Percy returns triumphant from Bejing Castle, while I walk home up the M20…..

Hello all,

Again, I have to apologise for the late arrival of my blog this week, but it was down to my appalling behaviour on Sunday………. my mum took my laptop away and I only just got it back.  In fact, she gave it to Percy to write this weeks blog instead of me, but on checking up on the blog page and finding nothing there, mum did a bit of investigating and found he had been shopping on-line, with her credit card and been surfing HorseQuest looking at all the mares! Pervert.  So he is now in the horse house and I am reprieved for a while!

I guess the first piece of news is that Percy won his section at Sundays one day event at Chilham Castle.  Mum had put him in the baby class for a bit of a day out to give him some fun and boost his confidence, and the old devil only walked away with a huge shield and large fluffy red rosette.  God, he has harped on about it since, he even took Chloe out with his winnings on Monday evening, but if Mum finds out, he is well in trouble.  Its so easy for him to get a dressage of 29.5 while most of us would be grateful for nice round score in the mid 30’s.  Then he jumps a double clear.  Anyway, he could have walked over them, they are so small.  My problem started when he left me for the dressage, i was so worried he wasn’t coming back that I had to try and get off the lorry to run after him.  I tried the scarey rearing up thing but they just shouted at me. So I waited till mum was sitting on the porta loo next door and really gave the connecting wall some welly with my off hind…… they soon got me off the lorry.  I thought that it would be easy after that.  I spun lots on the end of my lead rein when I was tied up and did the bucking thing until he returned.  I was pooped by time he got back from cross country and just when I thought it was all over, they tacked me up!  Then I had to do the dressage thing!  I was so cross that mum and Percy had left me for such a long time, I decided to let her know how cross I actually was, which in hindsight was a pretty silly thing to do…… I bucked… lots, with my head between my knees….. then when I knew she was still on top….. I did it all again………………  I then got worked in for 1 hour and 15 minutes….. god I was so tired going down that centre line I nearly fell over the clover.  But hey, got my best score to date! 34!!! It did go unnoticed on my behalf cos my eyes were shut.  Which was probably the reason why I had 3 show jumps down.. and that stop I had cross country was because when I opened my eyes again, there was a HUGE GREEN DRAGON behind the arrowhead.  I was going to jump it, but then it roared at me so I tried to head home instead.  After my bottom was smacked, several times, I thought it looked ok to jump and stormed to the finish… Sorry mum.  Pulborough in a couple of weeks. I have written out my lines of ‘MUST DO BETTER’ 100 times, said 100 hail marys to keep dad happy, and the worst punishment has been listening to Percy all week…….. it will be short lived cos bet he dumps her in Sussex.

Bert didn’t fair much better at Chilham, he gets very nervy, he is still under therepy from the P2P counsellor, he was doing fine, but guess he has just had minor relapse.  Although I don’t think his mum thinks is was minor, I saw her bruises on Tuesday… and lovely lovely Tilly, a dressage of 42, 1 blip show jumping and she whizzed past me when i was in the start box at the end of her faultless round……. WHAT A WOMAN!

The rest of them?  Well, Brandy is just glad to have swapped fields and is still gorging on what is in the winter patch, Boysi’s x-rays have come back clear, so he can get over himself and stop whinning.  We are all out of sympathy for him! Pip’s had a weekend off, just as well really, could you imagine her AND Percy harping on all night, nightmare or wot?!  Chloe was due out for a party this weekend but her treatment has kicked in and she is feeling very sore and sorry for herself, Percy cheered her up.  Ruby missed out going out to party as well, so is bitching, she would have been bitching if she’d have gone out anyway.  She is so high maintenance that one.

Big news on the doggie front too.. Foxy Lady had her pups Saturday afternoon!  It was a bit of chaos on the yard and the baby got left with the liveries….. they were lucky it was only for half an hour or so, I’ve known mum disappear for a fortnight if she thinks someone will have the kids.

Anyway, I’m off to bed.  Not long till the next blog will be due and I need to hide Percy’s shopping bags from mum before she arrives on the yard tomorrow. Lol B xx

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