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GB seems to be a bit perkier than he was, which is nice. On Wednesday, I took GB to my lesson and he was pretty much his normal self. Today, I rode him in the school and he wasn't quite so up for it, but then he spent yesterday standing in his stable because of the rain, so he might just have been stiff.
I finally got hold of the vet to discuss GB's worm test results: he prescribed a five-day worming programme, and then a third type of wormer in a fortnight. Poor GB's going to be thoroughly sick of the stuff, but hopefully it'll sort him out and get him back to normal. The down side is no going in the field when he's being wormed, so he's got a few days of staying in the stable to put up with. On the other hand, I bought him an enormous bale of haylage, so he can have a lump of that every day, which should help him put some weight back on as well. If he keeps perking up, I'll be able to get back on the side saddle, which will be nice.
On Monday, I had a second lesson on a horse I rode the week before. He's called Andrew, and he's only a baby (five or six), but he seems generally very nice and (mostly) sensible. (Mostly: the lesson this week involved a lot of slow work, and so had the one he'd been on immediately before. He wanted a run. He really wanted a run. He asked nicely a few times, then a bit less nicely, and then decided that he was going to have a run whatever I thought, complete with throwing bucks in. Mike was behind us, and said it looked quite impressive....) Watch this space, but we shall see, we shall see....
We had a big Ocado order due in on Wednesday evening. The chap looked very apologetic as he came up the stairs, and explained that a bottle of wine had broken in one of our crates, and The Rules said that he couldn't let us have anything out of it. Fortunately, it was mostly either non-urgent stuff or things I could get from Lidl on the way home from the yard, but Mike will have to brave a shop to get the wine.
I'm Working From Home over the next few weeks, owing to office move chaos. It's been quite pleasant this week, particularly as I've ditched Sage (huzzah!), although there is an enormous stack of files behind the sofa....
I finally got hold of the vet to discuss GB's worm test results: he prescribed a five-day worming programme, and then a third type of wormer in a fortnight. Poor GB's going to be thoroughly sick of the stuff, but hopefully it'll sort him out and get him back to normal. The down side is no going in the field when he's being wormed, so he's got a few days of staying in the stable to put up with. On the other hand, I bought him an enormous bale of haylage, so he can have a lump of that every day, which should help him put some weight back on as well. If he keeps perking up, I'll be able to get back on the side saddle, which will be nice.
On Monday, I had a second lesson on a horse I rode the week before. He's called Andrew, and he's only a baby (five or six), but he seems generally very nice and (mostly) sensible. (Mostly: the lesson this week involved a lot of slow work, and so had the one he'd been on immediately before. He wanted a run. He really wanted a run. He asked nicely a few times, then a bit less nicely, and then decided that he was going to have a run whatever I thought, complete with throwing bucks in. Mike was behind us, and said it looked quite impressive....) Watch this space, but we shall see, we shall see....
We had a big Ocado order due in on Wednesday evening. The chap looked very apologetic as he came up the stairs, and explained that a bottle of wine had broken in one of our crates, and The Rules said that he couldn't let us have anything out of it. Fortunately, it was mostly either non-urgent stuff or things I could get from Lidl on the way home from the yard, but Mike will have to brave a shop to get the wine.
I'm Working From Home over the next few weeks, owing to office move chaos. It's been quite pleasant this week, particularly as I've ditched Sage (huzzah!), although there is an enormous stack of files behind the sofa....