Bertie Bedford passed his plating yesterday so that means I can get out and about and hopefully get over for some PMG lessons.
Got stuck behind a horsebox on the way to the yard this morning. I am the first to defend the right for slow moving horseboxes to be driven with care on the roads but even I couldn't be positive about this one. Face to face with an Indesit delivery lorry, horsebox had at least another foot it could have pulled over, and a passing place clearly visible about 12 foot back.
Indesit's passenger was doing his best to direct both vehicles and ended up signalling his lorry to move forwards slowly. At this point I started pressing my horn and then got gestures from both horsebox driver and Indesit driver signalling their displeasure at my horn blowing. At that point Indesit driver took the top corner of his vehicle off an an overhead tree branch.
Noticed that the mirrors on the horsebox did not extend past the width of the vehicle which is never good.
Gave B a great lesson on her new pony tonight. We worked without stirrups and both hands on the balance strap stopping and turning with body positioning. She then took her stirrups back and I bet her a £1 that she couldn't do a three loop serpentine in trot without letting go of the strap. It took several attempts but she got there in the end. She was very chuffed until I pointed out I had also told her I would fine her 50p for every time she took her hands off the strap, so I was still up on the deal. Kids are still so gullible sometimes.
Nothing really to say about my lot so far this week, N reports that they have been pretty filthy which usually means they are pretty happy.
that was an interesting bit of lack of driving skill, then!
ReplyDeleteYep, I was not impressed when I tooted to warn they were about to drive in to a tree and got a load of abuse. They were also not happy when I gestured to tree and then laughed. I took the precaution of locking my doors at that point.
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