Goldfish

Blogs have been few and far between just lately. Between the snow, Steve being in hospital and several more problems with the website servers I’ve not had much chance to write any. Rob who designed and built all my websites for me has had so many problems that he has moved all my sites to a new server. Hopefully the website will be working fine now. Steve is making a good recovery and is back on his feet The snow has gone but you never know theres plenty of time yet for it to fall again. Last week an American girl Eva arrived to stay with us for a few weeks. Eva comes from Chicago and is keen to experience life in a British riding school. Eva was not put out by the snow she remarked that what we had here last wednesday was a light fall at the beginning of winter where she comes from. Eva has ridden for many years and worked on a couple of yards in the states. Whilst talking about water for horses Eva informed us that the yard she was at used to put goldfish in the water troughs to eat the algae, not something I’ve heard of before and can you imagine the problems I would encounter trying to buy them. Last year I tried to buy a goldfish for Jen as hers had died. The man in Leekes would not sell me one until I had disinfected the tank, filled it, added anti bacterial Tablets and allowed the water to stand for one week until it had reached room temperature and even then he wasn’t entirely happy to part with his goldfish unless I bought a filter, he would have a heart attck at the thought of me bunging them straight in a horse trough. I have visions of a cat perched on each field trough. Fred has now been sold to Zoe Hughes although he will be remaining here on working livery for several months. Several Pony Club competitions are coming up. We have the Pony Club Dengie Dressage at the beginning of Feb, the Area quiz in Feb and the Horse Care comp in March which we are hosting at Talygarn. There will be a quiz here on Saturday 5pm open to any pony club centre members who would like to come. The winners of the quiz will make up this years teams. There is also unaffiliated show jumping on Sunday 24th 10am. I had a surprise visit from Medi this week. I doubt if many people here now will remember Medi except perhaps Chloe. Medi rode here for many years at the same time as Amy Bartholomew both were very active Pony Club Centre Members and its great to have them both here now as students.  Anyway with the snow, the students, the dressage, showjumping, schedules, quiz questions, riding lessons etc that I have to organise I am feeling the need for another holiday -  so Jen and I are going back packing in Morocco on Monday.

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