flick: (Riding Angelo)
Flick ([personal profile] flick) wrote2014-07-08 12:09 pm

Ow, you bugger

Normally, when I complain about horse-related pains it's because GB is a git.

Today it's because I had a lesson on the Baby: my back is killing me now. I dread to think what it will be like tomorrow. Still, we made some good progress, and Mike did very well on GB, so I suppose that it was worth it.

When I was riding with Mrs Next Door, we were talking about side saddle and I was saying that I was thinking of sending mine back, as I never use it. She mentioned that she knows someone who teaches side saddle and lives locally, so: lesson on Sunday. That'll be painful, as well.

Yesterday, we went out to the wild flower reserve to walk the pooch.

Mike spotted a white admiral:


There were masses of pyramidal orchids in the grass:


(We're wondering what The Next Orchid will be. There only ever seems to be one kind on the go at once, so far.)