when did you last fall off?

[MitchyInge]

and doesn't it hurt when you are older and bigger!

I just made a small bit of history by falling off a huge friesian, the slowest and laziest horse in the world , flicked him wrongly with a schooling whip and he flipped me right over his head

sympathy please, as always I landed on my head! HEADACHE

Oh I still do the slithery dismount. I can do a proper one if I have to but my poor old knees don't like it!

Just don't do the leg over the front dismount like I once did (don't know why, I wasn't in the habit of it, just a mad moment). My coat caught over the cantle and I was left dangling. Was funny as there were two people with me, wouldn't have been so funny if I'd been on my own as we were miles from anywhere!

Back again Mitchy after a short interlude trying to restore some kind of order to the kitchen. Re more important stuff...

I'd have a personal instructor if I could until I got at least semi competant. It comes very hard being humiliated by a 10yo
(unintentionally I think)However, in the absence of time and the pesky full time job will have to settle for 1/2 hr a week I think.
My ideal gg would be something exceedingly beautiful in the manner of My Friend Flicka (remember those books?) but who completely understood my extreme incompentance and was prepared to go at a v gentle walk/trot at all times, including when dd goes hareing off at a rate of knots on her little humbug when on hacks until I am able to manage anything else. He or she would be quite happy to be in the field for most of the week but impeccably behaved when we go out.

We are lucky enough to have been able to convert 3.5 acres of our farm into paddock which should be ready in about 12 months time when hopefully dd's dgg will move in and will obviously need a companion. However, if someone perfect turns up in the meantime will do utmost to convince dh that it needs to be done and can join the current dgg at livery. Basically dh doesn't have a leg to stand on given his car obsession.....Do you have a dgg?
Pixel re slithery dismount, God never intended a woman of my advanced years to get her leg over that high. I reckon could make a killing on Dragons Den if could invent a Stannah Stairlift type contraption to assist. One that would entice dgg to stand still obviously otherwise could be v humiliating.

awww am at keeping them at home - although I like the social part of our yard. Hope dream horse turns up soon! I loved loved loved My Friend Flicka, don't understand why her boy turned into a girl for the film though. I really want to re-read all the Jill books but don't have them anymore, parents have probably got them somewhere.

My dgg (that's probably the only MN acronym I'm ever going to use, too cute not to!) is the lovely brown one on my profile pics, he's getting on for 16 or 17 but in his prime really - needs quite a lot of work to stay sane (2-3 hours a day, 6 days a week). He gets far too fizzy if he has much time off, which is why his original owner parted with him after getting him banned from every local event and PC. Took him to his first show in August and he behaved impeccably (once we put him in a gag and had some brakes). The coloured youngster is my daughter's (but also mine mine mine when she is at school). He's not such a youngster at 6 but very green, has just started rounding up and pulls the best angry faces at the effort before knuckling down to it. He still gets confused between request for canter and rodeo, often opting for the latter.

Taking him on our first hack today, will I survive or won't I?

My compliments on your most excellent dggs, both look gorgeous and also your ddgs (doggy, geddit?!. How many do you have? And mucho re your ability to spend so much time with aforementioned. I like the social part of the yard too and also the fact that you can always ask someone if you're not sure (which is most of the time)My reading material of choice at present is the Pony Club Handbook of Horsecare which is reawakening some of my memories and have subscribed to Your Horse for me and Your Pony for ladyship - after I've read it. Off to buy trailer tomorrow so it's definitely the slippery slope. Let me know how the hack goes won't you.