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k brown
Gold Member
 United Kingdom
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 Posted - 07 Sep 2003 : 9:07:59 PM
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Just come back from a lovely walk with the dog but must say Im on a real downer! Is it only me or does anyone else get cheesed off when the leaves start to drop off the trees and the end of the show season is nigh!
one day your a rooster the next a feather duster.
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Libby Frost
Platinum Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07 Sep 2003 : 9:35:02 PM
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| i get depressed too! i hate the evenings drawing in so quickly and it being dark at 4pm etc!! never mind we've had a marvellous summer (for England) so can't have it all ways!! |
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Dick
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - 08 Sep 2003 : 06:35:07 AM
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OH DEAR , OH DEAR.....
you mean you finally STOPPED complaining about the hot weather over there this year ???????
Send me your rain - please...
it's never just right,is it...
still sweltering in Texas, miss you - Christine.
Dick
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Wendy Allan
Silver Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08 Sep 2003 : 11:26:16 AM
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OK, so maybe I am sad and need to get a life, but I am looking forward to happy winter evenings spent just sitting in my stables listening to the contented munching of hay. Also it has become a tradition to welcome in Christmas Day and New Years Day in the stables with a bottle of champagne for me and my long suffering other half and a can of Guiness for the girls.
I also love crisp winter mornings, thick snowstorms and battening down the hatches in the worst weather. Having said all that, I am really gloomy in February when winter is never ending and spring is too far away to contemplate. |
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Michelle
Platinum Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08 Sep 2003 : 11:49:25 AM
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I get well depressed in the winter. Even the thought of it makes me want to cry. I can't stand never seeing daylight for months on end whilst I am sat bored senseless in a crappy office from 7am til 5.pm every day...... then have to get the tube, then drive to the stables and there is never any spaces in the horsewalker or someone is hogging the winter fields.....and I just want to get home before 9 o clock so I can still be bothered to cook dinner! so depressing I hate it! aarrrgghhh, am not going to think about it anymore. Obviously I would love it if I didn't have to work - I hate my job, anyone want to give me a job????
Michelle
IIsis Arabians |
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Gemma
Platinum Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08 Sep 2003 : 12:05:34 PM
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I love the winter! Granted, the mud, rain and wind can be wearing, but like Wendy I love the crisp mornings, and long hacks in the frost/snow when you are the only person around is great - provided you are wrapped up well enough!
Michelle - if you want a new job badly enough, something will turn up! I spent the last four years commuting to London, with a 2 hour journey either end, and no chance of owning a horse. But I am in my last week before I start a new job - 10 min drive, in my field, paying more! It took 8 months to find something but it was worth the wait. |
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k brown
Gold Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08 Sep 2003 : 1:13:03 PM
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I miss showing, there is nothing for arabs through the winter. Lots of societies carry on and have winter champs. I need the adrenaline rush that competing gives! perhaps I should get a part time M&M.
one day your a rooster the next a feather duster. |
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pat ww
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 08 Sep 2003 : 1:13:33 PM
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For those people who can get someone daft enough to do your horses in winter, a good time for a break somewhere warmer is around half term mid feb. When you get back the days seem longer ( only a few minutes but it counts) and suddenly spring is not so far away.
For the rest of us I can recommend the sunbed to start just after new year. It in some way replaces the lack of natural sunlight which causes SAD, now recognised as a genuine affliction. I never had a better winter than when I did the combined sunbed mini gym and swim a couple of times a week. I think the psychological side of doing something just for you has as much effect as what you actually do.
But then who has the time to sun themselves with the extra winter chores? The clay round here has been concrete all summer and will be a pond all winter, but lets face it we wouldn't do it if we didn't enjoy.
And with the changing climate, we do get some glorious days. New years day a couple of years ago was beautiful. enjoyed a long hack, knew that days lenghtening...... Winter doesn't last. |
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pat ww
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 08 Sep 2003 : 1:18:52 PM
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How about winter indoor dressage? Nothing doing for the youngstock but for those that jump there are plenty of indoor competitions. Endurance and pleasure rides start early in the season and finish late, and the regional groups ( well ours anyway) has christmas meal / bonfire or halloween hop/ quiz nights.
Winter can be a time to catch up with friends when you can talk without being on the end of a rein/lead rope. |
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k brown
Gold Member
United Kingdom
810 Posts |
Posted - 08 Sep 2003 : 1:20:52 PM
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no, but its pretty poo!
one day your a rooster the next a feather duster. |
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Mike
Platinum Member
Eire
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Posted - 08 Sep 2003 : 1:23:42 PM
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I just can't wait...six hours of daylight....GREAT! (not)
Mike
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pat ww
Platinum Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08 Sep 2003 : 1:36:33 PM
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| Just think how much the forum is going to benefit from us all sitting here on line because TV is too tedious to watch. Pehaps we could write Cass's book, one line at a time by different contributors? Could be hilarious if we didn't see the last post each time. |
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Sheena
Platinum Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08 Sep 2003 : 2:44:47 PM
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I must be mad but I quite like the winter too. Just a few months to go and new foals will be due. Working all the horse to keep them fit and get them ready for the next years shows. Perhaps, having thought about it I am just too busy to notice it all. Frozen water is the biggest inconvieniance, oh plus skating around my yard with buckets of water as well. I certainly seem to get more bruises when it's like that
But all in all I dont seem to suffer from the winter blues. I like to watch them all changing and growing and get excited planning what shows etc to do next year.
Maybe we should all contact our regional socities see if they can come up with something to keep us all occupied during the winter and make it go quicker.  I do agree that we should have more shows and things to do in the winter months, why does the whole world have to grind to a stand still just becasue of a bit of cold weather???
Alicia
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kizzy
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Posted - 08 Sep 2003 : 7:10:18 PM
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| It is in the long winter months that we prove to ourselves each year that we do this for the love of it - God knows it's all hard work until summer comes back - frozen fingers,frozen toes... |
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Caroline
Bronze Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08 Sep 2003 : 7:27:14 PM
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I remember a couple of winters back in Ireland, I didn't take my woolly hat off until May. It was great though, kept my hair in place and I didn't have to wash it so much. Can't really do that now I'm working in London. Might cut myself a bridle path though to save time!
PS Has anyone forgotten that we've still got autumn to come before winter?  But I guess I won't need these shades for much longer.
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Posted - 08 Sep 2003 : 7:29:55 PM
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| Never know Caroline - you might wanna stay anonymous... |
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