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[Frances144]

A God-awful Day

I cannot tell you how awful today has been – but I will try. It started with me going out with the brekkie buckets only to meet a very depressed non-eating and disinterested Vitamin. My heart…

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What to do?

 

[carthorse]

How odd. Do you think she's depressed with the long term awful weather, or maybe it's worsening some aches and pains given she's an old lady? Fingers crossed she'll keep eating, and I think moving her close to the house is a good idea.

 

[Frances144]

I think it is all about pain control until the antibiotics kick in.

 

[carthorse]

I hope you can keep her comfortable and eating then, they can be such a worry.

 

[diplomaticandtactful]

Tintin has been pretty much the same

 

[Frances144]

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winter is long

 

[Frances144]

Wrong Place

This morning it was rugs off and Vitamin even trotted up to her bucket. This is her, having finished, trying to clean up everyone else’s breakfast. A good sign, I can only hope. I am trying …

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Clinging on by fingernails

 

[carthorse]

That sounds promising, and she looks brighter in the photos too.

 

[Frances144]

Windy

Windy today. This morning was less of a battle, but a battle nonetheless, and I made the executive decision to take rugs off, worrying about it for the rest of the day. The weather got worse as t…

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I feel beaten up

 

[Frances144]

First Day of Spring

Apparently the 1st March is the first offishul day of Spring (and will end on 31st May). In the garden snowdrops and crocuses are appearing and that make me hopeful. It’s been a grotty winter…

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Flowers!

 

[Frances144]

Not Got Much

I’ve not got much to say except I didn’t get the sponsorship deal. Everyone else did. Just not us. Yes, I am very disappointed but I guess scruffy ponies are not the way forward for s…

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Meh!

 

[carthorse]

I guess they want people that are out and about doing things so they get more publicity. They probably don't realise your blog has a lot of readers and could be aimed at even more.

 

[Frances144]

Yes, everyone else was gleaming and show-perfect. That, we are not. We are real and what the rest of the horsey-world has to deal with.

 

[Frances144]

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Rugs and more rugs

 

[Frances144]

Never Going to be Show Ponies

Looking at this lot today, I can honestly say they are never going to be show ponies. This is mostly because I can’t be arsed to go through all the palaver of getting them show-ready – …

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The awful truth

 

[Frances144]

Made a Ster

I am trying to avoid (read hide from) the horses and ponies. They have all become a bit too used to an afternoon snack when I gave Vitamin her injections and put the rugs on. There are no more inj…

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Dear Ster

 

[Frances144]

No More the Greasy Muppet

And so to Scalloway for Ted’s four-times-a-year hair-cut because he is part Yorkie and part Schnauzer and so he tends towards the greasy Muppet look, which I hate. See what I mean? I left h…

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hello handsome

 

[Frances144]

Dogs Playing

The dogs haven’t sat still all afternoon – just play, play and more playing. I think it is because when I was in Tesco’s yesterday filling in time waiting for Ted, I bought a rat…

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Playing and Photoshop woes

 

[Frances144]

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Building the Spring/Summer/Autumn track

 

[Frances144]

A Busy Day

We are exhausted. It’s been a busy morning. I started by moving the three Ancients into a field across the hill where they could stay well away from the track creation and the electric fence.…

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Knackered now.