Sunday

All very low key and cheery yesterday. Tootled down to local show, had a bit of a shock how rammed it was. Is always busy there but yesterday really was rammed!

Parked somewhere near the start of the huge parking field due to said field being full!! We had to drop ramp, pray T would turn tightly after coming down and not land on top of a car! Then put ramp up straight away as no one could get past with the ramp down!!!!

Tacked up and got on. Very nice girls in lorry next door said they thought T would look stunning doing dressage and why wasn't I doing dressage? (Had no jacket on so def wasn't competing) Made us all chuckle anyway and they looked a bit sheepish when I explained we do normally do dressage but that we had come to do a clear round as a break and a reward for him getting his first points LOL

Took ages to get off carpark as kept bumping into people we knew then pootled around whilst B and mum got food (they had their priorities right!!) then over to the clear round while we waited for my OH (personal photographer) to come down. As soon as he was there, we were in.

I went round twice one after the other and went clear both times :) Actually enjoyed parts of it too. Having looked at the pics, it's no wonder small jumps are such a big deal to me, T still jumps them huge!!

B also took him in twice but he got lazy by then and just basically didn't both picking back feet up so had one down in each round. In her 2nd round, I'd put a couple of them up. Not massively but changing a X pole to a straight bar shocked him a little LOL

Have nominated him for Horse mag piece on ditches/water and have nominated B to ride him too LOL

He's scared me tonight. Turned him out and he stood with his head on the floor, not moving. Normally he stomps off for a drink then to eat. Asked friend to check on him when she got down there and she's called me to say he looks a bit quiet but that he was grazing, had beaten squirt up and had followed them round the field so hopefully he was just a bit stuffed from being in the grassy field all day, tired as he hadn't come in for his nap like he has been doing and grumpy as he's back in the field without much grass to keep squirt company til the morning.

Will check him in a bit on way to OH's. I do get paranoid about him but after last summer when he was so ill, I don't think I'm being silly.