PIXEL

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Thanks to you have realised I need THIS, is £70 for 5 arm one. Will actually not be able to LIVE now until I have one. Grrrrrrrr.

Why am I being blamed for this?

When have I ever mentioned a rug rack?

And why exactly do you need one when you have a field, are you going to nail it to a tree?

Pixel, I now need one too. It i also your fault

Haha, your fault because from the daisy rein link I naturally wandered to rug racks. Bizarrely I get a free 'stable' in a big barn with my field - too small for anything other than a tiny sec a to actually use - for storing and mixing feeds etc. Mine is the one with the pink velour armchair in, so can admire my sugar beet soaking. Anyway it adjoins a stable occupied by a curious nibbly rising 3 youngster, and that rack would be perfect as could fold it away from the reach of her teeth. No floor space, though I could put a non foldy rack on back of stable door I suppose?

Or I could put the armchair back in the skip I rescued it from and just have a boring floor standing rack?

You are all ganging up on me, blaming me for stuff and I am ill so you should have more sympathy .

Pink velour armchair sounds very glamorous, though I can't help wondering how long before it is a nursery for baby vermin.

Do you just want this fabby rack for drying rugs? If so, string some baling twine across and save £70 you crazy fool.

Baling twine, baling twine - of course! Back of stable door, perfect.

Can't be many problems for which baling twine isn't at least a partial solution? From something to tie them to holding back of an old land rover together. Ode to baling twine coming on now.

PS feel better soon! Is it a winter germ? I actually spent nearly two days in bed, not often that happens - not without smoking anyway. Now I feel better I am starving and sort of want the worst of it back again

How about finding a 3ft or 4ft bit of thinish timber (like roofing batons or wooden broom handles). Knot two lengths of baling twine (known as band in these parts!)around each end and suspend your pole from the rafters so it lies against the stable wall. You can get four good rug hangers down two sides of a stable. Cheap, tidy and rugs dry smashing.

I love band. I ran out of sellotape on Christmas eve...unpicked the ply and hey presto present ribbon! Took 'em ages to get presents open too!.

That is a REALLY good idea!

The rug thing not the Sellotape thing!

Where would we be without baling twine? Or farmer's friend as it's known round here. We even use it to tie our windbreaks to our trailer when we go camping, oh yes we are very classy.

Yes, horrid fluey bug. Dh started it Christmas eve and has since developed pleurisy, ds was off-colour Christmas day but he doesn't really like pressies, visitors etc anyway so I wasn't sure until boxing day when he was away with the fairies on ASD planet and coughing for England. He had a lovely nosebleed this morning too, oh joy. Thought dd had got away with it as she is antisocial teenager in her room but she came down to dinner with a big stye on her eye. I almost escaped too (being a woman and obviously too tough for such things) but today I've got the headache/cough/aching joints combo. Unfortunately it hasn't yet stopped me eating my own considerable bodyweight in chocolate and mince pies.

Don't know why I'm not in bed really, just too lazy to climb the stairs.

I actually sleep downstairs for that reason! Well that and the fireplace is bigger down here and I hate being cold.

Hope you shake it off quickly, I don't usually get these things because I smoke too much and it must kill most germs so you can imagine how afraid for my life I was when I couldn't even do that.

Still have headache earache sore throat and whole self ache, but high temp has gone and think I can pass myself off as a person instead of a stumbling almost animated corpse

Glad you are on the mend. I've got to take the cat to the vet in the morning for his jabs and I'm a bit worried they might put me down instead!

Also wondering where I can get leather armpit-high gauntlets and a fencing mask at short notice. If you'd ever tried to get my cat into a basket you'd know why.

Yow. Rather you, and good luck!

(on your way back from vet could you pick up one of these for me? Will make up for inciting rug rack ideas. Thanks!

(17 or 17.5" will be fine)

I survived without bloodshed although if cat hadn't been in the basket there might have been a mauled staffy in the waiting room. He had a good growl at it (that's my boy!).
He was very good actually to everyone's relief, considering it says 'feisty cat' in his notes. The vet didn't even find THE FLEA. You know how it is, you are positive your cat doesn't have fleas but miraculously there is always ONE when you finally get into the surgery so the vet can try and sell you some expensive de-fleaing stuff. I swear the vets plant them there.

I did go in the shop for your saddle but they only had one left and it was so gorgeous I bought it for myself. Hope you don't mind.

obviously that is very good about the cat but unless you remembered Roxane I am shocked at your insensitivity. I would like NEED a matching bridle too.

Ha ha, I was only joking. High withers on my ever-expanding cob? That'll be the day!

Btw, that jumping one? You can only use it for forwards jumping, not sideways, so it will be no good for you.

What a good idea, we could make millions from our special sideways show jumping saddle design!

Not as if am getting the most amount of use from my trusty synthetic gp at the moment. Cats spend more time sitting on it than me.

Do need to do something about bridle though, each piece is a different colour

Hey, how 'bout we call it a SIDEsaddle? Oh wait...

Actually that could be the answer to your prayers, I've heard it's practically impossible to get bucked off a sidesaddle!

Tut tut at your non-matching bridle. Can't you dye it all black or something? I once did that with a tan martingale that I bought at an auction. The brown dye only came off on my grey pony for a few short months and then it was fine.

you made me smile, after an awful night and not great start to year/day - with added misery of having lost that stupid bridle, obviously it is no great loss except it had borrowed bit attached. Argh.

How can anyone be so untidy they lose a whole bridle? In a house this small? :(

Oh dear, things not going well then? Are you sure the bridle isn't in the car or did you leave it behind when you moved from the other yard?

My saddle must have cobwebs on by now. It's in the cupboard under the stairs so it can't stare accusingly at me.