Aga...?
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♥Oct. 2nd, 2014 // 08:25 pm♥
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The Aga man came today, and diagnosed a bad filter on the oil tank (as well as servicing the Aga).
It's turned back on, and seems to be heating up, so fingers crossed for muffins this weekend.... |
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GB
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♥Oct. 2nd, 2014 // 11:21 pm♥
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'Tother day, when I rode GB for the first time in a week or so, I was a bit worried that his dodgy leg was being dodgy when I asked him to do something fast-and-hard that involved leaning on it. But only a bit, and I was having him make an effort.
Today, though, Mike was on him and, after a little while, Expressed Concern. I had a watch, didn't like it and so jumped on him myself, and yes: I could feel it dropping away on every step in the walk, which I've never noticed before (it's always just been in the trot, and just occasionally). We had a good go in canter, and he still wasn't right.
On the plus side, after I'd put GB in the field I went and got out the lunge whip and we got Baby cantering with Mike on board. On the minus side, I'm now less sure about this whole swapping horses thing: it won't work if GB goes lame without my riding him n times a week.
Supposed to have a side saddle lesson on Saturday morning; I'll jump on him for five minutes tomorrow and see if that's happening. TWWOTV is away, so I might take him for a blast and see if that fixes it: it used to, when it was just an occasional trot problem....
(I bought a second nest box for Esme, and popped some hay and one of the fake eggs into it. The next day, there was one enormous hay nest in the other box, the fake eggs had been carefully reunited, and there were -- and have continued to be -- two real eggs in it as well. I guess I'll leave the empty box there, as a support for their combined nest?) |
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