Friday kicked off with an email from my new/old dietician who said she was prescribing some flavour pots to improve the taste of my Peptascuzz er Peptamen and a quick meet with my Mum for morning coffee. In the late afternoon I hacked several miles upto the showground with Dream, Iz and her mare, where the show was to be held at the weekend. My poor pony is so unfit that in the end we decided we would have to locate a horse box to take at least Dream up there. Just as well because I'm obviously unfit too and felt like I was about to drop by the time we got back! I couldn't however because we were celebrating Dave's birthday that evening (his actual birthday is Monday) so as soon as I arrived home from the stables we trundled off to his local town and met up with some friends for drinks which was great fun!
Saturday was mostly spent resting until the evening when I went back upto the stables to give Dream his costume fitting (Punk!) and try to get them both in the horsebox as a practice. Dream hasd been in horse boxes before and went in without too much fuss wheras Midge (Iz's Mare) has many issues having been a very badly treated racehorse and just wouldn't go in, leaving Iz the only option of hacking up there. Didn't get home until after 9pm with a very bad stomach ache, we had some friends round but unfortunately the pain was so excruciating I had to go straight to bed.
We arrived at the show at 9am this morning and got off to a great start when Dream kicked my arm whilst I was cleaning his hooves. Arghh! In my first round (best turned out) he kicked another pony which was so out of character, I've known him over 2 years and he's never done that in any situation before and it frightened the life out of me. Especially because he is extremely strong and I just can't control him when he starts misbehaving. He redeemed himself in the afternoon as in my second round (fancy dress) he behaved well and we won a pink rosette! When we got back I crashed into the gate and smashed my collar bone scar line (from my plate surgery) and sternum on the gate which was horrific so not only do I have a bruised arm from the kick, I also have a badly bruised chest now as well. Grrrrr! I really enjoyed my first show though and despite the mishaps was very pleased to have finally experienced a show since I missed the last one due to breaking my collar bone practising jumping the day before. I'm so accident prone it's unbelievable!
Finally, it's my tube surgery tomorrow morning at 10.30am so please send good wishes, if you can, my way! I'll update when I'm in hospital since I'm taking my laptop in with me.
Take care everyone.
Big loves. xxxx
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