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| Ari |
Posted - 24 Oct 2015 : 5:05:47 PM
I used to love winter as a child, couldn't wait for snow. Didn't mind it for years even looked forward to change in horse routine. However last few years (since the 50 birthday) I am enjoying summer and all it brings so much more so winter has become a major inconvenience more to be endured and got over. Still like the cold sunny dry days lol.
Anyhow clocks go back its cold in West Yorks and first night with rug for Ari. A few weeks in and I will be fine well used to the mud, stable work will keep me slim and fingers X no extreme weather.
We have Christmas to look forward to and the nights get lighter after 21/12.
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| barbara.gregory |
Posted - 03 Nov 2015 : 11:49:40 AM
Guess he was having a "Prince not so Charming" day! Naughty boy. Glad you had a good lesson even if it did rain.
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| debs |
Posted - 29 Oct 2015 : 6:43:05 PM
Thanks Barbara....had an awful ride yesterday when Prince Charming decided he didn't like traffic, spun round and cantered off as a white van approached!!! Really naughty,....tried it 3 times with me, not scared, drivers weren't too bad. He obviously got out of the wrong side of the bed!
I was not a happy bunny!
Today a lesson in the rain, but it was brilliant, only hampered by rider fitness :( oh I wish I could ride every day again....and so wish I could afford more lessons, love them!!!
I was so hot today even in the rain... :)
So was he :)
Needs a clip! |
| barbara.gregory |
Posted - 29 Oct 2015 : 4:32:47 PM
Originally posted by debs
Fantastic day today! Got up and it was very murky but by 10 it was blue skies , sun and not a cloud in sight! Had a fab ride on my boy! He's full of it at the moment :) no work til Friday so hope it continues :)
Have a great week and hope the weather is good for you.
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| debs |
Posted - 27 Oct 2015 : 1:42:57 PM
Fantastic day today! Got up and it was very murky but by 10 it was blue skies , sun and not a cloud in sight! Had a fab ride on my boy! He's full of it at the moment :) no work til Friday so hope it continues :) |
| barbara.gregory |
Posted - 27 Oct 2015 : 12:07:30 PM
Originally posted by Kharidian
Well spotted, Goldenmane! Yes...so when everyone else was having an extra hour in bed, my 12 hour nightshift became a 13 hour shift (we don't get paid for the extra hour by the way). Where else but the NHS would this be considered acceptable lol.
Caryn
In the private sector it is often the norm to have to work UNPAID many extra hours to finish; you don't go home until it is all done. I have worked until 9.00pm before now for no extra money or time off in leiu when my hours were officially 8.30am to 4.30pm. When people complained they either left or were told to change their attitude. And all for less money, poorer pensions etc than they would get for equivalent jobs in the public sector. And then Gordon Brown wrecked what pensions we would have got so we all get far less than we expected; final salary pensions are all but gone in the private sector now.. |
| garnet |
Posted - 25 Oct 2015 : 7:54:54 PM
Kharidian, I always assumed days got longer from both ends once the shortest day had gone. I only found out when I was teaching about the solar system and a pupil brought in a table of sunrise and sunset times which her father used at work at an airfield. It cheered me up no end! |
| DianaSC |
Posted - 25 Oct 2015 : 6:47:59 PM
Kharidian, I remember those!! I used to work 12 hour shifts in an ambulance control room, oh what fun.
Now I'm retired and live in Spain and no longer dread the winters as I used to in the UK. It gets cold here but it's generally a dry cold, and winter days can be lovely and warm. I don't think I would ever choose to live in the UK climate again brrrr.
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| Ari |
Posted - 25 Oct 2015 : 6:42:08 PM
I am inspired as ever by your input so looking at positives. Ari doesn't settle well in stable in summer however very happy with winter routine in at night tucking into haylage. We have fabulous late summer turnout with many acres, horses love it but it's hard work. Winter fields are close to stables, so much easier to get in and go.
Have to say us horsy ladies must be among the healthiest as we regularly do good excersise and enjoy it. |
| Kharidian |
Posted - 25 Oct 2015 : 4:17:35 PM
Well spotted, Goldenmane! Yes...so when everyone else was having an extra hour in bed, my 12 hour nightshift became a 13 hour shift (we don't get paid for the extra hour by the way). Where else but the NHS would this be considered acceptable lol.
Caryn |
| Quarabian |
Posted - 25 Oct 2015 : 12:19:01 PM
It is the rain and mud I dont like. That is because of the dogs. When they are dripping all the time I cannot cuddle as often. I have a beardie now and he is the soggiest dog I have ever owned. In the snow he is magnificent! |
| Goldenmane |
Posted - 25 Oct 2015 : 11:59:31 AM
No Firelight, those symptoms are having horses!! I bet your'e a lot healthier than a lot of people who don't have them. I have noticed my nose runs a lot when I bend over, now that is old age! |
| FireLight |
Posted - 25 Oct 2015 : 11:37:25 AM
I also used to love winter but then I had two chestnuts, now I have two greys and, oh boy, do I dread all that rain and mud! 
Also I seem to have developed chilblains, achy joints and runny eyes, is that old age?  |
| glo |
Posted - 25 Oct 2015 : 07:05:11 AM
I must admit I don't mind the winter, I find its easer to ride as the horses are in more, it's getting in to a routine that is hard this time of the year, and the shell I bring them in or out, horses are to hot or to cold. Once the horses are in its so much easer.
I love Christmass, and on a day out with mum, managed to get a, well it's a like a snow globe but in the shape of a snowman and the snow in side light up and from time to time spins around.
As you see the extra hour is wasted as hubby's alarm keeps going of, something it never dose. |
| Goldenmane |
Posted - 25 Oct 2015 : 07:04:59 AM
Kharidian, have you been delivering babies, up so early? Well I'm definately getting older as for the first time I forgot to change the clocks!Mine are out 24/7 so our routine goes with the light but I will start lighting a fire at home on these dark evenings. |
| Kharidian |
Posted - 25 Oct 2015 : 04:15:33 AM
Oh, I'd never heard that before, Garnet - I'll have to investigate!
Caryn |
| garnet |
Posted - 24 Oct 2015 : 7:52:38 PM
The good news is that NIGHTS start getting lighter after 13th Dec although MORNINGS keep getting darker until 6th Jan. I can't understand why, and as a physics teacher I probably should, but let's be grateful for small mercies! The two milestones I look forward to - Christmas and the Boxing Day drive and then show schedules start appearing. The rest - poo! |
