0f meeting a missionary in the Brazilian jungle ( Read more... )

I travelled down to Christchurch on wednesday night in the truck with our 6 horses, and 2 extras from another race stables, and their trainer. It took about 12 hrs in the truck all up, most of which I spent blissfully asleep lying down behind the seats in the cab of the truck or on the floor of the ferry. Twas lovely. ( Long horsey post )

Went skiing on the weekend. It was great!! Despite all the people. Turns out I must be fit from all the work I've been doing - lol - but I didn't want to stop all day, I was up and down the mountain as quick as could be, it was great! Snow wasn't too bad, long as I stayed up top - the best place to be anyway to avoid as many of the crowds of people ( Read more... )

2 of our horses just won their races!! Exciting!!! And neither was expected to win, and I've been riding both of them every day!! Exciting!!!! And wow, I've NEVER been interested in watching races or anything, but the steeplechase where we had 2 horses, one of which was the favourite was awesome! Man, they run a long way. Poor Piriaka fell over ( Read more... )

We had the last hunt on saturday. Gutted. I was able to skive off work early (after riding what I calculated to be about 20 km in under an hour on 6 different horses on friday) and we headed out to McKelvies, a really nice property to hunt. I was on WR, and I think it was his 9th hunt. And he was simply awesome, he's gained so much confidence, he ( Read more... )

Had a good hunt on saturday, it was red coat day, so we had Jill mastering (she won the coat in the raffle) and it was fun!! She went over loads of tapes and stuff, most of which ended up broken, so there was lots of damage to fix!!! Great fun though, we had some good runs ( Read more... )

After monday's debacle, the rest of the week was quite good, though busy and tiring!. Tuesday was pretty hilarious, I was coming off the track with the little 2 yr old I've been riding (I only just found out she was 2, I thought she was much older!) when I saw Gen (the other rider) zoom past on the grass, bareback with his saddle hanging underneath ( Read more... )

Not a good day at work today. Ugh ( Read more... )

Wow. I think I just got a payrise!. And I didn't ask for it, I didn't have to beg for my pay, I didn't have to wait months on end whilst being given dribs and drabs here and there and being made to feel like I was the one being unreasonable for asking for money. Just handed to me, and a day earlier than usual too - how simple, how easy ( Read more... )

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