April 21, 2008...11:15 am
C’est La Vie!
Do you ever get the feeling things were simply not meant to be?
Thankfully, I am not talking about the big trip, but about my pony’s showjumping final yesterday.
I gave up wine and chocolates last week and set about just eating fruit and veggies to ensure I would be as light as possible for him - which worked because I lost 10lbs to scrape in at 8st 5lbs!
I did all the right things during the week - I rode him mid-week to check he was going well, I gave him extra feed and extra grooming. On Saturday I cleaned all his tack, checked his boots, gave him another groom, started up my lorry and ran it until it was good and warm and then repositioned it for loading.
My derriere still hurts from my cropper the other week, but less!
Sunday morning dawned and I was the lightest I have been for some time, the weather was warm and we were both full of it. I had woken to the radio alarm playing Queen’s We Are The Champions and I was feeling pretty confident!
I gave Twiglet his morning feed, groomed him, opened up the back of the lorry and was about to load him when there was an exposion of noise and I saw one of the ramps springs pull half of the back pillar (which must have been rotten!) and part of the horsebox roof down! So I couldn’t use the horsebox because I couldn’t get the ramp back up!
I rang round a number of friends, but although they were all really nice, various other commitments meant no-one could give me a lift and so I had to call it a day!
As well as that catastrophe, my mother’s pony Bracken was slightly ill, I managed to block my kitchen sink at home and my father managed to drop a bottle of cooking oil all over the kitchen floor at my parents’ house.
So all in all, not a good day!
Never mind, on the upside, I saved £15 in showjumping entry fees and I had time to sit on our four-year-old pony, Thorn.
The moral of the story is - never give up chocolate and wine!
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