I've seen some at last, but only Charlotte and a German girl. The horses are so gorgeous, even more beautiful in real life. I went to the Paris horse show and the Bordeaux horse show some years ago. It was my sport in my 50s. My Hannah was a bag of nerves when out in the countryside but she liked dressage, chance to show off in the security of an arena. She was Spanish and I bought her dirt cheap from the young French girl who owned her and couldn't control her when she was 4. I trained her.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I like dressage too @Busy-Lizzie. We used to do it in riding class and riding club competitions when we lived in Harrow. Being a riding school, some of the horses were more willing and able than others but it was such a good feeling when we got them t carry their head right and do quarters in or pirouettes or leg yielding and such.
Love to see beautiful horses and proper riders doing it but too busy prepping the kitchen for painting tomorrow. Just came on the PC after getting a shower of charcoal from the cooker hood when I was cleaning it. Need a new filter then.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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@punkdoc umm, Spandau Ballet isn't very punk. Just sayin' I was a Spandau fan as a teenager, so it's cool with me
@Hostafan1 it seems inadequate but sending ((hugs)). It's all I have to offer. My heart breaks for you both. PS, the trebuchet funeral option is always there as a fall-back. Well. Hopefully not a fall back. That would be inelegant. Sorry. Very poor taste.
@D0rdogne_Damsel what you achieved is brilliant - really inspiring. It is such a step change in your life, it's bound to leave you a little off balance for a while. You'll find a new equilibrium. Don't beat yourself up about what you aren't doing - what you ARE doing is more than enough.
Hope you're all enjoying the dancing horses. Strikes me as very odd but as long as the horses are looked after - and they seem to be adored - then it's all good.
We've had a decent drop of rain today. Don't think the rain barrels are full yet but they may be by the weekend. I've got peas and runner beans at the same time in the garden, which is lovely but rather strange - the peas are very late but none the worse for that. OH and I built most of a fruit cage at the weekend. It's a fruit tunnel at the moment so Mr and Mrs blackbird are still eating my blueberries but next weekend, they are coming off the menu - either the tunnel will be finished or they'll have eaten all the berries. This cage is much more substantial than the last so I'm hoping next year's blueberries will be all mine. Bwah ha ha.
@Dovefromabove looks like a great place. They do allow dogs - always the first thing I check See you there sometime
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
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Can't find dressage anywhere on iPlayer
The first GB dressage competitor was on earlier … I suspect we may have to wait to see the rest
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
What I want to know is if that German manure ends up on a grateful garden bed?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Hostafan1 - I've pm'd you.
Love to see beautiful horses and proper riders doing it but too busy prepping the kitchen for painting tomorrow. Just came on the PC after getting a shower of charcoal from the cooker hood when I was cleaning it. Need a new filter then.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Hostafan1 it seems inadequate but sending ((hugs)). It's all I have to offer. My heart breaks for you both. PS, the trebuchet funeral option is always there as a fall-back. Well. Hopefully not a fall back. That would be inelegant. Sorry. Very poor taste.
@D0rdogne_Damsel what you achieved is brilliant - really inspiring. It is such a step change in your life, it's bound to leave you a little off balance for a while. You'll find a new equilibrium. Don't beat yourself up about what you aren't doing - what you ARE doing is more than enough.
Hope you're all enjoying the dancing horses. Strikes me as very odd but as long as the horses are looked after - and they seem to be adored - then it's all good.
We've had a decent drop of rain today. Don't think the rain barrels are full yet but they may be by the weekend. I've got peas and runner beans at the same time in the garden, which is lovely but rather strange - the peas are very late but none the worse for that. OH and I built most of a fruit cage at the weekend. It's a fruit tunnel at the moment so Mr and Mrs blackbird are still eating my blueberries but next weekend, they are coming off the menu - either the tunnel will be finished or they'll have eaten all the berries. This cage is much more substantial than the last so I'm hoping next year's blueberries will be all mine. Bwah ha ha.
@Dovefromabove looks like a great place. They do allow dogs - always the first thing I check
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”