage guy came to lecture everyone but I’ll be so much more impressed if he could get a piaffe out of Pablo.
Until next time,
FlitwicK